Meditation Retreats & Meditation Training
Meditation is much more than physical and mental relaxation. Meditation can help you experience your own highest qualities of calmness, joy, wisdom, and love. It can provide solutions for your most difficult life situations.
At The Expanding Light you will experience the depth and power of a meditation technique used by millions of seekers for centuries. You’ll learn the science of redirecting your energy inward, to experience the rejuvenating stillness of meditation.
Your teachers here have devoted their lives to this profoundly useful style of meditation and will guide you from their own love of the practice and love of people.
Whether you have already learned meditation (and practice it or not), or whether you know nothing about meditation– you can benefit from the meditation techniques of Paramhansa Yogananda, which are offered at The Expanding Light.
5 Minutes of Serenity Experience inner peace with this inspiring meditation movie.
Learn How to Meditate and Meditation for Everyone
Guests in any of our introductory meditation programs will learn Yogananda’s Hong-Sau technique of concentration. Yogananda said that one hour of Hong-Sau practice is worth 24 hours of ordinary “sitting in the silence.” The Hong-Sau technique helps to quickly focus and direct the mind for effective meditation. More...
Advanced Practices
These programs are for people who are already practicing the Hong-Sau technique of concentration. More...
Kriya Yoga
Kriya Yoga is the most advanced technique of meditation that Paramhansa Yogananda brought to the West. It is described beautifully in his Autobiography of a Yogi, in which he calls it "the airplane route to God." More...
Meditation Teacher Training
Meditation is becoming well known in today’s world as an invaluable tool for enhancing one’s quality of life – mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Meditation teachers are needed and wanted in yoga studios, churches, businesses, health clubs – the list goes on and on. More...
Free Meditation Videos and Articles
A rich assortment of inspiration, including instruction by Swami Kriyananda and Ananda’s spiritual director, Nayaswami Jyotish. More...
Meditation Courses Scheduled:
2013
June
| 21 – 23 | Learn How to Meditate |
July
| 5 – 14 | Meditation Teacher Training  |
| 12 – 14 | Learn How to Meditate |
August
| 16 – 18 | Learn How to Meditate |
| 18 – 25 | Kriya Yoga Preparation Spiritual Renewal Week |
| 22 – 24 | Kriya Yoga Initiation |
September
| 8 – 15 | Meditation Teacher Training Level 2 |
| 20 – 22 | Learn How to Meditate |
| 26 – 29 | You Can Achieve Greater Effectiveness |
October
| 10 – 13 | Kriya Yoga Preparation |
| 11 – 13 | Kriya Yoga Initiation |
| 18 – 27 | Meditation Teacher Training |
December
| 6 – 8 | Kriya Yoga Initiation |
| 6 – 8 | Learn How to Meditate |
Meditation
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Come a Day Early
Relax, Take a Walk,
Get a Massage
Stay an Extra Day,
Relax,
Absorb Your Experience
Three delicious and satisfying
vegetarian buffet meals are included
with the cost of your stay