All programmes
The Sivananda Ashram welcomes you with a wide variety of programs, designed to support you at every step of your journey. Whether you are seeking a yoga retreat to rejuvenate, a course to explore an aspect of the tradition, or a training to share the teachings in turn, you will find an offering here that aligns with your aspirations. Explore our calendar and discover the experience that calls to you.
Yoga Retreat
A Yoga Vacation allows time in the ashram to develop or reconnect with a life style of health, balance and positive vision, which is our true nature. The Ashram is haven of peace for this practice and is just one hour from Paris. You can come alone, with a friend or the whole family. Come […]
Christmas and New Year Retreat 2026
With Swami Kailasananda, Yoga Acharya and the Swamis and teachers of the Ashram
This programme is in session, if you would still like to book please contact us directly.
Experience the benefits of regular meditation
It is scientifically proven that meditation has a positive impact on physical and mental health. This course gives you the tools to install a regular practice of meditation.
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: March / April 2026
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.
Soothing the body and mind
“Simple living, high thinking”, Swami Sivananda.
A week for your body to regenerate and your mind to find steadiness.
Experience the benefits of mantras, the spiritual power of sound
Learn the necessary steps to start a mantra practice and experience its benefits.
The art of yogic breathing: tune to the rhythm of life
Find more harmony in your life with yogic breathing. These ancient breathing techniques can positively transform your body and mind.
In-depth course: Positive Thinking, living life with joy
With Swami Kailasananda, Yoga Acharya
Our thoughts are the silent building blocks of our lives. We are responsible for the quality of our thoughts, and thus for the direction we give to our lives. Thought is the greatest power in the universe. When we realise this, it is the beginning of a great spiritual adventure.
How to Teach Yoga to Children
Children who learn yoga at an early age have a healthy head start in life. Yoga teaches children in a playful way how to concentrate, increase self-confidence and improve their motor skills. Regular yoga practice for children offers effective help with hyperactivity and stress. But above all, yoga for children is a lot of fun.
Easter retreat
A long weekend to practise the tools of yoga, helping to develop a positive attitude and an inner balance.
Spring Detox Retreat: Purify Your Body and Mind
Yoga offers effective techniques for purifying the body and mind, overcoming addictions, and establishing a healthy lifestyle. This course also offers a day of fruit fasting (optional).
Improve your body and mind by developing a disciplined yogic lifestyle
Spend a week at the ashram to develop a healthy yogic lifestyle that will give you more vitality and uplift your body and mind.
In-depth course: The Meditation Experience
With Ganapati Chaitanya
This course offers a comprehensive overview of the philosophy and practice of meditation, as well as techniques for mental relaxation, visualization, positive thinking, and mantra chanting.
Permaculture and Yoga
With Bhaskara (Jules Beyssac)
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: May 2026
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.
Develop strength and flexibility in body and mind
This course is particularly suitable for intermediate practitioners who want to take their asana practice to the next level.
Positive Stress Management: Adopt the art of relaxation in your life
Managing our stress levels responsibly enhances our quality of life and helps us to live a fulfilled life.
1st May retreat
A long week-end which will give you practical tools for joyful positive living.
Yoga and pregnancy
With Chandrika Cordula Interthal (guest teacher)
The pregnancy period is precious. Yoga helps from the beginning to create a positive environment for the mother and her future baby. Difficulties linked to being heavier and to back pain can be avoided through yoga.
In-depth course: How to shine brightly without burning out: Managing modern stress through ancient wisdom
With Narayana Chaitanya
Everyone wants peace, but few know the secret of its practice. With all our modern conveniences and comforts, stress remains, and with it the question "how to deal with the stress of an ever accelerating existence, how to relax?"
Basic asanas in details: develop the right foundation for your yoga practice
Discover the health benefits of asanas and learn breathing exercises to increase your energy. Especially suited for newcomers and students who want to refresh their practice.
In-depth course: Living Vedanta - apply ancient wisdom to modern life
With Swami Kailasananda, Yoga Acharya
Discover the timeless wisdom of Vedanta and learn how it can help you find clarity, balance, and peace in everyday life. Together, we’ll explore simple yet profound teachings about who we really are, how the mind works, and what it means to live with awareness and freedom. This course is open to everyone: no background in philosophy needed, just an open heart and a desire for self-discovery.
8th May Yoga Retreat
A long week-end which will give you practical tools for joyful positive living.
