Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
Sierra Foothills, Grass Valley, California
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
COMMUNITY, CONNECTION AND NATURAL LIVING
Established in the town of Grass Valley, California, a 90 minute drive from Sacramento or 3 hours from San Francisco, the Sivananda Yoga Farm is a peaceful oasis where people from all over the world come together to practice yoga, meditation, and discover their true self.
Upcoming Programs
Teacher Training Course (TTC)
Oct. 19 – Nov. 16, 2024
Mar. 1 – 29, 2025
May 10 – Jun. 7, 2025
Pancha Karma Detoxification Therapy
Sep 6 – 14, 2024
Vedanta and Silence Course
Sep 4 – 13, 2024
Labor Day Weekend: Indian Cultural Program
Aug 29 – Sep 2, 2024
Programs in San Francisco
Sunday, August 11
Sunday, September 15
Our Offerings
Teacher Training Course (TTC)
Oct. 19 – Nov. 16, 2024
Mar. 1 – 29, 2025
May 10 – Jun. 7, 2025
Yoga Vacation
Reconnect with Nature, progress with daily yoga, connect with your own Self, be part of a community from all over the world.
Courses and Programs
Beginners Courses, Stress Relief & Relaxation, Ayurvedic Massage Retreat, Positive thinking, Meditation Retreats
Holistic Health Retreats
Lifestyle Medicine and Natural Healing | Experience for yourself the benefits of a daily combination of these time-tested Yoga techniques.
Sacred Ashram Tour
Take a guided Ashram Sacred Tour walk to see and experience the sacred land that the ashram has been on since 1971.
Karma Yoga / Seva
Work as worship – Learn the attitude of offering, humility, and selflessness, Right motive: It’s not what you do that counts but your real motive behind.
Guest Information
The Yoga Farm welcomes people from around the world and provides a peaceful setting in which to find a way back to a holistic lifestyle in harmony with nature.
Permaculture & Gardening
The ashram offers yearly Permaculture Design Certification courses in April. We also have a garden which needs help year-round.
Swami Sitaramananda Weekly Satsangs
Join us online every week for different topics from “yoga philosophy”, “yoga of relationships”, “fear to courage” etc…
Temple Services
The ashram has 10 temples & shrines including Ganesha, Krishna, Durga, Siva, Hanuman, Navagraha, Dakshina Murti, Nataraj, and more.
Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET)
2-year, 800-Hour Yoga Therapy Program, IAYT Certified
Next Cohort begins January 2026
Advanced Teacher Training Course (ATTC)
with Swami Sitaramananda
& Krishna Darshan
ATTC – 2026
Program Advice appointment
Not sure where to start? Or which program might be right for you? Make an appointment with a Program Advisor to get your questions answered.
Sadhana Intensive
2 weeks intensive pranayama practice
Prerequisite: TTC graduate
June 10 – 25, 2025
Family Yoga Camps
July & Aug. 2024 | Bringing Family and Yoga practice together, enjoy the peaceful nature, have fun and quality time with your family, while shaping body and mind.
Accommodations & Rates
The Yoga Farm accommodations are separate cabins that are nestled under trees with beautiful surroundings.
Teachers Training Course in India
Aug. 16 – Sept. 13, 2025 in Coimbatore, India
“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
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
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.
The Sacred Role of a Yoga Teacher
The sacred role of a yoga teacher is in providing a space for healing and coming back to happiness and peace for the students.
Find the Self and End Your Suffering
Does our suffering have any use to us? And where does suffering come from? According to the Raja Sutras, all of our suffering comes from five main sources. They are ignorance, pleasure, aversion, the ego, and the fear of death. When we begin to investigate...
Karmic Disease
Today we have a very serious topic, the topic of Karmic Disease. So, you know, people have diseases and sometimes it’s not explainable. We don’t understand why they have the diseases. So, first you need to understand the meaning of the word karma. Karma means simply the universal law of cause and effect, action and reaction. The word Karma means action, and karma applies to physical action, but also to mental action. I mean, you don’t do anything, but you think about it. And when you think about it, you create the mental karma, and the reason why we are born in this particular condition is because of our karma. So, there is no accident that we are born in a certain family in certain circumstances, a certain country and our life goes a certain way.
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.