Ananda School of Yoga & Meditation

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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.

01/13/2026

🌟 🧘‍♀️Transform Your Meditation Practice — And Give the Gift of Meditation 🧘🌟

Join Nayaswami Gyandev, PhD, with trainees from around the world, in Ananda’s 9-week Meditation Teacher Training.

You will deepen your own meditation practice while gaining the skills to confidently guide others.

✨ Learn to teach Paramhansa Yogananda’s classical meditation technique
✨ Develop confidence through hands-on teaching, online and in person
✨ Receive personal coaching and feedback from expert faculty
✨ Be supported and inspired by a global community of spiritual seekers
✨ Learn practical yogic tools to help students reduce stress, deepen their practice, and transform their lives

Course Includes:
🕉️ 15+ hours live webinars
🕉️ 10+ hours on-demand video
🕉️ 15+ hours guided meditation practices
🕉️ 30+ articles + 150-page manual
🕉️ Personal coaching from faculty
🕉️ Lifetime access to course materials
🕉️ 40 CE hours for Yoga Alliance

”This course is so well created—from A to Z it helps you become a confident meditation teacher. At first, I didn’t see myself teaching, but by the end, I felt confident in my skills.” – K.B., Haiti

📅 Dates: Feb 5 – Apr 11, 2026
🌐 Location: Online via Zoom & Moodle Platform

👉 Click link in bio to learn more & sign up!

01/08/2026

Here are 3 tips to overcome sleepiness 😴in meditation:

1) Keep the spine straight
2) Keep the gaze uplifted
3) Stay alert and engaged

These simple fixes will help you to stay awake, calm, focused, and attuned to higher realities in your meditation 🧘‍♀️ 🌟

01/05/2026

Happy Birthday Yogananda! 🙏🌟

An important part of Paramhansa Yogananda’s mission was to help people understand, in very practical terms, how by living in the present, they can achieve eternity. In God, space and time don’t exist. In God, there is only here and now. 🌟

🕉️On January 5, 1894, Yogananda incarnated solely for the purpose to uplift mankind by sharing the sacred yogic tools that liberate us from karma and lead us to lasting happiness.

He did not come to rescue us, he came to give us the tools, to empower us to transcend our karma and ego. ⚡️

The greatest way to honor his life today is simple but profound: to control the mind in the present moment — let go of past regrets and future worries, and do our very best right now to love God and serve God. 🙏✨

01/02/2026

🌟The difference between enlightened and unenlightened living is where your energy is centered and flowing.

Is your energy centered at the medulla oblongata in ego consciousness, or at the spiritual eye in soul consciousness? Is your energy flowing down and out or in and up? ⚡️💫

Yogananda’s Energization Exercises is a powerful tool help you feel, control, and uplift your life force, directing it for your highest good and the well-being of others.

Want to learn more about the 39 Energization Exercises?

Join us for Energization Teacher Training:
🗓️ Jan 8 – Feb 5, 2026
📍Online: via Zoom

✨ Regular Track: Self-paced, deepen your EE practice
✨ Teacher Track: Includes assignments & practice teaching sessions to learn or refine teaching skills

🔗Click link in bio to learn more!

01/01/2026

Happy New Year Great Souls! 🌟🎉

Our Ananda Meditation Retreat sadhana leaders welcome you to the new year with Half Moon Pose 🌙

We wish you a fresh new chapter blessed with strength, vitality, and courage!

“Strength and courage fill my body cells.”

Come visit us at the Expanding Light Retreat or Ananda Seclusion retreat anytime to recharge yourself with daily yoga and meditation, quiet, yummy vegetarian food, and spiritual company 🕉️🤗🙏✨ We look forwarding to meeting you and seeing you again! ☮️💕

12/29/2025

Energization is Paramahansa Yogananda’s unique contribution to yoga.

Learning to consciously direct energy to the spiritual eye is the foundation of happiness, emotional balance, success, and the path toward Kriya Yoga. 🧘🧘‍♀️

In the 39 Energization Exercises, we engage our willpower to tense and relax different parts of the body. This process teaches the art and science of mastering our energy—and ultimately, mastering our life. ⚡️☮️

🌟Understanding these principles of energy and Energization is essential for anyone who wants to teach Energization effectively and help others experience the full potential for the practice.