Find your Balance – Yoga and Ayurveda Retreat
With Dr. Sreelal Sankar & Dr. Poornima Sreelal
With Dr. Sreelal Sankar and Dr. Poornima Sreelal Clinical Ayurveda specialists from Kerala, India Explore new horizons of health and awareness! An integral immersion into the study and practice of the sister sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda. 5 noon Lectures Foundational principles of Ayurveda five elements, the three body constitutions, your personal constitution biological rhythms, […]
Ascension Yoga Retreat
Take a few days out of your daily routine to recharge and rejuvenate with yoga and meditation.
Expand your horizons with positive thinking
Positive thinking is the pillar of our well-being and helps us to overcome obstacles and challenges by changing our approach to life.
Pentecost Retreat
A long weekend to practise the tools of yoga, helping to develop a positive attitude and an inner balance.
Certificate course: Creating and maintaining healthy relationships through yoga
With Kaivalya Carmel Johnson (guest teacher)
Techniques for improving our connections with partners, family members and co-workers We live in a world where our social, family and intimate relationships are more and more complex and difficult to balance. Yoga helps us live healthier, more harmonious and more fulfilling relationships with ourselves and with others.
Further Training for Yoga Teachers: Holistic Asana Adjustment, Part 1
With Narayana Chaitanya
Competent and creative handling of mistakes, limitations, adaptations, and variations in the asanas. Part 1: From sun salutation to forward bend
Experience the benefits of regular meditation
It is scientifically proven that meditation has a positive impact on physical and mental health. This course gives you the tools to install a regular practice of meditation.
Soothing the body and mind
“Simple living, high thinking”, Swami Sivananda.
A week for your body to regenerate and your mind to find steadiness.
TTC Refresher 2026
With Swami Durgananda, Yoga Acharya, Swami Sivadasananda, Yoga Acharya, Swami Kailasananda, Yoga Acharya and the Swamis and teachers of the Ashram
Boost your vitality: experience the yogic approach to food
Our food choices have a direct impact on our physical health and mental wellbeing. Through proper nutrition, we can boost our energy level and induce clarity and peace of mind.
From Body to Mind
This course is ideal for those who wish to understand the practice of postures and pranayama at a deeper level. It is suitable for all levels of experience.
Experience the benefits of mantras, the spiritual power of sound
Learn the necessary steps to start a mantra practice and experience its benefits.
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: July 2026
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.
The art of yogic breathing: tune to the rhythm of life
Find more harmony in your life with yogic breathing. These ancient breathing techniques can positively transform your body and mind.
Let Love look at Life
With Swami Durgananda, Yoga Acharya, Swami Sivadasananda, Yoga Acharya and Swami Kailasananda, Yoga Acharya
With Sri Venugopal Goswami, Bhakti Yoga Acharya from Vrindavan, North India. Discourses from the scripture Srimad Bhagavatam - a musical journey towards Love as the ultimate meaning of human life. With live accompaniment of classical raga melodies and rhythms.
14 July Retreat
A long weekend to practise the tools of yoga, helping to develop a positive attitude and an inner balance.
Certificate course: Yoga and meditation techniques to better face trauma
With Kaivalya Carmel Johnson (guest teacher)
Traumatic experiences leave deep impressions on our subconscious mind and can block us from living a happy and fulfilled life. In this course, we will use the ancient techniques of yoga to stimulate positive changes in our mental patterns to overcome past negative impressions and start creating new ones that are beneficial for our mental health.
Permaculture and Yoga
With Bhaskara (Jules Beyssac)
Basic asanas in details: develop the right foundation for your yoga practice
Especially suited for newcomers and students who want to refresh their practice.
Sivananda Yoga Young Adult Programme
A transformative journey to explore your true self and ignite the change you want to see in the world. Open to candidates aged between 18 to 25 Ashram de Yoga Sivananda in Loire Valley, France
Face life with strength and vitality
“Health is wealth, peace of mind is happiness, yoga shows the way”, Swami Vishnudevananda. Practise yogic techniques for integral health.
Expand your horizons with positive thinking
Positive thinking is the pillar of our well-being and helps us to overcome obstacles and challenges by changing our approach to life.
Yoga for All: How to Adjust the Yoga Practice for any Limitation
With Narayana Chaitanya and Ganapati Chaitanya
This course teaches how to adapt the practice to those with specific needs: seniors, people with reduced mobility, those recovering from an accident, illness, or difficult period. It includes theoretical conferences and practical workshops.
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: August 2026
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.
