Programs: Retreats, Trainings, Personal Retreat, Spiritual Travel, and Karma Yoga

Personal Retreat

Here's a wonderful way you can combine personal quiet time and spiritual inspiration. You are free to follow your own schedule as well as to dip into a wealth of offerings.

Ananda's Karma Yoga Ashram Program
Serve, learn, grow, and deepen your inner life

Gain the confidence and tools necessary to build a strong spiritual practice, and learn how to bring inspiration into all aspects of daily living.

A Christmas of Inner Awakening
Divine Stillness, Joy, and Spiritual Community

Friday, Dec 21 – Wednesday, Dec 26

You will be surprised by the power of this retreat to uplift your consciousness and restore your energy and inspiration for days and weeks to come.

A Holiday Getaway: How to Love God More Deeply
Cultivating Devotion

Wednesday, Dec 26 – Friday, Dec 28

Join one of Ananda's most inspiring ministers to explore opening your heart to God and deepening your spiritual life.

New Year Renewal: Relax, Recharge, Refocus
A New Year's Retreat

Friday, Dec 28 – Tuesday, Jan 1

How to examine the lessons of the past year and set goals for the new year! Enjoy a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere, and a powerfully uplifting New Year's Eve ceremony.

First-Timers' Retreat

Friday, Jan 4 – Sunday, Jan 6

A perfect getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere. So much to experience in one weekend.

Therapeutic Yoga Retreat

Friday, Jan 4 – Sunday, Jan 6

Learn techniques of yoga to improve your health in body, mind, and spirit. Discover the healing power of posture, movement, energy flows, breath, self-talk, and focus.

Learn How to Meditate Retreat
Techniques for Peace of Mind and Balanced Living

Friday, Jan 18 – Sunday, Jan 20

Meditation is our daily practice due to the tremendous benefits in enhancing mental clarity, inner peace, creativity, and overall physical health. Make it yours!

Restorative Yoga to Relax and Rejuvenate

Friday, Jan 18 – Sunday, Jan 20

Restorative yoga is currently the most popular style of yoga in the United States - with good reason. Restorative yoga is safe, nurturing, and systematic, and helps you relax and release deep tension with no effort.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Principles

  Sunday, Jan 27 – Sunday, Feb 3

This in-depth 7-day program is the first module of Ananda’s Yoga Therapy Training. This course gives you practical foundational skills for a safe and effective yoga therapy practice coming from the ancient sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda.

Ayurvedic Healing and Yoga Retreat in Kerala, India
Relax • Release • Renew

  Friday, Feb 1 – Wednesday, Feb 13

The perfect vacation: deep relaxation and daily Ayurvedic healing treatments, combined with yoga and meditation guided by Gyandev and Diksha McCord, plus Indian cultural experiences – at Kerala’s finest Ayurvedic retreat.

Achieving Inner Peace & Tranquility

Friday, Feb 1 – Sunday, Feb 3

This course is filled with experiential exercises, discussion, and living examples. It also includes the Full Circle Emotional Awareness Exercises.

First-Timers' Week

Sunday, Feb 3 – Friday, Feb 8

A well designed getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Seniors and Bone Strength

  Sunday, Feb 3 – Wednesday, Feb 6

Yoga teachers and yoga therapists can provide a much-needed service by learning to help older people and those with bone strength issues.

Restorative Ananda Yoga® Teacher Training

  Wednesday, Feb 6 – Saturday, Feb 9

Restorative yoga is a popular way for beginning through advanced yoga students to experience true relaxation - often the most difficult skill to master.

Learn How to Meditate Retreat
Techniques for Peace of Mind and Balanced Living

Friday, Feb 8 – Sunday, Feb 10

Meditation is our daily practice due to the tremendous benefits in enhancing mental clarity, inner peace, creativity, and overall physical health. Make it yours!

Life Transitions: What's My Next Step?

Friday, Feb 8 – Sunday, Feb 10

Gain important tools and insights for understanding yourself more deeply, to better cooperate with the flow of your life. Learn how to move in a direction that is positive, growthful, and spiritually uplifting.

