Healing journey of Navaratri
with Pundit Bhima, Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Swami Divyananda and Swami Amritananda
September 22 - October 1, 2025
Nine Nights in Celebration of the Divine Mother
Join in Nine Nights of worship to the Goddess in the form of the Divine Mother at one of the most inspirational times of the year.
Each night for these nine nights there will be puja (traditional Vedic worship ritual) and we will read and chant nightly from the Devi Mahatmyam, the scripture describing the story and feats of the Divine Mother.
A final puja on the morning of the tenth day represents the victory of the Goddess over the asuras (demons or negative qualities).
Donations of flowers and prasad (sweet foods) are welcome.
Schedule
Workshops
Workshops will be at 1pm Daily at the Durga Temple
Sept 21 solar eclipse puja
Navaratri #1 sept 22- swami Sitaramananda-workshop on Despondency and calamity: understand present time test and suffering
Navaratri #2. Sept 23- swami Sitaramananda-Who is Divine mother Shakti, Durga. Her power of destruction of negativities
Navaratri#3. Sept 24-swami Sitaramananda- What to do to Take refuge under Her Protection.
Navaratri#4. Sept 25- swami Divyananda -After the fight: the dawn of Light. Nurturing positive virtues.
Navaratri #5. Sept 26- swami Amritananda-Circle of positive thinking on Unity &Power of community.
Navaratri #6 Sept 27-swami Adiparashaktiananda- Circle of positive thinking on Love and Regeneration .
Navaratri #7 sept 28- swami Adiparashaktiananda-Self enquiry on Truth and Reality of Who am I?
Navaratri # 8 sept 29- swami Amritananda-Enquiry on What is Maya? the Universe?
Navaratri #9 sept 30- vedantic Self affirmations
Vijaya Dasami: oct 1st- swami Sitaramananda- vedantic meditation- Celebration of Victory. Offering of karma, blessings and Self Healing . Final Feast.
Teachers
Pundit Bhima, originally from South India, joined the Sivananda Yoga Farm in 2023. He was born and brought up in a Vedic Hindu family. His father was Sri Trinadha Lakshmi Narasimha Murty garu who was the Sri Devi Upasaka (meant to serve or one who serves). He is…
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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 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 Divyananda is a yoga teacher hailed from Vietnam and sannyasin in the Sivananda tradition. She started practicing yoga at the age of 20 and completed her TTC in 2016, SYHET in 2020, and ATTC in 2022. She has also completed five Sadhana Intensive courses, deepening her practice…
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Swami Amrita is a dedicated yoga teacher and karma yogi from Japan, with over 18 years of yoga practice and more than a decade of teaching experience in Hatha Yoga. She holds the RYT500 and IAYT-ACCREDITED SYHET 800-hour certificates. In 2025, she embraced monastic life in the Swami…
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