Ananda Yoga® for Experienced Practitioners

Awaken to Superconsciousness Through Yoga

Diksha McCord

Diksha McCord

For Intermediate and Advanced Students

4-day weekend

  • Coming in 2008

Through this wonderful weekend program led by Diksha McCord, you have the opportunity to make the deepest spiritual teachings your own, to experience them for yourself, and not just study them intellectually. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras describe levels of spiritual awareness to which all people aspire. In this program, the blending of philosophy and yoga postures helps you deeply experience qualities such as non-attachment, contentment, steady posture, and energy control.This experience of the Sutras will take your yoga practice and your life to a level of more beautiful inner freedom.

Prices

What this price includes

4-day weekend
Tent / RV Standard Shared Standard Private Deluxe Shared Deluxe Private
$396 $524 $680 $644 $880
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For the Love of Yoga

Assisting a yoga student

2-day weekend

  • Coming again in 2009

Especially for those with prior yoga experience: This is an opportunity to experience breath, energy flows, and affirmations more deeply through holding the poses longer with focused attention. During this program you will:

  • Experience pranayama (breath and energy control) combined with yoga postures;
  • Learn to adapt the poses for your own body;
  • Feel good physically, as well as experience asanas for spiritual growth.

Led by one of our favorite yoga teachers. Course materials included.

2-day weekend
Tent /
RV
Standard
Shared
Standard
Private
Deluxe
Shared
Deluxe
Private
$220 $280 $400 $350 $500
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Ananda Yoga Intensive

6 days

  • Coming again in 2009

Prerequisite: Ananda Yoga Teacher Training or consent of instructor required (call Gyandev at 800-346-5350 or 530-478-7518).

Here’s the week you’ve been waiting for: a chance to go as deeply and intensely into Ananda Yoga as you can. The week will include some of the more advanced techniques of Ananda Yoga, including: asana, pranayama, bandhas, and mudras, as well as meditation.

You’ll be using the techniques that have the most power to help you energize body and mind, to internalize your energy, and to bring it to the higher spiritual centers. Each day includes two long sessions (2-1/2 to 3 hours each), led by Gyandev McCord (Director of Ananda Yoga Worldwide). Let’s go for it!

Prices

What this price includes

6 days
Tent /
RV
Standard
Shared
Standard
Private
Deluxe
Shared
Deluxe
Private
$660 $840 $1,200 $1,050 $1,500
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Advanced Pranayama

Gyandev McCord

Program Leader Gyandev McCord

7 days

  • Coming again in 2009

Prerequisite: Level 1 Yoga Teacher Training graduate, Ananda Kriya Yoga initiate, or consent of instructor (call Gyandev at 800-346-5350 or 530-478-7518).

Pranayama is the key to a deep experience of yoga postures and meditation. This powerful week with Gyandev McCord, Diksha McCord, and Savitri Simpson will include:

  • Extensive practice of advanced breathing techniques;
  • How to integrate asana, pranayama, and meditation;
  • Studying the subtler aspects of the chakras;
  • How to use the chakra energies to enhance your sadhana;
  • How to awaken and raise kundalini energy;
  • Karma, reincarnation, and the subtle body;
  • How to teach pranayama;
  • Deeper exploration of Yogananda’s Energization Exercises.

Prices

What this price includes

7 days
Tent /
RV
Standard
Shared
Standard
Private
Deluxe
Shared
Deluxe
Private
$875 $1,085 $1,505 $1,330 $1,855

Pranayama and Energization to the Rescue

“For 2 1/2 years I have tried everything (diet, exercise, weight lifting, cognitive therapy, behavior modification, doctors, alternative healers, etc.) to heal my cough and low energy—to no avail. I knew they were due to energy stuck in my throat.

“The Advanced Pranayama program called to me. Each day of the program my energy went up and my cough lessened—because I was doing enthusiastic energization exercises, asanas, pranayama, and meditation.

“Through this program, I have learned to release the stuck energy, and redirect and center it in the astral spine.”

In deep appreciation and awe,
V.J., Sacramento, CA

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Yoga to Awaken the Chakras

Balance Your Core Energy

Yoga for the Chakras

3-day weekend

  • January 8 – 11

Physical ease and harmony are only the beginning. You’ll feel the real power of the chakras as you learn how to work with your “core energies” and with your mind to:

  • Release energy blocks and old patterns of behavior that have held you back
  • Overcome moods and build emotional stability
  • Awaken the true power of your heart
  • Infuse new vitality and versatility into your strengths
  • Develop unshakeable happiness and calmness
  • Deepen your own natural spirituality
Gyandev and Diksha


Gyandev and Diksha McCord will lead you through a practical, down-to-earth 3-day weekend, showing you how to build “core strength” in every aspect of your life: from your outer, everyday life to your inner, spiritual life.


Activities to help you to help you harmonize and awaken the chakra energies will include:

  • classes
  • discussions
  • yoga postures
  • guided self-analysis
  • breathing exercises
  • meditation

You will be guided and supported throughout this weekend, so that you may grow and develop your personal skills in a safe environment.

  Register now: 2 easy steps

Prices in the table below are all-inclusive and cover accommodations, meals, classes or activities, and course materials as appropriate.

Ananda Yoga for Experienced Practitioners starts the afternoon of the first date listed and ends with lunch on the last date listed. See Transportation and Directions for maps and directions whether you are coming by plane, car, bus or train. Our Frequent Questions page answers many of the questions you might have about How to Go on Retreat.

To Register:

  1. Choose your accommodation type. Click here to view options.

  2. Click on Book Now below or call 1-800-346-5350
If you are coming alone and would like to share a room, please call 1-800-346-5350

3-day weekend
  • Jan 8 – 11 (Book by calling 1-800-346-5350)
Tent / RV Standard Shared Standard Private Deluxe Shared Deluxe Private
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