Enhance - Special Retreats

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Enhance - Special Retreats

Enhance your practices with special retreats, programs, and courses.

In addition to our ongoing Ashram Immersion Program, we also offer special programs, workshops, and seminars throughout the year on a variety of practical and philosophical topics related to yoga meditation.

Beginning, Refining, and Advancing in your Yoga Meditation Practices

The focus on preparing, supporting and deepening the practice of meditation, which is the core teaching of the Himalayan Tradition, remains the primary objective. All the aspects of the vast science that is yoga are seen in an integrated manner, all of them supporting our personal meditation practice. These special retreats including the following are offered from time to time:

  1. Meditation and its Practice
  2. Hatha Yoga
  3. Pranayama
  4. Yoga Nidra
  5. Guided Silence Retreat

Study of Ancient Scriptures

We believe in studying the ancient spiritual texts, and their languages, not only as mere works of philosophical theory, but also as guidelines of how to lead a spiritual life. Our study of the ancient scriptures thus emphasizes on the application of this knowledge in day-to-day life.

The Tradition aims at helping the student in revealing the meaning of those texts through their practice of meditation and their progress on the path of spirituality. For example, the Vedanta is not taught only as a text of doctrine but as the basis of Vedantic meditation, the practice of nididhyasana (the Vedantic system of contemplation). The texts are taught so that they may be understood by the students/disciples as being led through those levels of spiritual experience.

Therefore, a study of the scriptures must be approached within the light of the (A) spiritual experiences from which they have originated and (B) which they describe in the guise of philosophical traditions.

In the past, we have offered programs on many ancient texts and scriptures including –

  1. Bhagavad Gita, 
  2. Bhavana Upanishad
  3. Brahma Sutras
  4. Charaka Samhita,
  5. Katha Upanishad,
  6. Mahabharata,
  7. Narada Bhakti Sutras,
  8. Netra Tantra from Kashmir Shaivism,
  9. Pratyabhijñā Hṛdayam of Kṣemarāja from Kashmir Shaivism,
  10. Ramayana,
  11. Samkhya Karikas,
  12. Saundarya Lahari,
  13. Shiva Sutras, 
  14. Shvetashvatara Upanishad,
  15. Sri Vidya,
  16. Vijñāna Bhairava from Kashmir Shaivism,
  17. Vishuddhi Magga,
  18. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali,
  19. Yoga Vashishtha

Specialty Programs

Many specialty programs are offered from time to time for expanding and deepening one’s understanding of similarities between Yoga Meditation and other branches of knowledge.

These special programs help the sadhakas expand their practice and knowledge of a variety of sub-topics, all interconnected in the vast expanse of many spiritual traditions, and will facilitate their integration and application for daily life in a contemporary context.

In the past, we have covered topics like:

  1. Blueprint for Life
  2. Children and Family Retreat
  3. Cultivating Meditative Voice
  4. Karma and Reincarnation
  5. Marks of Spiritual Progress
  6. Mauni Amavasya Guided Silence Retreats
  7. Meditation and Pain Management
  8. Meditation in Christianity
  9. Meditation in Judaism
  10. Mind: The Playground of Gods
  11. Nature of Personality
  12. Path to Successful Relationships
  13. Sadhana in Applied Spirituality
  14. Spirituality in Business Management
  15. Unblocking Yourself
  16. Yoga and Martial Arts
  17. Yoga and Psychology
  18. Yoga and Science
  19. Yogi Sufi Dialogue
  20. You and Your Emotions

Online Programs

As the world collectively moved towards virtual learning in 2020, we have continued to offer many unique online programs, including the following:

  1. A Prayer to the Guru
  2. Atma Bodha
  3. Bhagavad Gita Chapter-1
  4. Bhagavad Gita Chapter-2: Sthitaprajña
  5. Bhagavad Gita Chapter-3: Karma Yoga
  6. Bhaja Govindam
  7. Breath Awareness and Pranayama
  8. Chitta Prasaadanam
  9. Constituents of the Human Personality
  10. Guru Gita
  11. Happiness is Within
  12. Hatha Yoga Retreat
  13. International Yoga Day – 2 weeks long Virtual Retreat
  14. Introduction to the Dhammapada
  15. Introduction to the Six Systems of Indian Philosophy
  16. Japa as a Means of Deepening Sadhana
  17. Joints & Glands Exercises
  18. Making the Mind a Pleasant Place
  19. Mystical Poems of Kabir
  20. Narada Bhakti Sutra
  21. Pancha Koshas
  22. Peace and Stillness
  23. Pranayama Retreat
  24. Sadhana Panchakam
  25. Salutations to the Divine Mother
  26. Self-Renewal
  27. Shiva Sankalpa Sukta
  28. Swadharma
  29. Tattva Bodha
  30. Vedas and Vedangas
  31. Yamas & Niyamas
  32. Yoga is Skillfulness in Action
  33. Yoga Yatra

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