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Weeks 19-20: The last two weeks have seen a lot of activity on the hall. A disabled ramp has been installed allowing access into the building. Inside, the heating is now installed and the hall is snug and warm. Beautiful new orange blinds have been fitted....Read More>>

Swami Abhishiktananda - Centenary of Birth

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swami Abhishiktananda, a French Benedictine monk (formerly, Henri le Saux) whose religious experiences in India led him to become a bridge between Hindu and Christian spirituality. Swamiji participated in several celebrations surrounding this event...Read More>>

Puja Workshop - Sunday August 8, 2010

Puja is the act of honoring the Divine through chanting, prayers and rituals. It is a practice that bhaktas (devotees) love as it allows a direct experience of communicating with God...Read More>>

Bhagavan Nityananda Mahasamadhi Satsang - Saturday August 8, 2010

Satsang this week was a very special occasion. It was the Mahasamadhi (or great passing) celebration of Bhagavan Nityananda. The program began with Nityananda Arati. In honor of the occasion we chanted ‘Om Namo Bhagavate Nityanandaya’ and saw a short slide show where Bhagavan resided in Ganeshpuri. The chant group then performed a beautiful Bhajan dedicated to Bhagavan. There was no doubt, Bhagavan Nityananda’s shakti was felt...Read More>>

Guru Purnima Satsang - Saturday 24 July 2010

Tonight was Guru Purnima - a celebration of the spiritual teacher - and the Satsang was alive with love and shakti. Swamiji held a beautiful wedding blessing for Rachel and Benji, noting that weddings were very popular with Baba Muktananda, who often held several on Guru Purnima. Swamiji also noted that this was a very auspicious day and that, for him, Guru Purnima held special importance as on the first one he attended "something happened on darshan with Baba, from which I never recovered!".....Read More>>

Winter Retreat: Shiva Process Self Inquiry

The Winter Retreat was nicknamed SPSI (or the 'Shiva Process Self Inquiry') retreat by Swamiji and it was, indeed, a feast of Shiva Processing. Retreatants came from interstate and overseas to spend time at the ashram and to learn how to apply Swamiji’s inner world technology to their lives...Read More>>

Special Satsang: Swami Sandeepananda Giri

On Saturday 26 June 2010, we were visited at Satsang by Swami Sandeepananda Giri, who is the founder and Director of The School of Bhagavad Gita in Kerala, India. In honour of his visit Swamiji spoke on aspects of the Bhagavad Gita which he described as a “sublime yogic text”...Read More>>

Limmud Oz: ‘The Swami and the Rabbi’

On Monday 14 June 2010, Swamiji was ‘in conversation’ with Rabbi Fred Morgan at the Limmud Oz Festival of Jewish Learning and Culture at Monash University. The session was titled ‘The Swami and the Rabbi’ and was a reprisal of a very popular event they first held as part of the Parliament of World’s Religions in December 2009 ...Read More>>

Forum for Hindu Awakening awakens Melbournians to Hindu concepts and issues

On Sunday, 16th May 2010 the auditorium at the Shirdi Sai Baba temple in Camberwell, Melbourne reverberated with the auspicious sounds of conch blowing and Vedic recitations, commencing the much awaited first ever Hinduism Summit (Hindu Dharma sabha) in Australia....Read More>>

The Spanda Retreat
April 7-11, 2010

On the first night of the retreat, Swamiji humorously told us that Spanda did not mean Spandex but was a Sanskrit term. He described it as ‘a synonym for Shakti, for spiritual energy. It is the vibrational power of the absolute. It is the vibration of love.’ ...Read More>>

A Special Event: Kadamba Kanana Swami’s Visit

On Friday March 5, we had the honour of hosting Kadamba Kanana Swami, a leading teacher in the Hare Krishna movement. He took time out of his busy schedule to have a special Friday night Satsang, kirtan and dancing saptah...Read More>>

Shivaratri at Vinayak Temple

On February 12 Swamiji, Devi Ma and the Shiva Yoga community were invited by the trustees of the Vinayak Temple in The Basin to celebrate Shivaratri, the night of Shiva. Each year in India, the full moon of February is dedicated to Shiva. It is said that it is 1000 times...Read More>>

The Bliss of Meditation: 2010 Summer Retreat
9- 17 January

Over nine days in January, we had a retreat on ‘The bliss of Meditation.’ It was the perfect beginning to the year. And in the retreat we had many opportunities to meditate. We also experienced many other forms of bliss...

The bliss of chanting: in the morning, we would begin the day with..Read More >>

The Sadhana Files: Interviews with Shiva Yogis

A regularly updated series of interviews with members of the Shiva Yoga community about their spiritual life (sadhana). There are two new interviews in our Sadhana Files this month with the leaders of our Adelaide and Melbourne city centers. Lilavati interviews both Swami Dayananda (Director, Adelaide center) and Maria Lazzaro (who hosts the recently opened center in her home in East Brighton, Melbourne) Read More >>

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