Weekend Retreat: Meditate for Peace
Friday, May 24, 2024 – Sunday, May 26, 2024 PDT
IN PERSON OR ONLINE
Online participants will receive a Zoom link at least one hour before the program begins.
With Swami Hamsananda, visiting from the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, California
Learn:
∙ What is meditation?
∙ Why meditate?
∙ How to meditate?
∙ Techniques of meditation according to the four Classical Paths of Yoga
Gain:
∙ Tools to overcome obstacles encountered in meditation
∙ A sustainable and balanced meditation practice
∙ Ability to integrate meditation practice into your lifestyle.
Swami Hamsananda is a senior staff teacher at the Yoga Farm, having taken TTC in 2010 and Advanced TTC in 2014. Swami Hamsananda took Brahmacharya vows in 2014 and sannyas in 2022. She graduated from the the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training in 2019 and is a Certified Yoga Therapist specializing in Stress Management, Positive Thinking, and other Yoga therapeutic practices for holistic and positive health. From 2015 to 2018, she was director of the Los Angeles Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center.
Daily Schedule
Friday 5/24
6:00–7:30pm Yoga Asana Class
7:30pm Vegetarian dinner
Saturday 5/25
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
2:00–3:30pm Talk: Mechanics of the Mind
3:45–4:45pm How to Meditate, with practice
6:00pm Vegetarian dinner
7:30pm Mantra chanting and arati
Sunday 5/26
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 Talk: Meditation According to the Four Classical Paths of Yoga
5:30–7:00pm Satsang and Soup (optional)
Arrive Friday by 6:00pm and depart Sunday afternoon.
Online: $125. (includes daily Satsang, 2 yoga classes and 2 comprehensive talks)
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