Event Add-ons

Looking to fill out your seminar or retreat schedule? Enhance your retreat with premium add-ons such as yoga skills practicums, nature walks, chai parties, campfires and more, all for a modest fee.

90-Minute Yoga Practicums

Give yourself a break from teaching and choose from over 30 practicums to add to your retreat or workshop. All practicums will be lead by one of our premier Himalayan Institute Faculty. Example Practicum topics include: Introduction to Vishoka Meditation, Establishing a Pranayama Practice, and Ayurveda and Health Basics.

Available Practicums

Practicums are scheduled for 90-minutes. *Practicums with asterisk could be offered as 60 or 75 minute sessions.

Himalayan Institute Master Practices
Yoga Practice: All Levels
Explore the master practices of the Himalayan Institute, as passed down from the sages. Practices include asana, systematic relaxation, breathing practices, and breath awareness meditation, all of which will help you develop stability, relaxed breathing, and focused inner awareness.

Integrating Breath, Movement, and Awareness
Yoga Practice: All Levels
Breath-aligned movement is a powerful practice linking the mind, movement, and breath awareness. Simple yet profound, this practice integrates the body and mind, expands present-moment awareness, and builds a foundation for inner focus.

Yoga for Vitality and Core Strength
Yoga Practice: All Levels
Gain access to the body’s hub of energy and vitality. Learn strengthening and activating practices for the pelvic floor and abdomen, including the master practice agni sara (“essence of fire”).

Yoga Sequence for Meditation
Yoga Practice: All Levels
Learn an effective yoga routine to cultivate relaxed breathing, core strength and alignment, and inner awareness—all prerequisites for meditation.

Sitting Postures for Pranayama and Meditation *
Yoga Practice: All Levels
Learn the components of a good sitting posture, and find the perfect pose for you. This workshop explores three posture options, plus hints for props and modifications to find a comfortable, stable pose.

Yoga’s Most Powerful Tool: Diaphragmatic Breathing
Pranayama Series: All Levels
Explore the dynamics of diaphragmatic breathing in theory and practice. As the foundation of yoga practice, diaphragmatic breathing supports good mental and physical health by restoring balance to the nervous system, and matures into pranic awareness and inner focus.

Establishing a Pranayama Practice
Pranayama Series: All Levels
A daily pranayama practice supports a balanced nervous system and a clear, calm mind. Learn techniques like nadi shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) to enhance mental stability and inner focus; and develop a personal practice plan with suggestions for sequencing, progression, and home practice.

Introduction to Vishoka Meditation
Meditation Series: All Levels
Learn about Vishoka Meditation—the Himalayan Institute’s flagship meditation system and practice—and discover how this complete system of meditation helps you reclaim your innate inner joy and train your mind to remain clear, focused, and joyful in all circumstances in life. This session ends with a guided meditation practice.

Turning Inward with Systematic Relaxation *
Meditation Series: All Levels
Includes theory and technique to deeply rejuvenate and refresh body and mind, develop essential skills to regulate the nervous system, and support the meditative mind.

Refining Meditation: A Program for Progress *
Meditation Series: Some Experience with Meditation Recommended
Suggestions for a practice sequence, deepening practice, staying inspired, and addressing common problems like physical and mental discomfort, recurring thoughts, sleepiness, and procrastination. Includes a guided practice.

Yamas and Niyamas: Reclaiming the Power of Your Mind *
Yoga Lifestyle: All Levels
The ten principles of conduct are the foundation of yoga psychology which guide inner and outer life, developing self-awareness and reshaping habits and behavior.

Five Pillars of Yoga Lifestyle *
Yoga Lifestyle: All Levels
A healthy life is built on a regular daily routine in harmony with natural rhythms of life, healthy eating habits, regularity in sleep habits, right exercise, and healthy/right relationships. Learn why and how to start applying these pillars.

All About the Yogic Diet *
Yoga Lifestyle: All Levels
Learn the importance of diet for a clear mind, components and benefits of a yogic diet, elements of the vegetarian diet, and how to manage eating habits in modern life.

Building Your Home Practice *
Yoga Lifestyle: All Levels
Explore the components of daily practice, develop a sustainable personal practice schedule, and enjoy tips for cultivating a comprehensive, enjoyable, and nurturing home practice.

The Eight Limbs of Classical Yoga
Yoga Wisdom and Worldview: All Levels
Patanjali’sYoga Sutra describes eight aspects of practice to develop a comprehensive, systematic approach to spiritual life. Learn how the eight limbs comprise a complete path to self-mastery.

Anatomy of the Mind
Yoga Wisdom and Worldview: All Levels
The yogic model of the mind is a practical frame for spiritual practice, and a map for working with every aspect of ourselves. Learn how the senses, the unconscious mind, the ego, and intelligence work together to create freedom and wisdom—or ignorance and suffering.

Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita
Yoga Wisdom and Worldview: All Levels
Explore the four major paths of yoga: karma yoga, bhakti yoga, jnana yoga and the meditative path, as delineated in this much-beloved spiritual classic.

Yoga Sutra: Timeless Text of Yoga
Yoga Wisdom and Worldview: All Levels
The complete scope of yoga theory and practice is laid out in the “bible” of yoga. Take a look at what it says in this overview, and see why this timeless text can guide our practice.

Sanskrit Basics for Yoga Students
Yoga Wisdom and Worldview Series: All Levels
In this brief introduction to Sanskrit (the language of yoga), learn correct pronunciation of the alphabet, transliteration conventions, and how to correctly pronounce commonly used words.

Four Prayers of the Himalayan Tradition *
Yoga Wisdom and Worldview Series: All Levels
Recite and understand the four meaningful Sanskrit prayers recited morning and evening in the Sri Vidya Shrine. Includes audio and print resources for your ongoing practice.

Ayurveda and Health Basics
Health and Wellness: All Levels
Identify your unique constitution and learn how lifestyle choices based on the characteristics of your constitution can help maintain balance in body and mind.

Daily Yogic Cleansing Practices
Health and Wellness: All Levels
Help the body and mind cleanse. Learn the theory and technique of nasal wash (neti wash), and an early morning inner cleansing routine (dinacharya).

Yoga and Stress Management
Health and Wellness: All Levels
Recognize symptoms of stress, what happens to the mind, body, and nervous system, the consequences of chronic stress, and how yoga and meditation can help/alleviate stress. Includes a stress reduction practice.

Chai Party

Himalayan Institute chai has become somewhat legendary amongst our guests, and for this reason, the Chai Party has become the most popular event add-on. Your Chai Party includes one gallon of chai and your choice of a dozen homemade cookies or a seasonal fruit bowl. Cookie choices include chocolate chip, peanut butter, chyawanprash, and wilderness.

Campfires

Campfires around campus are a great way to spend an evening, and enjoy the beauty of the night sky under the stars. Available for reservation in full hour increments, includes Himalayan Institute staff to care for the fire.

Adventure Programs

Adventure programs are brought to you in partnership with Northeast Wilderness Experience (NEWE). Choose from a variety of outdoor adventures in the neighboring area. Activities vary by season and are available year round. Examples of seasonal activities include:

Kayaking, biking, and guided nature hikes in the spring/fall and snowshoeing in the winter.

Other Activities

Two hour guided nature hike: You will explore one of our four groomed hiking trails—that can include the pond, a hike by a creek, through fields, an apple orchard or through the almost 400 acres of forest on our property.

Volunteer Projects: Volunteer projects may be available for your students to participate in and requires a discussion with our Volunteer Coordinator four weeks in advance.

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