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  • Tent - Bring Your Own – $295.00
  • Om Cabin - Private – $610.00
  • Siva Cabin - Double – $610.00
  • Siva Cabin - Private – $730.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Shared – $790.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Private – $910.00
  • (All prices include $70.00 base amount)

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


Arrival & Departure

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. 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

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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
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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Swami Hamsananda
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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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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