The Curriculum

Sadhana offers a multi-tiered programme. Courses vary in length from 10 days to two years. Some are professionally oriented training courses while others are meant only for personal growth and renewal.
ICP	Integration Courses	Professional Courses	Renewal Courses

Sadhana Renewal Courses The institute offers several short courses of 10 to 15 days. Some of these are listed below. These are not necessarily offered every year. Please refer to the programme brochure of the year for the actual listing of courses.

Sadhana Renewal Course

Spiritual Direction and Discernment

Retreat Direction

Basic Communication Skills

Breath and Spirit - An Experience of Holotropic Breathwork

Mysticism and Daily Living

Sadhana Renewal Course

This course, usually for 15 days, is meant exclusively for ex-Sadhanites - those who have completed the ICP, Midi or Mini Sadhana courses. Besides group therapy, we make an effort to offer something new during the renewal programme. Groups are generally small in size, the schedule rather light and the atmosphere quite relaxed.

Spiritual Direction and Discernment

An introduction to the concepts and skills of spiritual direction and dicernment and working towards an understanding of psychological health and spiritual wholeness. Ignatian spirituality will form the basic framework for this course.

Retreat Direction

This course aims at helping people conduct both individual and group retreats. It takes the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius as the basic starting point. The dynamics of a retreat as well as the skills of facilitating its process will receive attention.

Basic Communication Skills

This course will primarily provide skills training in various aspects of communication. Beginning with an overview of the communication process, it will offer training in specific areas such as listening skills, assertiveness, and conflict resolution.

Breath and Spirit - An Experience of Holotropic Breathwork

Holotropic Breathwork is a comprehensive approach to self-exploration that includes and integrates the physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions. As implied by the word holotropic, which means moving toward wholeness, it is a powerful technique of healing developed by Stanislav Grof, MD and combines the Eastern spiritual approach with modern consciousness studies. This work assumes that the healing potential of the psyche is mobilized in non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by breathing and evocative sacred music. The atmosphere will be highly supportive and the course experiential permitting access to all levels of human experience in order to free blocked energies, understand unproductive conflicts, heal past trauma and open the way for the Spirit to act in our lives. Didactic material will cover a range of topics such as perinatal experiences and spiritual emergencies.

Mysticism and Daily Living

"There is another world but it is this one." Increasingly in our broken world it is the mystically inclined who find themselves most at home. The thirst for God is not divorced from the struggle for personal integration and social justice. Daily life and work are a connected web of relationship binding God, Man and the Universe together. Besides talks and discussions there will be exercises to promote a "body-awareness" which functions as source and symbol of contact with the powerful, health-inducing energies of life.