Memorial Day Program: 55th Year Anniversary & Teachers’ Reunion
with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Adiparashaktiananda, Swami Sivasankariananda, Stephen Longfellow Fiske, Swami Sankarananda, Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT (Saraswati Devi), Swami Pranavananda, Pundit Samavedula, Swami Divyananda, Swami Amritananda, Dr. Fred Luskin, Durga Leela, Debashish Banerji, Dr. Ramkumar, Komilla Sutton, Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Narayanananda and Krishna Darshan
May 22 - 29, 2026
FREE STAY – Yoga Farm TTC Graduates stay in tent for free during this 7 days program.
Description
This Memorial Day Weekend we will celebrate our 55th year anniversary (1971 – 2026). We will have satsangs, yoga classes, vegetarian meals, and workshops with swamis and special guests on sharing the teachings. Swami Sitaramananda will deliver lectures. Stephen Longfellow Fiske will offer workshops and a concert. Komilla Sutton will enlighten our path. Silvia Nakkach will melt our hearts. Fred Luskin PhD will stimulate our critical thinking. And Pundit Samavedula will invite the Divine Energy into our Home.
Schedule
Friday, May 22
12-4pm Arrival and Registration
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Swami Sita on Peace Education
Saturday, May 23
6-7:30am Satsang: Ayurveda for Inner Peace , Dr. Ramkumar
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – Ashram Peace Procession to all Temples and Shrines and Installation of new Peace Pole
2pm – Nada Yoga Workshop for Peace with Silvia Nakkach and Stu Pender
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Stephen Fiske Peace Concert
Sunday, May 24
6am – Jupiter in Exaltation for Peace, Komilla Sutton
8-10am Asana Teachers Corrections Workshop with Swamis
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – Folk Songs for Peace with Stephen Fiske
2pm – Jyotish for Peace with Komilla Sutton
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Silvia Nakkach and Stu Pender Peace Music Offering
Monday, May 25
6am Satsang: Chandi Homa for Peace with Samavedula
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – Walking for Peace with Swami Sankarananda
2pm – Peace according to the Upanishads – Debashish Banerji
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm – Peace according to the Upanishads – Debashish Banerji
Tuesday, May 26
6am Satsang: Peace of Mind through Yogic techniques with Swami Pranava
8-10am – Asana Teachers Corrections Workshop with Swamis
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – TTC Reunion workshop with Swami Sivasankariananda
2pm – Kirtan Music for Peace with Swami Pranavananda
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Learning to Forgive for Good with Dr Fred Luskin
Wednesday, May 27
6am Satsang: Yoga for Stress Resilience with Swami Jnaneswariananda
8-10am – Asana Teachers Corrections Workshop with Swamis
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – TTC Reunion workshop with Swami Sita
2pm -Learning to Forgive for Good with Dr Fred Luskin
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Yoga of Recovery for Peace with Durga Leela
Thursday, May 28
6am Satsang: Compassionate Listening for Peace with Swami Narayanananda
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – TTC Reunion workshop with Swami Sita
2pm – Emotional Intelligence with Swami Amritananda
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: from Grief to Peace with Swami Sivasankari
Friday, May 29
6am Satsang: The Karma of Peace by Krishna Darshan
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – Conclusion and Wrap-up
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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Swami Adiparashaktiananda is a dedicated Sadhak and an experienced international Sivananda Yoga Teacher and trainer in international TTCs in USA, Vietnam , Japan and China for more than 16 years. He mainly serves as assistant to Acharya Swami Sitaramananda at the Sivananda Ashram yoga Farm in Grass Valley…
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Swami Sivasankariananda is director of the Los Angeles Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center. She completed her TTC at the Yoga Farm in 1997 and ATTC there in 2008. Swamiji has been on yatra in north and south India and Mount Kailas. She loves to teach and is particularly fond of the…
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Stephen Longfellow Fiske is a musician, author, poet, Interfaith Minister and long-time peace and environmental activist. He is a multi-talented individual whose dedication to peace, humanitarian, environmental and spiritual concerns has always found expression through his artistic pursuits. Since his first album release, Seeds of Peace, in 1980,…
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Swami Sankarananda is a simple pilgrim. Not finding peace in a life of business success he turned inside, became a disciple of Swami Sivananda, and in 2013 he began to walk across and through the USA in a pilgrimage for peace, completing this in early 2016. He now…
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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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Swami Pranavananda, hails from the USA, and has been a Yoga and Meditation teacher since 1995 in the US and abroad. He teaches mainly the Hatha Yoga and Anatomy sections for the TTC courses. He was the director of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in Los Angeles, CA…
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Pundit Samavedula is a 6th generation Sama Veda pandit who was trained in the Vedas beginning at age 7. He attended the Shri Sarva Raya Veda Patha Shala school in South India, and after 12 years of study, received his Master’s Degree in Vedic Studies (Ganapati Pandit). Panditji…
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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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Dr. Luskin holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Health Psychology from Stanford University. He is Co-Director of the Stanford-Northern Ireland HOPE Project, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on the victims of political violence. He served as Director…
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Durga Leela is founder of Yoga of Recovery, a comprehensive program integrating Ayurveda and Yoga with recovery tools for a holistic mind, body and spirit approach for those affected by addiction and self-destructive behaviors. Yoga of Recovery is currently offered as workshops, retreats and certificate courses. Durga holds…
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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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Ramkumar is a student of Ayurveda and other traditional Indian knowledge systems. Over the last 2 decades, he has given talks and conducted workshops in the Americas, Africa, Europe, Australia and many parts of Asia, promoting health, happiness and contentment. Ramkumar is a Founder-Director of Punarnava Ayurveda, an…
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Komilla is co-founder and Chair of the British Association for Vedic Astrology. She is an internationally-renowned consultant, teacher and lecturer. Indian born, Komilla Sutton is one of the pioneers in making this subject more accessible for Western readers. She is author of The Essentials of Vedic Astrology, Lunar…
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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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Born in England, Swami Narayanananda is a senior teacher of yoga and meditation at International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers with 25 years experience of practice and teaching. He is now Director of Sivananda Vietnam Yoga Resort and Training Center. He has been a student of the practice of…
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Krishna Darshan, who hails from Uruguay, is a direct disciple of Swami Vishnudevananda and has been a yoga and meditation teacher for more than 38 years in South America, Europe and USA. He has been the main Hatha Yoga instructor in numerous International Yoga Teachers Training Courses and…
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