Celebrating The First International Day of Yoga

ASHRAM DE YOGA SIVANANDA, FRANCE
How can we improve for the future?
Our plan is to focus on three main projects:
1. The construction of a new building which will include two large
teaching rooms, eleven en suite single rooms, and dormitory spaces.
2. Building a real home for the Ashram temple. Although the temple is
strong with beautiful Murtis and well taken care of year-round by south
Indian priests, it is housed in a tent structure and gets very cold and
drafty during the winter months. In addition to giving it sound walls we
also want to enlarge the temple, adding a temple kitchen, a flower room
and bathroom facilities for priests and visitors
3. Building an all-year-round dining hall. Like the temple it is currently
a tent structure and therefore not very comfortable on rainy or cool days
even in the summer season; and in winter the food has to be carried across
the Ashram to an Asana hall.
An Ashram belongs to the seekers who come to it to experience the yogic
life-style and take refuge from the harshness of the world. Our vision is to
turn the Ashram into a haven of beauty and peace (which it is in many ways
already) to inspire all who come to return home with fresh energy and
determination to live a yogic, peaceful and contented life.
We invite you to join us in the effort to turn these projects into reality.
If you would like to contribute in any way, by giving your time or by
sending a financial contribution, this would be greatly appreciated.
We thank you very much for your generosity and for taking part in the
peace mission of Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda.
Swami Bhagavatananda is the co-director of the Ashram
de Yoga Sivananda in France. email: swb@sivananda.net
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