Ananda Yoga Intensive

Friday, Feb 15 – Sunday, Feb 17

Explore more challenging yoga postures in stages to suit your body’s needs, and take your asana practice to the next level.

Soul Activation
Awaken Inner Power and manifest the life you were meant to live

Friday, Feb 15 – Sunday, Feb 17

Cultivate your unique spiritual gifts and embody greater attunement with the heart’s higher nature. Awaken inner senses, increase lifeforce, learn to harness and express divine power in every moment.

Inner Renewal Week
Going Deeper into God

Sunday, Feb 17 – Sunday, Feb 24

Title: 'Nine Gems for Living the Bhagavad Gita in Modern Times'

This week can permanently transform and deepen your spiritual life. It is led by the spiritual directors of Ananda Worldwide and offered to serious spiritual seekers.

Preparing for a Lifetime of Kriya

Wednesday, Feb 20 – Sunday, Feb 24

For disciples of Yogananda: a review and deepening of your practices of AUM technique, Hong-Sau in the spine, and other advanced practices to prepare you for Kriya Yoga initiation.

Kriya Yoga Initiation

Friday, Feb 22 – Sunday, Feb 24

This program is for those who have completed Kriya Yoga Preparation, or equivalent course. Receive Kriya Yoga Initiation at a formal Vows Ceremony, a Kriya technique review, personal instruction, guidance with your practice, and continued support.

Ananda Meditation® Teacher Training Online
10-Week Online Certification Course

  Wednesday, Feb 27 – Wednesday, May 8

Be the Change that the world needs. Meditation teachers are in great demand, especially those who can teach people from any background, from secular to spiritual. Catch the wave, and share your passion and knowledge!

How to Work with Change: Achieving Your True Goals

Sunday, Mar 3 – Thursday, Mar 7

This course will guide you to embrace the next step on your unique spiritual journey with a sense of adventure, divine guidance, and joy.

Ananda Meditation® Teacher Training

  Tuesday, Mar 5 – Sunday, Mar 17

Meditation teachers are in demand— why not become one? Gain the skills and confidence to share your knowledge with people from all paths and backgrounds. With a highly trained and experienced teaching staff.

How to Have Courage, Calmness & Confidence

Friday, Mar 8 – Sunday, Mar 10

The soul has everything it needs to meet every test of life. As you live in tune with the power of your soul, your life will be completely transformed.

Therapeutic Yoga Retreat

Friday, Mar 8 – Sunday, Mar 10

Learn techniques of yoga to improve your health in body, mind, and spirit. Discover the healing power of posture, movement, energy flows, breath, self-talk, and focus.

Free Yourself From Stress Retreat

Friday, Mar 15 – Sunday, Mar 17

Practice the techniques of Paramhansa Yogananda to help you to relax physically and mentally. Learn how to develop mental strength through concentration and meditation, to help you maintain calmness throughout the day.

Yogic Leadership and Community Building
Use spiritual power to support and protect your family and friends

Friday, Mar 15 – Sunday, Mar 17

Use dynamic consciousness to transmute suffering and difficulty into new solutions and unlimited possibility. Unleash leadership potential by learning to empower vibrations, ideas, and relationships at will.

Ananda Yoga® Teacher Training
A Spiritual Approach to Yoga

  Sunday, Mar 17 – Sunday, Apr 14

A dynamic program built over 30yrs. Experience Ananda's unique, integrated approach to working directly with the body's subtle energies. It's a life-changing journey!

Ananda Yoga® Assistantship

Sunday, Mar 17 – Saturday, Mar 30

This Level 2 program is for Yoga Teacher Training graduates. You will get personal coaching in adapting poses for individual needs, plus hands-on experience.

Bridge to Ananda Yoga®

  Sunday, Mar 17 – Sunday, Mar 24

Teachers of other styles of yoga often want to transfer into Ananda’s Level 2 Yoga Teacher Training or Ananda Yoga Therapy Training after they’ve experienced the gentle power and depth of Ananda Yoga.

Cosmic Attunement: Vernal Equinox
Illumination, Balance, Rejuvenation, New Life

Friday, Mar 22 – Sunday, Mar 24

Tap in the healing heart of Earth’s awakening life force vitality. Dive deep into physical and spiritual rejuvenation: awaken spiritual gifts, insight, inspiration, guidance and support from the spiritual forces all around you.

