Dreamwork: The Astral Sadhana
Mar 12, 2025 - Mar 19, 2025
Deepen your connection with the astral realm in this 4-part series led by Ananda Manjari. Through thoughtful teachings, practical tools, and guided meditations, you’ll explore the art of dreamwork and its role in supporting spiritual growth and self-awareness.
Course Overview:
Philosophy & The Purpose of Dreamwork
Gain an understanding of dreamwork’s spiritual significance, its
place in the life of a seeker, and how balancing polarities can
create a sense of wholeness and integrity.
Foundational Astral Sadhana
Develop techniques to recall and document your dreams, analyze
them, and practice lucid dreaming. Explore the connection between
the Moon’s influence and your patterns of dreaming.
Sankalpa & Astral Problem Solving
Set intentions (Sankalpa) and engage in meditation practices to
revisit dreams, deepen your astral connection, and explore
problem-solving in the astral dimension.
Experiential Practice
Participate in yoga nidra (psychic sleep meditation), a dream
circle, and intention setting to support your ongoing personal
practice.
This course is an invitation to explore the subtle layers of your inner world with curiosity and presence.
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$54.00
2 Sessions
Marma Training: Intro to Ayurvedic Bodywork
Mar 8, 2025 - Mar 23, 2025
According to Ayurveda, marma is a Sanskrit word
that means “hidden” or “secret”. It refers to the anatomical
locations on the body marmani where muscles, veins,
ligaments, bones, and joints meet. These points are known as marma
points, and are considered to be the seats of life energy, or
prana. The Susruta Samhita records that there are 107
marma points in the human body, located in five groups: upper limb,
lower limb, trunk, back, and head and neck. Marma therapy is an
ancient touch therapy dating to at least the 2nd century BC that
involves stimulating marma points through light touch, massage, or
pressure to clear energetic channels in the body and allowing for
life force or Prana to flow freely through them. The speed of the
massage should match the touch, with a slower cadence for gentler
massages and a faster pace for more rigorous ones.
This training is designed so that it can be taken
in parts but is best taken as a whole. All tools and oils will be
provided. Participants will both learn and receive treatments from
fellow participants. You may choose to sign up with a partner or
friend to do sessions with, but this is not necessary.
Part 1: Feet and Hands Marma
(Acupressure)
According to both Ayurveda and traditional Chinese
medicine, the hands and feet are like a map of the entire human
body. Pressure points on the soles of the feet and palms of the
hand connect to all the major organs, glands and parts of the body.
By applying pressure on specific points of the hands and feet,
practitioners activate regeneration and vitality in corresponding
parts of the body. For the first week of the Marma immersion we'll
learn how to give a full foot and hand marma massage.
Part 2: Akhada Oil Massage & Belly
Treatment
Akhada massage is a full body light oil massage
used for and by the warriors of ancient South Asia. It involves the
application of slow and deep pressure across the front and back of
the body, focusing on the nadis, or energetic lines of the body. In
ayurveda the source of all ailments in the body can be connected to
the stomach. Reigniting the digestive fire through healing pressure
is a powerful practice of marma. We will be learning how to give a
belly massage to ignite the digestive agni and foster deep
healing.
Part 3: Marma Body Walk & Face, Head
& Neck Marma
Similar to Thai massage, in the body walk section
we'll learn how to safely walk on the human body, vary our pressure
and release tension along the main marma points in the legs, arms
and back. We'll end this session by covering the especially
powerful marma points on the face, head and chest. Recipients enter
a deeply relaxing and healing state of mind, followed by savasana
and a wake up sequence of bodywork to sensitively bring the
recipient to consciousness.
Part 4: Prana Vidya
For the final session, we will begin by learning
how to position another person's body into yoga positions as they
lay on their fronts and backs, in order to get the Prana flowing,
passively before entering into a Prana Vidya practice. During Prana
Vidya - we will learn how to psychically circulate the energy in
our own bodies & guide the energy in the others body through
their energy vortexes & pathways in each of the body's major
systems. In this practice, we will tap into a subtler attunement to
ourselves & our partners' presence, resulting in most easeful
& profoundly connecting experience of a healing exchange.
The last learning workshop leaves participants with
both the knowledge of offering body work & being a conduit of
subtle healing.
Pricing:
$245/Session (or day of series)$777 for entire training
Early bird: $650 before February
15
Instructors:
This series will be co-lead by Prema and Manjari
who each have over 200 hours of Ayurvedic Marma bodywork training.
Prema has been offering Marma therapy in the Washington DC area for
over two years, and Manjari has been practicing in NYC. Both of
them have their 200 hr YTT certification and have spent many years
studying yoga philosophy from traditional ancient texts.
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$777.00
4 Sessions
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Ekadashi Kirtan
Mar 9, 2025 - Mar 9, 2025
Join us for a soulful Kirtan event held every Ekadashi, the auspicious day dedicated to fasting and spiritual reflection in Hindu tradition. Ekadashi occurs twice a month on the eleventh day of the lunar cycle, offering a unique opportunity for deeper connection with the divine. Come chant, meditate, and experience the profound peace and devotion of this sacred gathering.
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Bhagavad Gita Study
Mar 16, 2025 - Apr 20, 2025
Sign up for a seven-part series that dives into the
principles and teachings of the world's first Yoga text: the
Bhagavad Gita. Online option available. Link provided on
sign up.
The Gita is a timeless conversation between
humanity (Arjuna) and Divinity (Krishna), one of the oldest yoga
texts in the world and required reading for Yogis of all stripes.
It has captivated a global audience including Henry David Thoreau,
Annie Besant, T. S. Eliot, and Aldous Huxley. It has inspired the
likes of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
Learn about Dharma, Karma, Bhakti, and Yoga over
the course of a seven part series on the Bhagavad Gita with Prema
& Manjari.
Manjari is an artist, a yoga teacher, and a practitioner of
bhakti yoga. She has been sharing bhakti wisdom at New York City's
Bhakti Center where she has been serving for many years before
moving to DC.
Prema is a Curator at the Smithsonian, a Kirtan
artist, and a yoga teacher. He received his PhD in History at the
University of Virginia and has been a student of the Bhagavad Gita
for over a decade.
Course Textbook:
Bhagavad Gita: The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song by Graham M
Schweig.
Dates:
Sunday Jan 12th, 8-10amSunday Jan 26th, 8-10am
Saturday Feb 8th, 8-10am
Saturday March 1st, 8-10am
Sunday March 16th, 8-10am
Sunday March 30th, 8-10am
Sunday April 20th, 3.30-5pm
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$108.00
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BYDC Sound Bath
Mar 16, 2025 - Mar 16, 2025
Blooming Within
Join us for a special sound bath to welcome spring and foster
inner growth and personal transformation during this time of year.
The sound bath will combine deep, grounding tones with lighter,
uplifting frequencies to mirror the balance between earth's
grounding energy and spring's light, ethereal qualities leading
your body, mind and spirit to bloom within.
Immerse yourself in the soothing vibrations of a
Sound Bath at Bhakti Yoga DC. This deeply
restorative experience invites you to relax into the gentle waves
of sound created by crystal singing bowls, gongs, and other
resonant instruments. As the harmonic frequencies wash over you,
they support a state of deep relaxation, helping to calm the mind,
release tension, and restore balance to your energetic body.
Whether you’re seeking a moment of stillness, an opportunity to
recharge, or simply a chance to connect more deeply with yourself,
this sound journey is a space for you to rest, reset, and renew. No
prior experience is needed—just bring your curiosity and an open
heart.
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$25.00
1 Session