Join us for Inner Renewal Retreat 2026,a week-long experience filled with inspiration, practical tools, and spiritual friendship guided by Ananda Worldwide’s Spiritual Directors, Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi.
This Year’s Theme: Finding Calmness and Joy in Turbulent Times
Part 1 - Ananda Ceremonies: history & meaning - Sunday, February 15, 12 noon - 1 p.m. (free) All are welcome to learn about the history and meaning of the Ananda Festival of Light and Purification ceremonies. We do these weekly ceremonies with little to no explanation. Your appreciation of these sacred services can be greatly enhanced by a deeper ... Read More
FOR ANANDA KRIYABANS.
This weekend will have silent and guided kriya meditations; review of kriya practices; walking meditation; energization and other kriya practices. Most of all in an atmosphere of inner silence with kriya yoga as our guide, we will dive deep into the wellspring of peace.
An Eight Week Meditation Course offered In-person and Online Bring more peace, deeper relaxation, and focused concentration into every area of your life. Whether a beginning or experienced meditator, take this in-depth Meditation class to develop and deepen your daily meditation practice and connect with your higher Self. February 21 - April 11, 2026 on Saturdays from 10:30am - 12:00pm ... Read More
This class has two parts. A yoga class at 10am, and a meditation portion at 11:30. Prerequisite: any Ananda meditation class (including Raja, Course in Meditation, Learn to Meditate and Meditation for Starters). We invite graduates of the meditation classes to deepen your meditation practice with renewed inspiration, insights into refinements and variations on meditation practices, and a sharing with ... Read More
Four Tuesdays: March 3, 10, 17, 24, from 7-8:30pm. Including excerpts from the upcoming book, "Farther Away than the Stars"(Meditations from the Yoga Sutras), Nayaswami Hriman shares insights for life from the great scripture of yoga, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. In these four classes we will explore each of the "books" or "padas" of the sutras, distilling practical counsel for the ... Read More
If you’ve ever yearned to make meditation an enjoyable and integral part of yourday, this class is designed for you. Have you tried meditating with an App butare struggling with inconsistency in your practice? This meditation class offers theguidance and support you need! As you progress, you’ll notice profound changes not just in your meditationpractice, but in your overall perspective ... Read More
Blue Lotus Temple. Free, all are welcome! On this day in 1952 (and on March 9, 1936) two Self-realization avatars (Paramhansa Yogananda and his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, espectively) left their human forms in a super-conscious act of devotional self-offering. We celebrate not only their ascension but that of great saints of East and West, for we too are destined ... Read More
Today is discipleship initiation and after lunch and Padma's birthday cake, let's gather to share with one another our own spiritual birthday and something about one another.
Jesus tells us that “The kingdom of heaven is within you” and this includes the entire matrix of our karma residing like hidden gems along the astral spine in the energy centers called the chakras
We will review the words, meaning and pronunciation of the fire ceremony mantras (Gayatri and Mahamrityunjaya mantras). In addition as time permits we'll practice chanting the great mantra: AUM.
Free and open to all! The Spring Has Sprung Seva Day at Heart Song Retreat is a day of seva, or selfless service, held in celebration of the Spring Equinox, a time when day and night are in balance, and the world awakens with vibrant new life. As a season of renewal, growth, and reflection, Spring offers an ideal opportunity ... Read More