Yogaville

Christmas Day Potluck
2024-12-25 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | 2168 Woodland Church Rd, 2168 Woodland Church Rd, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
Join us for potluck refreshments at the former Integral Yoga Distribution building

Christmas Day Luncheon
2024-12-25 13:00 - 15:00 | VA
Come for a delicious vegetarian feast on Christmas Day!

Christmas Eve
2024-12-24 20:00 - 21:00 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
Celebrate the birth of Christ Consciousness within each of us this Christmas Eve with an inspiring devotional service and festive songs.

Blessing of LOTUS
2024-12-22 11:00 - 12:30 | LOTUS – Light of Truth Universal Shrine, 1 Lotus Shrine Ln, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
Join us for the annual Blessing of LOTUS!

Special Puja in Chidambaram - Swami Satchidananda Jayanthi
2024-12-22 09:30 - 10:00 | Chidambaram – Yogaville, 1 Lotus Lane, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States

Jai Gurudev Program
2024-12-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States

Guru Gita in Guru Bhavan
2024-12-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Guru Bhavan – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
This celestial song is spoken by the devotees to inspire their dedication, devotion and purity of heart which are the necessary foundations for the reception of the Guru’s Grace. To his students, Sri Gurudev is the Guru spoken of in these beautiful and uplifting verses, but this ancient scriptural song (“gita”) points the way to each sincere seekers Sadguru (“true Guru”) in whatever Form that may appear.

Jayanthi
2024-12-21 10:30 - 12:30 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
Join us for the Jayanthi (birthday) Celebration of our beloved Sri Gurudev Swami Satchidanandaji! This year we will celebrate Jayanthi on the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Born in South India on December 22, 1914 Sri Gurudev attained Mahasamadhi on August 19, 2002. We will celebrate the auspicious occasion with a morning worship service and an evening program of offerings from his devotees. All are welcome to attend as we express our gratitude for Sri Gurudev’s continued spiritual presence and blessings in our lives.
Puja and Program in SSH followed by festive meal (complimentary for those who attend the
program)

Full Moon Chanting
2024-12-15 07:30 - 20:30 | LOTUS – All Faiths Hall, 1 Lotus Shrine Ln, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
It is said that the full moon magnifies the state of your mind. Mantra chanting is an excellent way to steady your mind towards peace, and to send that peace out into the world. We will be using 2 Sanskrit mantras: the Gayatri Mantra and the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra.
Gayatri Mantra translated into English as:
I meditate on that great effulgent Light
Which enlightens all the three worlds.
May It enlighten me, too.
The Gayatri Mantra is a universal prayer known as the mother of all the hymns of the Vedas (ancient scripture). Repeating the Gayatri Mantra brings harmony on all 3 levels of our being: physical, mental and spiritual. It purifies our thoughts, speech and actions. The Gayatri Mantra leads us toward the ultimate light of wisdom, ultimate Liberation.
Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra translated into English as:
We worship You All-Seeing One,
Fragrant, You nourish bounteously.
From fear of death may You cut us free
To realize immortality.
Along with the Gayatri Mantra, the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra holds the highest place among the many mantras used for contemplation and meditation. Hailed by the sages as the heart of the Vedas, the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra can help us tune into the healing force within us, support our spiritual growth, and protect us in times of trouble. This powerful mantra serves to free us from the fear of death and remind us of our higher aim of life.
By repeating both mantras with our full hearts and minds, we not only touch our own inner peace, but radiate this peace out into our world.

Satsang with Swami Vidyananda
2024-12-14 07:30 - 21:00 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States

Satsang with Mataji
2024-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States

Thanksgiving Worship Service
2024-11-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
11 am – Interfaith Service and Sharings

Join us for a special Thanksgiving celebration with an Interfaith Worship Service honoring the diverse traditions of Native American faiths, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Following the service, everyone will have the opportunity to share something they are grateful for.
The celebration will conclude with a beautiful Arati to the Divine Light at our Thanksgiving altar. Afterwards, we’ll gather in the Dining Hall to enjoy a delicious Thanksgiving Feast together.
We look forward to celebrating with you!

