1 - 6 February, April, May, June, October, and December 2026.
This seven - day program is designed for those interested in deepening their experience in yoga and ashram life.
During the seven days of the months of February, April, May, June, October, and December, you are welcome to come to the ashram and participate in Bhakti Yoga and Guru Bhakti Days.
Bhakti yoga is a sadhana for psychological transformation which presents us with nine practical disciplines or stages for transmuting negative and restrictive emotions to positive and uplifting ones. Following any one of the nine stages of bhakti yoga will allow you to change limiting attitudes, conditionings and patterns of behaviour that have been influenced by your family, society and culture.
Bhakti Yoga (Υοga of the Heart)
Bhakti Yoga is described by Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati as “the science of the 21st century,” a path that transforms limiting, reactive emotions into positive, uplifting, and expansive ones.
In modern psychology, this corresponds to emotional regulation - the ability to manage impulses, cultivate empathy, and respond consciously rather than reactively.
Current neuroscience shows that practices involving devotion, gratitude, and positive emotional states can reshape neural pathways, soften ego-driven patterns, and activate networks associated with resilience, empathy, and wellbeing. Bhakti Yoga harnesses this power by connecting the lower mind with the higher mind, helping individuals experience inner harmony, clarity, and a deeper sense of self.
At Satyanandashram Hellas, Bhakti Yoga is practiced as a practical and accessible method to reduce emotional stress, release stored tension, and build positive mental habits.
This program includes a great variety of powerful yogic tools, sucs as the positivity mantras [healing vibrations], kirtan, Yoga sessions, Yoga Nidra of the Satyananda System of Yoga [a deep tranformation techinque], yogic diet, inspirational evening programs and the ancient practices of pooja and havan. Havan is a part of yoga ecology and helps to cleanse and purify both the inner and outer environment.
Through chanting, reflection, selfless service, and ashram life, participants experience shifts from anxiety to emotional balance, from inner conflict to coherence, and from isolation to connection.
Through practicing bhakti yoga, we remove the turbulence of the mind, fill the mind with positive emotions and then express these uplifting qualities through thoughts, behaviour and interactions. This brings about an alignment, a harmony between head, heart and hands which results in an ever-growing ability to associate more and more with the best side of ourselves, and in so doing we begin to experience a deeper connection: first within ourselves. With our Swabhav (true nature)and then with others, and in time with all of creation.
Bhakti yoga, says Swami Niranjan, is the journey from tamas to sattva, from darkness to light, chaos to harmony, inertia to creativity, dullness to luminosity.
Guru Bhakti Yoga - The Yoga of Remembrance
On the 4th, 5th and 6th of the month Guru Bhakti Yoga - The Yoga of Remembrance program is dedicated to Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati, a great luminary and Yoga Master who, through his relentless and selfless work, spread the ancient practices of yoga around the world touching the hearts of thousands upon thousands of people and transforming their lives and uplifting their spirits through his teachings.
Furthurmore, this is a time to celebrate the invaluable contribution of Sri Swami Satyananda to humanity, which falls into three main categories. The first was his revival of yoga into a practical, systematic, progressive, and scientific system easily accessible to our modern world. The second was his selfless service, and ability to inspire others to serve the society without expectations, and the third was his ability to transform the tradition of sannyasa to suit the needs of contemporary society where he initiated foreigners and many women into this age-old tradition.
“Love intensifies remembrance. Constant remembrance transforms the love into darshan…. Love is the totality of dedication.”
Swami Satyananda Saraswati,
Sri Swami Satyananda explains:
As long as the emotion is flowing towards the external world, its form is that of worldliness, yet when the emotion starts to flow towards the inner soul, when its diversion takes place, its form is that of bhakti. Therefore, the meaning of bhakti is to redirect the emotions from the material world and direct them towards the inner soul. That is bhakti.
http://www.yogamag.net/archives/2010s/2015/1505/1505bhak.html
Join us to explore this transformative path, supported by ancient wisdom and increasingly recognized by modern science, and cultivate a more joyful, compassionate, and meaningful inner life.
This is a golden opportunity that should not be missed as the seven-day program is being offered for free to all participants and includes accommodation and yogic vegetarian meals.
Please make sure you fill in your booking form and reserve your place in advance as accommodation in the ashram is limited. One can also attend these programs without accommodation.
Discipline:
Participants are encouraged to be present for all ashram activities and to engage fully in the program, so they may experience the deepest possible benefit from ashram life.
Application deadline:
10 days before the 1st of the month.
Please make sure you fill in your booking form and reserve your place in advance as accommodation in the ashram is limited. One can also attend these programs without accommodation.
There is no fixed contribution for these six days, they are freely offered.
Dakshina (a voluntary offering) is welcome.