The Yoga Federatie Dutch Speakers Belgium aslb presents :
Study & Meeting Days
Hotel Duinse Polders – Blankenberge
26 & 27 april 2025
with Swami Sarvapriyananda
Deadline for registration : 10 april 2025.
Vedanta & Self-Inquiry
Vedanta teaches that man’s true nature is divine and that the true purpose of human life is to unfold and manifest this divinity.
Based on the Vedas, the ancient scriptures of India, Vedanta accepts all religions of the world and reveres the great prophets, teachers and sons of God, because it recognises the same divine inspiration in all of them.
Vedanta is a way of living and realising.
It gives every individual complete freedom to develop morally and spiritually according to his or her own beliefs and convictions. It offers different spiritual paths in accordance with the nature of each individual.
Modern Vedanta is exemplified in the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, a great prophet of nineteenth-century India, and Swami Vivekananda, his chief monastic disciple.
Swami Sarvapriyananda will cover the following topics on the weekend:
- What is Vedanta?
- Self-inquiry I: the Seer and the Seen
- Spiritual practice in Vedanta
- Self-inquiry II: the 5 sheaths or Kośas
- Self-inquiry III: the 3 states
There will also be Hatha yoga classes on the weekend by Flor Stickens and Alberto Paganini.
About Swami Sarvapriyananda
Swami Sarvapriyananda was born in Calcutta, India, in 1971.
Swami Sarvapriyananda has been the head and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York since January 2017.
He joined the Ramakrishna Math in 1994 and received saṃnyāsa in 2004. He served as āchārya (teacher) of the training centre for monastic subjects in Belur Math, India.
He also served in various capacities in various educational institutes of the Ramakrishna Mission in India and as assistant minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California.
Programme
Saturday
09.00 – 09.30 Reception, coffee and tea
09.45 Welcome by Flor Stickens
10.00 – 12.00 What is VEDANTA?
12.15 Lunch
13.15 – 14.15 Yoga practice on the beach with A. Paganini
14.30 – 16.00 Self-Inquiry I – The Seer and the Seen (Lecture, Meditation and Q/A)
16:00 – 16.30 Coffee and tea
16.30 – 18.00 Spiritual practice in Vedanta (Lecture and Q/A)
18.00 Supper
19.15 – 20.00 General meeting of members
20.00 – 21.00 Evening programme: kīrtana with the group Shyama
21.00 – 22.00 Reception offered by YFN
Sunday
07.00 – 08.15 a. F. Stickens: Day opening: recitation – prānāyāma – light practice / b. A. Paganini: awakening with dynamic Yoga flow
08.15 Breakfast
10.00 – 12.00 Self-examination II – The five sheaths or Kośas (Lecture, Meditation and Q/A)
12.15 Lunch
13.15 – 14.15 Yoga practice on the beach with A. Paganini
14.30 – 16.00 Self-examination III – The Three States (Lecture, Meditation and Q/A)
16.00 – 16.15 Closing
Cost
Weekend with overnight stay in:
- single room (WE1): member 290 € / non member 330 €
- double room (WE2): member 240 € / non member 280 €
Without accommodation:
- Saturday only (SAT): member 130 € / non member 150 €
- Sunday only (SUN): member 90 € / non member 110 €
Whole Weekend: member 200 € / non member 240 €
Meals are included in the price.
Option
- Arrival on Friday evening from 4pm to 9pm (only when registering for WE1 or WE2).
- No meal will be provided on Friday evening.
- Supplement for extra night and breakfast: 110 € in single room, 65 € in double room.
Registration
Preferably via the registration form on our website or by mail to Activiteiten@yogafederatie.be.
Registration is valid upon receipt of the registration form and payment on the YFN vzw bank account: YFN vzw, Kattestraat 120, 9400 Okegem-Ninove – BIC: BBRUBEBB IBAN: BE25 3900 6740 8082.
In case of cancellation after 14 April, accommodation and meals cannot be refunded.
Info: activiteiten@yogafederatie.be
Bring with you: yoga mat.
Vegetarian meals will be provided.
Lottas/nose jugs can be bought on site.
Address Hotel Duinse Polders : A. Ruzettelaan 195, B- 8370 Blankenberge.