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TESTIMONIALS "Deep gratitude to Swami Sitaramananda for the energy and consistency of teaching. You are a force to be relied on as a true inspiration. Your teachings pulled me back from the wide ocean of thoughts and reunited me with what is true inside." Helen, August 2004 _____________
"Thank you for putting so much of your energy into the Meditation Intensive. It was great. So much information. So much concrete explanation. You distilled your years of experience and knowledge into manageable chunks. I am so glad I was able to be part of the group! " Agnes, Los Angeles, 2004 _____________
"Thanks for keeping in touch with me. Your teachings and inspiration are always with me. I honor you as one of my great teachers" Caroline, South Carolina, 2003 _____________
"Thank you for wise messages you give us during TTC 2003 in Nassau, Bahamas this april. Your devotion, commitment, trust to the masters Sivananda/Vishnu-Devananda, the radiance of your heart touched all of us. Your humor and honesty, the way you make every story personal but without longing for the past or attachments is really amazing to me. These are skills I would like to develop." S.Orlov, New York, 2003 _____________
"All the workshops and speeches that you told us while I was at the Yoga Farm had direct influences on me and were helpful and much needed in my life! In life it is too easy to make wrong choices or be mislead by others or get into the wrong patterns and your speeches reminded me that we have to be strong, recognize what is real and decide..... I am beginning to realize it is a lot about the environment and about making choices while living in this crazy random worldly world" Bryan, Los Angeles, 2004 _____________
"I found the things you said at Satsang extremely helpful in trying
to
figure out the "good and evil" stuff-- especially the part about
how you
planned to fight evil by becoming a social worker and then learned
that
evil cannot be conquered but you are still going to fight it as
a service _____________
"I learned a lot about yoga, about breathing, about meditation, about Hindu beliefs and about myself. I will never forget the experience and believe me, I came back a slightly different person. Many of the things that Swami talked about come to mind each day. I've taken 2 yoga classes since I've been home and my breathing and my awareness of correct form has really helped me get more out of them." Pat, Sacramento, 2001 _____________
"Thank you for a very beneficial weekend at the Farm a couple of weeks ago when I visited.Before I went to the Ashram, I was thinking that my teaching of the asanas was getting stale and I needed some new moves to keep the interest of my students. I ended up realizing that new moves were not what I need to add-- rather it should be more of the spiritual part of Yoga." Suzan, Davis, 2001 _____________
"A couple of years ago I was taking to Richard Breedon who is in the Physics Department here at UC Davis. He met Swami Vishnu Devananda in Switzerland in the 1980s and gave him a tour of a physics lab in Geneva. I mentioned to Richard how sorry I was that I was never met Swami Vishnu especially since I have almost always lived in the Sacramento area, very close to the Farm. I had been reading about gurus for a long time but they were always dead by the time I learned about them. Richard replied that he had just visited the Yoga Farm and not to worry because you were just like Swami Vishnu. At the time something sort of clicked for me because I thought that's very true judging from the stories I had heard about Swami Vishnu. For some reason deciding to consider you my teacher made me very happy. After this last teacher weekend I have decided that you know a lot more
that I do and I am extremely grateful and lucky to be able to study with
you. All of your talks were exactly what I needed to hear. I hear you saying "you
are the medicine," "become the lotus that grows out of the mud," and "the
point of struggle is where growth occurs" over and over in my mind.
I think that the chanting during Satsang on Saturday night will be one of
the happiest moments of my life. Thank you for pushing on to give the positive
thinking lecture on Sunday afternoon. It was very helpful for me and it
reinforced my impression that you are a wonderful teacher who can communicate
to all audiences. The stories of your own early experiences with sadhana
were also very useful to me-- especially the comment that you figured out
most of the important "knowledge" for yourself or in private conversations
with Swami Vishnu. It makes sense to me that it is impossible to understand
the more subtle knowledge until the student can form the question. The contrast
between my energy level before and after the weekend is enormous. I feel
like I have been pumped full of good happy energy and I am trying to hang
onto it. _____________
"The first impression of the Farm is always so wonderful. A cocoon place, out of this world. Somehow when you are here, the only thing you think of is how to make progress on your spiritual path. There is no distraction and the energy of spirituality and sadhana is pure. I am glad that God and Guru still allow me to be here." Sita, Canada, 2000 _____________
"I was in the Grass Valley TTC in May 2003. Its almost been a year now. I am happy to say that I have been teaching in my home and then in a studio that I lease from a martial arts teacher for the entire past year. As with any training I have taken whether Massage School or Yoga School I never know what gems will stick with me and what will leave. The basic Sivananda Class has proven over and over to me to work successfully for all my classes. I have just started teaching kids and as long as I stick to the "Sivananda" program I get great response. I had visions of being able to send the ashram money in thanks ..." Chris, Mammoth Lakes, CA, 2004 _____________
"I wanted to write and thank you from the bottom of my heart
for the powerful teachings and time at Grass Valley. You gave
much and it has gone very deep. I know I shall always remember
with gratitude...and in time the benefits shall unfold. _____________
"Swami Sita really takes a holistic approach towards the teaching of Yoga and Vedanta. I took my TTC with swamiji and also a meditation intensive course. She is very dedicated to the teachings of Swami Vishnu and Master Sivananda and the guru lineage, while also incorporating new, modern studies in psychology and human development. This ideal balance between traditional values and progressive learning create a teaching style that I personally value as a true asset to this organization." Jason , New York, 2005 _____________
"In my 15 years of enjoying yoga at the Toronto Centre, Val Morin and Nassau ashrams, I never been so deeply touched as during this visit to the Yoga Farm...The most valuable thing I leave with however was some personal time spent with Swami Sita. Her approachability, warmth, spiritual beauty and depth has opened something in me that has been waiting to get out. She recognized my real reason for coming was not weather and food, and offered me a glimpse of that purpose." Rick, Toronto, Canada, 2005 _____________
"I have been connected with the Sivananda Organization for the past 35 years. I attended Teachers Training course and Advanced Teachers Training Course with Swami Vishnu in 1976 and 1978 and travelled to India with him on the first Indian Yaatra pilgrimage in 1977. For the past ten years, I have been working and studying with Swami Sitaramananda. I find that her teaching style and deep integration of the yoga teachings is very reminiscent of Swami Vishnu's. She has great knowledge, clarity, dedication, and surrender to master's will to transmit these ancient teachings. I highly recommend connecting with Swami Sitaramanda for spiritual guidance and renewal." Tara Durga Devi, Stockton, 2005 _____________
"I’m writing to thank you for the meditation course. Somehow what we read in books is never the same as direct experience with a teacher. I don’t think I was aware of how much I learned until I began to respond to the questions on the exam. Even then it wasn’t until I returned home that I experienced how life changing your teachings were and are. I realize that I’ve only stepped a very short way on a path I will follow for all my life but even knowing that this path is for me comes as a result of the changes I feel within." Anna, New York 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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