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Holistic Health Retreats

Lifestyle Medicine and Natural Healing

Health is Your Birthright

LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

Experience for yourself the benefits of a daily combination of these time-tested Yoga techniques and get back your positive health. Health is in your hands and in the hands of Mother Nature. It is not in the hands of the doctors and the big Pharmaceutical companies who only address symptoms.

Health is your birthright. It is natural to be healthy. There are three levels to positive health: body, mind, spirit. Learn how these levels of our being interact with each other and influence each other. Health and healing is not just dealing with symptoms.

5 Points of Yoga

LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

Proper Exercise Asanas

Proper Breathing Pranayama

Proper Relaxation Savasana

Proper Diet Vegetarian

Positive Thinking & Meditation

These 5 Points of Yoga are termed “lifestyle medicine” and are accepted by mainstream doctors.  Sivananda Yoga Health Education Camps and Intensives offer these 5 Points of Yoga Life and their application to specific health conditions. Sivananda Yoga Health Educators will give you a free Yoga health assessment before the program.
 

Holistic Health
Work with doctors and holistic health practitioners who understand the holistic approach to health and healing. Yoga Health Education Camps and Intensives are there for all to educate themselves and to help loved-ones in the prevention of disease.

Yoga for Chronic Pain

Pain seems to be conscious and cognitive. Persisting pain is related to changes in the physical body and neuroplastic changes in the nervous system. The “danger button” is constantly activated. Pain changes us in many ways. There are equally many ways to change it back. Develop skills to keep your body, breath and mind calm. Put some evidence-based pain self-care processes in your pain care toolkit. There is hope for finding more peace and ease.

Workshops:

  1. Acute and chronic pain conditions and management.
  2. Breath Awareness and Breath Regulation – Pain is changeable;
  3. Reset the protective systems
  4. Mind body awareness – Become a pro at feeling non-pain sensation
  5. Body Tension Regulation and Release – Stay at the edge of pain
  6. Awareness of Thoughts and Emotions – Interconnection
  7. Anti  inflammatory vegetarian diet
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How to Prevent and Manage Diabetes using Yoga

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by chronic hyperglycemia due to relative insulin deficiency or resistance or both. [29.1 million people in the United States have diabetes, but 8.1 million may be undiagnosed and unaware of their condition.]

The successful management of diabetes revolves around an individually tailored nutritional and lifestyle plan, Yoga exercise , breathing and meditation regimen. Use of medication if needed . Regular monitoring by patient and physician, and supportive education are an integral and important part of management.

Yoga for Stress Management

More than 70% of doctor visits are due to diseases or health conditions caused by stress. Stress adversely affects physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual health if untreated for long periods of time. This 5-day Camp will help you to recognize the sources of stress in your daily life and provides the Yogic tools to increase one’s stress resilience and cultivate a positive outlook on life as we address our lifestyle choices and how to change them through:

  • eating a balanced, vegetarian diet
  • limiting caffeine and alcohol
  • proper sleep
  • regular exercise (asana)
  • conscious breathing exercises (pranayama)
  • regular meditation
  • creative pursuits
  • spiritual diary writing
  • recognizing factors that trigger stress response
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How Yoga can get you out of depression and mood swings?

“Do you have these symptoms of depression? problems sleeping, loss of weight or gain of weight, disinterest in your body hygiene and care, disinterested in hobbies or pleasures you were interested in before, problems in concentration and accountability, difficulty to do work or daily tasks, frequent mood swings , increased feeling of isolation and loneliness, difficulty in communications, indulgence in bad habits you have let go of before like cigarettes smoking, drinking, feeling worthlessness and even having suicidal thoughts?

We invite you to come to understand the five facets and layers  and manifestation of depression. You will  meet and have workshops with psychologist and Yoga  teacher who will give you physical and mental health tips to go to the root cause of depression.

Yoga for Anxiety relief

This course will focus on overcoming the paralyzing emotions of anxiety, fear and isolation, offering a clear understanding of how Yoga practices can help us to face our fears with courage and to live with greater peace, trust and faith. Learn practical and accessible Yoga techniques to open the heart, to generate positive thought patterns and to overcome negative tendencies. Our minds are saturated with information overload, especially during the current Covid-19 crisis. In this atmosphere, it is difficult for us to access our innate positive and joyful nature, and to remember the goodness of human beings. The Positive Thinking course delivers practical Yoga tools to recharge and reconnect with the beauty and meaning of your life.

