New Years Retreat: Unity in Diversity - Unite for a Healthy and Peaceful Planet
with Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Dharmananda, Acharya Mangalananda, William Surface, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda and Anuradha
December 27, 2019 - January 1, 2020
Description
Join us for our annual New Years Retreat. We will celebrate the New Year by honoring our gurus Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda with a puja, “OM Namo Narayanaya” mantra chanting and making our New Year resolves. Daily workshops to prepare for the coming year include “Spiritual Diary workshop”, “Resolves workshop”, and “Positive Thinking”.
We are blessed to welcome Acharya Mangalananda for special evening of Divine chants and an afternoon workshop on the sacred power of mantra and sound. William Surface will offer Jyotish workshops, looking ahead at the positive influence of Jupiter in the coming year. Our New Year Eve Celebration includes meditation, message from Master Sivananda, Guru puja, and sacred chants concert with Angelika.
Schedule
Day 1 – Dec. 27
2:00 – 4:00 PM Arrival & Registration
4:00 – 6:00 PM Yoga Class
6:00 PM Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM Satsang: “New Year Welcome”
Day 2 – Dec. 28
6:00 – 7:30 AM Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM Yoga Class
10:00 AM Brunch
1 – 3 PM “Mantra and Sound” with Acharya Mangalananda
4:00 – 6:00 PM Yoga Class
6:00 PM Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM Satsang: “Kirtan Concert” with Acharya Mangalananda
Day 3 – Dec. 29
6:00 – 7:30 AM Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM Yoga Class
10:00 AM Brunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM “Spiritual Diary Workshop”
4:00 – 6:00 PM Yoga Class
6:00 PM Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM Satsang: Classical Bharat Natyam Dance with Anuradha Prabhushankar
Day 4 – Dec. 30
6:00 – 7:30 AM Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM Yoga Class
10:00 AM Brunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM “Positive Thinking Workshop”
2:00 – 3:30 PM “Jyotish: Jupiter (Guru) and Karma” with William Surface
4:00 – 6:00 PM Yoga Class
6:00 PM Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM Satsang
Day 5 – Dec. 31
6:00 – 7:30 AM Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM Yoga Class
10:00 AM Brunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM “New Year Resolved Workshop”
2:00 – 3:30 PM “Jupiter’s Positive Influence in 2020 with William Surface
4:00 – 6:00 PM Yoga Class
6:00 PM Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM Satsang: “NY Eve Celebration; Angelika Concert; Mantra Chanting
and Puja
Day 6 – Jan. 1
7:00 – 8:30 AM Satsang: Sivananda Upanishad Message for every person
8:30 – 10:00 AM Yoga Class
10:00 AM Brunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM Ashram Departure
Pre-requisite
There are no prerequisites other than a sincere desire to learn classical yoga.
About the Teachers
Swami Jnaneswariananda
Swami Jnaneswariananda joined the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in 1995 and has been director of centers and ashrams in Canada and Italy. She teaches Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Anatomy, and Vedanta at Teacher Training Courses in North America, Italy and India. Swami Jnaneswariananda took vows of Sannyas in 2001. She is currently a senior teacher at […]
Learn more about Swami JnaneswarianandaSwami Dharmananda
Swami Dharmananda is assistant director of the Yoga Farm and is in charge of the Karma Yoga program. He is a faculty of the Sivananda Institute of Health (SIHY) and is one of the main teachers of Yoga Philosophy and Meditation at the Ashram. He took sannyas vows in 2013 and is keenly interested in […]
Learn more about Swami DharmanandaAcharya Mangalananda
Acharya Mangalananda is a direct disciple of the great modern woman Saint, Anandamayi Ma. When Swami Sivananda met with Ma he called her "The finest flower the soil of India has ever produced". Mangalananda went to India for the first time in 1973 when he was just 19 years old and spent the course of […]
Learn more about Acharya MangalanandaWilliam Surface
William Surface is a professional astrologer certified through the Council of Vedic Astrology and is the recipient of the CVA Jyotish Visharada. He has completed Komilla Sutton's 3 year Jyotish Course and is also a member of the British Association of Vedic Astrology (BAVA). He also holds a B.A in Humanities from the University of […]
Learn more about William SurfaceSwami Adi Parashaktiananda
Swami Adi Parashaktiananda is a dedicated Sadhak and an experienced international Sivananda Hatha Yoga teacher and trainer in international TTC in USA, Vietnam , Japan and China for more than twelve years. He mainly serves as assistant to Acharya Swami Sitaramananda at the Sivananda Ashram yoga Farm in Grass Valley California and at the Sivananda […]
Learn more about Swami Adi ParashaktianandaAnuradha
Anuradha Prabhashankar is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer from the Bay area. She learned her art form in India at a very young age. Now a mother of two, she has been performing at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm for many years. Bharatanatyam style of dance is rigorous in its foot work, facial expressions, eye movement […]
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