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Activating the Power of Your Higher Self

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Kamran Matlock

  Activating the Power of Your Higher Self Spiritual power comes from your center, your heart, your passion, your hopes and dreams, right? Is inner strength, the soul’s higher power, a byproduct of our compassion, kindness, self-control and upright behavior? … Continue reading →

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Teaching Meditation at a Retirement Home

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Nayaswami Diksha

  By Nicola Pitt, Alice Springs, Australia Even though I completed the Online Ananda Meditation Teacher Training course last year, I hadn’t put it into practice until the beginning of this year when a few of my colleagues at work … Continue reading →

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The Promised Land

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Nayaswami Diksha

Jerusalem, Israel As a child growing up in Israel in the Jewish faith, I believed that Israel was the Promised Land. In my early twenties, as I started to practice yoga and meditation, I began to question whether the Promised … Continue reading →

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God’s Zone

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Nayaswami Diksha

What is God’s zone? His zone is superconsciousness. He is Infinite, and the infinite Source of answers to all of life’s challenges. Paramhansa Yogananda said: “God is omnipresent. Man’s soul, made in His image, has in it the seed experience … Continue reading →

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Wisdom of The Heart

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Nayaswami Diksha

Painting by Dana Anderson (DanaLynneAndersen.com) Wisdom is the power of the soul to know truth. By thinking with the rational mind, we will not be able to comprehend truth. It is through the heart that we perceive and understand the … Continue reading →

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A receptive meditation class for the Chico Brain Injury Coalition

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Nayaswami Diksha

From Connie Massie, CA, (MTT graduate – March 2018) I started teaching meditation after I finished the training, and it has been really wonderful, and people have been very receptive.  I have been teaching the Hong-Sau meditation technique, during my … Continue reading →

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“I am calm, I am … an EU official”

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Nayaswami Gyandev

by Dijana Zorić, Brussels, Belgium In October 2017 I had an opportunity to teach meditation at the Council of the European Union, where I had been working for the last four years (since Croatia’s accession to the EU). Some EU … Continue reading →

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Reconnect with your Divine Nature in Costa Rica

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Maitri Jones

Yoganananda once said “There are so many things here in America that I wanted for my own impoverished country.  In time, however, I found that the people here are not so happy, on average, as the peasants in India – … Continue reading →

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Ananda Yoga for Tall Posture and Bone Strength

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Maitri Jones

When I first started doing yoga postures, I heard that Yoga would make you taller. Being about 5 foot 2 inches in height, I always liked the idea of growing taller. And although after many years as an Ananda Yoga … Continue reading →

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Yoga Therapy Final Essay

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Nayaswami Mangala

Author: Kyle McDonald Kyle McDonald C-IAYT 2017 Yoga Therapist/ Healing Arts Instructor Children’s Integrative Therapies, Pain Management & Supportive Care Department / Hasbro Children’s Hospital Rhode Island Hospital Cancer Institute Reflecting on my own journey of healing, I know that … Continue reading →

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