Thanksgiving Retreat for Joyful Living
with Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Sivasankariananda, Swami Dharmananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Swami Hamsananda, Karnamrita Dasi, Acharya Mangalananda and Rashee Rohatgi
November 22 - 26, 2023
Description
Daily Schedule
Wednesday, 22nd
2pm Arrival
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
730-9pm Satsang: Welcome
Thursday, 23rd
6-730am Satsang: Teachings on Gratitude
8-10am Open Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm Workshop: Yoga of Selfless Action
3-4:30pm Open Yoga Class
5pm Thanksgiving Feast Celebration
8pm Concert: Karnamrita dasi Kirtan
Friday, 24th
6-730am Satsang: Sadhana for Self-Healing
8-10am Open Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12-1:30pm Workshop: Divine Stories with Karnamrita dasi
2-3:30pm Workshop: Ayurveda Self-care with Rashee
4-5:45pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Swami Sivananda’s Teachings on Love
Saturday, 25th
6-730am Satsang: Krishna Puja
8-10am Open Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12-1:30pm Workshop: Prana for Vitality and Inner Balance
2-3:30pm Workshop: The Power of Mantra with Acharya Mangalananda
4-5:45pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Concert: Mangalananda Kirtan
Sunday, 26th
6-730am Satsang: Importance of Satsang
8-10am Open Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11-12:30pm Workshop: Yoga at Home
Teachers
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 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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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 Adi Parashaktiananda is a dedicated Sadhak and an experienced international Sivananda Hatha Yoga teacher and trainer in international TTC in USA, Vietnam , Japan and China for more than twelve years. He mainly serves as assistant to Acharya Swami Sitaramananda at the Sivananda Ashram yoga Farm in…
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Swami Hamsananda is a senior staff teacher at the Yoga Farm, taking TTC in 2010 and Advanced TTC in 2014. Swami Hamsananda took Brahmacharya vows in 2014 and sannyas in 2022. She graduated from the the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training in 2019 and is a Certified Yoga…
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Karnamrita Dasi, international performer featured in her well acclaimed CD – Dasi, Prayers by Women – grew up in an ashram and has spent 10 years in Vrindavan, where she trained in the classical music of India and in Bhakti scriptures. Her uplifting voice and presence stem from…
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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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Rashee Rohatgi is an Ayurvedic Practitioner offering Ayurvedic consultations, body therapies and cooking classes in San Diego, CA. Integrating food, plant medicine, lifestyle choices, and Ayurvedic bodywork, Rashee cherishes creating individualized wellness plans for her clients. Ayurveda, along with its sister sciences of yoga and pranayama, has been Rashee’s path to…
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