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Wednesday Evening Group Meditation
Every Wednesday
Ananda Community Temple, 7pm - 8:30
Are you longing to take your meditation practice to the next level? Does life keep presenting distractions and obstacles that keep you from going deeper? Meditating with others, some of whom have been meditating for many years, can provide just the boost you need.
Every Wednesday evening’s meditation practice (or sadhana in Sanskrit) will begin with energization exercises in Babaji Garden, then chanting and meditation from about 7:30 to 8:30. There will be a chanting break at 8 pm for those who want to enter or exit the meditation. All are Welcome!
July
Yoga for Beginners
Wednesdays, July 7 – 28, 6:00 pm, $40
If you have been wanting a true beginners class in yoga, this is the perfect opportunity for you! Discover your own body’s natural strength and energy through gentle stretching and special energizing exercises that bring the mind, body and spirit into calm focus and relaxation.
In this series you will learn:
Pranayama-Proper breathing
Energization-Proper warm ups
Yoga Postures-Building a personal routine that’s right for your body
Affirmations-Proper state of mind
Deep Relaxation-Training the entire body to relax completely
Bring your willingness, a bottle of water and be ready to have some fun while learning yoga.
Mats provided
Instructors: Phouvang and Wendy Walker
Kriya Meditation
Tuesday, July 27, 7 - 8:30 pm, no charge
We will energize and practice mahamudra together, chant, practice kriya, close with healing prayers and afterwards have a question and answer session on Kriya practices for those who wish to stay after the meditation.
Open to Kriyabans only
Kirtan
July 30, 6 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
The Transforming Power of Chanting – Gateway to Your Soul
Saturday, July 31, 9:30 am to noon, $30
In this class you will explore the transformational effect of chanting to dramatically affect your attitude and divine attunement. All things created, even subtle phenomena such as thought and sound are in a state of constant movement of vibration. By offering the vibration of your voice and attention Godward into the unique power of each chant, you will find a fresh sense of inner freedom. Experience how chanting can release your unlimited potential to face life's obstacles.
Instructor: Raghu
Pizza Night 
Saturday, July 31st, Master's Kitchen at Ananda Community
Don’t Miss Out! You must place an order for your made-to-order pizza!
Order must be in by Wednesday, July 27.
Join us for pizza and fun. Raghu is promising entertainment - there will be wonderful satsang. Order pizza to eat at the event, to take home and to stock your freezer. These are wonderful home-made pizzas. If you'd like to help make, contact Carmenza.
Look for an order form in your box at Master's Kitchen or pick one up at Sunday Service.
August
Saturday Morning Yoga Postponed
August 7
will resume August 14
Spiritual Renewal Week at Ananda Village
August 8 – 15
Join Swami Kriyananda and the Ananda Community in our annual week of Spiritual Renewal, the highlight of Ananda’s summer for the past 40 years. With this year’s theme, “The Age of Energy — Accelerating Planetary and Personal Evolution,” we’ll learn how to harmonize our own energies with the transformative energy of the planet right now.
We’re living in a time of great confusion on many levels, but when rightly understood, it is a time to make tremendous spiritual progress. This week will be a launching point for greater depth and focus in your spiritual life for years to come.
Spiritual Renewal Week is more than classes: it is 7 days of inspiration and spiritual transformation, through daily yoga and meditation, devotional chanting, inspirational music and theater, fellowship with like-minded seekers, fascinating classes and discussions, and vibrations of great peace and spiritual joy.
contact Expanding Light for details and reservations
Learn to Meditate for Inner Peace, Health, and as a Profound Spiritual Practice
Thursdays, August 19th and 26th, 7 - 8:30 pm, $24
Meditation is one of the most natural and rewarding of all human activities. It gives direct, intuitive experience of higher realities, and is the cornerstone of true spirituality. It also brings balance, rest, and a growing inner peace. While its highest and original purpose is to help us awaken our inner, spiritual nature, the benefits to body and mind are well established by medical research.
Practiced on a daily basis, meditation produces profound results on all levels of your being—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It connects you with your own inner powers of vitality, clarity, and love.
