SATSANG・60 Years of Integral Yoga: Honoring a Legacy, Inspiring the Future

Celebrating 6 Paths of Integral Yoga
60 Year Anniversary Weekend Celebration • Friday, OCT 2 – Sunday, OCT 4
HATHA • physical well-being | RAJA • mental mastery | BHAKTI • devotion | JNANA • wisdom & Self-realization
KARMA • selfless service | JAPA • transformation through sacred sound


ONLINE & IN-PERSON with Swamis Ramananda, Divyananda, & Vimalananda, and David Vijay Hassin

$5–54 individual session , enroll for free, use promo code FREE | $54–540 Weekend Pass
Accepted memberships: Active teachers, Weekend Pass* holders, and “Friends” all levels.

All sessions are offered on a sliding scale to support accessibility for all. You may pay for individual sessions or purchase a Weekend Pass, which serves as one payment for all sessions throughout the weekend. Weekend Pass holders must still register in advance for each session they wish to attend in order to reserve their space. As a special weekend in support of our nonprofit mission, we invite you to contribute as generously as you are able to help us continue sharing the classical teachings of Integral Yoga with all who seek them for years to come. Thank you.

Join us as we celebrate sixty years of Integral Yoga—a tradition that has touched countless lives through its timeless teachings, transformative practices, and vision of peace. We will reflect on the rich legacy of Integral Yoga, honoring its roots and growth, and celebrating its potential to guide future generations toward greater harmony, wisdom, and joy.

 


Enjoy a Weekend Pass; make one payment and access ALL sessions throughout the weekend! Weekend Pass holders must still register in advance for each session that they wish to attend in order to reserve their space. When registering for individual sessions, select the Weekend Pass as your payment.


Swami Ramananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, C-IAYT, and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.
He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced-level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He co-founded The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI), which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

Swami Divyananda Ma, E-RYT 500, has had a wealth of experience teaching Integral Yoga around the world since 1973. She has taught at corporations, universities, the Commonwealth Cancer Center, and for the Dr. Dean Ornish Reversing Heart Disease programs. She has also served as one of Integral Yoga’s Basic Hatha teacher trainers. Swami Divyananda Ma took monastic vows in 1975 from the great saint and yogi, Sri Swami Satchidananda. Over the years she has served as the director of the Integral Yoga Institutes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and as Ashram Manager at Yogaville. She also served for ten years as the director of the Integral Yoga Institute in Coimbatore, India; this immersion into the South Indian culture has given depth to her understanding and practice of Yoga. Now an itinerant monk, Swami Divyananda is constantly “on the road.” She leads the annual Sacred India Tours to sacred sites in India in addition to international Yoga retreats and trainings. Learn more at sacredindiatours.org.

David Vijay Hassin was the Founding Director of the Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco and the first Yogaville West community. He was one of a core group of students of Sri Swami Satchidananda when the first Integral Yoga Institute in New York City was first established. He is the author of Modern Yoga Handbook. Vijay is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private psychotherapy practice. He has been including Western and Eastern philosophies in psychotherapy practice for decades. He completed a year long post graduate certification program in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, from Vancouver Island University. He and his wife and partner Sharada Thompson, PHD currently work with clients with trauma in a Ketamine clinic in Marin.

Swami Vimalananda Ma, RYT500, is an Integral Yoga sannyasi – monk. She has been involved with Integral Yoga since 1971 and Director of the San Francisco Integral Yoga Institute from 1992-2011. She specializes in teaching yoga philosophy and spiritual counseling.