by swatiyoga | May 28, 2019 | Ashram, Sivananda, Yoga
Mountains & spiritual practice In the taxi to Mittersill, where I was going on a week’s yoga retreat, my fellow passenger, an elderly Austrian woman, related the weather lore of the Ice Saints. She said not until the day of the last Ice Saint, Cold Sophia on...
by swatiyoga | Mar 9, 2017 | Ashram, Sivananda, Yoga
I returned to Sivananda Chateau at Orleans in winter for a two-week break. It’s the second time I’ve been there since I did the Teacher Training Cert in 2008. Sivananda ashrams are a refuge for me. Whichever one you go to, you know what you are going to get – the...
by swatiyoga | Mar 7, 2017 | Sivananda, Uncategorized, Yoga Lesson Plans
Sivananda anti-anxiety lesson...
by swatiyoga | Mar 6, 2017 | Sivananda, Yoga Lesson Plans
Sivanandaacupuncture-lesson-plan...
by swatiyoga | Apr 22, 2015 | Ashram, Sivananda, Yoga
I arrive at the Sivananda ashram in Madurai at just past midnight on New Year’s Eve, after driving through pot-holed country roads popping with firecrackers and bright-eyed skinny boys shouting “Happy New Year” at the rickshaw. I’m here to do...
by swatiyoga | May 26, 2014 | Sivananda, Teaching Yoga, Yoga
I went to a yoga workshop at the London Sivananda Centre on the Alexander Technique and Sivananda Yoga, given by Sita from the Hamburg centre. I’ve always been a bit over-awed by Sita. She’s a slim blonde with an impressive bone structure; her manner is compassionate,...