Ananda’s How to Meditate class will help you:
- Reduce tension and stress at will
- Feel happier, more relaxed, and at peace with yourself
- Improve your health, mental clarity, and vitality
- Develop a more intuitive, heart-centered way of life
- Discover and explore your inner spiritual nature
Whether you are interested in managing stress or in exploring the spiritual side of meditation, you will feel welcome. Small classes and experienced instructors provide a quality learning environment, with time for individual questions and in-depth exploration. Each class includes guided and silent practice time.
Instructor: Raghu
Kirtan
August 20, 6 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
Kriya Meditation
Tuesday, August 24, 7 - 8:30 pm, no charge
We will energize and practice mahamudra together, chant, practice kriya, close with healing prayers and afterwards have a question and answer session on Kriya practices for those who wish to stay after the meditation.
Open to Kriyabans only
The Chakras: Roadmap to Self-Realization
Saturday August 28, 9:30 am to noon, $30
The chakras are the transfer point between your soul and your physical body. All our past experiences and your karma are stored in the charkas. Understand how this energy can be changed and harmonized in the body so that you may live your life in tune with your highest aspirations. Even if you have studied the charkas, you will find Raghu’s inspiration will renew your appreciation of this fascinating spiritual energy system.
Instructor: Raghu
September
Variety of Talent Show
Sunday, September 5, 5 pm, Ananda Community
Come relax at Ananda Community as silliness mixed with real talent is joyfully performed for the enjoyment of all. This will be a casual evening to visit with new and old friends on the lawn; to laugh, to sing, and to share merriment.
Bring a potluck dish to share.
Ananda Yoga and You
Wednesdays, September 1 & 8, 6 pm, $30
A balanced foundation sequence that you can personalize for your level of skill and time available. Generates a soothing flow of inner energy. Learn how to lift the energy gently upward and focus it at the spiritual eye to maximize the transforming effect. Deeply relaxing and rejuvenating.
Instructor Phouvang
Walking the Path with Saint Francis
Tuesdays, September 7 - 21st, 7:30 pm, $40
St. Francis, Yogananda called his “patron saint” and a true “Self-realizationist” in his teachings and way of life. Saint Francis was a zealous reformer, who redirected the course of Christianity. His life stories are thrilling, delightful, and filled with practical examples of the nature of discipleship, selfless service to God, and whole-hearted devotion.
Instructor Chandrika
Manifesting Success and Happiness Through Yoga Principles Thursdays
Thursdays, September 2 through November 18, 7 pm, $12/class per class, or $100 for the 12-week series.
To purchase lessons in an electronic format for printing/reading, please call or email the Sangha office at 361-0891.
Develop the magnetism to draw what you need in life, when you need it. Learn long-hidden secrets of the Himalayan yogis of how to gain influence over the material plane, by attunement to the spiritual plane.
As you well know, this is a time of unprecedented economic insecurity. Jobs and investments once thought rock-solid are not providing the support we counted on. Sages, including Paramhansa Yogananda, have long-predicted that this time would come. Not as a punishment, they reassure us, but to help us achieve a more appropriate balance between our material and our spiritual lives.
Now is the time to develop our inner strength. Not only faith in God, but also the ability to use the power of God within us to manifest what we need at the time we need it. This course is based on principles that Swami Kriyananda learned directly from Yogananda. Using them, without any material resources of his own, he created Ananda from nothing to what it is today.
We’ll explore Lessons 16 - 26 during the September-November classes. Feel free to drop in to any class in this series. Each class will cover a unique topic area.
Instructors Raghu & Sabari
Kirtan
September 10, 6:30 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
Learn to Meditate
Saturday, September 11, 9:30 - noon, $30
Meditation is the science and the art of going within; a science because it gives you tools and an art because you use these tools to tune in to your own experience within. Practiced on a daily basis, it produces astonishing results on all levels of your being – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. In this workshop, we’ll cover all the basics to get you started in your practice of meditation.
