How to Be a Channel of Divine Grace

2-day weekend

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For people who already have a meditation practice and would like to deepen their personal lives.

This weekend you’ll learn how to connect with the source of divine grace, and become a channel for a power far beyond your human strength and knowledge.

Yogananda said, “The instrument is blessed by what flows through it.” As you feel God’s energy flowing through you to others, you will be blessed by that very energy.

This weekend you’ll learn how to:

• Raise your energy and attune to a higher Source of energy
• Recharge your inner life and restore your being
• Use healing prayers effectively
• Draw on deep inner resources and allow them to flow through you

The weekend will include lecture, guided experiences, and discussion. Some of the topics we’ll discuss:

• How to keep your vital energy high and constantly renewed
• How to tune into guidance
• How to open a channel within you for divine grace to flow to others
• Can your prayers help others?
• How to use meditation, visualization, and affirmation to help others
• How to transmit cosmic energy and divine love to others from a distance
• How can you help those who are seriously ill or dying?
• Finding the right words to comfort others
• Using the hands, eyes, and voice to transmit energy, comfort, and hope
• Can you help people who don’t want to be helped?
• How to listen intuitively and understand what someone needs
• How to strengthen your aura and protect yourself from negativity and burnout.
• How to be loving and effective without becoming emotionally and egotistically involved

The weekend, led by Nayaswami Maria McSweeney, will include:

Friday
	evening:	Introductions and exploration: Where are you in your spiritual journey? How would you like to better serve and give to others?
Saturday
	morning:	What does it mean to be a channel for divine grace? And how to raise our energy in attunement to divine grace. The morning will also include discussion and experiential techniques to deepen our attunement to the highest within us and to channel purely the energy of the heart.
	afternoon:	At Crystal Hermitage’s Shrine of the Masters. In the vibration of this sacred shrine and the inspiration of great Masters and saints, we will open ourselves to our own highest potential as instruments of grace and blessing as we practice Yogananda's healing prayer techniques, sharing with others through them.
	4:30 pm:	Special guided practices for recharging spiritually, led by Nayaswami Diksha.
	evening:	Experiential work with David Eby, Ananda’s gifted “music minister” to help you channel energy and healing through your voice. As you bring greater calmness and sweetness into your voice, you’ll feel your consciousness changing as well.
Sunday
	morning:	A chance to re-explore the deepening of your own spiritual journey.

Nayaswami Maria McSweeney and her husband, Ananta, both founding members of Ananda, were the ministers of Ananda’s Sacramento spiritual community for over 20 years. She and Ananta now live at Ananda Village and direct Ananda’s community of young people as well as Ananda Farm. This weekend Maria will share the practices she’s used successfully for over 20 years.

Prices are all-inclusive and cover accommodations, meals, classes or activities, and course materials.

How to Be a Channel of Divine Grace starts the afternoon of the first date listed. It’s ideal to arrive before 4 pm, if you are able to. That way, you can join in the afternoon session of yoga and meditation, which begins at 4:45 pm. Dinner is at 6:30. The first real gathering of your group is at 7:30 pm. If you need to arrive here after 5 pm, that’s fine, but it helps us if you let us know at 800-346-5350. We can also put aside a dinner for you if you need to arrive after 7 pm. The program ends with lunch on the last date. Please see our Daily Schedule.

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