Swami Sitaramananda
Writings, Audio, Video, Webinars, and much more
Swami Sitaramananda is a senior acharya of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers (ISYVC) and is director of the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, California and the Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center in Dalat, Vietnam as well as more city centers in Ho Chi Minh, Dalat, Hanoi, and Tokyo, Japan. Swamiji is the acharya for Asia as well as the organizer and teacher of the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET) program, an 800-hour program on yoga therapy, accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).
Swami Sitaramananda is the author of Essentials of Yoga Practice and Philosophy (translated in Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese), Positive Thinking Manual, Karma Yoga Manual, Meditation Manual, 108 Yoga Health Tips, Swamiji Said, Guru Grace, The Answer Lies Within, Learning Selfless Love, as well as two poem books. She is responsible for the Vietnamese translation of The Completed Illustrated Book of Yoga (CIBY) by Swami Vishnudevananda. Many of Swamiji’s video & audio lectures on Yoga Life, Yoga Philosophy & Yoga Psychology can be found on this website.
Swamiji is an ardent supporter of the integration of the Vedic Sciences such as Vastu, Jyotish, Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedanta.
Writings, Audio, Videos
What is the Meaning of life?
Swami Sivananda says that Life is an expression of something higher. Life is joy, life is a conscious stream, life is a voyage.
Steps to Peace of Mind
This podcast is a webinar by Swami Sita from 2013 on steps to peace of mind and how it is like a lake with waves.
Karma, Dharma, and Sadhana
This life is a karmic life. We are very restless beings and are bound by our karma. Karma means action or more specifically our thoughts and desires.
How to Progress on the Spiritual Path
In this podcast, Swami Sitaramananda will explain the criteria to determine if you are progressing and what the point of progressing is. In our life we want to develop and grow our potential.
What is the Mind and How to Control it
When the mind is still our internal vision becomes strong and we can experience peace. There is a direct relationship between our state of mind and our connection with self.
In this podcast Swami Sita introduces us to the concept of living an integral Yoga Life. Many people start practicing yoga asanas but as one continues to practice one also starts making changes to their life.
How to Make Good Choices in our Life – and not the Pleasant one
This podcast is a talk by Swami Vishnudevananda from the 1970s. His talk focuses on what the difference is between something that is good versus something that is pleasant.
90-minute Sivananda Yoga All Levels Asana and Pranayama Class
This podcast is a recording of a Sivananda Yoga Class. Please listen to the class and practice along. You can see our website for more details on the practice. Enjoy!
Kirtan Chanting with Swami Vishnudevananda
This recording is of Swami Vishnudevananda singing kirtan music. Swami Vishnudevananda lived with his master Swami Sivananda for 12 years. In 1957 he traveled to America, and in the early 70´s came to Europe, founding international Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers...
Yoga Teachings on Selfless Love | Part 2
In this talk Swami Sitaramananda will teach about our negative emotional patterns and we can turn this instead into Selfless love. The main practice to do this is through Bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion). By doing this we uplift our self and others...
Yoga Teachings on Selfless Love | Part 1
In this talk Swami Sitaramananda will teach about our negative emotional patterns and we can turn this instead into Selfless love. The main practice to do this is through Bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion). By doing this we uplift our self and others...
Understanding the Addictive Mind
In this podcast Swami Sitaramanandause talks about the use of yoga to heal addictions. Yoga teaches us to practice self surrender and by doing this we can understand better how the mind works. When the mind is very active there are many thought waves which...
The Yoga of Relationships
In this podcast, Swami Sitaramananda talks on how The Yoga of Relationship teaches us about emotional patterns that we usually follow within relationship.
Yoga and the Koshas for Spiritual, Mental and Physical Health
What are the Koshas and how does Yoga heal the Spiritual, Mental and Physical levels? For the healing aspect of yoga, we have to go into the deep root cause…
Permaculture Updates from the Yoga Farm
The Yoga Farm has been making efforts to implement permaculture in our community, little by little. Through our various courses and Permaculture Service Days, our wonderful volunteers and guests have been helping us reach our goals.
Overcoming Chronic Pain
Pain is the main reason people go to the doctor. Unfortunately, 20% of American adults suffer from moderate to severe chronic pain , as do 13% of North American teens and 10 to 30% of the adult population of Europe.
Its effects are physical, psychological and spiritual. Acute pain is typically a pain with a specific, identifiable cause, and a pain like twisting your ankle that resolves relatively quickly. Additionally, pain becomes chronic when it lasts three to six months.
Ayurveda and Jyotish for Holistic Health
Holistic healing through ayurveda and jyotish implies healing the root cause of a problem, rather than simply treating or masking a symptom.
Yoga and Permaculture Ethics
Living in positive relationship with everything and everyone around us is the foundation of yoga life and permaculture practice. In this article, we will examine the links between the ethics of both permaculture and yoga.
Upcoming Online Satsangs
Online Satsangs with Swami Sitaramananda
TIME & DATE
Thursdays at 6am
Sometimes 6am California (sometimes 6am Vietnam)
Swami Sitaramananda and the senior swamis are offering weekly online Satsangs which will be held on Thursdays at 6 am (sometimes California time, sometimes Vietnam time). You can join directly by clicking the zoom link here. Donations are optional. For access to previous satsang talks, you can scroll down to see many of the articles below.
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Books by Swami Sitaramananda
