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  • Online – $450.00
  • Tent - Bring Your Own – $900.00
  • Om Cabin - Private or book with a friend – $1,410.00
  • Om Cabin - Double (share with another guest) – $1,230.00
  • Siva Cabin - Private or book with a friend – $1,770.00
  • Siva Cabin - Double (share with another guest) – $1,530.00
  • Krishna Cabin, Double (share with another guest) – $1,530.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Private or book with friends – $2,130.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Shared (share with another guest) – $1,710.00
    • (All prices include $450.00 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


What to Bring:
slip on shoes, loose comfortable clothing, writing materials, meditation shawl or blanket, yoga mat, sitting cushion, water bottle, and flashlight. All books and materials are available to order from our online boutique. (we will not have yoga mat and cushions available so please bring your own)

Siva Wellness Center:
Invest in your own well being through an experience that allows you to tune into your body’s innate wisdom and bring you into balance.
Siva Wellness Center

Boutique: All books and materials are available to order from our online boutique.

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Meditation the Classical Yoga Way Teacher Training

with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Dharmananda and Anandamayi Chaitanya

June 9 - 15, 2025

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Description

Meditaiton the Classical Yoga Way – Teacher Training Course empowers Yoga teachers with the skills and techniques to educate and support your students to create healthy coping mechanisms to meditate and lead a more balanced life. This training is based on the time-tested, Classical Yoga practices and contemporary resources to better understand and develop skills to lead a healthy and holistic lifestyle.

This course qualifies for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits for Yoga Teachers.

Curriculum

  • Why meditate? Seeking Self knowledge
  • techniques of meditation. Benefits of meditation. What it is and what it is not
  • patanjali yoga. 8 limbs
  • Meditation and the 4 paths
  • 5 causes of suffering -kleshas
  • mechanics of the mind
  • what is thought -vrittis?
  • three gunas and Meditation in daily life.
  •  How correct asanas help meditation
  • prana management – how pranayama help meditation
  • pratyahara. Turning inwards
  • what is Dharana concentration
  •  Emotion. Devotion. What is love and bhakti yoga
  •  Purifying subconscious – journey of awareness and self transformation
  •  Turning Karma to Dharma and sadhana
  •  protecting and uplifting the mind with mantras and puja

Study time
Asana and Pranayama Class
Exam
Testimonials

Daily Schedule

6-7:30am Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and Lecture
8-10am Asana and Pranayama Practice
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12-2pm Workshop
4-6pm Skills Training 
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and Lecture

Pre-requisite

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

Tuition: $450 + Accommodations

 

Teachers

Acharya Swami Sitaramananda
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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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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Anandamayi Chaitanya
Anandamayi Chaitanya hails from Japan and completed the TTC at the Yoga Farm in 2014 and ATTC in 2015.  She graduated the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET) program in 2019 and is a certified yoga therapist, specializing in Stress Relief techniques and Adapted Yoga practices to meet…
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