First-Timers' Retreat

Friday, Mar 22 – Sunday, Mar 24

A perfect getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere. So much to experience in one weekend.

How to Know and Trust Your Inner Guidance

Friday, Mar 29 – Sunday, Mar 31

Intuition is a human faculty deeper than thought – the clear inner knowing of what is true, a skill that can be learned and developed.

The Next Step in My Relationships
Fearless Loving: Deepening and Finding Relationship Fulfillment

Friday, Apr 5 – Sunday, Apr 7

Relationships are the most powerful motivators for inner growth and an unparalleled way to learn about yourself. In the mirror of others you have the opportunity to see your own self.

How to Rise Above Your Karma
Use Your Life Experiences to Empower Yourself

Friday, Apr 12 – Sunday, Apr 14

During this supportive and insightful retreat you will explore your own karmic patterns and lessons. You will also learn effective ways to free yourself from karma.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Health Challenges–2

Sunday, Apr 14 – Friday, Apr 19

Yoga therapy for many chronic health conditions, such as Obesity, Diabetes, Coronary bypass surgery, common Cardiac Arythmias, Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Headaches (Tension & Migraine), Asthma, and COPD.

The 12 Steps and Yoga Principles
Walking in the Sunlight of Spirit

Friday, Apr 19 – Sunday, Apr 21

If you are established in your sobriety, you'll be deeply touched by this inspiring weekend on how to make your meditation and prayer more meaningful and effective.

Sustainable Spirituality
Unite the soul's inner journey with life's outer challenges and demands

Friday, Apr 19 – Sunday, Apr 21

Learn the fastest way to grow, to have personal breakthroughs at will, to catalyze your life-purpose and invoke higher frequencies of love and wisdom.

First-Timers' Week

Sunday, Apr 21 – Friday, Apr 26

A well designed getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Musculoskeletal–2

Wednesday, Apr 24 – Monday, Apr 29

Builds upon the knowledge gained in Musculoskeletal I and their assigned practicum experiences. Anatomy and physiology are reviewed in the context of working with clients and communicating with health care providers.

A Women's Retreat: Deepening Your Heart and Soul Strengths

Friday, Apr 26 – Sunday, Apr 28

A spiritual retreat that is refreshing beyond all other breaks. It’s a revitalizing feast of Divine Mother energy.

Ananda Yoga® for Bone Strength

  Friday, Apr 26 – Sunday, Apr 28

FOR NURSES ONLY

You can prevent or reverse bone-density loss. Therapeutic Ananda Yoga® provides safe techniques to strengthen your bones and muscles, the enjoyable yoga routine both physically beneficial and spiritually uplifting.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy for Back and Joint Pain

Friday, Apr 26 – Sunday, Apr 28

Yoga Therapist Nicole DeAvilla and experienced yoga teachers from the Ananda Yoga Therapist Training Program will evaluate and assist you in creating a personalized Yoga Therapy program to take home.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Psychology and Mental Health
Exploring Yogic, Ayurvedic, and Western Perspectives

Wednesday, May 1 – Monday, May 6

This course includes a combination of lecture, discussion, case studies in large and small groups, and practicum.

Kriya Yoga Preparation Intensive

Sunday, May 12 – Sunday, May 19

A week of intensive meditation and exploration of Paramhansa Yogananda's techniques and teachings to prepare you for a life of deep Kriya practice..

Kriya Yoga Initiation

Friday, May 17 – Sunday, May 19

This program is for those who have completed Kriya Yoga Preparation, or equivalent course. Receive Kriya Yoga Initiation at a formal Vows Ceremony, a Kriya technique review, personal instruction, guidance with your practice, and continued support.

Learn How to Meditate Retreat
Techniques for Peace of Mind and Balanced Living

Friday, May 17 – Sunday, May 19

Meditation is our daily practice due to the tremendous benefits in enhancing mental clarity, inner peace, creativity, and overall physical health. Make it yours!

