Swami Kriyananda
Ananda is a global movement based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of “Autobiography of a Yogi.” Ananda was founded in 1968 in northern California by Swami Kriyananda, one of Yogananda’s direct disciples trained and commissioned by him.
Yogananda’s teachings embrace the truths that underlie all great religions. People from all faiths and backgrounds are welcomed at Ananda.
Expand the sense of harmony in your life through ancient and effective techniques including meditation, Kriya Yoga, spiritually oriented Hatha Yoga, community, and divine friendship. We invite you to join us at our temple, yoga classes, meditation groups, and community to experience the joy of your own being.
Ananda’s primary goal is to help people achieve Self-realization, a state of consciousness that comes through shedding all outward self-definitions and experiencing the changeless Self within. Ananda has, therefore, created communities and centers that welcome all sincere seekers, regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
We are committed to providing an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone to pursue the search for God.
Ananda is More Than a Teaching Center for Meditation and Yoga.
Ananda members and students tend to be compassionate, and ardent supporters of conscious, healthy, sustainable, spiritual living. Differing points of view, backgrounds, and nationalities can be found here and are typically expressed articulately, respectfully, thoughtfully, and, perhaps most importantly, with a desire to both share and learn.
Residential Communities
Simple living and high ideals have inspired an intentional, spiritual apartment-community in Lynnwood. Residents live and support one another in a lifestyle of meditation, service, simple living and high ideals. Ananda is known throughout the world for its network of independent, intentional communities which are among the most successful in the world today.
Blue Lotus Temple, Bothell
The Blue Lotus Temple, Bothell, is a place of peace that is open to all.
It serves both the local Ananda members and the larger circle of yoga and meditation students and sincere seekers from all walks of life.
Visitors come to the temple seeking inner guidance in prayer or meditation, or a respite from the demands of a busy world, or simply a quiet place to “be.” Some come to lend a helping hand, and others come to find community with like-minded friends who share high ideals and a practical commitment to expressing them.
Ananda at the Blue Lotus Temple offers group meditations throughout the week, and classes in meditation and yoga. Spiritual counseling services are available and there’s always one or more inspirational or practical “how-to-live” classes and workshops being held every month. When you visit, you’ll discover the bookstore and gift shop with items of beauty and inspiration.
Tuesday through Friday, for a half hour beginning at 12:30pm, locals and Ananda staff members come together for a mid-day meditation. All are welcome, no experience needed!
Blue Lotus Temple, 23305 Bothell Everett Hwy, Bothell, WA 98021. Phone: (425) 806-3700
Blue Lotus Meditation Temple – Our “Hope for a Better World”
The gentle blue-domed shape rises to a diaphanous lotus bud delicately outlined in a golden frame. Its beauty and shape invite one’s spirit to soar! Its message is crystal clear, and it’s for everyone: All who toil and trouble, lift up your eyes! Within you lies the joy you seek. In every age and in every culture throughout history, sacred shrines are treasured as places of spiritual revitalization: reminders of life’s higher purpose.
We pray that the Temple will be such a place of pilgrimage, where all those who seek this inner state will find a “hive,” where the “honey” of Divine realization can be “tasted” and shared. As a place of worship, Ananda Seattle’s Meditation Temple is dedicated to the Self-realization precepts and the Kriya-yoga masters whose life
and teachings inspired it. As a sacred space, the Temple is dedicated to serve all who see in the diverse expressions and manifestations of form, the One, Infinite Spirit as Creator, Friend, Beloved, Father-Mother and the Self of all.
East West Books & Gifts
Home to truth seekers from all wisdom & healing paths, since 1989. East West Books & Gifts is an Ananda owned non-profit which serves the greater Seattle area. After closing during the pandemic, now, for the joy of many, has opened again in Edmonds, WA!
Ananda Worldwide
Ananda Washington is part of an independent but affiliated network of self-supporting centers and communities whose first community is Ananda Village, near Nevada City, CA. (www.Ananda.org)