Memorial Day Weekend: Peace Festival
with Swami Sitaramananda, Niranjan Babu, Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT (Saraswati Devi), Debashish Banerji, Swami Jnaneswariananda and Swami Dharmananda
May 24 - 27, 2024
Description
This Memorial Day Weekend we will hold a Peace Festival at the Sivananda Yoga Farm. We will have satsangs, yoga classes, vegetarian meals, and workshops on finding inner peace for outer peace. Swami Sitaramananda will deliver lectures and meditation on the art of peace. We will have a special nada yoga performance with Silvia Nakkach on Friday night. Please join us this weekend to find lasting peace through yoga and meditation.
Schedule
Friday, May 24
2-4 pm Registration & Arrival
4-6 pm Yoga Class
6 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Welcome: Do’s and Dont’s for Peace by Swami Sitaramananda
Saturday, May 25
6 am Satsang: Finding Peace in our Relationships by Swami Sitaramananda
8-10 am Yoga Class
10 am Brunch
11 am Karma Yoga
12 pm Nature Walks
2-4 pm Debashish Banerji – Peace and enlightenment according to Upanishads
4-6 pm Yoga Class
6 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Nada Yoga Concert with Silvia Nakkach
Sunday, May 26
6 am Satsang: Facing Obstacles to Peace by Swami Sitaramananda
8-10 am Yoga Class
10 am Brunch
11 am Karma Yoga
12 pm Nature Walks
2-4 pm Debashish Banerji – Peace and enlightenment according to Upanishads
4-6 pm Yoga Class
6 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Satsang: Niranjan Babu – Vaastu Tips for Peace in the Home
Monday, May 27
6 am Debashish Banerji – Peace and enlightenment according to Upanishads
8-10 am Yoga Class
10 am Brunch
12 -2 pm Departure
Teachers
Swami Sitaramananda is a senior acharya of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and is director of the Sivananda Ashram Vedanta Yoga Farm, California and the Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center, Vietnam. She is acharya of China, Taiwan, and Japan as well. Swamiji is the organizer and teacher of the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training…
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Bangalore Niranjan Babu (http://niranjanbabu.com/) is a scholar in Vastu, Astrology, Mudras, Mantra Shastra, Gemstone and Meditation. He is the son of the most famous Vedic astrologer of all times B.V. Raman, who has been chosen as the Jyotishi to explain the science of Vedic astrology to the United…
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Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT (Saraswati Devi), is a Grammy-nominated musician and a renowned vocal artist. She is a former clinical psychologist, an author, a world-wide sound and music educator, and a Nada Yoga scholar and yogini. She is a pioneer in the field of sound and music therapies,…
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Debashish Banerji, Ph.D., is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. From 1991-2006 he served as the President of the East-West Cultural Center in Los Angeles, an institution that…
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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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