Learn More Ananda Village Internship ProgramĮvery summer from June 1- October 1, Ananda Village offers an internship program in which you can experience what it is like to live and learn in a spiritual community. In the company of like-minded friends and sincere spiritual seekers, you will experience the transformative effects of meditation, selfless serving and living yogic principles. The program helps you discover your divine potential and inner happiness through service at the Expanding Light Retreat, developing a daily sadhana practice and learning about yoga philosophy. The Expanding Light Retreat offers year-round the Karma Yoga Ashram Program for those who want to deepen their spiritual lives. Families or small groups can stay in a home across the meadow from the main retreat. Guests stay in cabins, guest houses, or our deluxe “Harmony House,” with each room dedicated to a major spiritual tradition. People from around the world come here for personal retreats, training in yoga, meditation, healthy living techniques, or gaining certification from our popular Ananda Yoga Teacher Training and Meditation Teacher Training courses. Yoga offers techniques for bringing peace and harmony into your attitudes, work, relationships, and family life. Yoga means “union” in Sanskrit, and can be understood on many levels-from self-integration to union of the soul with God or Spirit. Yoga, the basis for all our programs, is more than a system of physical postures - it is a way of life. Phone (530) 478-7500, Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm.Īt The Expanding Light, Ananda’s guest retreat, people from all walks of life can learn various aspects of yoga and meditation.
If you’d like to call ahead, we may be able to arrange a guided tour.
Our reception staff will be happy to answer your questions, and give you a map of the community for your own exploration. You are welcome to visit us without prior arrangements during normal business hours. Today, 250 people reside here, including adults and children of all ages. The Ananda community is situated on 900 acres of meadows and forests amidst the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California. Yogananda often predicted that world brotherhood colonies, based on the twin principles of “plain living and high thinking,” would be the social pattern for the future. One without the other leads to a society barren of human fulfillment, but a balance of the two can bring peace, harmony, prosperity, and happiness. Yogananda taught that what the world needs is a blend of the best qualities of the East and West: the spiritual insight of the East and the practical efficiency of the West. In 1969 Kriyananda began the fulfillment of Yogananda’s vision with the establishment of Ananda Village, located near Nevada City, California. Kriyananda vowed to do his utmost to make this dream a reality. When he became Yogananda’s disciple in 1948, he discovered that Yogananda, too, was committed to the concept of “World Brotherhood Colonies.” Donald Walters) had dreamed of creating small communities based on cooperation and high ideals. Donate description – Help share Yogananda’s teachings of yoga and meditation everywhere.įrom his youth, Ananda’s founder, Swami Kriyananda (J.Ananda is a global spiritual movement, based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, who showed how everyone can realize God in their daily lives as a tangible, loving reality.
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