Interested in Yoga, Organic Gardening or both? The Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch in Woodbourne, NY is offering the 4th annual Permaculture Design Certification this August. With this unique opportunity, you will learn how to combine the sustainable principles of Permaculture and Yoga to create a healthy relationship with Nature and Yourself, as well as help create a more balanced and peaceful world.
* Inner Peace for Outer Peace ~ Unity in Diversity ~ Living in Harmony with Nature * AUGUST 5 - 25, 2011 Learn how to observe and interact with the patterns and rhythms of nature to create beautiful, abundant and resilient gardens, homes, and communities. Learn how to observe and interact with the mind and body to achieve radiant health, clear thinking, peace of mind, and deep empowerment. * Experienced teachers with regional and international experience * Significant Hands-on Project Components and Field Trip/s * Daily Yoga, Meditation, and Kirtan in unique ashram setting ...* Organic Vegetarian Meals * 110+ hours of instruction All are welcome! Prior experience with Permaculture or yoga is not necessary. Daily Yoga and meditation provides a unique opportunity to experience the connection of personal well-being with the social and ecological health of the world around us. During daily satsang programs, ashram staff lead short presentations on yoga and Vedanta philosophy, exploring how to develop a personal spiritual practice that supports Earthcare and a conscious permaculture practice that supports spiritual evolution. Some topics include: * Five Points of Yoga * Science of the Gunas * Four Paths of Yoga * Significance and effects of mantras, music and chanting * Raja Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga * The three bodies * The Koshas and Upadhis * Chakras SITE FEATURES * 77 acres of hilly meadow & woodland in the Catskill Mountains * Revived orchards and new food forest plantings * Expanding organic annual garden * Ponds, Nature Trails * Wood-burning Russian Banya Sauna HANDS-ON PROJECT COMPONENTS * Contour and Swale design * Water catchment and passive irrigation * Hoophouse construction * Natural building and Earthen plasters * Passive solar heating * and more... LEAD TEACHERS Julia and Charles Yelton have been traveling, teaching and living Permaculture for the last 19 years. Julia is a master gardener and skilled landscape designer with a background in architectural ceramics. Charles teaches design engineering and management skills. Both studied and practiced permaculture at Crystal Waters Permaculture Village in Queensland, Australia for 3 1/2 years and served on the faculty of the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture of Nepal before starting to teach around the world. Together, they have taught, designed, and implemented numerous regenerative whole living systems in India, Bali, Ireland, Guatemala, France, Spain, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, UK, Scotland, Wales, and Canada. In 2007, they established a community food forest at a drug-rehabilitation center in Cyprus, drawing participation from both Greek and Turkish residents. Since 2009, they have been developing a demonstration center and advanced permaculture design programs at the International Sustainable Living Institute in Caccamo, Sicily. "When we first began teaching Permaculture years ago, we realized that we needed to address the nurturing of the individual who lived in a particular system and for this we added zone zero-zero to the design system. Our work during the last five years has taken on a deepening, with the understanding of teh true meaning of ecology, that is teh relationship of everything to everything. This puts a new light on the way we present the edge effect, where the abundance of all life is greatly magnified. We acknowledge ourselves to be composed of mind, body and spirit and when we begin to study our ecology of being, our connectedness to all of nature, allowing us to enter a profoundly spiritual zone, a zone beyond the boundaries. This zone actually is the connection that brings all aspects of the design system full circle. It also holds the unseen spaces between the crossover edges where all of nature's mysteries can be uncovered. It is an endless edge of selfdiscovery and our relationship to our world, a true cosmology. Embracing this zone in our teaching fulfills our need for a completeness, a oneness that may of us are searching for." - Julia and Charles Yelton FOR MORE INFORMATION Please call (845) 436 - 6492 Or visit www.sivananda.org/yogaranch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110710/c255660d/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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