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SUMMARY:Illumination of Ha and Tha in Asana Practice
DESCRIPTION:Come and join this unique in-person retreat\, at the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama (SRSG) ashram in Rishikesh with Pandit Ashutosh Sharma\, and catch a glimpse of the subtleties of hatha yoga as taught within the Himalayan Tradition of Yoga Meditation. \n\nThis retreat will allow a true seeker to learn the processes of balancing Ha and Tha\, the solar and the lunar forces that exist within all of us. The true essence of all Asana and Surya Namaskara practice is fundamentally this learning of how to balance these forces that are always active and fluctuating within all the layers of our composite personality. \nDuring this retreat\, you will also begin to experience your asana practice as a joyful process of witnessing a sentience coordination of movements and stillness within the body\, a smooth flow of the breath\, and the conscious relaxation and activation on all levels\, leading you towards a deep meditative state of silence.
URL:http://www.sadhakagrama.org/event/illumination-of-ha-and-tha-in-asana-practice/2023-03-12/
LOCATION:Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama\, Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Dhyana Gurukulam\, Virpur Khurd\, Virbhadra Road\, P. O Pashulok\, Rishikesh\, Uttarakhand\, 249203\, India
CATEGORIES:Hatha Yoga,Special Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20230416T090000
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SUMMARY:Hatha Yoga Retreat: From Movement to Stillness
DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan Tradition is a meditative (dhyana) tradition. All the practices\, including asanas are practiced to prepare oneself for meditation. Hatha yoga is taught as an integrated practice\, which includes centering\, correct breathing\, breath-awareness\, stretching sequences\, joints & glands movements\, asanas\, subtle-body relaxations\, pranayamas\, and meditation. There is a focus on not only positioning the body correctly\, but also on experiencing what is happening within. Asanas are performed with reverence and gentleness in the mind\, moving from outside inwards. \nHatha Yoga\, as taught within the Himalayan Tradition is understood as “a continuum” involving all the eight limbs of Raja yoga\, especially Ahimsa.
URL:http://www.sadhakagrama.org/event/hatha-yoga-retreat-from-movement-to-stillness-2023-04-16/2023-04-16/
LOCATION:Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama\, Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Dhyana Gurukulam\, Virpur Khurd\, Virbhadra Road\, P. O Pashulok\, Rishikesh\, Uttarakhand\, 249203\, India
CATEGORIES:Ashram Events,Hatha Yoga,Special Retreats
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SUMMARY:What is Yoga? International Yoga Day (IYD) Retreat
DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan Tradition is a meditative (dhyana) tradition. All the practices\, including asanas are practiced to prepare oneself for meditation. Hatha yoga is taught as an integrated practice\, which includes centering\, correct breathing\, breath-awareness\, stretching sequences\, joints & glands movements\, asanas\, subtle-body relaxations\, pranayamas\, and meditation. There is a focus on not only positioning the body correctly\, but also on experiencing what is happening within. Asanas are performed with reverence and gentleness in the mind\, moving from outside inwards. \nHatha Yoga\, as taught within the Himalayan Tradition is understood as “a continuum” involving all the eight limbs of Raja yoga\, especially Ahimsa. \n\nAs our beloved Swami Veda Bharati has said\, \n“What is this yoga? What is it? What are the signs of one practicing yoga? \nOn the very first sutra of the Yoga-sutras of Patanjali\, Vyasa\, the first and foremost sage commentator\, defines: \nYogah samadhih\nYoga [means] samadhi. \n‘Yogah samadhih’ is also in the logo of our organization AHYMSIN – the Association of Himalayan Yoga Meditation Societies International – with headquarters at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in Rishikesh. \nThe most authentic ancient text of yoga speaks of it in these terms. \nThe most authentic ancient text of Ayurveda\, Charaka-samhita\, states: \nYogo moksha-pravartakah\nYoga is that which impels and grants spiritual liberation (moksha) \nSharira-sthana 1.137” \nThis International Yoga Day (IYD)\, let us try to understand what truly and traditionally yoga is\, beyond the asanas\, as it is now popularly understood.
