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Strengthen Your Container with the Chakras – Online
with Karla Helbert, LPC, E-RYT 200, YACEP, C-IAYT
January 30 - 31, 2021
Discover the power of your sacred energetic centers, the chakras, to help you strengthen your emotional container and move through life-altering, painful events. Explore your chakras with guided meditations, visualizations, journaling, art, movement, and sharing with like-minded spiritual seekers.
Create Your Happy Body – Online
with Hope Mell, RYT 500, ATT
February 2 - 23, 2021
Explore how our bodies are designed to move and learn a powerful practice that has the ability to open up joints and create a body full of freedom, happiness, and ease.
The Power of Yoga and Healthy Lifestyle for Radiant Living – Online
with Amrita Sandra McLanahan, M.D.
February 3 - 24, 2021
Invest in your health and discover how Yoga and other lifestyle remedies help activate the power of healing within us. Join Dr. Amrita McLanahan, Yogaville’s celebrated integrative medical practitioner, for this online workshop to establish a radiant, healthy life.
Silent Retreats
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Continuing Education
Strengthen Your Container with the Chakras – Online
with Karla Helbert, LPC, E-RYT 200, YACEP, C-IAYT
January 30 - 31, 2021
Discover the power of your sacred energetic centers, the chakras, to help you strengthen your emotional container and move through life-altering, painful events. Explore your chakras with guided meditations, visualizations, journaling, art, movement, and sharing with like-minded spiritual seekers.
Create Your Happy Body – Online
with Hope Mell, RYT 500, ATT
February 2 - 23, 2021
Explore how our bodies are designed to move and learn a powerful practice that has the ability to open up joints and create a body full of freedom, happiness, and ease.
LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood – Online
with Amy Weintraub, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, MFA, YACEP
February 6 - 7, 2021
LifeForce Yoga® interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what is no longer serving you—without a story attached!
Residential Programs
Living Yoga for your body, mind, and spirit
Living Yoga Training
Every four weeks
A 28-day program for living a yogic lifestyle. Come be a part of the Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville community and discover the life-transforming practices to integrate into your life.
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Kitchen Yogi Program
flexible dates.
Learn vegetarian cooking as a volunteer at the Ashram kitchen for 2 months or more.
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Farm Yogi Program
flexible dates.
Learn organic farming for 2 months or more while diving deeper into Integral Yoga teachings and practices.
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Strengthen Your Container with the Chakras – Online
with Karla Helbert, LPC, E-RYT 200, YACEP, C-IAYT
January 30 - 31, 2021
Discover the power of your sacred energetic centers, the chakras, to help you strengthen your emotional container and move through life-altering, painful events. Explore your chakras with guided meditations, visualizations, journaling, art, movement, and sharing with like-minded spiritual seekers.
read more...Create Your Happy Body – Online
with Hope Mell, RYT 500, ATT
February 2 - 23, 2021
Explore how our bodies are designed to move and learn a powerful practice that has the ability to open up joints and create a body full of freedom, happiness, and ease.
read more...The Power of Yoga and Healthy Lifestyle for Radiant Living – Online
with Amrita Sandra McLanahan, M.D.
February 3 - 24, 2021
Invest in your health and discover how Yoga and other lifestyle remedies help activate the power of healing within us. Join Dr. Amrita McLanahan, Yogaville’s celebrated integrative medical practitioner, for this online workshop to establish a radiant, healthy life.
read more...LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood – Online
with Amy Weintraub, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, MFA, YACEP
February 6 - 7, 2021
LifeForce Yoga® interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what is no longer serving you—without a story attached!
read more...Yoga for Strong, Healthy Bones Part 1 – Online
with Satya Greenstone, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
February 6 - 7, 2021
Yoga for Strong, Healthy Bones Part 1, a 2-day online workshop, will offer complete instruction in the 12 Yoga poses for osteoporosis that were taught in the first Yoga vs. osteoporosis study. The foundation poses are taught at 3 levels with guidance for adapting each pose to your level.