Instructor John
How to Know and Trust Your Inner Guidance
Saturday, September 11, 9:30 - noon, $30
Beyond wishful thinking, imagination, or channeling, true inner guidance is calm, centered knowing. But sometimes fears and conflicting desires obscure the truth. Learn to still your mind and open your heart to the whispers of guidance that are freely available to you. Learn specific, proven techniques for drawing inner guidance, and testing its validity in your life. Discover who you really are, and all you are meant to become. Topics include:
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How to ask for guidance
- How to tell true guidance from imagination
- Develop courage to face the unknown
- Calming the heart—techniques for increasing your intuitive powers
Instructor Sabari
Learn to Meditate
Wednesdays, September 15 - 29, 7 pm, $40
Meditation is one of the most natural and rewarding of all human activities. It gives direct, intuitive experience of higher realities, and is the cornerstone of true spirituality. It also brings balance, rest, and a growing inner peace. While its highest and original purpose is to help us awaken our inner, spiritual nature, the benefits to body and mind are well established by medical research.
Practiced on a daily basis, meditation produces profound results on all levels of your being—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It connects you with your own inner powers of vitality, clarity, and love. Ananda’s How to Meditate class will help you:
- Reduce tension and stress at will
- Feel happier, more relaxed, and at peace with yourself
- Improve your health, mental clarity, and vitality
- Develop a more intuitive, heart-centered way of life
- Discover and explore your inner spiritual nature
Whether you are interested in managing stress or in exploring the spiritual side of meditation, you will feel welcome. Small classes and experienced instructors provide a quality learning environment, with time for individual questions and in-depth exploration. Each class includes guided and silent practice time.
Instructors Raghu & Sabari
Joyathon
Saturday, September 18, 9 am - 1 pm, Ananda Community
A very special fundraising event for our Mandir. Joyathon participants will collect up-front pledges to walk, run, cycle (tricycle!) give massages, perform asanas, chants or even quilting. The only limitation is imagination and inspiration. Don’t miss this fun opportunity to experience the joy of supporting your Temple.
Kirtan
September 24, 6:30 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
Women’s Group - Make and Renew Connections with Ananda Women
4th Thursday of Each Month, Beginning September 28, 7 - 8:30 pm, Priyadarshini’s apt (call for directions)
Pray, chant & meditate together. Share stories, challenges and celebrations in a confidential, supportive setting. We’ll decide as a group at our first meeting if we want to take on a particular project (i.e. a book study) or if we simply want to share satsang.
lead by Priyadarshini
October
Building Spiritual Power
Saturday, October 1, 9:30 am - noon, $30
Whether welcome, or painful, global or personal, change is the only constant in life. All of us face times when cherished beliefs, values, accomplishments and possessions are threatened. Difficult decisions have to be made. A willow tree does not fear the wind because it knows how to bend. A rock has a different strength, steadfast, unmoving. Both are needed. Sometimes the lesson is to stand against the tide, sometimes to go with the flow. Learn to understand, and have the courage to face, what God is asking of you.
Instructor Raghu
In Transition: Coping with Change
Tuesdays, October 5 - 12, 7:30 pm, $25
Nothing in life stays the same. You can resist or you can learn to flow graciously, courageously, and even joyfully. Are you afraid of what might happen if you let go? Learn to welcome what comes, to redefine yourself easily and happily as life presents ever-new opportunities for growth and change.
Instructor Chandrika
Kirtan
October 8, 6:30 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
Learn to Meditate
Saturday, October 9, 9:30 am - noon, $30
Meditation is the science and the art of going within; a science because it gives you tools and an art because you use these tools to tune in to your own experience within. Practiced on a daily basis, it produces astonishing results on all levels of your being – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. In this workshop, we’ll cover all the basics to get you started in your practice of meditation.
Instructor Jayanti
Learn to Meditate
Wednesdays, October 13 - 27, 7 pm, $40
Meditation is one of the most natural and rewarding of all human activities. It gives direct, intuitive experience of higher realities, and is the cornerstone of true spirituality. It also brings balance, rest, and a growing inner peace. While its highest and original purpose is to help us awaken our inner, spiritual nature, the benefits to body and mind are well established by medical research.
