Online Easter Weekend Retreat: Art, Music and Creativity
with Swami Sivasankariananda, Hasu Patel, Pieter Weltevrede, Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Dharmananda, Swami Vashistananda and Ram Vakkalanka
April 2 - 4, 2021
Description
Connect to your soul’s innate creativity by learning from inspiring artists and yogis. Join us for this special Easter Program as renowned artists share their sacred craft, their divine inspiration, and their creative process as spiritual expression. Creativity is a natural expression of spiritual health. Join us for Yantra Painting workshops to focus and uplift the mind and connect to the heart; a sacred art presentation from world-renowned painter Pieter Weltevrede; learn how to make the creative process part of your daily sadhana with sitar master Hasu Patel; and enjoy the divinely inspired melodies of sitar master Ram Vakkalanka.
Daily Schedule
Friday
- 7:30pm – Satsang – Introduction “Art, Music and Creativity”
Saturday
- 6am – Satsang: Viewing Sacred Art Presentation of Pieter Weltevrede
- 8am – Asana and Pranayama Class
- 12-4pm – Yantra Painting Workshop with Swami Sivasankariananda
- 4pm – Asana and Pranayama class
- 7:30pm – Satsang – Ram Vakkalanka Sitar Concert
Sunday
- 6am – Satsang: – Creative Process with Hasu Patel
- 8am – Asana and Pranayama Class
- 12pm – Music and Voice Workshop with Hasu Patel
- 4pm – Asana and Pranayama Class
- 7:30pm – Satsang – SUNDAY PRAYERS
MATERIALS YOU WILL NEED FOR YANTRA PAINTING:
Paper at least 12 x 12″ (ideally cold press watercolor paper)
Pencil
Eraser
Compass (essential to draw circles!)
Straight edge with metric measurements
Paints (gouache is ideal) or colored pencils
Teachers
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…
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A disciple of Sitar legend Ustad Vilayat Khan Saheb is one of the few distinguished female artists performing today classical music on Sitar, the most popular string instrument of India. As a performer, composer, and educator, she has dedicated her life to preserving and propagating in its pristine…
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Pieter Weltevrede is a internationally recognized Dutch master artist with hundreds of exquisite paintings of Hindu Gods and Goddesses, Yantras and Mandalas. He is a disciple of Harish Johari and also studied with Johari’s art teacher, Master Chandra Bal, and Suresh Johari. He tours annually in India, Europe…
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Swami Jnaneswariananda joined the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in 1995 and has been director of centers and ashrams in Canada and Italy. She teaches Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Anatomy, and Vedanta at Teacher Training Courses in North America, Italy and India. Swami Jnaneswariananda took vows of Sannyas in 2001.…
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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…
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Swami Vashistananda comes from the Namboodri lineage in Southern India, Kerala and has been a long-time teacher of bhakti and vedanta in the Sivananda organization ever since. He has been at the Yoga farm since October 2014 and does ceremonies at all the ashram temples and shrines. Swamiji…
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Ram Vakkalanka is an internationally recognized master of Yoga philosophy, Nada Yoga, Meditation, and Sanskrit. He was born and brought up in India, in a family dedicated to Yogic style of living. He grew up studying the Sanskrit language, ancient scriptures such as Upanishads and practicing Mantra-chanting and…
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