Practicing in a guided cohort training helps bring clarity, motivation, and a deeper understanding of why we do what we do in Energization. Together, we learn how to inspire others, cultivate discipline, raise energy, strengthen willpower, and direct our life force—for our own awakening and for those who are receptive.🕉️

✨ We invite you to join the Energization Teacher Training—to deepen your practice and prepare yourself to teach Energization with confidence and clarity. ✨

Energization Teacher Training
🗓️ Dates: Jan 8-Feb 5, 2026
📍Location: Online via Zoom & Moodle Platform

12/26/2025

🌟🎄Devotional Christmas chanting of German Christmas carol “Still, Still, Still” by Melody. May your Christmas season be blessed by stillness and inner joy 🧘‍♀️✨

Still, still, still; let all the world be still.
Christ child in his crib lies sleeping;
Angels ‘round him watch are keeping.
Still, still, still; let all the world be still.

Joy, joy, joy; my heart is filled with joy!
God of love has left His throne,
Made this humble world His own.
Joy, joy, joy; my heart is filled with joy!

12/25/2025

Yogananda showed us that the deeper meaning of Christmas is to awaken the Christ consciousness within—a universal state of oneness with Spirit, available to all. ✨

Christmas honors the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, but more importantly, it invites us to attune to the consciousness he embodied: divine love, hope, salvation, and unity. ❤️

🌄At Mount Washington, Yogananda celebrated a social Christmas of gift-giving and feasting, as well as a spiritual Christmas with an 8-hour meditation. Both celebrations serve to help everyone connect more deeply with the Christ consciousness that Jesus embodied. ✝️🎄

Through this, Yogananda also reminds us of our own divine potential and encourages us to live Christlike, spreading love and goodwill everywhere. 🌟

12/24/2025

🎄The Ananda School of Yoga & Meditation Staff would like to send you and your loved ones our heartfelt wishes for a very merry Christmas and a blessed new year ahead.

We were thinking of all of you when we took this photo at Nevada City’s Victorian Christmas last night. 💕☮️

🌈🌟Thank you for all you do to bring light into the world through your yoga and meditation practice. We are grateful for you, for our community, and for our connection to the Divine. 🧘‍♀️

God bless you all!

Love,
Melody, Arya, Darshana, and Saraswati

12/22/2025

Fear drains our life force—and with it, our willpower. 😰

Paramhansa Yogananda’s Energization Exercises offer a practical way to overcome fear by consciously directing energy to different parts of the body. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

🌟Through tensing and relaxing, we engage our willpower and restore a smooth, balanced, positive flow of prana that counteracts fear’s paralyzing effect.

✨ Practiced daily, Yogananda’s 39 Energization Exercises train us to master our life force, becoming a powerful inner support for mental health.

12/20/2025

Christmas reminds us that Jesus’ life doesn’t just inspire us—it shows us what’s possible. 🌟

The Christ consciousness lives within each of us, waiting to be awakened through how we live, think, and practice. Every moment can be spiritualized to express love, compassion, light, and oneness. 🧘✨

🎄 Our Christmas gift to you: a gentle 20-minute yoga sequence to open the heart and awaken the inner light—an invitation to turn within and realize that Christ consciousness is not outside of you, but a level of awareness ready to be felt, embodied, and shared.

🔗Click our link in bio to practice the full 20-minute sequence!

1. Tadasana | Standing Mountain Pose
“I stand ready to obey Thy least command.”

2. Vrikasana | Tree Pose
“I am calm. I am poised.”

3. Trikonasana | Triangle Pose
“Energy and joy flood my body cells! Joy descends to me!”

4. Ardha Matsyendrasana | Half Spinal Twist
“I radiate love and goodwill to soul friends everywhere.”

5. Paschimotansana | Posterior Stretching Pose
“I am safe. I am sound. All good things come to me; they give me peace.”

6. Ustrasana | Camel Pose
“With calm faith, I open to Thy light.”

7. Balasana | Child Pose
“I relax from outer involvement into my inner haven of peace.”

8. Sasamgasana | Hare Pose
“I am master of my energy, I am master of myself.”

9. Savasana | Co**se Pose
“Bones, muscles, movement, I surrender now; anxiety, elation, and depression—churning thoughts—all these I give into the hands of peace.”

12/18/2025

What to do when strong emotions come up in meditation?

Nayaswami Gyandev, director of Ananda Meditation Teacher Training and longtime meditator, shares that emotions arise from the subconscious mind—a lower level of awareness. 🥺😔😩

Throughout the day, we move between three states: subconscious, conscious, and superconscious.

🌅When strong emotions surface, the solution isn’t to fight or suppress them, but to raise awareness—from subconscious to conscious, and then into superconsciousness, the natural state of meditation.

When you raise your energy and shift to a higher level of awareness, the emotion dissolve naturally – just like how the static of a radio fades when you switch to a clearer radio channel. 🙌📻

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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