Sundara Samadhi
with Sylvie Tremblay
Sundara Samadhi
with Sylvie Tremblay
20 hours | Weekend in nature
January 31, February 1-2, 2025
Tara Center
Bonsecours, Estrie
The Splendor of the Self
with Sylvie Tremblay
The true nature of the human being is entirely accessible to him. When he lends himself with simplicity and stripping himself to the observation of the world of beauty that inhabits him, no happiness is too great for him. A spontaneous and henceforth eternal communion, born of contemplation, presides from then on over his understanding of realities that are both down-to-earth and transcendental.
Only self-surrender allows this. There is no permanent identification with the past or with the individuality dependent on the mind that guides towards That.
We recognize the master by the love and respect he has for himself, by the freedom he shows before the immensity of possibilities: will you be able to make yourself the ultimate object of attention from which your own gaze will no longer be able to detach itself?
"He who stands beyond doubt and duality, who works for the good of all beings and whose thoughts turn inward, he realizes the Absolute and attains liberation."
- Bhagavad Gita, Verse 5.25
- Mouna (practice of silence)
- Samadhi
- Samskaras, Vasanas & Kleshas
- The stages: Savikalpa, Nirvikalpa/Kaivalya & Sahaja
- Themes of exploration: Space, The elements, Emptiness and fullness, Non-duality, Mindfulness, Dying to oneself.
- Kriyas, Bandhas, Pranayamas
- Developing an autonomous meditation practice
- Mastery of mental and emotional stability
- Expanding consciousness and communion with nature, the cosmos and the elements.
- Experimenting with the non-dual state of unity.
Friday
6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dinner
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Opening Circle
SATURDAY
6 a.m. to 7 a.m. Meditation
7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Personal space & morning herbal tea
7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Pranayama, Bandhas, Kriyas
8:30 to 9:30 Breakfast
9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Thematic Teachings & Meditation
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Vegetarian lunch
1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thematic teachings, Bhakti yoga & Meditation
4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Meditative & contemplative Hatha yoga
6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Vegetarian dinner
7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Meditation and personal space
Sunday
6 a.m. to 7 a.m. Meditation
7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Personal space & morning herbal tea
7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Pranayama, Bandhas, Kriyas
8:30 to 9:30 Breakfast
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thematic teachings, Bhakti yoga & Meditation
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Vegetarian lunch
1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Bhakti yoga & Closing circle
$595 before December 13, 2024 | $655 after. + Accommodation and food
$200 non-refundable after December 31, 2024.
Teaching faculty
Sylvie Tremblay
Yogacharya, E-RYT, IYF, FFY
Founder and director of the Yoga Sangha Center in Montreal, Sylvie Tremblay has nearly 30 years of yoga practice and 25 years of teaching. She teaches internationally and has led numerous seminars and training retreats in Europe, Central America, South America, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. In 2008, she received the title of Yogacharya (Yoga Master) from the International Yoga Federation and the French-speaking Federation FFY and the 2013 Saraswati Grand Prize for her work and years of teaching. She is known in Quebec for her daily show Absolument yoga and her two DVD sets Absolument Yoga Hatha and Hatha Flow.
Her travels in India and her studies under the guidance of Swami Muktananda (Siddha Yoga), within the Shivananda schools, Bihar School of India, Vinyasa yoga of Sri Dharma Mittra (New York) and the Andiappan for Therapeutic Reshearch of Chennai (India) led her to develop a style where the power of physical work combines with the depth of the spiritual journey undertaken. Mystical, creative, inspired, each of the classes and trainings she leads is an experience for the soul as well as the body.
In 2005, she received the appellation Sri Om Anandamayi from Mahavatar Babaji, the great master of India who reintroduced the divine science of Kriya yoga to the modern world.