Indigenous People’s Day Program: Green Corn Ceremony
2024-10-14 17:00 - 18:00 | 237 Karuna Lane, 237 Karuna Lane, Buckingham, 23921, United States
This year, Indigenous People’s Day is being honored and celebrated in conjunction with the Green Corn Ceremony. Please note: Indigenous People’s Day was previously announced to be celebrated at the Ashram on Monday evening, October 14.
One of the most celebrated ceremonies for the North American continent indigenous people is the Green Corn Ceremony. There will be drumming on the Lenape pow-wow drum, a social dance, a fire purification, and several earth-honorings.
Parking will be available on the service road opposite her home, in her parking lot, and along the sides of the road.
There is boulder and bench seating provided but there is room for participants to set up a few chairs if so desired. If you need a chair, you will need to bring your own.
If you arrive later than 5pm, please do not interrupt the opening prayers with loud conversation. Someone will direct you to a seat so you can slip in.
Hope to see you there!

Chant with Swan Kirtan
2024-10-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
ALL ARE WELCOME!

Loren Oppenheimer on tabla
Kali Kalin on vocals and hand cymbals
Narada on guitar
Ashoka on vocals and harmonium
ALL ARE WELCOME. BY DONATION.

ABOUT ASHOKA NALAMALAPU
Ashoka (Ashok Nalamalapu) was born in India and has been a devotee since his childhood. He has been leading multi-faith chants and playing harmonium since 2011, singing in the traditional Indian Raga style. Ashoka has been studying with Indian classical musicians including Kala Ratna D.V. Mohana Krishna and Grammy Nominee, Jai Uttal. He has been studying at the Mind Body Music School for three years. He has led kirtan at many festivals across the country including Bhakti Fest, CA. In recent years, he has offered kirtan online for many countries.
Ashoka has also led kirtan at colleges, temples in India and the US, and yoga centers including Kripalu, Ananda Ashram and in Spain. In addition, he has served as a Master of Ceremonies, inspiring the audiences at all the major US kirtan festivals. Past three years he has been singing and guiding meditation for the audience around the world online. He is a lead vocal singer at Swan Kirtan band. His debut album, “We are all One” is available on cdbaby.com.
You can reach Ashoka at: ashoka@SadhanaMe.com
More information at: swankirtan.com
Sample Chants

All One
Om Namo Bhagavate Ramakrishnaya

Yom Kippur
2024-10-11 19:00 - 20:00 | VVA Classroom – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, 23921, United States
Yom Kippur, known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. It marks the culmination of the Ten Days of Repentance, which begin with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Observed with fasting, prayer, and introspection, Yom Kippur is a time for individuals to seek forgiveness from God and from others for their sins over the past year. The day involves extended synagogue services, with readings from the Torah and the recitation of the Vidui, or confessional prayers. Yom Kippur ends with a final blast of the shofar (a ram’s horn) to signal the close of the fast and the hope for a fresh start.

Navaratri
2024-10-03 19:45 - 2024-10-11 21:00 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
Navaratri Pujas – Thurs.–Fri., Oct. 3–11 @ 7:45 pm
Vijaya Dashami: Sat. Oct. 12 @ 9:30 am

Celebrate Navaratri, the joyous festival of the nine nights of the Divine Mother!
Each set of three nights is devoted to a different aspect of the Divine Mother:

The first three nights honor Mother Durga, who helps us remove negative habits.
The next three nights are dedicated to Mother Lakshmi, who brings physical wealth and prosperity.
The final three nights celebrate Mother Saraswati, who blesses us with wisdom and spiritual prosperity.

Each evening will feature chanting and a puja (worship service). The festival concludes on the tenth day with Vijaya Daasami (Day of Victory), where we will go from work space to work space, blessing the entire Ashram.
Join us for this sacred and uplifting celebration!