Soul Activation
Awaken Inner Power and manifest the life you were meant to live

Friday, May 17 – Sunday, May 19

Cultivate your unique spiritual gifts and embody greater attunement with the heart’s higher nature. Awaken inner senses, increase lifeforce, learn to harness and express divine power in every moment.

The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita According to Yogananda
Powerful, Practical Keys to Spiritual Growth

Sunday, May 19 – Saturday, May 25

Take your spiritual life into an entirely new dimension as you unlock the secrets of this powerful scripture.

Ananda Yoga® Prenatal Teacher Training

Friday, May 24 – Monday, May 27

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training will leave you feeling confident and well prepared with knowledge and the ability to safely and lovingly work with prenatal yoga students.

First-Timers' Retreat

Friday, May 24 – Sunday, May 26

A perfect getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere. So much to experience in one weekend.

Prenatal Yoga Retreat

Friday, May 24 – Sunday, May 26

Find focus through balance and the breath to connect mother and baby, and to prepare for a healthy, mindful, more natural approach to labor and birth.

Advanced Pranayama

Sunday, May 26 – Sunday, Jun 2

Pranayama is the key to a deep experience of yoga postures and meditation. Based on Paramhansa Yogananda's teachings.

Spiritualize Your Daily Life Retreat
Attitudes for Everyday Joy and Success

Friday, May 31 – Sunday, Jun 2

In two short days, you can literally turn your life around. You will leave feeling rejuvenated, with hope restored—from reconnecting with your own Higher Self.

Yogic Leadership and Community Building
Use spiritual power to support and protect your family and friends

Friday, May 31 – Sunday, Jun 2

Use dynamic consciousness to transmute suffering and difficulty into new solutions and unlimited possibility. Unleash leadership potential by learning to empower vibrations, ideas, and relationships at will.

Ananda Holistic Health Retreat
Achieving Glowing Health and Vitality

  Sunday, Jun 2 – Friday, Jun 7

Immerse yourself in an environment that supports you in every way - diet, exercise, meditation, changing habits, living a balanced life.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Holistic Health Therapist Training

Sunday, Jun 2 – Friday, Jun 7

Yoga Therapy Trainees participate as teaching/coaching assistants in this guest program. Therapist trainees receive mentoring by faculty in how to coach clients to help them make lifestyle changes.

Life Transitions: What's My Next Step?

Friday, Jun 7 – Sunday, Jun 9

Gain important tools and insights for understanding yourself more deeply, to better cooperate with the flow of your life. Learn how to move in a direction that is positive, growthful, and spiritually uplifting.

First-Timers' Week

Sunday, Jun 9 – Friday, Jun 14

A well designed getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere.

Restorative Ananda Yoga® Teacher Training

  Wednesday, Jun 12 – Saturday, Jun 15

Restorative yoga is a popular way for beginning through advanced yoga students to experience true relaxation - often the most difficult skill to master.

Discover Your Own Happiness Retreat

Friday, Jun 14 – Sunday, Jun 16

Take a weekend for personal transformation. During this retreat, you will learn how to experience happiness within you, and learn to find it amidst the many challenges of life.

Ananda Meditation® Teacher Training

  Tuesday, Jun 18 – Sunday, Jun 30

Meditation teachers are in demand— why not become one? Gain the skills and confidence to share your knowledge with people from all paths and backgrounds. With a highly trained and experienced teaching staff.

Therapeutic Yoga Retreat

Friday, Jun 21 – Sunday, Jun 23

Learn techniques of yoga to improve your health in body, mind, and spirit. Discover the healing power of posture, movement, energy flows, breath, self-talk, and focus.

Summer Solstice
Awaken and Focus Your Spiritual Power

Friday, Jun 21 – Sunday, Jun 23

Take advantage of Earth’s brightest moment to awaken your own life-force, creativity and spiritual intention. Align body, mind, heart, and soul to the source of all power.

How to Know and Trust Your Inner Guidance

Friday, Jun 28 – Sunday, Jun 30

Intuition is a human faculty deeper than thought – the clear inner knowing of what is true, a skill that can be learned and developed.

