New Years Retreat
with Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Vashistananda, Swami Dharmananda, Swami Sivasankariananda, Swami Hamsananda, Ben Kunin, Acharya Mangalananda and Uma Reed
December 27, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Description
Join us for our New Years Retreat where we will celebrate the New Year by celebrating our gurus with a puja, chant om namo narayanaya and make resolves. During this time we will have special workshops and programs. We will do some New years resolves workshops on how to make positive intentions for the year to come.
Schedule
Thursday 27-Dec
6am: Satsang
8am: Hatha Yoga Class
10am: Brunch
11-12pm: Karma Yoga
1-3pm: “Love in Action” w/ Hamsa Chaitanya
4-6pm: Hatha Yoga
6pm: Dinner
7:30pm: Satsang Concert w/ Ben Kunin
Friday 28-Dec
6am: Satsang:
8-10am: Hatha Yoga
10am: Brunch
11-12pm: Karma Yoga
1-3pm: Kirtan/Chanting Workshop w/ Acharya Mangalananda
4-6pm: Hatha Yoga
6pm: Dinner
7:30pm: Satsang: Mangalananda Kirtan Concert
Saturday 29-Dec
6am: Satsang
8-10am: Hatha Yoga
10am: Brunch
11-12pm: Karma Yoga
1-3pm: Positive Thinking Workshop. with Swami Jnaneswariananda
4-6pm: Hatha Yoga
6pm: Dinner
7:30pm: Satsang: Anuradha Bharat Natyam Dance
Sunday 30-Dec
6am: Satsang
8-10am: Hatha Yoga
10am: Brunch
11-12pm: Karma Yoga
1-3pm: Positive Thinking Wkshp. with Sw Jnana
4-6pm: Hatha Yoga
6pm: Dinner
7:30pm: Satsang
Monday 31-Dec
*SPECIAL NYE PROGRAM*
8:30pm Uma Reed Kirtan Concert
9:30pm Spiritual Lecture
10pm Krishna Puja – for Peace in the World – Health and Healing to all
11:30pm-12am Om Namo Narayanaya Peace Chanting to bring in the New Year
After Midnight New Years Celebration with finger-food buffet
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 […]
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Swami Vashistananda
Swami Vashistananda comes from the Namboodri lineage in Southern India, Kerala and has been a long-time teacher of bhakti and vedanta in the Sivananda organization ever since. He has been at the Yoga farm since October 2014 and does ceremonies at all the ashram temples and shrines. Swamiji teaches with much inspiration and humor.
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Swami 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 […]
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Swami Sivasankariananda
Swami Sivasankariananda is director of the Los Angeles Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center. She completed her TTC at the Yoga Farm in 1997 and ATTC there in 2008. Swamiji has been on yatra in north and south India and Mount Kailas. She loves to teach and is particularly fond of the Bhakti Yoga practices. She took sannyas in […]
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Swami Hamsananda
Swami Hamsananda is a senior staff teacher at the Yoga Farm, taking TTC in 2010 and Advanced TTC in 2014. Swami Hamsananda took Brahmacharya vows in 2014 and sannyas in 2022. She graduated from the the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training in 2019 and is a Certified Yoga Therapist specializing in Stress Management, Positive Thinking, […]
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Ben Kunin
Sarod player Ben Kunin learned his instrument and the tradition of North Indian classical music over more than 25 years of study under the legendary Maestro Ali Akbar Khan at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA. He also learned tabla from Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri for many years. In 2006 he began […]
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Acharya 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 […]
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Uma Reed
Uma was first exposed to Hindu devotional chanting in the early 1970s, while studying meditation and spiritual practices with Ram Dass and various other teachers. Kirtan was a practice that touched her deeply, and as a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba, she often participated in kirtan gatherings with fellow devotees, as well as in other […]
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