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Sundays with Arun
An ongoing conversation about life. Free to join.
Background and overview
We all have questions – about life, about meaning and purpose, about health, about diet. We have many unanswered questions and unresolved doubts. We rarely get a forum and a place to just discuss matters of importance – our inherent and latent desires, ambitions and regrets; relationships, stress, career, an approach to mental and physical fitness.
Sundays with Arun is an ongoing conversation about life. It is built around the tenets of yoga, traditional living, common sense and ancient science.
I discuss any and every matter of importance with you, things that matter — health in particular, including diet, taking care of others, the right sources for alternate medical treatment; reducing pain; exercise; getting rid of overt, covert over thinking and anxiety — a host of things, in a discussion format.
Come, try one of the Sunday conversations. See what opens up for you.
Do join. It is free.
On YouTube, live and recorded —Sivananda Yoga Centre, Gurgaon.
About Sundays with Arun
In the busyness of life, sometimes we are missing out on the business of life. Talking about missing, do you not have this feeling, a lot of the time, when you pause for moment, that something is missing? You have everything, but there is that unknown one thing or things, you feel, that would really help to sort things out. The presence of some one thing would make you feel, aha, now I feel okay, satisfied, complete.
There are some other questions, issues, doubts, restlessness, unease, frustrations and even great joy and scary abundance. About our health, our relationships, the whole circus called money (or the lack of it), and about our life and life itself.
Sundays with Arun is a gathering of all of us, just engaging in a conversation. A kind of discussion that we cannot have in a drawing room, or with friends, or in a pub or a club, or even in our offices and places of work.
Sundays with Arun is an exploration of what it means to be human, and what is possible for all of us as people. We all sit together in an online format (for now), over our sips of refreshments, and ponder over big and small things.
Sundays with Arun is founded on the basics of Yoga, traditional science, ancient wisdom, life’s experiences and common sense. It is practical and philosophical, at the same time.
It is free, and open to all, not just yoga people. Those in a career, in transition, those who have conflicts, those who are searching for meaning and purpose; even for those of us who just want to enjoy 90 minutes of freewheeling, humorous interactions – Sundays with Arun is refreshing, transforming, a welcome change.
Welcome to change.
Sundays with Arun, every fortnight, on Zoom and YouTube.
Enjoy being part of something unique, something that binds, that makes bonds, yet sets you free.
Meet Arun
Yoga Acharya (Master of Yoga) is one of the senior-most Sivananda Yoga teachers in India. He has been practicing the Sivananda Yoga system since 1992 and teaching Yoga for over 30 years. He holds an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher ERYT 500 certification from Yoga Alliance, USA.
Arun is the joint Founder of Sivananda Yoga Centre, Gurgaon, one of the largest Sivananda style programmes in the world.
Arun's vision is a disease and pain free planet with yoga showing the way. In his talks and seminars about yoga and healthy living, he inspires a generation of people to adopt a traditional lifestyle, without compromising or sacrificing all the goodness that the modern era offers.
He teaches with compassion, wisdom, insight and common sense. He infuses great humour and brings simplicity to a complex modern world of disease, illness, pain and stress on one side and the ancient science, philosophy and practices of yoga on the other.
Arun got into yoga 30 years ago, because of a necessity. He had severe back pain, and his father brought him to the newly opened Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in New Delhi to see if yoga could help mend his back.
In 1992, at age 29, Arun was not in great shape, either physically or mentally. It was here, that yoga found him and he found yoga. The back pain went away pretty soon, mood and energy lifted, his fitness levels peaked. As he says, he has not had to take a single day off in the past 30 years because of any sickness whatsoever!
As his health improved back then, he felt a calling to understand yoga better and go deeper into the science and art of yoga. Arun went on to do his Yoga Teacher Training from the Sivananda Ashram in Trivandrum, and started a life of transformation, mentorship and guiding people down the right path in daily ethics, personal discipline, and the vast science of yoga. For nearly 20 years, after taking an early retirement from a two decade long unsatisfying corporate life, Arun has blazed an entirely new path, making ancient yoga a viable option for modern people to look after themselves. Many thousands of people around the world consider him to be a guru, mentor, guide, philosopher and friend, who has shone the light, and been the reason for a transformative experience in their lives.
Now, over 60, Arun exhibits extraordinary energy, works tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of people around him and lives like someone half his age. He attributes the quality of his life to yoga, which he says has given him happiness, hope, a clear vision and tremendous immunity and good health.
Arun explains that yoga allows you to have an extraordinary life, making the best of every circumstance you are presented with. Yoga, he says, is not about disease or health or exercise - it is like a foster mother, who is there to sculpt a beautiful life out of ordinary, even mundane things.
Part of Arun's teaching is what he experienced in his own life - that yoga is the discovery, or the rediscovery of your own potential. He says, yoga helps you to understand, and thereby sets you free.
What people say about the conversation
"I joined the satsang today via youtube. I heard it on my headphones while vacuuming and moping 😃 and I am feeling so light, fulfilled, and energised. Like you said maybe yoga one day is to just listen in to this conversation.
I think in this world today that is falling apart a space like your sunday freewheeling talk is a much needed place of integrating… and integrity😊 We all need it— you and us. Confusion is a given and fired by the world events. This space provides a way to explore our confusions together. And that is a good thing… clarity may or may not come but the knowledge that I can explore my confusion with others is a blessing.
Om shanti🌼😊 "
- Sunita Raut (Sweden)
"🙏🙏Namaste Arun ji.It was excellent. Your disciple Mrs.Priya sent me the message about your session. I joined for the first time. I have met you once alongwith my wife Rajalakshmi venkateswaran at your yoga centre in the evening. I do little bit of Pranayama and yoga. Pranam. - C k venkateswaran 🙏🙏💐
"Just finished listening to it. Thanks for another great talk ! Needed to hear this, just realised how much I miss practicing yoga and sitting quietly with myself.
Experiencing motherhood is an amazing feeling, and it really requires being your best self. Yoga has helped me do that in many ways. Hoping to get back to practice soon , thanks for the reminder:) "
"So happy you resumed this and live streaming on YouTube now! Hoping to join live next time! Also, just wanted to let you know - no matter where I am and what I do, I feel very connected to yoga, and our community! Listening to this made me remember the talks in our retreats and TTC! "
What students say about SYCG
Reviews from our Google Business Profile.
I feel blessed to have found the sivananda yoga centre in gurgaon. While there are many things that are not nice about NCR (pollution, extreme heat , cold etc), this is one thing we can be super happy about. Thanks to Arun and his fantastic team, gurgaon folks have access to world class yoga institute at Stone's throw distance. I have tried yoga elsewhere earlier but always had doubts about the quality/skills of the instructors. At Sivananda, the teachers are top notch and the is a certain sacredness and purity about the approach they take towards teaching. It is an act of selfless service. If you are thinking about exploring yoga, go to sivananda without second thought. The experience will enrich your life in many many ways.
Sivananda is an amazing place for yoga. Arun ji, Dyutima,Jayant ji and all teachers are such wonderful gurus for asana classes, guiding us towards a healthier lifestyle. Personally, I've benefited greatly from Sivananda; I've recovered from chronic back issues and can now do many things that were once difficult for me. I am thankful to all the teachers at Sivananda for their professional yet personal approach in teaching and guiding. Regards Rohit Thapar
The centre and the classes changed my life. I needed to try it and give it some time to understand how it gradually changes both physical and mental well being. Arun and the crew of volunteer teachers are on mission to spread holistic wellness. Highly recommend to start and find a way to continue to have a lifelong anchor in yoga.