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SWAMI SIVANANDA SWAMI VISHNUDEVANANDA Sivananda Yoga Retreat House Reith near Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria YEAR ROUND YOGA VACATIONS Free choice of arrival and departure dates. WIDE CHOICE OF SEMINARS All programmes in English and German INTERNATIONAL SIVANANDA YOGA TEACHERS’ TRAINING COURSES Courses in English and German 30 April – 29 May 2016, Reith 4 June – 2 July 2016, Hohe Tauern 30 July – 28 August 2016, Reith 3 September – 2 October 2016, Reith 17 December – 15 January 2017, Reith CERTIFICATE COURSES YOGA OF THE HEART Nischala Joy Devi AYURVEDA AND HEART Dr Kulkarni YOGIC DIET AND COOKING Sigrid Siebert YOGA AND HEALING HERBS Brigitte Addington YOGA & STRESS MANAGEMENT MEDITATION – EXPERIENCING INNER BALANCE NEW : SIVANANDA YOGA In a beautiful Alpine oasis In Mittersill, Hohe Tauern, Austria Landhotel Gut Sonnberghof **** Yoga Vacation Programmes 9 Nov – 11 Dec 2015 1 – 29 April 2016 International Yoga Teachers‘ Training Course 4 June – 2 July 2016 since 1957 Sivananda Yoga Seminarhaus, Reith bei Kitzbühel Founder: Swami Vishnudevananda, est. 1957 Bichlach 40, Reith near Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria Booking: tyrol-reception@sivananda.net Tel: + 43 5356 / 6 74 04 www.sivananda.at • www.sivananda.eu
TEMPLE INSTALLATION REPORT Sri Akhandeswara Mahadev Temple INSTALLATION FESTIVAL Sivananda Kutir, Netala 27th April – 3rd May, 2015 Early Spring was a time of tremendous energy and activity at the Sivananda Kutir ashram in Netala with TTC going on alongside the preparations for the Installation Festival of the Sri Akhandeswara Mahadev Temple. The auspicious morning of the installation began with a puja conducted by four priests from Kerala and four local brahmins. Over the next week countless pujas and fire rituals were offered both inside and outside the temple throughout the days and evenings. A temporary puja area was constructed in front of the temple in the dining hall, beautifully decorated with plants, banana trees, temple umbrellas, fresh marigold garlands and flowers throughout. The Ashram was colourfully decorated with festive lights and decorations, and the new temple was completely filled with hundreds of fresh marigold garlands. Srinivasanji, Prahladji and visiting staff from our Ashrams and Centres in India and guests from south India: Mr & Mrs Mamallan from Trivan drum, Dr. V. Narayanasamy and his wife, daughter, son-inlaw and grand daughter from Madurai, Mr Ananta Krishnan and Lalitha Amma from Palakkad, Vishnu from Toronto and Durairaj from Chennai were all on hand for the festival. The TTC concluded with a beautiful graduation satsang led by Prahladji and an inspirational talk by Srinivasanji. Many of the new teachers chose to stay on after the ceremony to enjoy the festivities. “Bells rang, conches were sounded and traditional temple music could be heard throughout the village” Local village Devatas from both Siror and Netala were also invited to offer puja to Sri Akhandeswara Mahadev and they were each given beautiful South Indian temple umbrellas know as muthukudas. During one special puja, bells rang, conches were sounded and traditional temple music could be heard throughout the village as a mother cow and her calf were led to the temple for darshan. More than 100 sadhus were in attendance, including Swami Janardananda, Swami Hariomananda and Swami Govindananda who sat and chanted Rama Namam, bhajans and arati at the evening Bhandara. An offering of dakshina was given to each of them. The auspicious concluding ceremony took place with Prahladji and the priests rollingup their dhotis and climbing on scaffolding to the top of the temple to offer Kalasa puja. Flowers and water prasad were showered upon all. The sounds of Om Namah Sivaya, bells and Pancha vadyam music filled the air and all were in awe of the beautiful vision of Sri Akhandeswara Mahadev’s garlands and elegant silver face. The evening concluded with puja and arati. This was a unique, high energy event full of meaningful rituals with the majestic Himalayas above Mother Ganga at Swamiji’s Mahasamadhi place receiving the blessings of all who attended the ceremony. The beautiful, colourful south Indian temple now soars high for all to see and many locals stop on the bridge to offer their prayers and see this magnificent addition to their village. The temple is open daily from 6.30am – 12 noon and 4 – 6.30pm for the public darshan. Om Namah Sivaya! Sri Akhandeswara Mahadeva Swamine Namaha! From Top left to right: Sri Akhandeswara Temple, Bhandara, The Sivananda Kutir Ashram next to the River Ganges. Inside the Temple – Sri Akhandeswara Mahadev YOGALife |Autumn/Winter 2015 13
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