Sivananda Yoga Peace Educator Training: Interview with Swami Sitaramananda

The Sivananda Peace Education Training seeks to nurture peace educators and compassionate leaders who embody the timeless wisdom of Yoga and Vedanta while integrating the best insights of modern psychology, communication, and peace studies. https://sivanandayogafarm.org/300houryogaforpeaceprogram/ Through self-transformation, service, and spiritual awakening, participants are encouraged to become instruments of peace and contributors to the healing and well-being of humanity. Promote holistic peace/conflict transformative practices and methods as an accessible way to wellbeing and peaceful development of individuals and society. Apply classical Yoga and Vedanta philosophy to address specific disharmonious conditions in a person, a family or a community. Why Sivananda Peace Education Training? Prompted by the confusion, anxiety, violence, and divisions of the world today, we revisited the wisdom of the great spiritual traditions and found timeless teachings that inspired the creation of the Sivananda Peace Education Training program. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. — Matthew 5:9 Do not do to your fellow men what is painful to yourself. This is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. — Torah The most covetable possession on earth, the greatest treasure in the entire universe, is peace. Peace, to be lasting and constructive, must be achieved through God. — Swami Sivananda If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand; and if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. — Jesus the Christ Peace is the happy, natural state of man. It is his birthright. War is his disgrace. — Swami Sivananda Better indeed is knowledge than practice; better than knowledge is meditation; better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action. Peace immediately follows renunciation. — Bhagavad Gita XII.12 1-YEAR PROGRAM FORMAT (300 hrs) Three onsite immersive residential trainings of 7 days each Distance learning, 2 hours weekly for 12 weeks Practicum with individual cases Practicum with groups CURRICULUM MODULE 1 • January 4–12, 2027 Yoga and the Mind, Methods and Steps to Peace MODULE 2 • May 1–8, 2027 Global Citizen Skills MODULE 3 • July 7–14, 2027 Peace Applications MODULE 4 • July–September 2027 DISTANCE LEARNING ONLINE, 12 weeks PEACE TECHNIQUES PRACTICUM Applied knowledge and techniques to educate individuals and groups under the guidance of a mentor. GRADUATION • December 2027 https://sivanandayogafarm.org/300houryogaforpeaceprogram/