The 50th Anniversary of Ananda Village and Dedication of New Temple of Light
50 Years of Spreading the Light

Sunday, Jun 30 – Sunday, Jul 7

Join us for a glorious week that includes the dedication of Ananda's Temple of Light; the 50th anniversary of Ananda Village, birthplace of Ananda Worldwide; and elements of Spiritual Renewal Week rolled into one.

Living from the Inside Out Retreat
Find Solutions to Life's Challenges

Friday, Jul 12 – Sunday, Jul 14

Learn and experience powerful laws of Spirit for discovering your highest potential and positive approaches to life.

Sustainable Spirituality
Unite the soul's inner journey with life's outer challenges and demands

Friday, Jul 12 – Sunday, Jul 14

Learn the fastest way to grow, to have personal breakthroughs at will, to catalyze your life-purpose and invoke higher frequencies of love and wisdom.

Ananda Yoga® Teacher Training
A Spiritual Approach to Yoga

  Sunday, Jul 14 – Sunday, Aug 11

A dynamic program built over 30yrs. Experience Ananda's unique, integrated approach to working directly with the body's subtle energies. It's a life-changing journey!

Ananda Yoga® Assistantship

Sunday, Jul 14 – Saturday, Jul 27

This Level 2 program is for Yoga Teacher Training graduates. You will get personal coaching in adapting poses for individual needs, plus hands-on experience.

Bridge to Ananda Yoga®

  Sunday, Jul 14 – Sunday, Jul 21

Teachers of other styles of yoga often want to transfer into Ananda’s Level 2 Yoga Teacher Training or Ananda Yoga Therapy Training after they’ve experienced the gentle power and depth of Ananda Yoga.

Learn How to Meditate Retreat
Techniques for Peace of Mind and Balanced Living

Friday, Jul 26 – Sunday, Jul 28

Meditation is our daily practice due to the tremendous benefits in enhancing mental clarity, inner peace, creativity, and overall physical health. Make it yours!

Preparing for a Lifetime of Kriya

Wednesday, Aug 7 – Sunday, Aug 11

For disciples of Yogananda: a review and deepening of your practices of AUM technique, Hong-Sau in the spine, and other advanced practices to prepare you for Kriya Yoga initiation.

Kriya Yoga Initiation

Friday, Aug 9 – Sunday, Aug 11

This program is for those who have completed Kriya Yoga Preparation, or equivalent course. Receive Kriya Yoga Initiation at a formal Vows Ceremony, a Kriya technique review, personal instruction, guidance with your practice, and continued support.

Learn How to Meditate Retreat
Techniques for Peace of Mind and Balanced Living

Friday, Aug 9 – Sunday, Aug 11

with Nayaswami Mukti

Meditation is our daily practice due to the tremendous benefits in enhancing mental clarity, inner peace, creativity, and overall physical health. Make it yours!

Achieving Inner Peace & Tranquility

Friday, Aug 9 – Sunday, Aug 11

This course is filled with experiential exercises, discussion, and living examples. It also includes the Full Circle Emotional Awareness Exercises.

Ananda Yoga® Training: Musculoskeletal–1

  Wednesday, Aug 14 – Monday, Aug 26

Explore problems of the back, knees, hips and shoulders in great depth and detail. You’ll learn to evaluate, communicate and teach safely, to help with pain relief and management—from the simplest situations to the more complex.

Life, Death, and Beyond
Living Life More Fully

Friday, Aug 16 – Sunday, Aug 18

Remove fear and sadness from your perspective of death, and gain tools for a more purposeful and fulfilling life.

Soul Activation
Awaken Inner Power and manifest the life you were meant to live

Friday, Aug 16 – Sunday, Aug 18

Cultivate your unique spiritual gifts and embody greater attunement with the heart’s higher nature. Awaken inner senses, increase lifeforce, learn to harness and express divine power in every moment.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy for Back and Joint Pain

Friday, Aug 23 – Sunday, Aug 25

Yoga Therapist Nicole DeAvilla and experienced yoga teachers from the Ananda Yoga Therapist Training Program will evaluate and assist you in creating a personalized Yoga Therapy program to take home.

First-Timers' Week

Sunday, Aug 25 – Friday, Aug 30

A well designed getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere.