From Body to Mind
This course is ideal for those who wish to understand the practice of postures and pranayama at a deeper level. It is suitable for all levels of experience.
Summer festival
With Swami Durgananda, Yoga Acharya, Swami Sivadasananda, Yoga Acharya and Swami Kailasananda, Yoga Acharya
Join us for this vibrant week of energy, joyful celebration and uplifting teachings with the Acharyas and Swamis of the ashram.
Yoga and ayurveda, adopt a healthy and conscious life
With Angela Hope Murray (guest teacher)
With Angela Hope-Murray Discover Ayurvedic techniques for taking care of your health, leading a balanced life, and harmonizing your chakras.
Diving deep into the asana
With Prema Arenas Bonansea (guest teacher)
Join us for an immersive yoga intensive designed to deepen your understanding of asana as a gateway to higher states of consciousness. This program is open to yoga teachers seeking further education and intermediate students who wish to enrich their practice with profound wisdom from classical yoga texts.
Basic asanas in details: develop the right foundation for your yoga practice
Especially suited for newcomers and students who want to refresh their practice.
Teaching yoga to seniors
With Jaya Bharati Patricia Guedj (guest teacher)
Learn and practice asana class models specifically designed for seniors.
Experience the benefits of regular meditation
It is scientifically proven that meditation has a positive impact on physical and mental health. This course gives you the tools to install a regular practice of meditation.
Positive Stress Management: Adopt the art of relaxation in your life
Managing our stress levels responsibly enhances our quality of life and helps us to live a fulfilled life.
Develop strength and flexibility in body and mind
This course is particularly suitable for intermediate practitioners who want to take their asana practice to the next level.
Permaculture and Yoga
With Bhaskara (Jules Beyssac)
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: Sep/ Oct 2026
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.
Autumn Detox Retreat: Purify Your Body and Mind
Yoga offers effective techniques for purifying the body and mind, overcoming addictions, and establishing a healthy lifestyle. This course also offers a day of fruit fasting (optional).
Boost your vitality: experience the yogic approach to food
Our food choices have a direct impact on our physical health and mental wellbeing. Through proper nutrition, we can boost our energy level and induce clarity and peace of mind.
Experience the benefits of mantras, the spiritual power of sound
Learn the necessary steps to start a mantra practice and experience its benefits.
Face life with strength and vitality
“Health is wealth, peace of mind is happiness, yoga shows the way”, Swami Vishnudevananda. Practise yogic techniques for integral health.
Soothing the body and mind
“Simple living, high thinking”, Swami Sivananda.
A week for your body to regenerate and your mind to find steadiness.
The art of yogic breathing: tune to the rhythm of life
Find more harmony in your life with yogic breathing. These ancient breathing techniques can positively transform your body and mind.
Balancing your hormones with yoga
With Jaya Bharati Patricia Guedj (guest teacher)
This form of yoga combines dynamic Hatha Yoga postures that specifically stimulate certain glands (ovaries, thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands) with breathing exercises. These techniques help women stimulate the production of female hormones and feel fulfilled at any age.
All Saints retreat
A long weekend to practise the tools of yoga, helping to develop a positive attitude and an inner balance.
Experience the benefits of regular meditation
It is scientifically proven that meditation has a positive impact on physical and mental health. This course gives you the tools to install a regular practice of meditation.
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: Nov/ Dec 2026
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.
Expand your horizons with positive thinking
Positive thinking is the pillar of our well-being and helps us to overcome obstacles and challenges by changing our approach to life.
Basic asanas in details: develop the right foundation for your yoga practice
Especially suited for newcomers and students who want to refresh their practice.
Improve your body and mind by developing a disciplined yogic lifestyle
With Rukmini Chaitanya
Spend a week at the ashram to develop a healthy yogic lifestyle that will give you more vitality and uplift your body and mind.
Develop strength and flexibility in body and mind
With Rukmini Chaitanya
This course is particularly suitable for intermediate practitioners who want to take their asana practice to the next level.
The art of yogic breathing: tune to the rhythm of life
Find more harmony in your life with yogic breathing. These ancient breathing techniques can positively transform your body and mind.
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: Jan/ Feb 2027
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: Feb/ Mar 2027
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.
Sivananda Yoga Training Course: Apr / May 2027
This four-week course is styled after the ancient Gurukula system in which students live, study, and work with their teachers and fellow students in an ashram. Students will learn to bring health and happiness to others through the ancient teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, and the study of yoga philosophy.