Past Events

This online course is offered to ANYONE: teachers, parents, caregivers, therapists; who wishes to introduce and practice yoga with the children in their lives.

This annual retreat designed for ASL interpreters and ITP students is in its sixth year and we are thrilled to be offering it again. This year’s theme “360 Degrees of Yoga” is centered around returning to our roots, the foundation of our being and how to live a balanced life according to classical Yoga.

World-renowned kirtan artist Gaura Vani shares his love of sacred mantra music! His pure love of music is a true gift straight from the heart, and his sweet sound-vibrations will permeate the layers of your being and open your heart.

This course is designed for beginners but is also suitable for anyone looking to revisit the fundamental building blocks of Hatha Yoga. During the immersion week, we will introduce the 12 basic Sivananda asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing exercises) and meditation techniques. This course will instill the discipline to create a home practice, improve flexibility and foster a greater ability to cope with stress and find inner happiness.

Disengage from the distractions of your busy life and dive into a 6-day meditation immersion in the serene setting of the Catskill mountains to explore meditative theory, sitting practice, mauna (silence), and mindfulness. Return home with a meditation practice that you can easily incorporate into your daily life.

Swami Sivananda provided 20 important Spiritual Instructions that are the very essence of all Yoga Paths. Explore how they can inspire your life and spiritual practice for quick and effective physical, mental, moral and spiritual evolution.

Join us for a hiking week in the magnificent Catskill mountains while learning to integrate Hatha Yoga techniques of awareness and proper breathing for an enhanced hiking experience.

In The Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna compares the mind to the wind, difficult to control. This course looks at the Gita’s answer to calming and focusing the mind, together with the psychology of the mind as elucidated in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

This is a course for yoga teachers, healthcare workers, and interested souls. The negative effects of anxiety and trauma surround us in modern life, creating a major public health concern. Cutting-edge clinical research confirms what yogis have known for thousands of years: yoga and meditation can help to regulate the nervous system, integrate past traumas held in the body, and experience wholeness. This course is both experiential and educational, designed to give you a direct experience of the healing potential these practices offer so that you can integrate them into both your professional and personal life.

Indian astrology has long taught that energy released by the orbiting planets affects our lives and that that energy can also be directed and harnessed to improve our spiritual, mental, and physical well-being. Mandalas are sacred circular energy patterns that reflect our inner nature. By working with associated colors and mantras, this meditative painting practice will connect you to the deeper energies of the planets, creating more harmony, peace, and energy.

Find out how your mind works, and learn how to control it, leading to a happier and more fulfilled life.

Food offered to God prior to consumption becomes prasad and takes on a spiritual component. Join Neeti in preparing sweet Indian dishes and learn the guidelines for preparing prasad for the cultivation of devotion and celebration.

Celebrate the birthday of Lord Krishna with a devotional night of meditation and chanting. Transform emotion into devotion by exploring the practices of Bhakti Yoga, the path of love, and experience its power to uplift hearts, minds, and spirits.

Explore various dimensions of healing with sound with two renowned sound healing scholars

Take your yoga practice to the next level by expanding your understanding of the 12 basic postures of the Sivananda Yoga sequence. Explore advanced variations, guided by senior staff in a safe and informative way.

Celebrate Lord Ganesh, offering prayers and devotional chanting with a special fire ceremony (homa). This is a very auspicious day celebrated in honor of this god so that every new activity that is started is successfully completed without any obstacles. Ceremony begins on Monday at 6:00am.

Join us for a hiking weekend in the magnificent Catskill mountains while learning to integrate Hatha Yoga techniques of awareness and proper breathing for an enhanced hiking experience.

Learn how to work with life energy using bodywork sessions, Polarity Yoga, and sound therapy to balance the five elements – ether, air, fire, water and earth – the five-pointed star, and the six-pointed star.

This course is designed for beginners but is also suitable for anyone looking to revisit the fundamental building blocks of Hatha Yoga. During the immersion week, we will introduce the 12 basic Sivananda asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing exercises) and meditation techniques. This course will instill the discipline to create a home practice, improve flexibility and foster a greater ability to cope with stress and find inner happiness.

Join us for a unique running vacation in the magnificent Catskill mountains while learning to integrate Hatha Yoga techniques of awareness and proper breathing for an enhanced exercise experience. The length and terrain of the run offered will be according to the level of participants.

Explore the yogic keys to a deep and fulfilling partnership while enjoying morning and evening meditation as well as special asana classes.