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Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
COMMUNITY, CONNECTION AND NATURAL LIVING
Online Teacher Training
Oct. 17 – Nov. 14, 2021
Mar. 5 – Apr. 3, 2022
May. 14 – Jun. 12, 2022
Onsite Teacher Training
Oct. 17 – Nov. 14, 2021
Mar. 5 – Apr. 3, 2022
May. 14 – Jun. 12, 2022
Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET)
2-year, 800-Hour Yoga Therapy Program, IAYT Certified
Next batch begins January 2022
Swami Sitaramananda Weekly Satsangs
Join us every Thursday morning at 6am for different topics from “yoga philosophy”, “yoga of relationships”, “fear to courage”
Courses / Workshops and Programs
Asanas, Breathing, Stress Relief, Cooking, Positive thinking, Meditation
SYHET Consultation
SYHET Consultation
Other Locations
LOS ANGELES, VIETNAM, ASIA
Los Angeles Center
The LA center has been in operation for more than 50 years since the 1970s. In 2019, we moved the center to a new location. The center is now in a beautiful, historical building in the West Adams neighborhood. We have daily satsangs, yoga classes, workshops, and courses. Please come by for a visit.
Yoga Resort & Training Center in Da Lat, Vietnam
Year-round ashram in Da Lat, Vietnam offering yoga vacation, Teacher Training, Sadhana Intensive and more
Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training (online & onsite)
Oct. 17 – Nov. 14, 2021
Mar. 5 – Apr. 3, 2022
May. 14 – Jun. 12, 2022
Health is Wealth
Peace of Mind is Happiness
Yoga Shows the Way
-Swami Vishnudevananda
“Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.”
– Swami Sivananda
DIVE DEEP INTO
Our Teachings
Our teachings section is based on the essential teachings of Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda. In this teachings section of our website you will find teachings on many different topics such as “What is Satsang”, “What is Yoga”, Life, Health, Mind, Prana, and much more.
“Health is Wealth, Peace of Mind is Happiness, Yoga Shows the Way.”
– Swami Vishnudevananda
Check out our Blog
LEARN, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM
Our Sivananda Yoga Farm Blog has numerous articles, videos, and talks given by our senior teachers over the years.
Why Meditate? Seeking beyond the Pattern of the Mind
You need to understand why we meditate, then you can practice meditation for a long time and more seriously. The reason why we meditate, or we do yoga, is because in classical yoga, and yoga means meditation – meditation means yoga, there’s no separate thing. People think yoga means we’re doing some exercise and going to meditation is Zen meditation, or vipassana meditation or something separate. However, In the ashram, everything we do is included in the word meditation, and everything is preparation for meditation. Everything is meditation, everything is preparing you for meditation.
The Guru Tradition
The guru tradition is very old, before the time of Adi Shankaracharya (eighth century). Adi Shankaracharya himself was enlightened. When he was just six years old, he knew all the Vedas. When he was only nine years old, Adi Shankaracharya received permission from his mother to take sannyasa, the renunciation phase of life.
Four Qualifications of an Aspirant
We are used to seeking outside for pleasures and happiness that are in the sensual world and that are temporary. If something does not happen the way we want, we are disappointed; we blame something or somebody. The reason for our disappointment is always external to us, in the external world.
STAGES OF LIFE & INNER MOTIVATIONS
The ancient teaching of the Vedas have given you some guidance. And of course, you need to have a teacher who knows you very well, who can tell you (more or less) where you are at, and what are the different steps that you need to take. Today I’m going to present to you a little bit of these different ideas to guide you.
Life struggles, stress and disease
Today we talk about life struggles and about the relationship between life struggles and stress, what is stress, and the relationship between stress and disease so we become aware of what we are doing. The most important thing we need to remember, Swami Sivananda said that life is a struggle. If you cease to struggle, you cease life. We are equipped with all the tools in order for us to lead our life.
Fear, Anxiety, and Stress
Some countries are experiencing the COVID situation, they are in lockdown. In some other countries, like in the US, it’s not currently locked down, but still the increase of COVID cases is very big and there is a different situation that creates anxiety and fear.