The Next Step in My Relationships
Fearless Loving: Deepening and Finding Relationship Fulfillment

Friday, Aug 30 – Sunday, Sep 1

Relationships are the most powerful motivators for inner growth and an unparalleled way to learn about yourself. In the mirror of others you have the opportunity to see your own self.

Ananda Yoga® to Awaken the Chakras

Friday, Aug 30 – Sunday, Sep 1

Explore and connect with the chakras in your energy body during this special yoga retreat. Experience their power for overcoming obstacles and bringing peace and fulfillment to your life. Led by Badri.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Principles

  Sunday, Sep 1 – Sunday, Sep 8

This in-depth 7-day program is the first module of Ananda’s Yoga Therapy Training. This course gives you practical foundational skills for a safe and effective yoga therapy practice coming from the ancient sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda.

Ananda Meditation® Teacher Training Online
10-Week Online Certification Course

  Wednesday, Sep 4 – Wednesday, Nov 13

Be the Change that the world needs. Meditation teachers are in great demand, especially those who can teach people from any background, from secular to spiritual. Catch the wave, and share your passion and knowledge!

Learn How to Meditate Retreat
Techniques for Peace of Mind and Balanced Living

Friday, Sep 6 – Sunday, Sep 8

Meditation is our daily practice due to the tremendous benefits in enhancing mental clarity, inner peace, creativity, and overall physical health. Make it yours!

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Seniors and Bone Strength

  Sunday, Sep 8 – Wednesday, Sep 11

Yoga teachers and yoga therapists can provide a much-needed service by learning to help older people and those with bone strength issues.

Restorative Ananda Yoga® Teacher Training

  Wednesday, Sep 11 – Saturday, Sep 14

Restorative yoga is a popular way for beginning through advanced yoga students to experience true relaxation - often the most difficult skill to master.

A Camino Spiritual Pilgrimage
A Path to Self-Discovery and Joy

Saturday, Sep 14 – Friday, Oct 4

Walk the last 108 km of the Frances Camino Way to Santiago de Compostela. Attune to the deep vibration and the splendid rural beauty and stone villages of ancient Galicia, Spain.

Free Yourself From Stress Retreat

Friday, Sep 20 – Sunday, Sep 22

Practice the techniques of Paramhansa Yogananda to help you to relax physically and mentally. Learn how to develop mental strength through concentration and meditation, to help you maintain calmness throughout the day.

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Ayurveda

Tuesday, Sep 24 – Saturday, Sep 28

Learn a powerful approach to guiding clients to optimal health. The principles of Ayurveda, India's ancient healing science, will help you tailor yoga techniques to each client's unique needs.

A Sacred Himalayan Pilgrimage
Experience a Life-Changing Adventure to Holy Sites and Ancient Monasteries.

Sunday, Sep 29 – Sunday, Oct 20

Explore the most sacred spiritual sites in India. Linked to Self-realized masters for thousands of years, these mountains embody spiritual aspiration. Together we'll ascend the Himalayan heights!

Ananda Yoga® Therapy Training: Health Challenges–1

Sunday, Sep 29 – Sunday, Oct 6

Yoga therapy for such common conditions as Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Women’s Health Issues, Hypertension, Stroke, and Cancer.

Prenatal Yoga Retreat

Friday, Oct 4 – Sunday, Oct 6

Find focus through balance and the breath to connect mother and baby, and to prepare for a healthy, mindful, more natural approach to labor and birth.

Ananda Meditation® Solutions
Meditation Teacher Training Level 2

Sunday, Oct 6 – Sunday, Oct 13

Deepen your personal spiritual life and intensify your daily meditation practices. Learn ways to help your students deal with difficult issues in their lives (health, relationships or stress).

First-Timers' Week

Sunday, Oct 6 – Friday, Oct 11

A well designed getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere.

Preparing for a Lifetime of Kriya

Wednesday, Oct 9 – Sunday, Oct 13

For disciples of Yogananda: a review and deepening of your practices of AUM technique, Hong-Sau in the spine, and other advanced practices to prepare you for Kriya Yoga initiation.

