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  • Tent - Bring Your Own – $345.00
  • Tent - Ashram Provided – $330.00
  • Om Cabin - Shared – $345.00
  • Om Cabin - Private – $660.00
  • Siva Cabin - Double – $660.00
  • Siva Cabin - Private – $780.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Shared – $840.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Private – $960.00
    • (All prices include $120.00 base amount)

** All options include 2 vegetarian meals, 2 yoga classes, and 2 satsangs.

Date & Time Details:

Arrival: Check-in time is 2:00pm. We encourage you to arrive by 4:00pm for the Asana class. Dinner is at 6:00pm and there will be a Welcoming Orientation at 7:00pm followed by Satsang at 8:00pm.

Departure: Check-out time is 12:00pm. The course will conclude at 3pm on the Final date. You are welcome to stay in the ashram for the rest of the afternoon even after checking out of your room.

Location:
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm

Address:
14651 Ballantree Lane
Grass Valley, CA 95949
USA

Contact: [email protected]
(530) 272-9322


What to Bring:
Slip on shoes, loose comfortable clothing, writing materials, meditation shawl or blanket, yoga mat, flashlight. All books and materials are available in our boutique.

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New Years Retreat

with Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Dharmananda and Acharya Mangalananda

December 29, 2020 - January 1, 2021

Description

Join us for our annual New Years Retreat. We will celebrate the New Year by honoring our gurus Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda with a puja, “OM Namo Narayanaya” mantra chanting and making our New Year resolves. Daily workshops to prepare for the coming year include “Spiritual Diary workshop”, “Resolves workshop”, and “Positive Thinking”.

We are blessed to welcome Acharya Mangalananda for special evening of Divine chants and an afternoon workshop on the sacred power of mantra and sound. William Surface will offer Jyotish workshops, looking ahead at the positive influence of Jupiter in the coming year. Our New Year Eve Celebration includes meditation, message from Master Sivananda, Guru puja, and sacred chants concert with Angelika.

Schedule

Day 1 – Dec. 27
6:00 – 7:30 AM       Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM     Yoga Class
10:00 AM                 Brunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM     “Satyam to Overcome Fear”
4:00 – 6:00 PM       Yoga Class
6:00 PM                   Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM       Satsang: “New Year Welcome”
Day 2 – Dec. 28
6:00 – 7:30 AM        Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM     Yoga Class
10:00 AM                 Brunch
12:00 – 2:00 PM    “Mantra and Sound” with Acharya Mangalananda
4:00 – 6:00 PM       Yoga Class
6:00 PM                   Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM       Satsang: “Kirtan Concert” with Acharya Mangalananda
Day 3 – Dec. 29
6:00 – 7:30 AM        Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM     Yoga Class
10:00 AM                 Brunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM     “Spiritual Diary Workshop”
4:00 – 6:00 PM       Yoga Class
6:00 PM                   Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM       Satsang:
Day 4 – Dec. 30
6:00 – 7:30 AM        Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM     Yoga Class
10:00 AM                 Brunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM      “Positive Thinking Workshop”
2:00 – 3:30 PM       “Jyotish: Jupiter (Guru) and Karma” with William Surface
4:00 – 6:00 PM        Yoga Class
6:00 PM                    Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM        Satsang:
Day 5 – Dec. 31
6:00 – 7:30 AM        Satsang:
8:00 – 10:00 AM     Yoga Class
10:00 AM                 Brunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM      “New Year Resolved Workshop”
2:00 – 3:30 PM       “Jupiter’s Positive Influence in 2020 with William Surface
4:00 – 6:00 PM       Yoga Class
6:00 PM                   Dinner
8:00 – 9:30 PM       Satsang: “NY Eve Celebration; Angelika Concert; Mantra Chanting
and Puja

Pre-requisite

There are no prerequisites other than a sincere desire to learn classical yoga.

Teachers

Swami Jnaneswariananda
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
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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Acharya Mangalananda
Acharya Mangalananda is a direct disciple of the great modern woman Saint, Anandamayi Ma. When Swami Sivananda met with Ma he called her “The finest flower the soil of India has ever produced”. Mangalananda went to India for the first time in 1973 when he was just 19…
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