Sivananda World News: the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres

Each week we were seeing good number of students in the trial classes, the prenatal, gentle and kids classes as well. From 1st February we started with 4pm Open Class new Batch as well changed 7am batch to 6:30am, Sunday Kids Yoga class and Sunday Satsang, with Kapoorji. Swami Rajashwariananda taught an open class on the same day. Om Namah Sivaya. After five weeks of inspiring yoga programs in Mittersill, Hohe Tauern, close to Salzburg in Austria Swami Vidyananda and Narayani returned back to the Yoga Retreat House. Om Namah Sivaya. At the beginning of February, by the Grace of the Gurus, all continued well, with three additional drop-in classes starting, on Monday mornings at 8:00am, on Wednesdays at 3:30pm, and on Thursdays at 5:30pm. As well, a new session of Tuesday evening Yoga 1 started, as well as an all-new "Introduction to the Sanskrit Alphabet" course. During mid-February, by Gods grace and gurus blessings, everything went well here. Mangala went to Dalat Ashram for a month to serve the TTC July. The Centre was quiet because the regular students were still traveling, resting in their family’s home town or joining the TTC in Dalat.

We then were busy welcoming the swamis, teachers and staff passing through, on their way to Dalat TTC. We also started a weekend Beginners course with 23 students and two teachers assigned for the class. We will continue to share our practice with you, as well as to bring to you, teachers and musicians outside of the Ashram for as long as this crisis continues and we cannot meet in person. Online lessons will also continue to provide inspiration for your Yoga@Home practice. They will be visiting our Ashram in Canada and Centre in New York when they return back to their home. One of the couple was from Canada and the other was from New York. At the beginning of February we started with two Beginners’ courses, one at 6:30am and the other at 4:00pm. Two couples came for private class. During mid-February, with the Grace of the Masters, we added a Beginners’ course at 4:00pm into our regular daily schedule.

The musicians added a divine touch with their instruments, keeping the energy high. We also had a workshop about vital energy which included an explanation of the three bodies and the five Koshas and students could develop a deeper understanding about how yoga works. Shat Kriya workshop was conducted one Saturday to teach participants the yogic techniques of physical body cleansing. By saying that the Guru is God, we do not mean that the physical body of the Guru is God, What is Sivananda yoga but that God reveals Himself to the aspirant through the form of the Guru. With the blessings of God and Masters, we send Pranams to the Sivananda family. All the staff send their pranams to our Sivananda family. We send Pranams and our best wishes to all the Sivananda family. It was a great year of growth of the Centre and we wish the International Sivananda community a strong Hanuman Monkey Year of dedication and devotion. Meditation is a great energiser. There was a very great abundance.

I saw a sleeping bag on the pavement close to the wall and I said to myself: "I wonder if there is somebody in it? All the open classes saw a good number of students. On NFL’s Super Bowl game day, which Chicagoans love to watch, we saw fewer students. The storm followed with a beautifully sunny and warm Spring-like day, which gave us the perfect opportunity to clear the fallen sticks and debris from the day before. She gave an Ayurveda lecture during a Sunday Satsang. We gave an online retreat program "Kitchari Cleanse". Mr Yadav an Inspector General from the army, his wife and security guards also attended the program and he has now expressed an interest in Yoga being taught to the army. Om Namo Narayanaya. Blessed Sivananda Yoga Community, the Sivananda Yoga Centre in Los Angeles is closed until California businesses are cleared to reopen. Swami Sivananda teaches the synthesis of yoga.