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Bringing Yoga Therapy into Hospitals and Academia – Online
with M. Mala Cunningham, Ph.D., C-IAYT
February 11 - 15, 2021
Are you a Yoga teacher or Yoga therapist seeking to bring Yoga into an academic or hospital environment? Join Dr. Mala Cunningham to learn planning strategies, marketing tactics, negotiation techniques, interviewing skills, and important formulas to successfully implement your ideas into a hospital environment or academic setting.
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Yogic Science for Emotional Eating – Online
with Mukta Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D.
February 13, 2021
Learn and experience how to consciously and compassionately manage food behaviors through precise, scientifically proven Kundalini Yoga practices, meditation, and nutritional protocols.
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Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind – Online
with Kambiz Naficy
February 20 - 21, 2021
In this online workshop, learn to impact the hidden belief systems buried in your subconscious mind with breathing meditation master, Kambiz Naficy. Through blissful relaxation and breathing techniques, open and fill your subconscious mind with empowering thoughts and positive emotions.
read more...The Dharma of Aging – Online
with Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
February 20, 2021
Join the fabulous Dr. Joan Borysenko, a pioneer in mind-body health and human potential, for a shared journey into the practical wisdom of aging.
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How Can the Bhagavad Gita Help Us During the Pandemic?
with Swami Asokananda, E-RYT 500
February 21, 2021
Over the past year, we have navigated life during a worldwide crisis—a pandemic. The pandemic has affected every aspect of our daily lives, in ways both big and small.
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Letting Go is Easier When You Know How – Online
with Mitra Somerville, RYT 500
February 27 - 28, 2021
Many of us are holding onto detrimental beliefs, behaviors, and emotions that are no longer serving us. This can lead to stress, unhappiness, and dysfunction in our lives.
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Body Liberation Dance – Online
with Oyámie Kali Ma’at, RYT 500
March 6 - 7, 2021
Body Liberation Dance is a freeform expressive dance and movement that takes us on a journey of self-discovery to unearth the truth that lies within. This experiential practice focuses on releasing emotion and trauma through somatic movement.
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Yoga for Obesity, Prediabetes, and Metabolic Syndrome – Online
with Cinmayi Cynthia Moore, RDN, CDE, FAND, M.S.
March 6 - 7, 2021
Learn skills for effective weight loss via healthy movement, mindset, and mindful eating. Yoga practices help manage stress and blood pressure, stabilize blood sugar, and reduce heart disease risk.
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Tuesdays with Mataji — Spring Online Series
with Swami Gurucharanananda "Mataji"
March 9 - 30, 2021
Returning by popular demand again, Swami Gurucharanananda, lovingly called Mataji, will continue to offer spiritual talks throughout the spring, sharing her wisdom and light during these challenging times with another four sessions.
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Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief – Online
with Julie Lusk, E-RYT 500, M.Ed.
March 9 - 30, 2021
In this online workshop, discover the essential principles, practices, and benefits of Yoga Nidra, or “yogic sleep”. Go far beyond deep relaxation to a place of natural peace and quiet that is tremendously healing for the body, mind, and spirit. Yoga Nidra reliably reveals and awakens your inner reservoir of intuitive understanding and unconditional joy.
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Yoga for Strong, Healthy Bones Part 2 – Online
with Satya Greenstone, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
March 10 - 31, 2021
Discover how Yoga asana can help to build and maintain strong bones. Yoga for Strong, Healthy Bones Part 2 is a series of 4 weekly online classes focusing on variety and challenge. Each class will include additional poses for building strong, healthy bones.
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Yoga for Hip, Lower Back, and Pelvic Pain – Online
with Leslie Howard E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
March 11 - 25, 2021
Join Leslie Howard, an internationally-acclaimed Yoga educator who pioneered the growing field of Yoga for pelvic health, for this three-part online workshop designed to help people with pain or tension in the pelvis, hips, or back
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Healing Emotional Pain with Yoga – Online
with Saeeda Hafiz, RYT 500
March 13 - 14, 2021
Whether you are suffering from a broken heart or a childhood trauma, Yoga can help heal emotional pain. During this online workshop, we will use Yoga to connect to the body's cellular memory and continue the healing process.