We can not change the external but we can change our outlook towards it. We cannot rewrite the past and it is not helpful to worry about the future, but we can live in the solid present and recognize this moment as golden opportunity. Workshops and lectures specifically on the power of thought, how to live in the present, and how to turn negative feelings and thoughts to positive feelings and positive actions, how to manage stress and respond positively to challenges. Yoga psychology and philosophy have a wealth of techniques and information that will help us to cope.

Yoga for Better Sleep

Next to breathing, sleep is the greatest biological necessity. Yet 35% of adults in the US are having trouble sleeping—and suffering the debilitating consequences. The World Health Organization has declared a sleep loss epidemic throughout industrialized nations.

1. Yogic and Ayurvedic Healthy Lifestyle
2. Yoga and stress Management
3. Stress Management, Self-care and Positive Thinking techniques
4. Nutrition and Cooking
5. Self-affirmation, emotional intelligence and Meditation

 

Yoga for Weight Management

This Yoga Health Education Weekend will focus on adapting lifestyle and diet in healthy ways to lose weight. We will focus on Yogic methods to increase metabolism, tips for healthy digestion, diet and nutrition.

1. Yogic and Ayurvedic Healthy Lifestyle
2. Yoga and Diabetes Management
3. Stress Management, Self-care and Positive Thinking techniques
4. Nutrition and Cooking
5. Self-affirmation, emotional intelligence and Meditation

 

Yoga for Respiratory Health

It is by means of breathing that every cell of the body receives its supply of oxygen and at the same time gets rid of the products of oxidation.  Oxygen combining with the carbon and hydrogen of the tissues enables the metabolic process of each individual cell to proceed with the result that work is affected and waste products in the form of carbon dioxide and water are eliminated.

1. Yogic and Ayurvedic Healthy Lifestyle
2. Yoga and Mechanics of Breathing
3. Common conditions of the respiratory system
4. Asthma and yoga therapy
5. Self-affirmation, emotional intelligence and Meditation

Yoga for Positive Thinking

Renew your outlook on life with the ancient tools of Yoga. Learn practical and accessible Yoga techniques to open the heart, to generate positive thought patterns and to overcome negative tendencies.  In this atmosphere, it is difficult for us to access our innate positive and joyful nature, and to remember the goodness of human beings and the grace of God. The Positive Thinking course delivers practical Yoga tools to recharge and reconnect with the beauty and meaning of your life. We can not change the external but we can change our outlook towards it.

We cannot rewrite the past and it is not helpful to worry about the future, but we can live in the solid present and recognize this moment as golden opportunity. Workshops and lectures specifically on the power of thought, how to live in the present, and how to turn negative feelings and thoughts to positive feelings and positive actions, how to manage stress and respond positively to challenges. Yoga psychology and philosophy have a wealth of techniques and information that will help us to cope with this fast-paced modern living and changing conditions.

Upcoming Dates

The team of SIHY’s Yoga Health Educators and Nutrition Service will guide you to make these decisions with knowledge and confidence. Patients would leave our workshops feeling empowered, and knowing what to do to incorporate their treatment plan and Yoga lifestyle

Dates Programs Hosts Price from Details Register
January 2 - 5, 2025 Relax and Renew with Ayurveda with Nitya (Hoa Tran) $350.00
January 28 - February 2, 2025 Holistic Health: Prana Rejuvenation for Stress Relief with SYHET Student in Training $470.00
January 30 - February 2, 2025 Yoga and Ayurveda Weekend Retreat with Dr. Sachin Deshmukh $345.00
February 6 - 9, 2025 Holistic Health: Stress Resilience Adaptation with SYHET Student in Training $285.00
February 11 - 16, 2025 Holistic Health: Prana Rejuvenation for Stress Relief with SYHET Student in Training $470.00
May 9 - 11, 2025 Rasa Bhava: Healing the Emotional Body with Yoga & Ayurveda with Arun Deva, AP, AYT, C-IAYT, E-RYT500 $150.00