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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 2017 and is a certified yoga therapist, specializing in chronic pain care. She is on the faculty of the Sivananda Institute of Health & Yoga (SIHY). She served as director of the San Francisco Center from 2015 to 2019.
Upcoming Programs by Swami Sivasankariananda
Holiday Retreat: Finding Inner Strength in a World of Constant Change
Also with Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Swami Amritananda, Swami Gangananda, Swami Divyananda, Maha Lakshmi, C-IAYT, RYT 500, Acharya Mangalananda, Nitya (Hoa Tran), Omkara and Pundit Bhima
Flexible Dates
Join for 2 days or all 12 days | This year we will have a variety of workshops on Prasad: The sweetness of devotion, Ayurveda Self Care, Emotional Intelligence, Removing blockages with yoga and massage, Yantra painting, Selfless love, Positive thinking circle, Self as Satchitananda
Holiday Retreat: Finding Inner Strength in a World of Constant Change
Also with Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Swami Amritananda, Swami Gangananda, Swami Divyananda, Maha Lakshmi, C-IAYT, RYT 500, Acharya Mangalananda, Nitya (Hoa Tran), Omkara and Pundit Bhima
December 19, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Join for 2 days or all 12 days | This year we will have a variety of workshops on Prasad: The sweetness of devotion, Ayurveda Self Care, Emotional Intelligence, Removing blockages with yoga and massage, Yantra painting, Selfless love, Positive thinking circle, Self as Satchitananda
Onsite Yoga Teachers Training Course
Also with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Swami Amritananda and Swami Gangananda
May 2 - 30, 2026
This 4 week course, which offers a profound personal experience, will allow you to transmit the knowledge of yoga to others. The spiritual essence of yoga is learned through a combination of repeated practice and inspirational lessons.
Advanced Teachers Training Course (ATTC)
Also with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda and Swami Gangananda
June 3 - 30, 2026
The Advanced Yoga Teachers Training Course (ATTC) allows graduates from the Sivananda Yoga Teachers Training Course (TTC) to deepen their spiritual practice and study of Hatha yoga, Vedanta philosophy, Raja yoga, Anatomy, and Sanskrit. Advanced Yoga Teachers Training couse is another opportunity to practice under guidance in a supportive atmosphere with long-time (up to 30 years) yoga practitioners and teachers. Advanced yoga teachers training course gives you a boost of energy and clarity. The program is similar to the 200 hour yoga teachers training cousre and should not be perceived as a course only for experts.
Onsite Yoga Teachers Training Course
Also with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Swami Amritananda and Swami Gangananda
October 24 - November 21, 2026
This 4 week course, which offers a profound personal experience, will allow you to transmit the knowledge of yoga to others. The spiritual essence of yoga is learned through a combination of repeated practice and inspirational lessons.