Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
COMMUNITY, CONNECTION AND NATURAL LIVING
50th Anniversary Celebration
Labor Day Program: Vedic Sciences
Sep. 1 – 5, 2022
Onsite Teacher Training
Oct. 22 – Nov. 20, 2022
Feb. 4 – Mar. 4, 2023
May 6 – Jun. 3, 2023
Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET)
2-year, 800-Hour Yoga Therapy Program, IAYT Certified
Next Cohort begins in 2024
Swami Sitaramananda Weekly Satsangs
Join us online every week for different topics from “yoga philosophy”, “yoga of relationships”, “fear to courage” etc…
Courses / Workshops and Programs
Asanas, Breathing, Stress Relief, Cooking, Positive thinking, Meditation
SYHET Consultation
SYHET Consultation
New Book in Stock
Learning Selfless Love: Four Truths and Seven Practices – $9.95
Through the contacts and counseling of multitudes of men and women from all walks of life and from different cultures, I have found that the lack of understanding about love is the main cause of suffering.
– Swami Sitaramananda
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
Health is Wealth
Peace of Mind is Happiness
Yoga Shows the Way
-Swami Vishnudevananda
“Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.”
– Swami Sivananda
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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.
Health & Disease
Diseases do not happen like right away, let’s say you are angry, you are resentful, it stays in the system for a long time; resentment is like rust, slowly, slowly it eats your body as it eats your mind; so then slowly slowly, after ten years of resentment, you develop some kind of problem, for example, problems on the liver, arthritis problem. Any physical health problem always has some kind of equivalence in the mind. If you are grieving, for example, you were crying, or you never really recovered for years, then you might one day have a problem with the lungs.
HOW TO MEDITATE IN DAILY LIFE
There are different definitions of meditation. One of the definitions, the classical way, is the definition according to Patanjali. According to Patanjali, meditation is at the seventh rung. That means seventh step of the eight steps ladder of yoga, a Raja Yoga system. That means you have to prepare yourself, in order for you to be able to be still. Yamas and niyamas are the two first rungs in Taja Yoga, guiding you to have proper behavior that will not bring about any kind of reaction, that will bring about peace.
Vairagya – Detachment or Dispassion
The topic of today is an important topic, a philosophical topic. It is the topic of detachment. Those who study Vedanta in the TTC, you know that it is part of the practice of Vedanta to learn to detach so that your mind and heart are not so involved in everything that is temporary. You remain yourself.
HEALING KARMA: Our karmic tendencies and how to work it out
Karma is action and consequence of action. It Implies that we are born as consequence of past action and thought. Action comes also in terms of thoughts. This life has a cause and what we do in this life will have a consequence in the future. So, we have to see the big picture to understand your life at the present. There is a reason for certain things to happen that way, and there is a way you can then get out of it, alleviating it.
Seven Practices to learn how to Love
Love is selfless and unconditional. Conditional love is selfish and emotional. Emotions need to be purified to become pure love. Emotions come from our lower mind and our subconscious mind which carries impressions of the past. Yoga teaches us to purify the usual, habitual, tainted love, in other words, our lower mind and to activate our higher mind.
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.