Relive the Energy of the TTC
You completed the Sivananda teacher training and have been teaching for a few months or years?
The TTC Refresher is designed to give you clarity, deepen what may have become diluted in daily life, and refine your teaching skills.
7 unique days at the ashram, with the European Acharyas and experienced teachers of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres in Europe: dynamic classes, practical workshops on asana and pranayama corrections, inspiring lectures and temple ceremonies.
You leave with precise tools, a revived practice, and the clarity needed to transmit with accuracy.
Ready to relive this transformative energy?
Each year, the TTC Refresher is built around the same core pillars, enriched by various themes who make each edition unique.
Every morning before satsang, an advanced pranayama session to deepen your mastery of breath:
Ventilation: Are you truly using your full vital capacity? Visualize and train your respiratory muscles.
Energy: Let pranayama recharge your nervous system.
Balance: Refine your perception of the main nadis, Ida and Pingala.
In small group exercises, you will practice how to:
The aim is to develop the ability to guide not only the outer form, but also the inner experience of the practice.
Dynamic yoga classes with the Acharyas and senior teachers, exploring various themes: Expanding the breath and relaxation in basic asanas, Variations of inverted poses, Asana for the pelvic and shoulder girdles, Dynamic sequences of pose and counterpose, Expanding the breath, Meditative holding of asanas, Asymmetrical asana variations…
Stimulating lectures to nourish your reflection on the relevance of yoga today, linked with modern psychology, Vedanta philosophy, tools to stay inspired in your sadhana… And a Yoga in action workshop to further the peace mission of our Masters.
The TTC Refresher is often an opportunity for Acharyas to share inspiring Satsangs: the essence of Swami Sivananda’s teachings, sharing of inspiring spiritual stories, understanding the guru principle, mastering your destiny, nurturing faith…
These rare and inspiring moments nourish the practice and open the heart.
This reunion of TTC graduates is also an opportunity to express you talents, through the staging of a beautiful spiritual theater play and sharing the joy of Kirtan with the chanting of many joyful and powerful kirtan from the Sivananda tradition.
Participate in the ashram’s traditional rituals, such as the Ganapati Homa, a powerful fire ritual invoking Ganesha’s energy to remove physical and mental obstacles, and a Shri chakra puja at the temple. This powerful invocation of Shakti in the form of the Shri Chakra yantra, accompanied with the chanting of the Lalita sahasranam, to invoke the blessings of the divine Mother and bring strength, energy and sweetness to all.
Swami Durgananda
Yoga Acharya of European Sivananda Centers
Swami Durgananda is Swami Vishnudevananda’s most senior disciple. She has been serving and sharing the teachings of our masters for 50 years. She has contributed tirelessly to Swami Vishnudevananda’s mission, to the European Sivananda centers, which have become oases of peace vibrating with spiritual energy. She has trained an entire generation of inspired swamis and teachers.
Swami Sivadasananda
Yoga Acharya
Swami Sivadasananda, long-time disciple of Swami Vishnudevananda, has been teaching in yoga teacher trainings and workshops worldwide for 40 years. He is a dynamic, precise and highly skilled teacher. He is the author of “Sivananda Beginner’s Guide to Yoga” and “Yoga Mind & Body”. He has been giving weekly online “Fire of Yoga” classes for four years.
Swami Kailasananda
Yoga Acharya
Swami Kailasananda is Yoga Acharya of the ashram and centers in France and England. Long-time disciple of Swami Vishnudevananda, she has been teaching in teacher trainings and sadhana intensive for many years. She teaches with clarity, enthusiasm and generosity. She is the author of “The Yoga of Meditation”.
Graduates of the Sivananda yoga teacher training (TTC or ATTC) only.
The TTC Refresher lasts 7 days / 7 nights
TTC Refresher teachings are in English with simultaneous translation in French, Spanish and German
Certificate of participation issued at the end of the TTC Refresher program.
Ready to relive this transformative energy?
