Kriya Yoga Retreat

Swami Janakananda

Swami Janakananda Saraswati is the founder of the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School and Håå International Retreat Center. He is the school’s educational leader and the architect of the courses at the Retreat Center, where he also lives and teaches.

Swami Ma Sita Savitri

Swami Ma Sita is originally from Iceland. Spontaneous experiences in her youth introduced her to the mystical path. During her University studies she practised yoga, but it was not until she moved to Denmark in 1982 that she found what she had been looking for. She attended Swami Janakananda’s meditation teaching.

Over the years, Swami Ma Sita has been teaching in the school’s various branches in Scandinavia. In 1991, she moved to Håå Retreat Center, where she is responsible for the yoga teacher training programme and the distribution of titles published by Bindu and is a member of the Center’s management team.

It is primarily within three areas that Swami Ma Sita has delved deeply: Prana Vidya, Kirtan – and above all, Kriya Yoga – which she teaches during the one-month and three-month Sadhana retreats.

Vivekashakti

Vivekashakti is from Stockholm. After many years working in academia, she felt the need to explore her spiritual side. At Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School in Stockholm, she found the authentic yoga practice she was looking for. This inspired her to participate in the 3-month retreat at Håå Retreat Center. The energy and harmony that she experienced from the yoga, made her want to spend more time at the center, and she participated on more retreats, both as a student and as a volunteer, for three years. Vivekashakti then moved in to the ashram and started her yoga teacher training; both to deepen her own self-knowledge and also to pass on yoga and its benefits to others.