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Ananda School of Yoga & Meditation

Experience and share the deeper, spiritual dimension of yoga via Ananda Yoga® asana, pranayama, and meditation practice.

As taught by Paramhansa Yogananda and his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda.

08/29/2025

Does Child Pose (Balasana) feel rejuvenating, or actually a little uncomfortable?
You’re not alone! The traditional posture doesn’t work for every body—and it’s not supposed to.

The heart of Balasana is surrender—letting go, choosing peace, and resting in the loving support of the Divine Mother.

✨ Swipe to explore 10+ variations of Child Pose designed to support:
✔️Tight hips & ankles
✔️Sensitive knees & knee injuries
✔️Herniated or bulging discs
✔️Osteoporosis

Find the version that allows your body to truly relax and open. At Ananda, we’re here to help you make every pose your own.

👉 Click link in bio for our upcoming Foundations of Ananda Yoga online immersion program (Sep 6 – Nov 23, 2025), where you can learn even more.

Which variation feels best for you? Comment below—we’d love to hear!

08/21/2025

☀️ Pitta = Fire + Water (with fire dominant). Its gifts include digestion, transformation, focus, clarity, leadership, confidence, and radiant energy. When balanced, pitta types are passionate, perceptive, disciplined, courageous, and luminous. ✨

🔥 But too much fire — especially in summer heat — can tip pitta out of balance, showing up as anger, perfectionism, judgment, or burnout. Heat, overwork, pressure, and pushing to extremes all add fuel to the flames.

🧘‍♀️Ananda Yoga helps balance pitta by awakening the cooling, grounding, and calming energies within.
Ananda Yoga invites you to balance effort with relaxation, and softness and receptive with willpower. Twists, side bends, and seated poses release intensity and invite stillness. Balancing pitta is like tending a fire — knowing when to pour water and when to add wood, so the flame stays steady, warm, and life-giving.

08/16/2025

✨ Yogananda called even-mindedness the most important condition for happiness. True joy lives in the heart. It’s unconditional and lasting, not dependent on circumstances.

In fact, pleasure and pain originates not from outer effect, but to our inner reactive process that causes energy to flow up or down the spine.

By calming our own reactions, we cultivate equanimity instead of projecting likes and dislikes onto a world we cannot control. The yogi remains inwardly even-minded and cheerful, peaceful and happy regardless of outer circumstances. Interestingly, this inner calm often allows us to influence the outer world far more than those who endlessly react. 🌿✨

08/12/2025

🌟🌟 2025 Programs Are Live — Online & In-Person! 🌟

The Ananda School of Yoga & Meditation joyfully invites you to step into a journey of transformation through yoga and meditation in the tradition of Paramhansa Yogananda.

We offer high-quality, uplifting, and deeply enriching:

🌟Yoga & pranayama workshops
🌟Yoga retreats
🌟Yoga philosophy courses
🌟 Certified Yoga & Meditation Teacher Trainings (RYT-200 & RYT-500)

With experienced instructors and a time-tested structure, and the uplifting vibrations of spiritual community, we’re here to guide you to learn, live, and share the true essence of yoga. 🧘‍♀️

At Ananda, you’ll find more than just training, you’ll find spiritual family, joy, and the support to become an instrument of light in the world. ✨

🔗 Click link in bio for all info to discover how Ananda can support you to deepen your yoga journey.

08/08/2025

According to Paramhansa Yogananda, nervousness is at the root of disease and suffering in the body and mind.

⚡ Your nerves are like the factory wires of your body — and you only get one set. Once burned out, they can’t be replaced.

➡️ Swipe through the carousel to learn:
🔹 The two main causes of nervousness
🔹 Why our nerves are so vital to life and happiness
🔹 How to protect them through right living and connection with God

07/31/2025

Words cannot capture the joy and love expressed and shared through our Ananda Yoga Teacher Training 2025 🥰🤗

Here is sneak peak of the smiles shared in our Twisting Poses workshop. We are going deep but having so much fun at the same time!

Ananda = divine bliss
Yoga = union of body, mind and soul.

😇 How grateful we are to have a YTT cohort that so naturally embodies the vibration of Ananda Yoga.

