Budget Retreat

Starts every day all year around except weekends

The Vedansha Insitute of Vedic sciences and alternative medicine in Himalaya accredited by International Yoga Alliance (USA), offers Yoga budget retreat program to purify your body from toxins, create a healthy food program according to traditional Indian medical concepts (ayurveda), learn asana, pranayama, meditation.

• 1 brief aura check up.
• 1 T-shirt with the school symbol.
• One excursion in Himalaya
• 3 daily vegetarian mea
• 1 excursion in Himalaya meals
• Accommodation.
• Cleansing kit.
• Daily detox tea.
• Daily practical & theoretical yoga classes.
• Mala string of beads energized by Yogachariya Dr. S.K.Pandey-Ji.
• Study materials.
• Herbs suggestions for well-being.
• Accompanying and supporting during time of staying in the Institute, help provided 24 Hours.

• • Extra days of staying.
  • Excursions.
  • Additional activities.
  • Airport transfer.
  • Ayurvedic procedures and consultation.
  • Spa treatments.
  • Detailed Aura check-up with providing of written report about Aura statement, disturbances in Aura if they are present, supporting methods and treatment advices of naturopathic
  • specialist (individual plan of asana postures, pranayama, herbs, meditative practice).

Full astrological consultation with detailed explanation of planet position, disturbances, methods of correction, suggestions in career, family life, marriage, prevention of diseases.

Yoga-Philosophical Aspects:

• Human Life: Meaning & Aim of Life.
• Yoga – Introduction / it’s origin & development.
• Introduction of Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutras.
• Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga – Yama, Niyama (social and personal rules and regulations) Asana (physical posture), Pranayama (breathing techniques)
• Concept of three bodies and it’s role in yoga practice
• Introduction in Karma, Raja Yoga. Meaning, Types, role in yoga
• Kosha and it’s role in Meditation & Pranayama
• Concept of 5 Koshas
• 3 Nadis, Ida, Pingala, Sushumna. Their role in practice
• Chakras, general concept & role in daily life
• Panch-Klesha (Five Causes Of Pain & Miseries) / causes of succsess and failure in Yoga
• Earth, Water, Fire element affirmation in sutras
• Samkhya Darshan, Vedanta Darshan
• Nadis & chakras, general concep
• What is Kundalini energy, ways of activation
• Kundalini & Chakra
• Concept of Gunas
• Prakriti & Purusha
• Discipline of Yoga student
• Obstacles in the path of yoga

Asana (beginner, intermediate and advanced level):

• atural Relaxation Asana.
• Natural standing Asana with External Rotations.
• Forward bending Asana.
• Backward Extensions.
• Spinal Twisting Asana
• Inverted Asana.
• Balancing Asana.
• Surya-Namaskara.
• Meditation Asana.
• Thunder-Bolt (vajrasana) Group Asana.
• Lotus (Padmasana) Group Asana.

Pranayama & Mudras:

• Introduction to Pranayama.
• Basic Pranayama Techniques & Benefits (Abdominal breathing, Preparational breathing, Kapalabhati, Nadi Shodana with/without retention, Ujjayi breathing, Bramari, Bhastrika, Shitali, Shitkari, Surya Bheda & Chandra Bheda, Ujja).
• The pranic body.
• Parana and lifestyle.
• Breathe, health and pranayama.
• Breathing and life span.
• Sitting Positions for Pranayama
• Kriyas (Body Cleansing Methods): (Neti, Kapalabhati, Trataka, Shanka Prakshalana)
• What is mudra and bandha
• What is Ashwini Mudra, its role in energy body
• Dyana, Ajali, Prithvi, Varuna, Shakti, Gyana, Chin, Shambhavi, Khechari Mudra, Hansi mudra, Vayu mudra, akash Mudra, Shunya Mudra, Surya mudra, Jalodarnashak mudra, Apan mudra, Pran Mudra, shankh mudra, Apan Vayu Mudra, Ling Mudra, Dhyan Mudra, Lotus Mudra)
• Moola, Uddyana Bandha, Jalandra
• .Shatkarma (concept, aim, safety, performance)
• Obstacles in Pranayama practice

Meditation

• Standard Meditation Practice (Om Meditation, Trataka, Yoga Nidra, Sound meditation, Mantra meditation, Nadis Meditation, 5 elements meditation, Breath meditation, Hamso meditation, Ajapa/japa, Ida/Pingala spinal rotation, Hridayakasha Dharana, Panchaprana Dharana, Pranava Dhyana)
• Visualisation & concentration
• Obstacles in meditation
• Concept of meditation Step by step
• Postures for meditation practice
• How to integrate meditation in yoga class?
• How to choose object for meditation?

Mantra

• Standard Mantras (Guru, Ganesh Mantra, Shakti Mantra, Gayatri Mantra, Shanti Mantra, Shiva Mantra, 5 elements mantra, So Ham, AUM, Lakshmi Mantra, Vishnu Mantra, Mantra for health, business, children)

Yoga therapy/Ayurveda

• Using of number of yogic/ayurvedic methods in supporting and treatment of some diseases
• What is ayurveda
• Concept of 3 Dosha
• How to identify the dosha
• 6 tastes and their function for balance of body and mind