Essentials for Yoga and Self-Healing Course with Swami Sitaramananda

Topics Covered:

• What is self-healing?
• Healing the three bodies and five layers
• Resilience in life struggles and stress
• The yoga and Ayurveda way of life
• Increasing and balancing prana
• Learning lessons on karma
• Going to the root causes of suffering
• Sadhana: conscious training
• Overcoming obstacles from the environment
• Healing emotions and relationships
• Cultivating selfless love
• Finding your purpose
• Pratyahara: sublimating habits and desires
• Protecting and strengthening the mind (japa yoga)
• Positive thinking in daily life
• Meditation: what it is and what it is not
• Self-inquiry and self-surrender to be free from karma
• Satsangs and helpful connections

Swami Sitaramananda is an Acharya (spiritual teacher) of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and has been part of the lineage of Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda for over 40 years. She is based at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA, USA, as well as at the Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center in Dalat, Vietnam.

Having traveled and taught in many countries, including India, Japan, China, Vietnam, and Russia, she has a deep interest in the teachings of classical yoga and Vedanta, particularly in mental and emotional healing. Swami Sitaramananda is an advocate for the effects of yoga and meditation on health. She created the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training Program, an 800-hour intensive program designed to bridge medical sciences and classical yoga. Her background is in social and community work in Canada.