"If one gives ever-deeper, creative, progressive power and mental adaptiveness to every changing nuance of what he asks, he is enabled, step by step and scientifically, to reach God."Paramhansa Yogananda
Are you ready to open more fully to your limitless potential? Does it feel as though you’ve been pushing too hard–swimming against the river of life, rather than with the flow of grace? Or perhaps you’ve come to define success more in terms of inner happiness than outer achievement?
How often we go through life thinking we have to figure things out ourselves. We imagine we are alone. Yet God’s loving presence, guidance, and grace are ever shining upon us. Meditation and prayer open the curtains of our consciousness, to let in the light.
Yogananda explained that prayer is talking to God, while meditation is listening. Prayer is active communication, speaking from the heart, expressing love, gratitude, asking for guidance and aligning our minds with the longing of our souls. In stillness, God’s presence, wisdom, and peace can be experienced. Meditation is perceiving and communing with the divine presence within.
True success is ego transcendence. It is finding happiness in its only lasting source—within, then expressing the consciousness of joy in all areas of life.
During this weekend, you will learn tools to:
*Pray effectively
*Make loving demands as a child of God, with implicit faith that the abundance of the universe is your already.
*Meditate using an ancient technique of concentration
*Still the mind and calm the heart to directly perceive truth
*Apply simple, universal yogic principles to all aspects of daily life
*Attune the mind to higher consciousness through affirmation and deep prayer
*Bring greater clarity, joy, and purpose to your life from within
Sample Schedule
FRIDAY
4-5 pm– Check-in
5:00 pm– Guided Sadhana (Energization Exercises, Yoga postures, Meditation)
6:30 pm– Dinner
7:30 pm– Opening Gathering
SATURDAY
6:30-8:30 am Sadhana (guests may leave early)
8:30 am- Breakfast
10:00- Meditation & Prayer Class
Noon– Guided Meditation
12:30 pm– Lunch
Afternoon– Free time for Personal Reflection, Reading, Hiking, Meditation, or other self-chosen activities.
4:30 pm– Sadhana
6:30 pm– Dinner
7:30 pm– Evening Activity
SUNDAY
6:30-8:30 am – Sadhana
8:30 am– Breakfast
9:15 am– Closing Circle- Silence ends
11:00 am– check-out
(Optional Sunday activities at Ananda Village: 11 am Sunday Service, Lunch at Expanding Light Retreat, Crystal Hermitage gardens and shrines)
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Register online- or call 530-478-7557 or email us for more information.
