Course
The morning is an ideal time to connect with the body and breath, and calm your mind through asana, taught daily, and in 5–10 day courses across the Hatha and Higher yogas.
Every morning
Daily, Monday – Friday, 7 am, free.
The morning is an ideal time to connect with the body and breath, and calm your mind through asana. If you are staying at the ashram, you may use this time for private practice on the covered, open-air rooftop yoga shala, which overlooks the garden.
5–10 day courses
Hatha
Beginner, intermediate and advanced sadhanas (spiritual practices) that can be continued every day on your own, a balanced range of practices, systematically and fully explained.
Breath
Energy breathing practices to cleanse, balance and increase your energies for daily life, stress management and spiritual evolution, including in-depth practice and theory.
Breath
For those who already practise and want to go further.
Gentle
For those who want to go deeper into the subtle levels and develop awareness.
Challenge
An intermediate-level daily sadhana practice that includes Surya Namaskara and a balanced set of practices to harmonize and awaken the chakras, supporting overall health.
Challenge
For those who are more flexible and want a stronger practice.
Cleansing practices · single sessions
Cleansing practices done with warm saline water, taught one to one.
Shatkarma
An intestinal wash that cleanses the alimentary canal and the pranic body, purifies the blood and prepares the body for deep sadhana. Traditionally used for constipation, gas, excess weight, diabetes, joint pain and in drug rehabilitation.
Shatkarma
An upper stomach wash that clears energy blocks from the chakras and releases emotional and psychic blockages. Traditionally used for breathing problems, acidity, bile imbalance, allergies, nasal congestion, sinusitis, headache, migraine and depression.
Shatkarma
A nasal wash that clears the nasal passages and sinuses and stimulates ajna chakra (third eye). Traditionally used for allergies, coughs and colds, sinusitis, and ear, nose and throat problems.
5–10 day courses
Higher
Psychic locks and attitude links of body, hands and face to awaken and redirect our pranic energies for health and spiritual practice (sadhana).
Sound
The yoga of sound, singing through the chakras, listening to the deep silence, and sourcing the deep vibration.
Prana
A Higher Yoga for purifying, balancing and raising the pranic energies, for self-purification, energizing and self-healing.
Attitude
Becoming aware of and strengthening our attitudes, with ancient techniques from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, used to become calmer and more loving.
Meditation
Which yoga meditations to practise for contentment, and how to practise them.
Elements
Identifying with the individual tattwas or elements and connecting with their cosmic counterparts. Feeling the Oneness of Creation.
Chakras
Purifying, balancing and awakening your chakras and nadis and incorporating this into your daily practice.
Kriya
Familiarize yourself with the techniques in preparation for Kriya Yoga, the Bihar School of Yoga method of Kundalini raising.
Kundalini
Practices to purify, balance and awaken the chakras and nadis to further your evolution through ancient tantric techniques.
5–10 day courses
Practice shaped around a condition rather than a syllabus. Tell us what you are carrying and Swamiji will build the sadhana around it.
Therapy
Asanas, pranayamas, meditations and cleansing practices chosen for what you are living with. Among them asthma, diabetes, excess weight, back pain, arthritis and rheumatism, high blood pressure and heart trouble, breathing and gastric problems, headache, eyesight, and the stress-related conditions. Also for anxiety and depression, and for recovery after a stroke.
Counsel
Setting down what you are carrying, and looking for the spiritual answer to it rather than the practical one.
Alongside
Asanas, pranayamas, meditations and cleansing practices, with lifestyle, mantra, and bhakti, gnana and karma yoga, run alongside naturopathic or Ayurvedic treatment rather than instead of it.
5–10 day courses
The same practices, arranged for a particular body or a particular time of life.
Women
Chosen for a woman's body and her life: to be strong, healthy and happy.
Pregnancy
For the good health of mother and baby through pregnancy and towards an easy delivery, and for invoking a special child.
Menopause
To balance the changes of these years and put their extra energy to use, and to begin a new life of fulfilment.
Elders
To keep physical and mental health, and to stay connected to Higher Spiritual Consciousness.
Teens
Practices for concentration, for growth, and for settling the hormones.
Children
Playful practice for strength, good health and concentration, and to nurture positive samskaras.
Children
Gentle work on body, mind and the immune system, held at whatever pace the child has that day.
Work
Practices that can be done sitting at your desk, to let go of stress, and to come back refreshed.
Fitness
To stay fit, focused, positive and happy.
Stress
To release stress on the spot, and to learn to keep doing it on your own afterwards.
Balance
A balanced sadhana of asanas, pranayamas, mudras and meditations, with satsangs on yogic lifestyle, diet and the other observances, for a happy and healthy life.
Also available
Enquire
Dates and fees are on request. Please tell us when you would like to come and what interests you.
