Yoga of Relationships
with Swami Sitaramananda and Swami Dharmananda
September 14 - 17, 2023
Description
Why do we need to practice the Yoga of Relationships? In all our relationships, we aspire to be loved and to love all the time and 100% but we fail to feel the 100% all the time. We suffer from needs unmet, separation, losses, anxiety, disappointments, inner and outer conflicts, difficulty in communications, lack of empathy and compassion, resentments and anger, attraction– repulsion, emotional swings and also suffer from the paradox of wanting to lose oneself in love and yet wanting to be in control. The problem is between Self and Others and how to find ourselves through relationships?
In this course we will address the question of how to be with ourselves and be happy no matter the outside interpersonal conditions and collective conditions (social distancing, be in isolation or working with groups, living with families and community, in intimate relationship, being alone or in search of close relationships). We will discuss strategies how to transform our negative emotional patterns into selfless love through the practice of Yoga applied in daily life. We will also discuss the Yogic way of how to uplift and spiritualize our relationships.
Daily Schedule
6am Satsang (meditation, chanting Yoga talk)
8am Yoga Asana Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
1-3pm Yoga of Relationships Workshop
4pm Yoga Asana Class
6pm Dinner
730pm Satsang (meditation, chanting, Yoga talk)
Pre-requisite
There are no prerequisites other than a sincere desire to learn.
Recommended Text
Practice of Bhakti Yoga by Swami Sivananda
About the Teachers
Swami Sitaramananda
Swami Sitaramananda is a senior acharya of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and is director of the Sivananda Ashram Vedanta Yoga Farm, California and the Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center, Vietnam. She is acharya of China, Taiwan, and Japan as well. Swamiji is the organizer and teacher of the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET) program, an 800-hour program on yoga therapy, […]
Learn more about Swami SitaramanandaSwami 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 DharmanandaCategory : Bhakti and Kirtan