Experience the transformative power of yoga on this comprehensive journey of self-discovery. Explore your values and goals in life. Who am I? What is life all about? What makes my life worthwhile? Where do I want to go? How do I prepare for the rest of my life?

The Yoga Development Course (YDC) is an intensive three-month program offering you both experience of the major branches of yoga as well as an opportunity for self-development. Swami Radha’s approach is based on helping people find their own innermost authority, so the emphasis in all of our courses is on personal reflection.

Study Swami Radha’s teachings in: Hidden Language Hatha Yoga®, Kundalini & Dream Yoga, The Divine Light Invocation, Mantra & Karma Yoga, Life Seals® or the Straight Walk®, Sacred Dance, and the Bhagavad Gita. This course offers in-depth exploration in groups, personal reflections and practices.

Cost: $7100, $750 deposit

The YDC is a prerequisite for all teacher training.

To help integrate the three-month indepth experience, we offer the opportunity for all YDC participants to stay at the Ashram for an additional 5 months at no charge to be active members of our karma yoga program.

The Yoga Development Course has helped me find my way home–to myself! I arrived in January having a real desire for peace and quiet and to immerse myself in a life of spirituality. The time here has been all that and more.

-VC, Ontario

Find out about 2007 YDC participant Daphne Gordon’s experience.
Click here to read her Toronto Star article.

Enjoy the peace of the season and honour the Light in a setting of tranquility and beauty. Celebrate the gifts and victories of this year and look ahead to the next. Make it a special time of devotion and renewal. Take yoga classes, join others in Karma Yoga, sing, dance and reflect.

Come for as many days as you wish.

Cost: $100 per day, $25 deposit

Enjoy the tranquility and beauty of the Ashram at this time of the year. Focus on going inward, stilling the mind and body and re-connecting to that deep inner source of wisdom and inspiration.

Cost: $520; $100 deposit

I have been inspired by the private hatha classes, and by the number of people willing to look at themselves and change their lives for the better

- B.P. Edmonton AB

 

Everything was lovely beyond any expectation.

- C. B., Sandpoint, ID

Rekindle inner peace & strength. Enjoy time in the ashram’s tranquil setting. Open your heart and mind to new possibilities with spiritual practice and reflection. Days begin with Hatha Yoga and Karma Yoga followed by one of our workshops: the Divine Light Invocation, Relaxation, Mantra, Kundalini or Dream Yoga. In the evening, the community comes together in the Temple of Divine Light for a time of devotion and gratitude.

Cost: $695; $100 deposit

Personal classes in Mantra and Kundalini made me realize that, even after ten years of Hatha Yoga, there was a depth to yoga that I had not tapped into. Working doing karma yoga provided interaction with the ashram community that made me feel like more than a guest.

- F.F. Calgary AB

a typical day

what your schedule might look like on a retreat at the Ashram

Refresh and deepen your spiritual practice, renew inspiration and clear away obstacles to the Light within.

Stay on for up to one additional week of Karma Yoga at no extra charge.

Cost: $790; $100 deposit

Walk straight, think straight. Observe your mind and discover new approaches to life decisions with this ancient spiritual practice. Build life affirming awareness through the act of walking, observing and reflecting.

Cost: $345; $100 deposit

This course shifted my perspective 180 degrees, and I was able to see through the repetitious mental patterns and emotional filters that blur my ability to function from my centre. I know that from now on I can make choices from a steady, straight place.

- C.K.H Tulsa OK

 

To see the facts as they are helps to build confidence and makes a person stronger. If one can see what is, instead of what one wants to see, there is much less self-created pain. Straight Walk thinking implies straight walk living.

Swami Radha, Kundalini Yoga for the West

Take a week and discover how ancient yogic teachings can enrich your daily life. Awaken your potential. Learn practical tools to enhance your health and wellbeing. Explore a variety of yogic practices to access your inner resources of wisdom, courage and inspiration.
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Cost: $930; $100 deposit

It’s hard to express how much Satsang and mantra meant to me… I suspect that the mantra practice played a significant role in helping me break through a few persistent obstacles of fairly long standing… I extend humble thanks to you all for your important work preserving and protecting the place and its programs.

- E. P., Nelson, B.C.

a typical day

what your schedule might look like on an in-depth retreat at the Ashram

Gain perspective and find ways to bring creative changes into your life. Ask yourself questions to expand your options and see new possibilities: What makes your life worth living? What is your most important goal? What changes would give you a greater sense of freedom and confidence? Yogic practices allow intuitive understanding to emerge. You will leave the Ashram with tools to help you live your life with passion, strength and energy.

Cost: $345; $100 deposit

Yoga takes us to the heart of self-discovery and opens the way to move passed limitations into greater freedom. Begin each morning with an extended Hidden Language Hatha Yoga practice. Be renewed with practices on the Light, Kundalini Yoga, Mantra and Symbolism – interspersed with time to relax and deepen your own learning. Experience devotion at the end each day in the Temple of Divine Light.

Cost: $800; $100 deposit

Experience being part of a yogic community committed to sustainability in all aspects of life. Explore spiritual practices that nurture and sustain your inner self, bringing insights into action through the practice of karma yoga.
You will participate in sustainable practices by being part of harvesting and preserving food from the Ashram’s organic garden.
Make a difference to your world by learning about your inner and outer environment

Cost: $345; $100 deposit