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Illuminated Spaces: Using imagery to explore the inner realms

October 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am 4:00 pm PDT

Poetry and art have the power to evoke the deepest realities of life. They can access the unplumbed depths behind our thoughts and emotions, shedding light on our ever-existing relationship with Divine Presence. Let us gather together to take a journey with pencil, paper, words and color.  We’ll bring to the surface of our consciousness, the truth of who we are, with valuable messages to increase our understanding and joy.

Join Ananda Artists Jamuna Snitkin and Bekka Davis for another opportunity to use the arts as a spiritual practice. 

We’ll share in morning chanting, yoga and meditation, satsang gatherings with discussions and more chanting, high-vibe vegetarian meals, and we’ll actually each make our own staff from wood from the surrounding forests, imbue it with spiritual blessings, and then use that staff to help us hike a nearby mountain trail up to a beautiful lake, where we will meditate, journal, have lunch, and whatever else may arise. That’s just a few of the highlights, there is much more we will create together.

$95 early bird pricing through August 24 $108 after

Pricing includes program, program materials, and vegetarian lunch.

Date: October 18th, 10am-4pm

Location: Heart Song Retreat in Lake Stevens

Early Bird Special (through August 24): $95

Cost (After August 24):
$108

Questions? Please contact us.

Meet Your Retreat Guides

Rebecca has written in a number of capacities–as a ghostwriter, reporter, author of fiction, and author of academic articles. Since earning an MFA in fiction from Purdue University and a PhD in literature from the University of Washington, she has taught writing at the university level. She has been a member of Ananda and a resident of the Lynnwood community for many years.
Nayaswami Jamuna has been part of Ananda since 1972 and currently serves as a minister and Lightbearer. She has been an art student, a social worker, a librarian, a manager of the first East West Bookshop, a part of the Ananda Seattle church staff, a teacher and most importantly, a devotee of Paramhansa Yogananda and student of Swami Kriyananda.

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