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Vedic Counseling - 2nd Module - Focus on Ayurveda and Tantra

with Durga Leela, Swami Dharmananda, Swami Sivasankariananda and Swami Vashistananda

August 31 - September 5, 2018

Date and Time Details:
Arrival: Check-in time is 2:00pm. We encourage you to arrive by 4:00pm for the Asana class. Dinner is at 6:00pm and there will be a Welcoming Orientation at 7:00pm followed by Satsang at 8:00pm.

Departure: Check-out time is 12:00pm. You are welcome to stay in the ashram for the rest of the afternoon even after checking out of your room.

  • Tent - Bring Your Own – $875.00
  • Tent - Ashram Provided – $860.00
  • Om Cabin - Shared – $885.00
  • Om Cabin - Private – $1,400.00
  • Siva Cabin - Double – $1,400.00
  • Siva Cabin - Private – $1,600.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Shared – $1,700.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Private – $1,900.00
  • Commuter (Day Visitor) – $500.00
    • (All prices include $500.00 base amount)

** All options include 2 vegetarian meals, 2 yoga classes, and 2 satsangs.

Module 2 Description

Module 2 features study in the following areas: Ayurveda 25 hours; Tantra 25 hours

The Vedic Counseling course is designed to help serious Yoga teachers, Ayurveda practitioners and Vedic Science practitioners to acquire additional and practical skills to better serve their students or clients on the path of positive living and high thinking.

The Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm has been the forum for the teaching of the Vedic sciences for many years and includes Yoga and Vedanta philosophy, Ayurveda (the science of healing), Jyotish (Vedic astrology), Tantra (science of mantra, yantra, and sacred myths), and Vastu (science of sacred space).

The Vedic Counseling course is comprised of 350 hours of residential study, offered in small modules of 5 days each (first module is 10 days), led by expert teachers in their respective field.

Program Goals

  • Students learn to teach the basics of classical Vedic sciences including Jyotish, Ayurveda, Vastu, Tantra, Yoga and Vedanta philosophy
  • Promote a holistic interdisciplinary approach to life
  • Create enlightened counselors and life coaches to assist people in their journey toward wholeness and spiritual awareness
  • Improve one’s quality of life and uplift society by showing the path to Dharma and to alleviate karmic suffering
  • Bring physical, mental, and spiritual health and well-being to all by the application of these Vedic sciences

FULL COURSE DESCRIPTION

Topics

Tantra/Yantra/Mantra

  • MANTRA (KIRTAN) – DAILY CHANTS – VISHNU DHANWANTHARI SONG
  • bhakti , mythologies, stories – 10 INCARNATIONS OF VISHNU
  • MANTRA – HEALING MANTRAS , DHANVANTHARI MANTRAS, MAHA MRITYUNJAYA MANTRAS.
  • MANTRA (KIRTAN) – DAILY CHANTS
  • bhakti , mythologies, stories – STORY OF DHANVANTHARI
  • Krishna Janmashtami
  • MANTRA (KIRTAN) – KRISHNA SONGS
  • bhakti , mythologies, stories – KRISHNA’S LILAS
  • KRISHNA JANMASTAMI CELEBRATIONS / BIRTH OF KRISHNA PUJA
  • MANTRA (KIRTAN) SHANTI MANTRAS
  • TANTRA: MUDRAS, NASYAS , YANTRAS
  • YANTRA
  • MANTRA (KIRTAN) – GURUS MANTRAS
  • bhakti YOGA – RADHA  KRISHNA  AND DIVINE LOVE TEACHING
  • MANTRA (KIRTAN)- VISHNU MANTRAS
  • TANTRA, MUDRAS , YANTRAS
  • MANTRA – DHYANA SLOKAS
  • MANTRA (KIRTAN) – SUBRAHMANYA  CHANTS
  • bhakti , mythologies, stories – BIRTH OF SUBRAHMANYA
  • MANTRA (KIRTAN) – KRISHNA CHANTS
  • bhakti , mythologies, stories- VISHNU SAHASRANMAM
  • JAPA YOGA – MANTRA FOR PEACE CHANTING
  • MANTRA (KIRTAN) – PEACE CHANTS
  • bhakti , mythologies, stories PRALHAD, DRUVA  STORY

Ayurveda

 

 

About the Teachers

Durga Leela

Durga Leela is founder of Yoga of Recovery, a comprehensive program integrating Ayurveda and Yoga with recovery tools for a holistic mind, body and spirit approach for those affected by addiction and self-destructive behaviors. Yoga of Recovery is currently offered as workshops, retreats and certificate courses. Durga holds the RYT-500 qualification, having completed both the […]

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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 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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