Sivaratri Weekend: Dissolution & Evolution
with Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Dharmananda, Swami Hamsananda and Acharya Mangalananda
March 7 - 10, 2024
Join us for the auspicious MahaSivaratri festival, the Great Night of Lord Siva, with all-night chanting and pujas through the night. Devotees perform sincere worship of Siva, the Lord of cosmic transformation and dance. Keep vigil all night. Chant kirtan until sunrise. Be uplifted and obtain countless blessings. All night vigil, chanting, and celebration of Pure Consciousness in the form of Lord Siva.
This year Acharya Mangalananda joins us, bringing his joyous kirtan and exuberant spirit.
A once a year opportunity not to be missed. There will be 4 special Puja ceremonies throughout the night. We will conclude by 4am with a feast.
Weekend Schedule
06:00 – 07:30 am – Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and lecture
08:00 – 10:00 am – Yoga Class: Asanas and Pranayama
10:00 – 10:45 am – Vegetarian Brunch
11:00 – 12:00 pm – Karma Yoga (selfless service)
01:00 – 02:30 pm – Workshops on “Dissolution and Evolution”
03:00 – 04:00 pm – Free Time and Nature walks
04:00 – 06:00 pm – Yoga Class: Asanas and Pranayama
06:00 – 06:45 pm – Vegetarian Dinner
07:30 – 9 pm – Satsang: meditation, chanting and lecture
Sivaratri Schedule
8pm Mantra chanting
9pm 1st Siva Puja Ceremony
12am 2nd Siva Puja Ceremony
1:30am 3rd Siva Puja Ceremony
3am 4th Puja Ceremony
5am Feast
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 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 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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Magalananda began his spiritual life in 1972 under the guidance of Swami Satchidananda, a direct disciple of Swami Sivananda. After an inner experience with Anandamayi Ma, the great woman Saint mentioned in Yogananda’s “Autobiography of a Yogi”, with Sw. Satchidananda’s permission, he went to India to find her.…
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