Yogic Psychology Symposium Organized By The Sivananda Yoga Farm In November, 2012
The program features Edwin F. Bryant (Adwaita das), Dr. Fred Luskin • Habib Khan, Patrick Marius Koga, and Swawmi Sitaramananda.
Online, September 20, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The program will take place November 21-25th in the Sivananda Yoga Farm. The program features Edwin F. Bryant (Adwaita das), Dr. Fred Luskin, Habib Khan, Patrick Marius Koga, and Swami Sitaramananda.
The program will involve a discussion of the main causes of suffering and ways to regain peace by understanding how the mind works and projects illusions. The Raja Yoga sutras of Patanjali Maharishi, which are the oldest psychological thesis of mankind, will be presented. Furthermeore, the psychology of forgiveness and trauma will be discussed from the Yoga perspective.
The program will be accompanied by a presentation of a sitar concert by Pandit Habib Khan.
Edwin Bryant received his Ph.D in Indic languages and Cultures from Columbia University. He taught Hinduism at Harvard University for three years, and is presently the professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University where he teaches courses on Hindu philosophy and religion. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, published six books and authored a number of articles on Vedic history, yoga, and the Krishna tradition. In addition to his academic work for the scholarly community, Edwin's Penguin World Classics translation of the Srimad Bhagavata Purana, the traditional source for the story of Krishna's incarnation, is both for Indology specialists as well as students and those interested in Hinduism from the general reading public and the yoga community.
About the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm (Yoga California)
In 1971, Swami Vishnudevananda returned to California and founded the third ashram in the young Sivananda International organization: the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm on 40 acres of land located in the Gold Country of the beautiful Sierra Nevada Foothills in Northern California. The non-profit, non-sectarian ashram offers yoga classes, retreats and teacher training courses for students of all abilities. The ashram is led by Swami Sitaramananda. For more information, please visit sivanandayogafarm.org The ashram also organizes a Sivananda Yoga teacher training course in Vietnam and a Yoga Nidra Course
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To reserve a place for this course, please register online or email yogafarmregistration@sivananda.org