07/24/2025

🧘‍♀️”The first thing you need for correct meditation is a right mental attitude, particularly, as I’ve said, one of listening...👂

…Meditation is the opposite of imposing your will on the world. Relinquish, even for just a few minutes, the process of concocting plans and projects for the future. Be more, not less, conscious, however. Just as I suggested that you act calmly, so also, during moments of calmness, be dynamically aware.

In dawning calmness you may find yourself, at first, tempted to drift off passively into a sort of semi-subconscious state. There is a certain restfulness in this state, as there is in sleep. It is a temporary rest, however; it doesn’t refresh the spirit. Nor has it power to improve your life, as superconsciousness has. Subconsciously induced rest lowers your level of energy and will power, and makes you subject to conditions over which you ought to be gaining mastery. It takes a strong will, generating great energy, to rise above, or even to calm, life’s storms…

…The calmness born of deep meditation represents a higher degree of awareness, and therefore of will and energy, than any experienced in lower states. Meditation-born calmness will enable you not only to remain calm during periods of intense activity, but also to face, and accept with wise understanding, the trials of life.

Your goal, then, should at all times be to remain “actively calm, and calmly active.”

– Meditation for Starters, Swami Kriyananda

07/17/2025

In Sanskrit, karma simply means “action.” Every action sets energy in motion—creating a ripple effect. 🌊

⚖️ Paramhansa Yogananda taught that the law of karma is simply the law of cause and effect—not something to fear, but to understand and work with wisely. ☮️

👉 Swipe through this carousel to explore Yogananda’s insights on what karma truly is—and how to work with it impersonally, to free yourself from its hold and move toward greater freedom.

07/10/2025

💭🧘”The purpose of affirmations is to send positive thoughts into the subconscious mind, changing its automatic habit patterns.

The best times to affirm such thoughts are when the subconscious mind is open and receptive…

…The essential point is that the conscious mind, forever busy with its plans and rationalizations, be lulled into a state of where it will not obstruct the flow of suggestions to the subconscious mind subconscious.”

– Swami Kriyananda, The Art & Science of Raja Yoga

07/04/2025

🌟Yogananda’s 5-Step Process for Eliminating the Mental Bacteria of Fear 🌟

“When you find yourself haunted by fear, the first antidote is to know that you are protected behind the battlements of God’s Eternal Safety. Nothing that happens to you can harm your Eternal Safety.

Even death is but a spiritual anesthetic to relieve one from pain for a period immediately following mortality. Then recognizing fear as an enemy to your sense-to-avert-danger consciousness: follow this 5 step process.”

– Paramhansa Yogananda, How to Live Without Fear

👉 Swipe through this carousel to follow Yogananda’s 5 Step Process for overcoming fear.

06/27/2025

The true meaning of yoga is union—that which brings us into harmony with all that is within and around us. 🧘

Disease arises when the body, mind, and spirit fall out of harmony with the natural law of life. When we poison the body with overeating and junk food, the mind with negative thoughts and worry, or the spirit with ignorance—we sow the seeds of illness.

Through inner attunement with his guru, Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Kriyananda developed Ananda Yoga—a spiritual practice that brings Hatha Yoga back to its ancient roots. ✨

With the power of Hatha yoga postures, affirmations, energy-control techniques, and meditation, Ananda Yoga helps reprogram the body, mind, and spirit to live once again in harmony with divine law.

06/21/2025

🕊️”Yoga is the neutralization of ego-directed feelings, because once these become stilled, the yogi realizes that he is, and that he has always been, one with the Infinite—that his awareness of this reality was limited only by his infatuation with limitation.” ☮️
—Swami Kriyananda, The Art & Science of Raja Yoga

✨The true purpose of yoga isn’t to gain perfection outwardly, but to still the waves of insecurities, fears, doubts, and desires of the heart so that you can perceive that everything you’ve ever wanted or needed is already within you, already a part of you.

Address

14618 Tyler Foote Road
Nevada City, CA
95959

Telephone

+534787518

Website

http://www.expandinglight.org/ananda-school-of-yoga-and-meditation/

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