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Gentle Somatic Yoga Weekend: Awaken from Within – Online
with James Knight, E-RYT 200, CHSE
March 13 - 14, 2021
In this online workshop, discover why Gentle Somatic Yoga (GSY) has gained worldwide recognition as a method for immediate and lasting solutions to chronic pain, stiffness, and other tension-based patterns in the body. Experience a weekend of complete restoration and inspiration for renewed lifestyle choices. You will be guided through therapeutic corrective movement sequences called Somatic Movement Flows®.
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Inside Patanjali’s Words: The Heart of Yoga – Online
with Rev. Jaganath Carrera, E-RYT 500
March 27 - 28, 2021
Take a deep dive into the heart of Yoga as you explore the words of Patanjali in this online workshop. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali reveals the living essence of Yoga theory and practice.
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Yoga of Forgiveness – Online
with Bharata Wingham, E-RYT 200, CLYT
April 3 - 4, 2021
Join us on Easter weekend for this online program based on Christian principles and terminology. A Course in Miracles focuses on “The Forgiveness Principle”—a crucial aspect of the path of Yoga and key to our emotional health.
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It Hurts to Be Human: Turning Pain into Power – Online
with Andrew Holecek
April 30 - May 2, 2021
Life is full of challenges. Not surprisingly, the spiritual path itself is filled with obstacles, detours, and snares—countless ways we can be ambushed or get stuck. In this online workshop, we will explore the many ways we suffer and how we can work with physical and psychological pain.
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200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Training – Summer
with Satya Greenstone, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
June 13 - July 11, 2021
Pay in full by Mar 14, 2021 and get $100.00 off listed prices
The Integral Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training is a comprehensive, month-long residential program where you will learn to teach asanas (Yoga poses), deep relaxation, pranayama (breathing practices), chanting, and meditation.
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Neuroscience, Yoga, and Mindfulness: How Yoga Heals – Online
with M. Mala Cunningham, Ph.D., C-IAYT
June 17 - 20, 2021
Neuroscience can explain how and why Yoga works for healing the body, mind, and emotions. In this online workshop, Dr. Cunningham will share with you some powerful techniques and strategies for increasing healing, happiness, and peace; and conversely, you will learn how to reduce negative emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that tend to take over our lives.
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Yoga and Kayaking – June
with Bhaskar Deva
June 25 - 27, 2021
Join Bhaskar Deva for a weekend of Yoga and kayaking down the peaceful James River—connecting with nature, yourself, and new friends. This is a revitalizing way for beginner and intermediate kayakers alike to weave Yoga with the joy of the outdoors.
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Yoga Nidra Training and Certification Level 1
with Julie Lusk, E-RYT 500, M.Ed.
September 3 - 8, 2021
Yoga Nidra Training will give you the tools and resources needed to lead others effectively in Yoga Nidra. Gain the know-how and confidence needed to be able to help your clients and students relax, increase body-mind awareness, make positive behavior changes.
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Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief
with Julie Lusk, E-RYT 500, M.Ed.
September 3 - 5, 2021
Discover the essential principles, practices, and benefits of Yoga Nidra, or “yogic sleep”. Go far beyond deep relaxation to a place of natural peace and quiet that is tremendously healing for the body, mind, and spirit.
read more...
Yoga Nidra Training and Certification Level 2
with Julie Lusk, E-RYT 500, M.Ed.
September 10 - 15, 2021
Gain the tools and resources needed to lead others effectively in the practice of Yoga Nidra, or “yogic sleep”. Yoga Nidra is a comprehensive practice for going far beyond deep relaxation to a place of natural peace and quiet that is tremendously healing for the body, mind, and spirit.
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