Our Current Context 
Most of us are aware that we are fast approaching an inflection point. We live amidst great wealth and fast growth as well as dire poverty, industrial expansion along with environmental and cultural destruction. We don’t seem to have discovered a way of responding to these challenges in a meaningful and holistic way that reflects the wisdom of this soil.
Many thinkers and seers have spoken about the deep erosion of personal and collective capability and loss of resilience that result from this state of affairs. This becomes especially corrosive when an amnesia and lack of authentic connection with one’s tradition is replaced by an empty adherence to ritual on the one hand and a superficial imitation of alien ways on the other hand in the guise of being modern.  

The Seven Notes 
Amidst such rapid flux and fragmentation, each of us is faced with the important questions:  
"Do I have a meaningful inner life?  
Do I strive for excellence in all the ways in which I express myself?  Am I moving towards self-actualisation?”  

If a person is feeling unsure within, then one finds it hard to respond adequately to life’s challenges and lacks energy and motivation. A person who has a deep and meaningful inner life as well as excellence in outward action is known as a Satvik. Such a person is able to conduct one's own life with greater skill and ease, and provide able leadership for the empowerment of others too apart from one’s own. In order to get to the state of Sathvikam one is invited to put into practice the steps recommended in the SaptaSvara: the seven key values and practices that can provide the foundation for a beautiful and harmonious life.

SaptaSvara is a framework proposed by Sashi Ananth and Raghu Ananthanarayanan that is a convergence of over four decades of serious study and practice. It is a set of seven values-in-action based on the energy of the Chakras that a harmonious and meaningful life is replete with. They are:  
 
Maitri - Valuing Trustworthiness  
Karma - Locus of Action  
Dharma - Responsibility for the Self-Context Simultaneity
Jnana - Knowledge that transforms the self  
Ramya – Evocation, Aesthetics and Delight
Yoga - Mindfulness and Integration
Abhyasa - Practice & Perseverance  

The SaptaSvara thus offers the following:    
1. A ‘here and now’ encounter with oneself, where the participants get in touch with parts of themselves and behaviour / habit patterns that they haven’t yet understood very well.  
2. A contemplative context for self reflection on the various roles one has taken up in familial, work and societal contexts and action choices made in these spaces.  
3. An experiential learning about the insights of Yoga and Vaastu, and hence a deeper engagement with our timeless wisdom traditions.  
4. A framework for developing an enduring personal practice, that would enable a greater embodiment of the SaptaSvaras in one’s everyday life. 

Facilitators
Ankush Vij turned to yoga in 2017 for personal healing and transformation under Raghu’s guidance. Deeply impacted by the wisdom of the Yoga Sūtras, along with insights from the Upaniṣads and Mahabharata, Ankush committed to three years of Vedānta (Prasthāna Trayam) and Sanskrit studies within the guru-śiṣya tradition. He then pursued a five-year study of the Yoga Sūtras with Raghu and senior teachers in the Śrī Krishnamacharya lineage. 

A member of Ritambhara’s Acharya Sangha (RASA), Ankush remains dedicated to deepening his practice of Yoga, Vedānta, and their applications for personal and organizational development. He believes that self-knowledge arises within a systemic context, a perspective that aligns his inner purpose with his life’s pursuits—his true raison d’être. Ankush is also the co-author of the book “SaptaSvara - Discovering the Rhythm of Life”, along with Raghu Ananthanarayanan and Dr Nandini Murali. 
Namrata is a student and instructor of Yoga in the T Krishnamacharya tradition. She is inspired to apply the principles of Yoga in the contemporary world in meaningful ways through dialogue, research and therapy. She loves drawing quintessential ideas from Indian Knowledge Systems and making them accessible and applicable to young minds in innovative ways. 
She is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and is pursuing a Master's degree in Samskrtam (Indic Knowledge Systems) from MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune.  She is a trained Yoga Instructor under the tutelage of Smt. Saraswati Vasudevan and Smt. Uttara Venugopal at Yoga Vahini Foundation. She is also a student of Antaranga Yoga and a co-traveller at Ritambhara Acharya Sangha.

Format of the Programme

Duration 
Start date: Saturday, July 12, 2025
Duration of 8 Weeks, upto August 30, 2025
Saturdays (06 AM to 10 AM IST) - Online (Zoom) sessions  

Program Fees 
INR 30,000 for Indian participants; USD 525 for international participants  
Amount needs to be paid at the time of registration for the course.
Limited scholarships available to deserving candidates on a case-to-case basis.  

Who is this Programme for? 
Leaders, educators, change agents, professionals and householders wishing to delve inwardly and regenerate themselves.
Those who wish to discover and develop creative processes of their own unfolding and therefore facilitate self-discovery in others.  
 
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