Holiday Retreat: Yoga of Divine Love - Devotional Stories to Open the Heart

Swami Dharmananda is assistant director of the Yoga Farm and is in charge of the Karma Yoga program.  He is a faculty of the Sivananda Institute of Health (SIHY) and is one of the main teachers of Yoga Philosophy and Meditation at the Ashram. He took sannyas vows in 2013 and is keenly interested in yoga psychology and philosophy, presenting the classical teaching in a practical and accessible way to people of all faiths and backgrounds.

Swami Sivasankariananda is director of the Los Angeles Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center. She completed her TTC at the Yoga Farm in 1997 and ATTC there in 2008. Swamiji has been on yatra in north and south India and Mount Kailas. She loves to teach and is particularly fond of the Bhakti Yoga practices. She took sannyas in 2017 and is a certified yoga therapist, specializing in chronic pain care. She is on the faculty of the Sivananda Institute of Health & Yoga (SIHY). She served as director of the San Francisco Center from 2015 to 2019.

Bangalore Niranjan Babu (http://niranjanbabu.com/) is a scholar in Vastu, Astrology, Mudras, Mantra Shastra, Gemstone and Meditation. He is the son of the most famous Vedic astrologer of all times B.V. Raman, who has been chosen as the Jyotishi to explain the science of Vedic astrology to the United Nations. He inherited from his Father the traditions of Jyotish and Vastu and is presently the publisher of Vedic astrology Magazine started by his Father since 1895.  He has authored several bestseller books in English and regional languages of India. He has lectured, conducted seminars and given professional consultations to individuals, corporate layouts, temples, etc in India, North America, Europe and other parts of the world that include Russia, France and Belgium.  Niranjan Babu has the intuition of an expert and will teach you not only the sciences of Vastu but the insights that will make this vedic science accessible to all, not only for life enhancement but also for Self Realization.

Lila Lolling is the author of Walking the Ancient Path of Yoga and founder of EcoYoga Life and is a Sivananda affiliate teacher for over 20 years. She is also a graduate of the Omega Institute's Ecological Literacy program and Permaculture Course. She advocates for the blending of yYoga as the inner work and a climate positive lifestyle as the outer work, which ultimately is one in the same.

Nitya HoaTran is a Sivananda yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Health Counselor and Ayurveda Body Treatment therapist.  She also serves as the Director of Ayurvedic Therapy Training Course and the Ayurveda Panchakarma Program at the Sivananda Ashram in Vietnam. She annually serves in the Well Being Center of the Yoga Retreat Ashram in the Bahamas and currently serves  at Sivananda Yoga Ranch New York. Nitya has a passion for this ancient science and always continues extensive training in Ayurveda, Yoga, Meditation and Vedanta. Nitya holds many certifications of yoga and Ayurveda, including BSS sponsored by the government of India in Ayurveda and Panchakarma, as well as doing Clinical Practice at Vaidyagrama hospital in Coimbatore, India.

Omkara is an experienced Sivananda yoga teacher since 2012 and a therapist and healer with diverse skills. He is a Sivananda Yoga Health Educator 800 hours accredited by International Association Yoga Therapists IAYT in training.

Maha Lakshmi, C-IAYT, RYT 500 is a teacher of Classical Yoga for many years and graduated the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training program in 2020. A student of Ayurveda, a practitioner of the Four Paths of Yoga, and a dedicated student of Swami Sitaramananda and the teachings of Sivananda Yoga, Maha Lakshmi brings a brightness and sincerity to the Yoga teachings. Mahalakshmi is dedicated to helping students create a firm and practical foundation on which to build their Yoga practice. She specializes in Yoga for Diabetes, Chronic Pain, Nutrition and Diet.

Angelika is an internationally acclaimed performer, composer and recording artist, whose main intention is to promote Oneness, Peace, Healing, and Good-will amongst all people through her inspirational music. Angelika is originally from Germany and now resides in Nevada City.