Practiced on a daily basis, meditation produces profound results on all levels of your being—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It connects you with your own inner powers of vitality, clarity, and love. Ananda’s How to Meditate class will help you:
- Reduce tension and stress at will
- Feel happier, more relaxed, and at peace with yourself
- Improve your health, mental clarity, and vitality
- Develop a more intuitive, heart-centered way of life
- Discover and explore your inner spiritual nature
Whether you are interested in managing stress or in exploring the spiritual side of meditation, you will feel welcome. Small classes and experienced instructors provide a quality learning environment, with time for individual questions and in-depth exploration. Each class includes guided and silent practice time.
Instructors Raghu & Sabari
Superconscious Living
Saturday, October 16, 9:30 am, $30
Your subconscious is who you are now, the karma you were born with, your strengths, weaknesses, hopes, and fears. Your superconscious is who you can become, your divine potential, your way out of boredom and suffering into bliss. The conscious mind is where the subconscious and the superconscious battle it out. Do you sometimes feel caught in the middle? This course is a step-by-step method to free yourself from the subconscious and open yourself to this higher state of awareness.
Instructor Sabari
Kirtan
October 16, 6:30 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
Women’s Group - Make and Renew Connections with Ananda Women
Thursday, October 26, 7 - 8:30 pm, Priyadarshini’s apt (call for directions)
Pray, chant & meditate together. Share stories, challenges and celebrations in a confidential, supportive setting.
lead by Priyadarshini
Attunement: The Foundation of the Spiritual Path
Saturday, October 30, 9:30 - noon, $30
Paramhansa Yogananda stressed repeatedly the necessity of attunement to the guru. Without deep attunement, the spiritual progress that the soul longs for is simply not possible.
Through the Masters who have come to this Earth, God has provided us a clear pathway to our most cherished desire, complete happiness. In this class you will explore what attunement is and how to develop it in yourself more deeply.
Instructor Raghu
November
The Art and Science of Vibrational Healing: Principles and Practices
Tuesday, November 2, 7:30 pm, $15
If we are made in the perfect image of God, why do we suffer from disharmony and disease? How do we return to our natural state of health? What tools and techniques are available to us? Explore these issues in this class.
- Define health and disease
- Understand and attune to the source of all healing
- Relate the three levels of manifestation: idea, energy, and matter to the three bodies to heal: causal, astral, and physical
- Co-operate with Divine Will in healing as taught by Paramhansa Yogananda
This class will be taught by Brenda Gustin, a gifted healer who is also skilled at helping students understand and experience their own bodies natural ability to heal on emotional, physical and mental levels.
more about Brenda
Kirtan
November 5, 6:30 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
Open Your Heart
Saturday, November 6, 9:30 am, $30
The Key Spiritualizing Relationships; Human and Divine
Friendship, love, marriage, and children can offer us our greatest joys in life or our greatest sorrows. Selfless love is the essential key to happiness in all our relationships, but how do we practice it? In this class, you will explore ways to cure habits that spell the death of true friendship: judgment, jealousy, over-sensitivity, and unkindness. Experience the Universal Love behind all your relationships.
Instructor Sabari
Learn to Meditate
Wednesdays, November 10 - 17, 7 pm, $25
Meditation is one of the most natural and rewarding of all human activities. It gives direct, intuitive experience of higher realities, and is the cornerstone of true spirituality. It also brings balance, rest, and a growing inner peace. While its highest and original purpose is to help us awaken our inner, spiritual nature, the benefits to body and mind are well established by medical research.
Practiced on a daily basis, meditation produces profound results on all levels of your being—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It connects you with your own inner powers of vitality, clarity, and love. Ananda’s How to Meditate class will help you:
- Reduce tension and stress at will
- Feel happier, more relaxed, and at peace with yourself
- Improve your health, mental clarity, and vitality
- Develop a more intuitive, heart-centered way of life
- Discover and explore your inner spiritual nature
Whether you are interested in managing stress or in exploring the spiritual side of meditation, you will feel welcome. Small classes and experienced instructors provide a quality learning environment, with time for individual questions and in-depth exploration. Each class includes guided and silent practice time.
