Living the Rāmāyaṇa

Autumn 2025

Practical Yoga Mythology and Philosophy – Living the Rāmāyaṇa
Itihāsa course – 12 hours on the Rāmāyaṇa

8 Week course starting 15th September
Mondays in English
Wednesdays in French
Live sessions: 18:30-20:00 Switzerland time

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If you are hungry for a place to explore beyond the familiar, to look into your inner depths through the lens of time-proven teachings and the timeless stories that encode them, this series is for you.
The Rāmāyaṇa is not one of the most beloved stories in the history of humanity by accident!
Join us for an in-depth exploration of this great epic and its practical teachings.

You don’t need to be an āsana practitioner or meditator to join this course!
These teachings are about the whole of our lives.
However, if you do work with āsana and other yoga techniques, this course will help support and deepen that practice. The Rāmāyaṇa – the adventure of Rāma – encodes the path of yoga practice and the journey of a human life.
With live storytelling and time to unpack the practical riches the stories contain, experience the beauty, relevance and robust support of the Rāmāyaṇa.

This series will include stories of :
– Rāma’s teachers, Vasiṣṭha and Viśvāmitra – what it takes to become our own friend and the realities of the path of practice towards deeper self-knowledge and understanding. The role of ‘the guru’ and the principle of the guru in yoga practice
– Rāma’s ancestors, including Bhagiratha and the descent of Gaṅgā
– The churning of the milky ocean and the ongoing play of seemingly opposed forces
– The ‘main story’ of Rāmāyaṇa during which we’ll learn about the great characters Sītā, Hanuman, Lakṣmaṇa, Rāvaṇa and his brothers and gain a map for the perennial terrain of the journey of life and practice.

These days, mainstream school often teaches people to ’tick the right box’, as if that’s how one gets on in life.

But the reality is that life doesn’t fit into neat boxes.
Your right livelihood – the authentic expression of you – doesn’t fit into a box!

The seers of the yoga tradition recognised this.
Yoga does not offer us reductive rules or a black/white binary perspective.
Yoga is far too wise for that.
Its robust principles were proven in the furnace of time before they were set down in the classic yoga texts.

We have access to these practical, time-proven teachings in mutually supportive forms, for example:

The ultra pared-down Yoga Sūtra – the stitches to weave together the fabric of unity

The inquiry, dialogue and searching conversation of the Bhagavad Gītā.

And, as we’ll explore in this course, the compelling, archetypal yoga stories, such as Rāmāyaṇa, that convey these teachings at so many levels.

Rāmāyaṇa is known as itihāsa – ‘so it happened’, ‘so it happens’.
These stories unfold in the ever new now.
Communicating on multiple levels, these yoga stories invite us into real yogic learning – to fathom greater depths of our psyche, look in ways that reach beyond our habitual ways of looking and remember more of who we are.

This autumn:
Practical Yoga Mythology and Philosophy – the Rāmāyaṇa
Itihāsa course – 12 hours on the Rāmāyaṇa
Mondays in English and Wednesdays in French
18:30-20:00 Vevey time
£240

All participants have access to all recordings and course materials for the duration of the series and through until September 2026 and can attend both English and French sessions if desired.

Dates for the 8 sessions in both languages
Mondays (English) and Wednesdays (français) 18:30-20:00 Switzerland time

Monday Sept 15
Wednesday Sept 17
Monday Sept 22
Wednesday Sept 24
Monday Sept 29
Wednesday Oct 1
Monday Oct 6
Wednesday Oct 8
Monday Oct 13
Wednesday Oct 15
Monday Oct 20
Wednesday Oct 22
Monday Oct 27
Wednesday Oct 29
Monday Nov 3
Wednesday Nov 5

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