URL:http://www.sadhakagrama.org/event/what-is-yoga-international-yoga-day-iyd-retreat/
LOCATION:Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama\, Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Dhyana Gurukulam\, Virpur Khurd\, Virbhadra Road\, P. O Pashulok\, Rishikesh\, Uttarakhand\, 249203\, India
CATEGORIES:Ashram Events,Hatha Yoga,Meditation,Special Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20230813T090000
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SUMMARY:Hatha Yoga Retreat: From Movement to Stillness
DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan Tradition is a meditative (dhyana) tradition. All the practices\, including asanas are practiced to prepare oneself for meditation. Hatha yoga is taught as an integrated practice\, which includes centering\, correct breathing\, breath-awareness\, stretching sequences\, joints & glands movements\, asanas\, subtle-body relaxations\, pranayamas\, and meditation. There is a focus on not only positioning the body correctly\, but also on experiencing what is happening within. Asanas are performed with reverence and gentleness in the mind\, moving from outside inwards. \nHatha Yoga\, as taught within the Himalayan Tradition is understood as “a continuum” involving all the eight limbs of Raja yoga\, especially Ahimsa.
URL:http://www.sadhakagrama.org/event/hatha-yoga-retreat-from-movement-to-stillness-2023-04-16-2023-08-13/
LOCATION:Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama\, Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Dhyana Gurukulam\, Virpur Khurd\, Virbhadra Road\, P. O Pashulok\, Rishikesh\, Uttarakhand\, 249203\, India
CATEGORIES:Ashram Events,Hatha Yoga,Special Retreats
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SUMMARY:Sun Salutations as Worship
DESCRIPTION:The practice of Surya Namaskara consists of a succession of twenty four Hatha Yoga postures done in a smooth flow according to a specific progression.  Since it came into manifestation\, this practice has been closely associated with the attitude of devotion and worship and can be experienced as a form of prayer involving movement and full body awareness. \nIn this seminar with Pandit Priyadarshan (Pierre Lefebvre)\, we will learn the basic postures constituting the sequence of the Solar Salutation as taught in traditional Hatha Yoga according to the Himalayan Tradition.  We will also highlight the different directions in which we can bring our practice\, as well as how to bring the element of devotion\, worship and bhakti into our daily practice of Surya Namaskara.
URL:http://www.sadhakagrama.org/event/sun-salutations-as-worship/
LOCATION:Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama\, Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Dhyana Gurukulam\, Virpur Khurd\, Virbhadra Road\, P. O Pashulok\, Rishikesh\, Uttarakhand\, 249203\, India
CATEGORIES:Ashram Events,Hatha Yoga,Special Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20240225T090000
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SUMMARY:Entrance to the Subtle Body
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URL:http://www.sadhakagrama.org/event/entrance-to-the-subtle-body/
LOCATION:Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama\, Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Dhyana Gurukulam\, Virpur Khurd\, Virbhadra Road\, P. O Pashulok\, Rishikesh\, Uttarakhand\, 249203\, India
CATEGORIES:Ashram Events,Hatha Yoga,Meditation,Special Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20251102T090000
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SUMMARY:Ha-tha Yoga as Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the classical yoga literature\, Hatha Yoga is consistently described as the science of utilizing all aspects of one’s personality: body\, breath and mind\, for the purpose of ascending to the heights of Raja Yoga in the experience of one-pointed awareness\, meditation and samadhi. \nUntil the prana enters the middle path [ of the sushumna stream]\,\nUntil the point [of concentration] becomes firm through the control of prana\,\nUntil one’s essence flows naturally and evenly in meditation\,\nTill then all your knowledge [of hatha] is myth\, hypocrisy\, and words. \n(Translated from Svatmarama’s Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Dr Usharbudh Arya in Philosophy of Hatha Yoga\, 1977). \nThis week long seminar will touch on the traditional approach of Hatha Yoga and the subtleties of practice as a pathway towards meditation and inner awareness as taught by Swami Veda Bharati.
