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

Ananda School of Yoga & Meditation, 14618 Tyler Foote Road, Nevada City, CA (2025)

12/01/2025

Meditation is not a trance or passive, but a dynamic process of returning to your own center. 🧘🌟

It is learning to relate to life, your environment, the people around you from who you are, not from the way other people try to define you.

11/25/2025

Right attitude is essential to right meditation. The conditions of yama describe some of the attitudes most necessary for correct meditation. 🧘‍♀️🕉️

👉 Swipe through this carousel to learn how the 5 yamas can deepen your meditation practice.

🧘Meditation is a process that involves seeking positively to attune oneself with the subtle vibrations of the Infinite.

Like an astronomer bringing his telescope into careful focus on a distant planet—or like someone tuning a radio sensitively to one station while filtering out nearby interference—the beginning yogi must bring all his faculties to bear on the thought of God or one of His attributes. 🪐

📻The rules of yama are a necessary preliminary to this attunement, just as that first sighting through the telescope or the initial turn of the radio dial helps guide us toward the correct wavelength.
In many ways, correct meditation requires a complete revolution in what are commonly looked upon as normal human attitudes.

For example, a competitive drive in meditation can thwart even the most earnest efforts to progress, for it pits one against the universe instead of harmonizing him with it.

11/25/2025

Right attitude is essential to right meditation. The conditions of yama describe some of the attitudes most necessary for correct meditation. 🧘‍♀️🕉️

👉 Swipe through this carousel to learn how the 5 yamas can deepen your meditation practice.

🧘Meditation is a process that involves seeking positively to attune oneself with the subtle vibrations of the Infinite.

Like an astronomer bringing his telescope into careful focus on a distant planet—or like someone tuning a radio sensitively to one station while filtering out nearby interference—the beginning yogi must bring all his faculties to bear on the thought of God or one of His attributes. 🪐

📻The rules of yama are a necessary preliminary to this attunement, just as that first sighting through the telescope or the initial turn of the radio dial helps guide us toward the correct wavelength.
In many ways, correct meditation requires a complete revolution in what are commonly looked upon as normal human attitudes.

For example, a competitive drive in meditation can thwart even the most earnest efforts to progress, for it pits one against the universe instead of harmonizing him with it.

11/20/2025

A joyful recap of our 2025 Sadhana Leaders satsang with Nayaswami Gyandev! ✨

Meet our radiant team of Ananda’s Expanding Light Retreat & Meditation Retreat sadhana leaders. 😇

🌟Thank you for making twice-daily yoga and meditation sessions for our guests possible and for keeping our temple a sacred space for meditation, Ananda Yoga, and sharing Yogananda’s teachings.

Many hands and many yogis make a miracle! 🙌🙌

And of course…everyone has their favorite pose 🧘🤗😉

Joy, Joy, Joy! 🤗🧘‍♀️

11/17/2025

🌟Yogananda said, “All physical diseases, psychological inharmonies, and soul maladies born of ignorance come from man’s own mistake of shutting out the rays of God.”

Our intelligence, happiness, will, feelings, muscular strength, and the proper functioning of our organs and glands all depend on one source: the Life Force.
Billions of cells are sustained and guided by this subtle, intelligent power. 🕉️

The human body is surrounded by a halo of conscious Cosmic Energy, and through its vibrations, God’s intelligence continuously supplies us with Life Force.

❤️‍🩹Thus, the key to healing is to correct this mistake—to open ourselves to the rays of God by using our free will to draw on the life force for our health and sustenance.

Yogananda developed the 39 Energization Exercises to teach the art and science of life-force control. By consciously tensing and relaxing different body parts with will, breath, and focused attention, we learn to gain mastery over our life force and direct it to any weakened or diseased area of the body for healing. ✨⚡️

11/13/2025

Paramhansa Yogananda’s Energization Exercises give you the keys to control your energy for all-around happiness and God-realization. When you master your energy, you master your life! ⚡️🌟

🕉️Would you like to learn how to share these powerful exercises with clarity and magnetism?

In our upcoming 4-week online training, you will study and practice the principles and correct mechanics of Energization Exercises, and learn to teach them effectively to anyone. 🙏✨

There is a Teachers’ Track for those who want to feedback and guidance on developing their teaching skills, and a Regular Track for those who want a self-paced experience.

Join us!
🌟 Energization Teacher Training Online
🗓️ Jan 8 – Feb 5, 2026
📍 Online via Zoom + Online Platform
✅ Requirement for Ananda RYT-500 hr YTT Certification
🔗 Learn by Clicking Link in Bio

11/10/2025

Yogananda said, “The greatest way to bring healing is through the life force.” ⚡️

Through the simple practice of tensing and relaxing each body part in Energization, we learn to direct our energy not only for concentration and spiritual growth, but for our own self-healing.🌟

👉Swipe through this carousel to explore Yogananda’s technique for sending life force to strengthen any weak tissues or organs in the body.

Remember: we are not just bones and muscles subject to age—we are living batteries that can be recharged by God’s energy. When we unite our will with the Divine will, we can draw a fresh flow of prana to rejuvenate our cells and electrocute any disease. ✨🙏

11/06/2025

Yoga philosophy shows us that our thoughts, emotions, and actions are shaped by three universal forces — the gunas:

🌿 Sattva – clarity, harmony, upliftment
🔥 Rajas – restlessness, action, desire
🌑 Tamas – heaviness, inertia, darkness

The teachings yoga and meditation help us to consciously align with sattva, the quality that elevates our awareness and opens us to divine grace.

Each choice we make — every thought, every habit — can either cloud our consciousness or help it shine with light. The power of choice is in the present moment! There are no obstacles, only opportunities!🌞

11/03/2025

“The secret of meditation is radiating blessings from your heart outward to all the world.” – Swami Kriyananda

This expansive secret of meditation helps us avoid the ego pitfall of meditating for the self and rather than for the Self.

When we meditate without this attitude of blessing others, we begin to revolve around ourselves the thoughts of, “my growth,” “my happiness, “my enlightenment,” reinforcing the opposite of what meditation is truly for: liberation from the sense of “I,” of ego, separation. ⭐️

🧘‍♀️🙏Inner stillness and devotion help us feel our divine connection with everyone. The desire to send blessings from your heart arises naturally as you deepen your meditation.

When you pray for others in this way, your consciousness naturally expands until you feel God’s love for all creation within you. 💕

🧘‍♀️⚡️One person in deep, inner communion radiating love and blessings does more good for the world than we can imagine.

10/30/2025

Highlights from our Advanced Pranayama Workshop practice teaching sessions. 🧘‍♀️

🫁👨‍🏫One of the best ways to dive deeper is to learn to teach the techniques in a supportive environment!

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