Swami Sivananda Jayanthi
2024-09-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
Swami Sivanandaji is considered one of the greatest Yoga Masters and Vedantins of the 20th century. He founded the Divine Life Society and Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh. He authored three hundred books on Yoga and Vedanta and Divine Life Society centers have spread around the globe. In this video, Spiritual Instructions & the “Eighteen Ities,” Swami Sivanandaji himself offers some inspiring teachings recorded in the 1950s. It includes his famous song that he wrote in which he summarized the essence of his instructions to devotees in 18 “ities.”

Satsang with Lakshmi Barsel
2024-08-31 19:30 - 21:30 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
Rev. Lakshmi Barsel, Ph.D.
Rev. Lakshmi is a senior Integral Yoga teacher. She has taught Raja Yoga, meditation, and scripture classes on the Bhagavad Gita and the Thirukkural. She has a Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology and presently serves as the director of the Satchidananda Prison Project. She also co-facilitates an ongoing weekly Yoga Sutra study group with her husband Rev. Paraman

Satsang with Graham M. Schweig, PhD
2024-08-24 19:30 - 21:30 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
“When Divinity Calls Our Souls to Dance”
A talk on how the Yoga Sūtra reveals aspects of the highest vision of the inner workings of the heart, as described in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa.
Graham M. Schweig, Ph.D. (ERYT500 | YACEP) has been a student of several traditional teachers of Yoga. He has travelled to India sixteen times, and has been a practitioner of meditational and heart-centered Yoga for over 50 years. Graham earned the PhD from Harvard University in comparative religion, with a specialization in sacred Sanskrit literature focusing on Yoga and Bhakti. Along side of his personal Yoga practice, he is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of Studies in Religion, at Christopher Newport University, Virginia, where he has received several recognitions and rewards for his teaching and mentoring. He is also Distinguished Teaching and Research Faculty at the Center for Dharma Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where he offers seminars and guides doctoral students.
Graham has been conducting yoga workshops and offering seminars and lectures around the US and Europe for over 25 years, and has been an invited speaker several times at the Yoga Journal Conferences. Additionally, over the past eight years, Graham has been invited by the Smithsonian Institution to deliver over three dozen lectures on religion and yoga at its museum complex in Washington, DC. Among his over 100 publications of articles and chapters of books including several books, his translation of the Bhagavad Gītā published by Harper Collins, has been widely used in yoga teacher trainings around the country as well as schools and university courses. Additionally, in a couple of years, Yale University Press will be publishing Graham’s translation of and commentary on Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra.
Graham, along with his life-partner and wife, Catherine, is co-founder of The Secret Yoga, for which he teaches workshops on the Yoga of deep study of sacred Yoga texts, philosophical foundations of Yoga, exploring deeper dimensions of meditation, Sanskrit for Yoga, the Upanishads, the Yoga Sūtra, the Bhagavad Gītā, and workshops on many other important themes.

Mahasamadhi Satsang
2024-08-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States

Satsang with Dr. Muktan Sullivan
2024-08-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Sivananda Satsang Hall – Yogaville, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA, 23921, United States
Dr. Michael Muktan Sullivan, D.C., D.Ay.
Dr. Michael Sullivan, D.C., D.Ay., founder and director of Riverview Spa, is a diplomate of Ayurvedic medicine from the International Ayurvedic Institute, He has studied and worked at the Ayurvedic Hospital in Coimbatore, South India and completed advanced studies in Ayurveda in Pune, India.
He has been a chiropractor and a Yoga teacher for over forty five years. Dr. Sullivan is a popular lecturer on back care, Yoga, meditation, holistic health and anatomy, and he has lead workshops on Ayurveda, nutrition, Yoga, and meditation at various Yoga and retreat centers throughout the United States and abroad.
His twenty-eight years as a student of Sri Swami Satchidananda, founder of Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville (who was under his personal care many times) directly guided and inspired his vast understanding of Ayurveda and the Yogic lifestyle, which he enthusiastically lives and passes on to all those who visit Riverview Spa. He maintains a close relationship to Yogaville, where he lectures and teaches.
