Yogic path

How Yoga Transformed My Life, Part 1 of 2
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How Yoga Transformed My Life, Part 1 of 2

How Yoga Transformed My Life, Part 1 of 2

Online & In-person – 2 Thursdays, April 23 & 30

Both sessions: $45 | $40 Early bird, use promo code LIFE, exp. 4/16/26
Individual session $25 each

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

Book both session/In-Person

We appreciate advance registration.

Individual session(s)

4/23 – Book Online | Book In-person
4/30 – Book Online | Book In-person

In this two-part workshop, Swami Ramananda—drawing on more than fifty years of dedicated yoga practice—will share five pivotal teachings that profoundly changed his life. Central among them is a liberating insight into self-identity: “I don’t have to buy into the whole story that inhabits my mind and feels like me.”

Through guided reflection and clear, down-to-earth explanation, Swami Ramananda will show how these teachings can be applied to everyday challenges such as work, relationships, and stress. For example, together, we will explore how loosening our identification with habitual mental narratives opens the possibility for greater freedom, presence, and discernment.

Participants will leave with simple, practical tools to respond more skillfully to daily events and to cultivate clarity, inner growth, and a deeper sense of well-being—both on and off the mat.

These workshops are available for sign up as a course or individually at $25 – 4/23 & 4/30
and will be recorded and available to all enrolled students for two weeks.

Sevika Ford2026-03-02T15:53:32-08:00March 2nd, 2026|Tags: In-person Yoga workshop, online yoga workshop, Swami Ramananda, Yogic path|

Satsang: Inspiration for the Spiritual Journey
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Satsang: Inspiration for the Spiritual Journey

Satsang: Inspiration for the Spiritual Journey

Online

$5-$20 | Enroll for free, use promo code FREE

Book now/Online

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

Join us for this heartfelt and inspiring session, where two senior and widely respected Integral Yoga swamis, Swamis Ramananda and Asokananda, will reflect on the teachings and practices that have sustained them over the years. They will also share what continues to inspire and renew their dedication to the path today.
The spiritual journey is filled with challenges, and progress can often feel slow or uncertain. Along the way, we benefit deeply from the support of fellow travelers, those who have walked this path before us, who generously share their experience, and who care enough to walk beside us.
Please bring your heartfelt questions. At least half of the session will be dedicated to Q&A. All are welcome. This workshop will be recorded and available to all enrolled students for two weeks.

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 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.

Sevika Ford2026-03-02T14:06:32-08:00March 2nd, 2026|Tags: Swami Asokananda, Swami Ramananda, Yogic path|

Fueling the Flame: Cultivating True Sincerity on the Spiritual Path
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Fueling the Flame: Cultivating True Sincerity on the Spiritual Path

Fueling the Flame: Cultivating True Sincerity on the Spiritual Path

Online and In-person | $10-25 sliding scale
Free for active teachers

Book now/Online

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

Book now/In-Person

We appreciate advance registration.

What is sincerity? How can we deepen it? And how do we recognize when it is truly present in us?

We engage in practices that nurture the well-being of body and mind—this is our sadhana. Yet at times, we unconsciously undermine those efforts. One foot presses the accelerator, while the other rests on the brake.

In this workshop, Swami Asokananda will offer heartfelt insights and practical tools to help us become more earnest and focused on the spiritual path. Learn how to release the brake, press the gas with confidence, and move forward with greater clarity, sincerity, and inner momentum.

“If you are earnest, whatever way you choose will take you to your goal. It is the earnestness that is the decisive factor. Earnestness is the homing instinct which makes the bird return to its nest and the fish to the mountain stream where it was born. The seed returns to the earth when the fruit is ripe.” Nisargadatta Maharaj

Everyone is welcome to stay for tea and visit with Swami Asokananda afterwards.

This workshop will be recorded for later viewing and shared for 2 weeks with all enrolled students.

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.

Sevika Ford2025-09-03T23:24:09-07:00September 3rd, 2025|Tags: In-person Yoga workshop, online yoga workshop, Spiritual path, Spiritual Practice, Swami Asokananda, Yogic path|

Authenticity, Path to Self-Realization, 3-part course
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Authenticity, Path to Self-Realization, 3-part course

Authenticity, Path to Self-Realization, 3-part course

This event has been cancelled.

