Specialty Courses and Programs

SPECIALTY COURSES AND PROGRAMS

Our Offerings

LEARN, INSPIRE, AND GROW

The Sivananda Yoga Specialty courses offer a broad range of topics which seek to empower individuals with classical Yoga tools and Self-knowledge to promote integral health, to reduce stress, to restore balance and a sense of purpose in one’s life.

Foundational courses on asanas and anatomy

Kids, Teens, and Familes

Gentle, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra

Foundational courses on bhakti and music

Special Holiday Retreats and Celebrations

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Calendar of Specialty Programs

The inner education, training in character building, and in the practice of yoga has the best effect on a person while still young.

– Swami Sivananda

Kids, Teens, and Familes

Swami Vishnudevananda, the founder of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams and Centers, was the first yogi in the West to teach Childrens’ Yoga. This tradition at the Sivananda ashrams by offering Childrens’ Yoga and Family camps

a ten-day overnight summer camp teaching children ages 7-14.
opportunity for children to practice the teachings of yoga in a fun, inspiring, and energetic way in the peaceful natural environment
offering practice of asana (yoga postures), meditation, calmness and relaxation, compassion, healthy living, nature studies, hiking, painting, sketching,
participating in outside games and play time, a drama production with music and costume crafting, and trips to the refreshing surrounding attractions.
Karma Yoga will be introduced to the campers, including chores around the farm, cooking and gardening workshops, and caring for animals.
The ratio of counselors to children is 1:4, children have c wholesome organic vegetarian meals are served 4 times daily.
All children will benefit from daily Yoga classes and breathing exercises combined with relaxation.
They will learn about and practice mediation, the value of Karma Yoga ( selfless service ) and have their own children’s satsang with daily singing and inspiring stories.
There will also be plenty of time for swimming, fun and games, and special activities.
The camp is an uplifting environment and ideal to create a foundation for your child’s peaceful and healthy development.
We also offer a position for Junior Counselors, for campers who have been in our camp before, outgrew camp age and want to come back.

Kids, Teens, and Familes

Upcoming Dates

Peace is the most covetable possession on earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe.

– Swami Sivananda

Gentle, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra

Learn to adapt to stress

These courses are geared towards people with limited flexibility and at the same time towards the students who need modified postures. Yoga is a complete system of balancing body, mind, and spirit. Yoga is for all body types and physical fitness levels. The full benefits of yoga can be experienced using gentle and modified postures along with relaxation, proper breathing and concentration.

Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga is designed for students who need to have the basic yoga postures modified due to age, weight, illness, injury or limited flexibility. We have learned to modify the asanas so that these students can benefit from a physical practice as they build the strength and flexibility to perform the full postures.

Who can practice

Beginners who are new to yoga
People who have not exercised or have stopped and would like to start.
Overweight, Underweight, or any other bodily weakness
Stiff, Weak, or Injured Spines
Office workers, Computer Workers with many hours sitting daily
People recovering from illness

Restorative Yoga

Restorative Yoga will introduce you to the basics knowledge of subtle energy, how to control it to bring back balance, deep relaxation and rejuvenation of the body. Yoga restores the body not only through the asana but also through pranayama, meditation, relaxation.

Benefits

Increase Strength and Flexibility
Gaining confidence in your ability to more your body in an effective way
Increase your breathing capacity
Increase energy and vitality
Learn relaxation techniques to overcome stress
Learn healthy healing diet
Detoxify body and mind
Learn Positive thinking, remove fears and anxieties
Regain Peace and Joy through Meditation
Discover and Renew yourself with yoga philosophy
Develop healthy lifestyle habits

Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra means Yogic Sleep and is the art of conscious relaxation. You will learn techniques which will allow you to reach new states of conscious awareness with acute perception of both your physical and subtle body. As you practice these techniques you will feel the flow of prana move through physical, emotional, and energetic blockages. The end result is the healing of the body and mind and the expansion of consciousness. Yoga Nidra is one of the deepest of all meditations, leading awareness through many levels of mental process to a state of supreme stillness and insight.

How Yoga Nidra is practiced

During a class, teachers use a variety of techniques—including guided imagery and body scanning—to aid relaxation. Unlike a quick Savasana at the end of asana practice, Yoga Nidra allows enough time for practitioners to physiologically and psychologically sink into it—at least 20 to 45 minutes.

Gentle, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra