ONLINE and IN-PERSON with Dharani Diana Diaz, MA, RYT500
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We will honor the birth of Sri Swami Sivananda by performing a puja, a sacred ceremony to invoke and honor his spiritual presence and to receive his blessings and guidance. This service will include our noon meditation.
“Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.”
Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887 – 1963) was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism.
He was the founder of the Divine Life Society (1936), Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy (1948) and author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta, and a variety of subjects. He established Sivananda Ashram, on the bank of the Ganges at Sivanandanagar, near Rishikesh. He was Swami Satchidanada’s beloved teacher’s Gurudev and you will find his photograph on many altars in Integral Yoga centers around the world.
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Diana “Dharani” Díaz, MA, RYT 500 is a writer and Yoga teacher certified in Yoga for Stress Management, Accessible Yoga, Yoga for Cancer and Chronic Illness, and Holistic Sound Resonance, among others. Diana is passionate about sharing both yoga and writing with marginalized communities. She teaches yoga online for Sister Mentors and currently serves as vice president of Voices of Our Nation’s Arts (VONA), an organization that nurtures writers of color. She particularly enjoys the practice of Yoga Nidra, which aligns with her beliefs in the healing power of words and the nature of the true Self being peace.