Sivananda Yoga Farm Videos
9 Ways to Practice Bhakti Yoga in Daily Life
Bhakti Yoga is the branch of yoga that focuses on devotion and devotional practices. God is love and love is God. Bhakti yoga uses our fundamental emotional relationships and sublimates them into pure, selfless, divine love. There are 9 traditional ways to sublimate...
Yoga Relaxation Techniques for Tension and Emotional Stress
The third point of yoga life is Proper Relaxation. The first is proper exercise how to move the body so you can move your energy to bring yourself to balance. The second point is proper breathing being aware of your breath. There is what is called the savasana posture...
5 Things to Do with our Prana Energy
In order to feel more alive, awake, and peaceful we want to increase prana, conserve prana, channel prana, balance prana, and purify prana.
The Yoga of Selflessness
Selfishness arises from us failing to realize that we gain more from giving than from taking. Our mistaken belief that we are separate from others leads us to behave selfishly. We fail to consider the deep interconnectedness and oneness of all life, and act from the...
Yoga of Relationships: The way to Selfless Love
Yoga of relationships teaches life is nothing but relationship and nothing is independent because we are in relationship at all times.
10 Ways How to Control Negative Emotions
Today we will talk about positive thinking. Choose from the words written on the board. Which negative emotions would you like to eradicate? Fear, procrastination, tired, anxiety, jealousy, attachment, brooding. I would say fear and anxiety, anxiety is also fear...
Ways to Increase Life Force Prana Energy
Swami Sita: Can you tell me which one of your nostrils is working without checking? Satsang students: the right, the left, the right. Swami Sita: Who has both nostrils working? You have to check your nostrils all the time to know how your energy is. When both work...
How to tune to positive thoughts – Satsang with Swami Sita
We talked already about the 5 points. Proper exercises or asanas, breathing or pranayama. We talked about relaxation and then we talked about diet. The body is like a vehicle and the proper exercise is like the oiling system of the body all the parts...
Journey from Here to Eternity
Ashram as a Spiritual Haven Master Sivananda said that "one ounce of practice equals tons of theory." Swami Vishnudevanandaji not only gives us the teachings but also provides the camp ground to bring everything we learned into practice. He created the Sivananda Yoga...
Sickness and Health Have No Name
Many years ago, I did not know that every activity has its own value in terms of energy taxing the body. I thought seeing God in temples is exempt as it gives you new energy and recharges you. Pilgrimage is seeing God, not only in temples, but in every encounter...
Understanding Proper Exercise according to Sivananda Yoga
Your subtle body translated as Sanskrit mantra, Sanskrit vowels, Sanskrit sound. When you hear the sound you would calm down. It is not like a normal song that you feel good about. This is like a sound therapy. When you say OM that is a Sanskrit sound. All...
Overcoming Distraction And Restlessness
Q. What do I do when my mind is distracted? A. When the mind is distracted, it will bounce randomly from thought to thought and object to object. You will feel restless. Most of the time our minds are like this. The yogic advice in order to bring back focus and peace...
Why Study The Vedic Sciences?
The Vedic sciences are an immense age-old body of knowledge comprising Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra, Ayurveda, Jyotish and Vaastu.
Learn from the Spiritual Masters and Become Wise
In honor of Guru Purnima - celebrations in honor of the guru First you need to know that you do not know and someone knows. This attitude will help you to be receptive to meeting with those who have the ultimate knowledge of reality, and it will help you to be humble...
Yogic Guidelines For Good Conduct
In this article on Yogic Guidelines we learn about the yamas and niyamas and how they are helping us to progress on the path to peace.
20 Inspirations for Lasting Happiness
1. When the mind is more focused, you are happier. When the mind is one-pointed, it doesn't swing so much. If it doesn't have many waves, then you are happy. 2. Objects appear to give you happiness because of the conditioning of your mind to like this...
Sivananda Yoga 12 Basic Postures
This short video demonstrates the Sivananda Yoga 12 Basic Postures sequence to help regain strong health, vitality and peace of mind.
Karmic Relationships
All relationships come through your life, flow through your life, and flow out of your life. Sometimes you are doing something good for them,sometimes they have insulted you,sometimes they praise you,sometimes they need you, andsometimes they don't need you; they go...
Self Awareness and Intuition
Most people only talk about their body and mind because that's all that they can handle. They forget about the spirit. However, it's actually the spirit that is the most important thing because it comes before everything else. The mind comes from the spirit and the...
Jaya Ganesha is the Daily Chants at the Sivananda Ashram. Ganesha represents the remover of obstacles on our path to happiness.
A Spiritual Interview with Swami Sitaramananda
A Spiritual Interview with Swami Sitaramananda Swami Sitaramananda is a senior disciple of Swami Vishnu-devananda and is the current director of the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm in Grass Valley California. She has been teaching Yoga, meditation and positive thinking for...
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