The Sivananda Yoga Organization offers a residential program at its different Yoga Centers around the world. Arrangements, capacity and rules regarding the residential status vary greatly from one center to the next so please make sure to contact each center individually and well in advance before your stay.

If you would like to learn Yoga more fully and immerse yourself in the Yogic lifestyle while keeping a professional and social independence, you might be ready to embrace the Sivananda. Residential Program.

This is an opportunity to learn spiritual life in the traditional ways of older India in the Gurukhula system. While living under the same roof with the teachers doing Sadhana (spiritual practice) and Karma Yoga (service), physical and mental purification is achieved and rapid spiritual progress can be expected.

Yes and No. With the proper attitude, even as a beginner, the experience offers many benefits. Purification and spiritual growth manifest fairly quickly on this wonderful journey. Yet for the student who is not ready to make the necessary sacrifice and to humbly learn from someone more experienced, the strict discipline and adherence to the rules (diet and others) will be extremely challenging.

Feel free to contact us at Hq@sivananda.org or your local Sivananda Yoga Center or Ashram and inquire about the residential program.