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Weekend Retreat: Joy of Ayurveda with Lalitha

Friday, September 5, 2025 – Sunday, September 7, 2025 PDT

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Health is a positive state of happiness achieved through the normal condition of the doshas (constitution), dhatus (tissues), agni (digestive fire), and malas (waste). as well as a serene state of body, mind and senses. The strength of agni and doshas varies throughout the seasons. 

The Ayurvedic lifestyle is based on three things:

• Routine – Performing healthy practices at the same time each day embeds them in your lifestyle. Your body will know when to prepare itself to wake up, digest food and go to sleep. Regularity in your routines is essential. All of the body’s processes will benefit.

• Moderation – Provides balance to our lives and prevents overindulgence. Most commonly, the road to ill health begins with a lapse in judgment. Even though we know better, we frequently choose to make unhealthy choices, most often in pursuit of sense pleasures. This might be overloading the stomach with an excessive meal and disrupting our sleep cycle by staying up too late and sleeping during the day, or suppressing natural urges to cry, yawn, or even go to the bathroom.

• Tuning in to the natural rhythm of the doshas and agni – They naturally fluctuate during the day, by season and across phases of life.

Bring balance to your life!

Special Guest

Based in San Francisco, Lalitha Vaidyanathan is a Sivananda Yoga teacher and lifelong practitioner of meditation. She is a certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, currently completing her Ayurvedic Practitioner training with the Kerala Ayurveda Academy in the Bay Area. Lalitha has used the principles of Ayurveda to manage personal health challenges, including her own transition to menopause. She is passionate about sharing whatever she knows of this ancient science to help others heal and be well. 
 

Daily Schedule

Friday 9/5
6:00–7:30pm Yoga Asana Class
7:30pm Vegetarian dinner

Saturday 9/6
6:00–7:15am Satsang (meditation, chanting and a short talk)
8:00am Light breakfast
10:00–11:30am Yoga Asana Class
12:00pm Vegetarian lunch
1:00pm Karma Yoga
2:00–4:00pm Talk: Ayurveda and Menopause
6:00pm Vegetarian dinner
7:00pm Vocal Concert with Gaayatri (additional donation requested)

Sunday 9/7
6:00–7:15am Satsang
8:00am Light breakfast
10:00–11:30am Yoga Asana Class
12:00pm Vegetarian lunch
1:00pm Karma Yoga
2:00–3:30pm Afternoon Workshop: Self-Abhyanga (warm oil massage)
5:30–7:00pm Satsang and Soup (optional)

Arrive Friday by 6:00pm and depart Sunday afternoon, or stay for evening Satsang.

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Start:
Friday, September 5, 2025
End:
Sunday, September 7, 2025
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Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center Los Angeles

3741 West 27th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90018 United States + Google Map
(310) 822-9642
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