JNANA・Will My Real Self Please Stand Up; Discovering Our Authentic Being Through Jnana Yoga

ONLINE with Swami Asokananda, E-RYT 500

$5–54 individual session | $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.

While most of us experience ourselves to be the body, mind, and individual ego, Jnana Yoga reveals that this perception is inaccurate. We are the owner of the body, mind, and ego. The path of Jnana Yoga utilizes our clear, awakened intelligence to dis-cover the Owner—the True Self.

In this workshop, we will explore:
· Transcending our self-limiting beliefs through Jnana Yoga.
· Making the present moment as an ally on the spiritual path.
· Practical methods for establishing a Jnana Yoga practice.

Join Swami Asokananda for this soul-nourishing experience.

Swami Asokananda, a monk since 1973, is one of Integral Yoga’s foremost teachers, known for his warmth, intelligence, and good humor. His teaching comes out of his own practice and experience, since he has absorbed the wisdom of his guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda, since the age of 19. While he enjoys sharing the practical wisdom of the Yogic philosophy (especially that of the great Indian scripture the Bhagavad Gita), he also loves his practice of Hatha Yoga and is one of our primary instructors for Intermediate and Advanced Hatha Yoga Teacher Training. In the past, he has served as the president of Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville® and Integral Yoga® International; he is currently the President of the New York Integral Yoga Institute.


Enjoy a Weekend Pass; make one payment and access ALL sessions throughout the weekend! Remember; 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.


 

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.

KARMA・Awakening the Joy of Selfless Service with Nonviolent Communication

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 with Kamala Itzel Hayward

$5–54 individual session | $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.

Please register in advance: a Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the session, or join Zoom directly via your Momence dashboard.

Nonviolent Communication, or NVC, offers practical tools for us to practice Karma Yoga—the path of selfless service. At its most superficial level, NVC provides a framework for speaking with truthfulness (satya) and nonviolence (ahimsa). However, NVC is rooted in the understanding that the most direct path to peace is through self-awareness and awareness of our interdependence. And when our NVC practice becomes well-established, we release attachment to outcomes and the knowing of our shared humanity awakens.

In this workshop, we explore what it means to give in a way that is selfless and joyful—giving that springs not from attachment, obligation, or aversion, but from the expansive movement of our heart toward another. Through this exploration, we discover the paradox that lies at the center of Karma Yoga: that when we give freely and fully, the distinction between giver and receiver dissolves, and we experience our fundamental human interconnection—the recognition that we are not separate.

Kamala Itzel Hayward was an economic justice and public policy lawyer for over a decade before shifting her focus to wellness, mindfulness, and healing. The liberatory, embodied, trauma-informed lens she developed across both paths now shapes everything she does. Itzel specializes in bringing Yoga and mindfulness to communities directly impacted by systemic oppression. She is the founder of the Integral Yoga Institute’s Scholarship-Based Yoga Teacher Training for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. She’s also an Adjunct Professor at UC Law SF, where she teaches her students to facilitate equitable group processes through mindful presence, power-consciousness, and empathic engagement. Find Itzel on Insight Timer for a library of guided meditations, monthly live events, and her growing community rooted in liberation and collective well-being: insighttimer.com/attunedliving


Enjoy a Weekend Pass; make one payment and access ALL sessions throughout the weekend! Remember; 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.


 

HATHA ・RAJA ・ Awakening Through Practice: Philosophy on the Mat

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 Swami Ramananda

$5–54 individual session | $54–540 weekend pass
Accepted memberships: Active teachers, Weekend Pass holders, and “Friends” all levels

Please register in advance: a Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the session, or join Zoom directly via your Momence dashboard.

We appreciate advance registration.

Deepening our understanding of Yoga in the context of its original purpose can transform the way we practice. Beyond physical movement, Yoga offers a path toward stilling the mind and reconnecting with the deeper awareness that is our true nature. Without this understanding, our practice can easily be shaped by unconscious habits, conditioning, and the pressures of modern culture.

In this experiential class, we will weave together asana, pranayama, meditation, and Yogic philosophy to cultivate greater awareness of the body, breath, mind, and subtle energy. Through mindful movement and self-observation, we explore how practice can help us move beyond conditioned patterns and open to greater balance, clarity, and inner connection. Over time, this approach can nurture a deeper sense of peace, belonging, and authentic well-being.


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.


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.

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.


 

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