~~Online | 3-Saturdays, April 19, 26 & May 3 | $75 Early bird, use promo code PATH, exp. 4/12~~

$85 Regular

20% off for IYISF active teachers

Nowadays authenticity is more often marketed than manifested. As a result many of us experience a vague feeling that something is misaligned or missing in our lives. What does it mean to truly live authentically in a world full of distractions, expectations, and pressures to conform? What makes being authentic so challenging even though everyone seems to yearn for it? And why does authenticity matter so much in our personal lives but also for the world at large?

“Authenticity is not a destination, it is the journey of unraveling the layers of conditioning to reveal the essence of your being.” ~ Margaret Atwood.

Join Claudia Bartsch, a certified yoga therapist, in exploring the answers to these questions and to learn why the path towards authenticity could be the most important, the most challenging and the most fulfilling journey of your life.
The exploration will draw insights from Yoga Philosophy and Practices, from Western Psychology and Behavioral Science. Each workshop will offer a mixture of lecture and discussion but also some somatic exploration of how being authentic feels in the body.

The focus of the individual workshops will be:

April 19 – defining authenticity, what it means to fully embody the person we are meant to be. We will explore its benefits for our own physical, mental, emotional well-being, and for the health of our relationships and communities.
April 26 – why it is so challenging to live authentically, why the fear of other people’s opinion and our own self-doubt hold us back so often and how to overcome these hindrances.
May 3 – how to cultivate increasingly more authenticity, how we can stop betraying ourselves and which tools and techniques can support us on the way.

This workshop(s) will be recorded and shared with participants for later viewing.
All are welcome, no prior experience with Yoga is necessary.

Claudia Bartsch, PRYT
Originally from Germany, Claudia studied and taught yoga for over 25 years. With more than 2000 hours of formal training in yoga she has a strong foundation in the classical approach to yoga and in innovative therapeutic methods. She is deeply dedicated to facilitating holistic healing and certified as a yoga therapist in 2016. In this role, she specializes in supporting individuals navigating mental or physical challenges by tailoring yoga practices to their unique conditions and needs. Additionally she was certified as a Stress Management Educator to empower individuals to cultivate resilience and inner peace through mindful practices. She is a Shiatsu and Reiki Practitioner, modalities that complement the holistic approach to well-being fostered through yoga. In 2022 she was certified as a Brain Longevity Specialist by the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation to deepen her understanding of cognitive and mental health Please visit her website for more information: claudiabartsch.com

Sevika Ford2025-04-18T18:53:08-07:00February 9th, 2025|Tags: Claudia Bartsch, Self-realization, yoga workshop, Yogic path|

Online & In-person – 2 Thursdays, April 23 & 30

Individual session(s)

Participants will leave with simple, practical tools to respond more skillfully to daily events and to cultivate clarity, inner growth, and a deeper sense of well-being—both on and off the mat.

These workshops are available for sign up as a course or individually at $25 – 4/23 & 4/30 and will be recorded and available to all enrolled students for two weeks.

What is sincerity? How can we deepen it? And how do we recognize when it is truly present in us?

We engage in practices that nurture the well-being of body and mind—this is our sadhana. Yet at times, we unconsciously undermine those efforts. One foot presses the accelerator, while the other rests on the brake.

In this workshop, Swami Asokananda will offer heartfelt insights and practical tools to help us become more earnest and focused on the spiritual path. Learn how to release the brake, press the gas with confidence, and move forward with greater clarity, sincerity, and inner momentum.

Everyone is welcome to stay for tea and visit with Swami Asokananda afterwards.

This workshop will be recorded for later viewing and shared for 2 weeks with all enrolled students.

“Authenticity is not a destination, it is the journey of unraveling the layers of conditioning to reveal the essence of your being.” ~ Margaret Atwood.

The focus of the individual workshops will be:

This workshop(s) will be recorded and shared with participants for later viewing. All are welcome, no prior experience with Yoga is necessary.

These workshops are available for sign up as a course or individually at $25 – 4/23 & 4/30
and will be recorded and available to all enrolled students for two weeks.

This workshop(s) will be recorded and shared with participants for later viewing.
All are welcome, no prior experience with Yoga is necessary.