Instructors Raghu & Sabari
Learn to Meditate
Saturday, November 13, 9:30 am, $30
Meditation is the science and the art of going within; a science because it gives you tools and an art because you use these tools to tune in to your own experience within. Practiced on a daily basis, it produces astonishing results on all levels of your being – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. In this workshop, we’ll cover all the basics to get you started in your practice of meditation.
Instructor Priyadarshini
Kirtan
November 19, 6:30 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
How to Live a Balanced, Healthy Life
Saturday, November 20, 9:30 am, $30
Your Own Infinite Power for Self-Healing and Transformation
The human will, Yogananda teaches, infused with Divine will, can accomplish any change: “Will is the instrument of the image of God in you.” Our health depends primarily on two factors: our karmic strengths and weaknesses, and the efforts we make to keep our body-mind-soul recharged with vital energy (prana.) The principles and practices you will learn in this class are based on Yogananda's guidelines for balanced living.
Instructor Raghu
Baker’s and Artisans Faire
Sunday, November 21, after service
Join us for our Holiday sale. This annual favorite features many hand-made treasures as well as home baked goodies perfect for your holiday guests or to give as seasonal gifts.
Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 25
9 - 11am - meditation
12:30 - Potluck (call the Temple to sign up)
Women’s Group - Make and Renew Connections with Ananda Women
Thursday, November 23, 7 - 8:30 pm, Priyadarshini’s apt (call for directions)
Pray, chant & meditate together. Share stories, challenges and celebrations in a confidential, supportive setting.
lead by Priyadarshini
The Living Christ
Tuesdays, November 30 - December 14, 7 pm, $40
Christmas is a time to make great spiritual progress. The veil between the material and the spiritual world is reduced to gossamer by the outpouring of grace from God, Christ, and Gurus. A natural time to study the words of Christ and tune into the mystical meaning too often obscured by sectarian dogma. Jesus was not a “fundamentalist,” he was a Self-realizationist, a guru in the same lineage as Yogananda and Babaji. Attune to the living Christ. Transform your experience of Christmas and your everyday life.
Instructor Chandrika
December
Ananda Yoga & Meditation
Wednesdays, December 1 - 15, 6 pm, $30
Ananda Yoga practice leads easily and naturally into meditation. This session includes basic meditation instruction, how to sit comfortably, overcoming restlessness, using the breath, chanting, prayer, and group meditation practice.
Instructor Phouvang
Kirtan
December 3, 6:30 - 9 pm, no charge
"Chanting is half the battle!” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Kirtan, or group chanting is a beautiful way to open your heart and experience the divine presence. It’s a great way to channel new energy, break through limitations, moods and static. These 3 hours of devotional chanting focus on the chants of Yogananda and Kriyananda interspersed with short meditations. Come for all or part of the evening.
World Brotherhood Day
Saturday, December 4, 6 pm
Save the date for one of our most inspiring annual events. This is an opportunity to give the first gift of the season to the source of your spiritual inspiration. Details to follow
Learn to Meditate
Saturday, December 11, 9:30 am, $30
Meditation is the science and the art of going within; a science because it gives you tools and an art because you use these tools to tune in to your own experience within. Practiced on a daily basis, it produces astonishing results on all levels of your being – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. In this workshop, we’ll cover all the basics to get you started in your practice of meditation.
Instructor Raghu
Christmas Meditation
Saturday, December 18, 8 am to 4 pm, 7 am yoga
“Go deep, completely forgetting yourself, praying and singing to Christ as never before. You will experience Christ, and your experience will be a lasting reminder throughout your life.” - Paramhansa Yogananda
Christmas Eve Service
Friday, December 24, 7 pm
“Open a new portal of sublime devotion. Christ is coming in answer to your inner call. Awaken the consciousness of his Omnipresence within.” - Paramhansa Yogananda
A dramatic retelling of the story of Christmas, subtly interwoven with the deeper mystical meaning behind these events, starting when the child Mary gives her life to God, ending when the Christ child is born in a humble manger. Enlivened with music and readings.
Women’s Group - Make and Renew Connections with Ananda Women
Thursday, December 28, 7 - 8:30 pm, Priyadarshini’s apt (call for directions)
Pray, chant & meditate together. Share stories, challenges and celebrations in a confidential, supportive setting.
lead by Priyadarshini
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