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  • May 2026

  • May 20
    May 20 – May 25

    Seniors and Chair Yoga

    Yoga Workshop & Training

    With Darshana Moore and Melody Hansen
    The Expanding Light Retreat 13930 Expanding Light Drive, Nevada City, CA, United States

    Yoga practice is a powerful tool to help seniors optimize bone strength and maintain strength, flexibility, and balance. Learn how to modify poses, with or without a chair.

  • July 2026

  • Jul 31
    July 31 – August 12

    Foundations of Ananda Yoga

    Yoga Teacher Training - Module 1

    With Darshana Moore, Melody Hansen and Saraswati Gott
    The Expanding Light Retreat 13930 Expanding Light Drive, Nevada City, CA, United States

    Through this immersive 12-day yoga program, you’ll uplift and strengthen both body and mind, experiencing yoga as it was truly intended: a spiritual science for inner transformation.

    Jul 31
    July 31 – August 12

    Bridge to Ananda Yoga

    With Darshana Moore, Melody Hansen and Saraswati Gott
    The Expanding Light Retreat 13930 Expanding Light Drive, Nevada City, CA, United States

    A 12-day immersive program for certified yoga teachers seeking to deepen their practice and learn to teach the spiritually focused approach of Ananda Yoga based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.

  • November 2026

  • Nov 6
    November 6 – November 13

    Advanced Pranayama

    With Darshana Moore, Melody Hansen and Saraswati Gott
    The Expanding Light Retreat 13930 Expanding Light Drive, Nevada City, CA, United States

    Are you looking to deepen your meditation practice or enhance your yoga teaching skills? Pranayama is the key to a deep experience of yoga postures and meditation.

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The Expanding Light Retreat
13930 Expanding Light Drive
Nevada City, CA 95959

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18443 MacNab Cypress Road
Nevada City, CA 95959

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