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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.

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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.

Activate and express aspects of your physiology, energy, and consciousness at will that normally occur in response to external stimuli.

Acknowledge and release stuck negative emotions, while learning to spontaneously generate and perpetuate positive emotions that are conducive to kundalini's expression and movement.

Breath more efficiently, whether you are untrained or you are already an elite athlete or yogi.

Harmonize aspects of psychology linked to these body regions.

Dilate the regions of consciousness in the body referred to in metaphysics as chakras or wheels, and interconnect their centers with the flow of Kundalini itself.Integrate the ascending, descending, and lateral experiences of kundalini in your body.Experience trans-personal, transcendent, and immanent consciousness, and the primordial nature of consciousness that comprises all of these….

Tradition methods of cultivation, from above: vital energy cultivation and circulation (pranayama, kriya, tenaga dalam, neigong and waigong), internal alchemy (kan & li), 5 element practices (GoDai and WuXi), laya and raja yoga practices, practices of devotion (bhakti, piety) and elevated emotion, and non-dual contemplation, and more