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Guru Puja

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This monthly devotional service (on the 22nd each month) is a time to come together for blessings from our spiritual teacher, Sri Swami Satchidananda, and to offer gratitude for his guidance and love. A puja (spiritual service) with participatory chanting will be performed. A short video of Sri Swami Satchidananda or talk may also be offered. This service will include our noon meditation.

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.

2021-02-13T22:07:57-08:00December 23rd, 2020|Tags: , , , , , |

Sri Swami Satchidananda’s Jayanthi

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Join us for this special event honoring the birthday of our spiritual teacher, Sri Swami Satchidananda. There will be a short talk about Sri Swamiji and a puja (spiritual service) with chanting, performed in gratitude for the blessings of his teachings and guidance. A short video of Sri Swami Satchidananda will also be offered. This service will include our noon meditation.

Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco 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 is a co-founder of 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 Vimalananda, 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.

 

 

Swami Divyananda Ma is one of Integral Yoga’s senior monastics and foremost teachers. Over the years she served as director at the Integral Yoga Institutes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Coimbatore, India and as the Ashram Manager in Yogaville. Presently she teaches and conducts trainings in the US and around the world, and leads an annual tour to the sacred temples and ashrams of India.

2020-11-27T13:20:34-08:00November 4th, 2020|Tags: , , , , |

Satsang: In the Footsteps of the Master, the Disciples and the Lineage 

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Join these two disciples who have “walked in the footsteps” for fifty years; as they share their experiences, their stories, their aspirations and their challenges.

Swami Divyananda is one of Integral Yoga’s senior monastics and foremost teachers. Over the years she served as director at the Integral Yoga Institutes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Coimbatore, India and as the Ashram Manager in Yogaville. Presently she teaches and conducts trainings in the US and around the world, and leads an annual tour to the sacred temples and ashrams of India.

 

 

Ramakrishna Sackett began his study of Yoga and Eastern Religious traditions in 1967, and in 1970 joined the Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco as a founding member of the ashram at 770 Dolores St (which now celebrates 50 years of continuous service in SF). As an Integral Yoga Teacher and Community Service Director of the IYI through the early 70’s, he taught extensively, in the SF Bay Area, serving students at the IYI, in high schools, colleges, half-way houses, detention centers, Integral Yoga Retreats, on wilderness outings and a television program.

In 1972 he was a founding member of the first Integral Yoga country ashram, Yogaville West in northern California, serving as Head of Maintenance and teaching on IY Retreats until moving in 1975 with his wife Radha, to join the community of Yogaville East in Pomfret Center, Connecticut. A carpenter by trade, Ramakrishna was a key member of the maintenance and construction staff at the Ashram, and when the property in Virginia was found in 1979, he and his young family were selected to pioneer the founding of the SAYVA in rural Buckingham.

He served on the Volunteer Fire Department of Buckingham, as an EMT with the Buckingham Rescue Squad and was a leader in founding the Volunteer Fire Department of Yogaville.

He has had a role in constructing most of the major buildings at Yogaville including Ananda Kutir, Sivananda Hall, Lotus, Chidambaram, Vivekananda Vihar, Guru Bhavan and the Monastery, several private residences in the area and numerous projects in Central Virginia. His four children were born and raised in Yogaville with Jyoti #2, the first child born at SAYVA.

With his late wife, Rev Vidya Vonne, he shared a deep love of the Integral Yoga path and the community in which it grows, showing how spirituality and Yoga enter all aspects of Life. He continues in that spirit to teach and to build, to parent, dance, write poetry, climb mountains, invent new things, and to share the wisdom teachings of Swami Satchidananda and Master Sivananda….and be grateful every day.

 

2020-10-26T16:40:24-07:00October 26th, 2020|Tags: , , |

Navaratri: Celebration Honoring the Divine Mother – Saraswati Puja

Navaratri: Celebration Honoring the Divine Mother – Saraswati Puja with Swami Ramananda
Friday, October 23 ⋅ 12:00 – 12:45pm

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Navaratri is the celebration of the Divine Mother in the form of the three Hindu Goddesses: Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati.
We’ll celebrate each of the three Goddesses over the 9 days, Navaratri. The celebration culminates with a special service on the 10th day, which is called Vijayadasami. This is a special opportunity to bless your house and all the tools you use in your work. Please join us for this special celebration.
This includes of our noon meditation

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Satsang: Navaratri – Celebration Honoring the Divine Mother – Durga Puja with Swami Divyananda
Saturday, October 17 ⋅ 5:00 – 6:30pm

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Navaratri is the celebration of the Divine Mother in the form of the three Hindu Goddesses: Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati.

We’ll celebrate each of the three Goddesses over the 9 days, Navaratri. The celebration culminates with a special service on the 10th day, which is called Vijayadasami. This is a special opportunity to bless your house and all the tools you use in your work. Please join us for this special celebration.
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Navaratri: Celebration Honoring the Divine Mother – Lakshmi Puja with Swami Divyananda Ma & Astrud Castillo
Tuesday, October 20 ⋅ 12:00 – 12:45pm

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Navaratri is the celebration of the Divine Mother in the form of the three Hindu Goddesses: Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati.
We’ll celebrate each of the three Goddesses over the 9 days, Navaratri. The celebration culminates with a special service on the 10th day, which is called Vijayadasami. This is a special opportunity to bless your house and all the tools you use in your work. Please join us for this special celebration.
This includes our noon meditation/kirtan

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Vijayadasami: Celebration Honoring the Divine Mother
Mon. October 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PDT

 

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Please join us for the final celebration of Vijayadasami. After 9 days Navaratri of celebrating the Divine Feminine in the forms of the three goddesses: Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati, we honor the Divine Mother and her victory over evil. We will discuss and celebrate our own victories and challenges we have overcome on our spiritual path.
This is a very auspicious occasion where we bless all the tools we use during the year as well as our surroundings. After discussion, we’ll celebrate with chanting, an Indian worship service (puja) and home blessing.

To bless your home, you can prepare one or more of the following: a candle, incense or sage, small bowl of clean water, flowers, or a bell. Have your house clean and ready to receive a blessing as well as the objects you would like to bless. We will offer guidance in how to do the personal space blessing and practice it together.

No experience necessary.

2020-10-21T11:25:36-07:00September 14th, 2020|Tags: |
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