URL:http://www.sadhakagrama.org/event/ha-tha-yoga-as-meditation/
LOCATION:Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama\, Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Dhyana Gurukulam\, Virpur Khurd\, Virbhadra Road\, P. O Pashulok\, Rishikesh\, Uttarakhand\, 249203\, India
CATEGORIES:Hatha Yoga,Meditation
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270314
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SUMMARY:A New Chapter in the Himalayan Yoga Tradition - Teacher Training Program (HYT-TTP)
DESCRIPTION:In 2025\, we celebrated two sacred events with our global family—the birth centenary of Gurudeva Swami Rama and the 10th Mahasamadhi of our beloved Swami Veda Bharati. These sacred occasions brought forward a new wave within our global sangha as we came together in gratitude towards the loving guidance and teachings of the Tradition that continues to flow and guide us each day. \nDuring this same period\, Swami Ritavan Bharati\, AHYMSIN’s Spiritual Guide and Ashram Pramukha\, shared his vision for the next chapter of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition – Teacher Training Program (HYT-TTP). Swami Ritavan shared that it was Swami Veda’s wish to offer this program from Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Ashram in Rishikesh—the global headquarters of AHYMSIN and the spiritual home of the global sangha. \nFor several decades\, the HYT-TTP has served sincere aspirants worldwide in discovering the authentic teachings of yoga meditation\, and in experiencing the subtler teachings in their personal lives. Over the years\, the program has trained and helped transform hundreds of teachers across the world to first deepen their own practice and then to share the wisdom of the Himalayan Tradition with their students. \nIn Swami Veda’s own words: \n“This program has been designed to pass on the essential principles and practices of the Tradition\, which fosters personal development on all levels. For the aspiring as well as the experienced teacher\, the program presents all aspects of yoga/meditation in a spiritually inspiring context… \nOur practical\, experiential approach to teacher training encourages students to incorporate these skills into their daily lives.” \nA Renewed Approach to Teacher Training\nAnnouncing this renewal\, Swami Ritavan Bharati shared: \n“The teaching as taught by Gurudeva Swami Rama and Swami Veda has been carrying on for 55 years. We are starting another era of the teacher training program here at our ashram. It will be a month-long intensive residency that will be full days of all aspects of training yoga teachers. Not so much for the purpose that they will do research\, not for the purpose that they will go out and teach the philosophy\, but that they will practice\, and they will teach from their experience of practicing.” \nThe renewed program is dedicated to making the teachings of Gurudev Swami Rama available to a new generation of sincere aspirants. It carries forward the essence of what Swami Veda offered us as the foundation of a teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Tradition: self-transformation through personal practice and teaching through one’s own experience. \nThe program offers an integrated approach to learning\, practice\, reflection\, and self-study\, allowing participants to experience the teachings not merely as knowledge\, but as a way of life. \nKey Highlights of the Renewed Teacher Training Program\n1. An Integrated Program in Self-Transformation \nThe renewed program is offered in a hybrid format\, combining an immersive period of 4-week in-person learning with continued personal practice\, self-study\, and online guidance for 20 weeks. \n4-week Intensive Residential Retreat at SRSG offering experiential and practical training into the study and practice of yoga meditation\, within the spiritually energised environment of Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama. \n21-week Guided Self-study and Personal Practice that is supported by live online weekend classes with internationally acclaimed faculty\, thus allowing opportunity for receiving continued guidance from the teachers and providing space and time for self-observation\, self-examination\, and self-purification. \n2. Beginning with Level One – 200 Hours \nThe renewed program begins with the first-ever 4-week Level One\, 200 Hours retreat At SRSG from 14 March to 10 April 2027. The program will be offered twice each year—in March and November. \n3. Ten Study Areas \nIn line with the teachings of Gurudeva Swami Rama and Swami Veda Bharati\, and rooted in the traditional texts of yoga\, the program continues to offer the same ten integrated study areas\, as in the previous format of HYT-TTP: \n\nYoga Foundation Studies\nYoga Sadhana\nHatha Yoga\nBreathing and Pranayama\nRelaxation and Meditation\nAnatomy and Physiology\nHolistic Health and Ayurveda\nYoga Psychology\nYoga Philosophy\nTeaching Methodology\n\n4. An international faculty rooted in the Tradition \nThe program brings together an internationally recognised faculty of teachers\, who have been trained within the Himalayan Yoga Tradition under the guidance and inspiration of Gurudeva Swami Rama\, Swami Veda Bharati\, and Swami Ritavan Bharati. \nRegistrations for the March 2027 program will begin on 20 October 2026. \nFor further information about the program\, please write to Namita Sinha at ahymsinttp@gmail.com \nWith a deep commitment to preserving and carrying forward the teachings of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition\, as per the wishes of our beloved master Swami Veda Bharati\, we pray to continue to receive the guidance of the Himalayan Sages on this renewed path\, \nIn loving service of the Sages of the Himalayas\, \nNamita Sinha
URL:http://www.sadhakagrama.org/event/a-new-chapter-in-the-himalayan-yoga-tradition-teacher-training-program-hyt-ttp/
LOCATION:Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama\, Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Dhyana Gurukulam\, Virpur Khurd\, Virbhadra Road\, P. O Pashulok\, Rishikesh\, Uttarakhand\, 249203\, India
CATEGORIES:Ashram Events,Hatha Yoga,Teacher Training
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