You Can Change Your Brain and Transform Your Life
Self-Transformation through Superconsciousness

  Friday, Oct 11 – Sunday, Oct 13

New information on the brain, shared by Dr. Peter Van Houten, helps us engage our brain’s infinite capacity for change.

Kriya Yoga Initiation

Friday, Oct 11 – Sunday, Oct 13

This program is for those who have completed Kriya Yoga Preparation, or equivalent course. Receive Kriya Yoga Initiation at a formal Vows Ceremony, a Kriya technique review, personal instruction, guidance with your practice, and continued support.

Yogic Leadership and Community Building
Use spiritual power to support and protect your family and friends

Friday, Oct 11 – Sunday, Oct 13

Use dynamic consciousness to transmute suffering and difficulty into new solutions and unlimited possibility. Unleash leadership potential by learning to empower vibrations, ideas, and relationships at will.

Strengthen Your Kriya Yoga Practice Retreat

Sunday, Oct 13 – Monday, Oct 14

For those who've had Kriya initiation—guided practices, personal help, and extra support for taking the technique deeper.

Ananda Spiritual Counseling® Training

  Tuesday, Oct 15 – Sunday, Oct 20

Learn how to develop your own intuitive abilities so that you can listen to others in the right way. What questions can you ask to help lead them to their own solutions?

Therapeutic Yoga Retreat

Friday, Oct 18 – Sunday, Oct 20

Learn techniques of yoga to improve your health in body, mind, and spirit. Discover the healing power of posture, movement, energy flows, breath, self-talk, and focus.

How to Work with Change: Achieving Your True Goals

Sunday, Oct 20 – Thursday, Oct 24

This course will guide you to embrace the next step on your unique spiritual journey with a sense of adventure, divine guidance, and joy.

Ananda Yoga® Teacher Training
A Spiritual Approach to Yoga

  Sunday, Oct 27 – Sunday, Nov 24

A dynamic program built over 30yrs. Experience Ananda's unique, integrated approach to working directly with the body's subtle energies. It's a life-changing journey!

Ananda Yoga® Assistantship

Sunday, Oct 27 – Saturday, Nov 9

This Level 2 program is for Yoga Teacher Training graduates. You will get personal coaching in adapting poses for individual needs, plus hands-on experience.

Bridge to Ananda Yoga®

  Sunday, Oct 27 – Sunday, Nov 3

Teachers of other styles of yoga often want to transfer into Ananda’s Level 2 Yoga Teacher Training or Ananda Yoga Therapy Training after they’ve experienced the gentle power and depth of Ananda Yoga.

Living from the Inside Out Retreat
Find Solutions to Life's Challenges

Friday, Nov 1 – Sunday, Nov 3

Learn and experience powerful laws of Spirit for discovering your highest potential and positive approaches to life.

Learn How to Meditate Retreat
Techniques for Peace of Mind and Balanced Living

Friday, Nov 8 – Sunday, Nov 10

Meditation is our daily practice due to the tremendous benefits in enhancing mental clarity, inner peace, creativity, and overall physical health. Make it yours!

Sustainable Spirituality
Unite the soul's inner journey with life's outer challenges and demands

Friday, Nov 8 – Sunday, Nov 10

Learn the fastest way to grow, to have personal breakthroughs at will, to catalyze your life-purpose and invoke higher frequencies of love and wisdom.

Pranayama Clinic for Kriyabans

Thursday, Nov 14 – Sunday, Nov 17

Is it time to take your Kriya Yoga practice to the next level? Then come do exactly that, as you explore a spectrum of classical pranayama techniques that will bring a greater sense of flow and dynamism to your practice of Kriya—and to your practice of Hong-Sau and AUM technique as well.

How to Have Courage, Calmness & Confidence

Friday, Nov 15 – Sunday, Nov 17

The soul has everything it needs to meet every test of life. As you live in tune with the power of your soul, your life will be completely transformed.

Therapeutic Yoga Retreat

Friday, Nov 15 – Sunday, Nov 17

Learn techniques of yoga to improve your health in body, mind, and spirit. Discover the healing power of posture, movement, energy flows, breath, self-talk, and focus.

First-Timers' Retreat

Friday, Nov 22 – Sunday, Nov 24

A perfect getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere. So much to experience in one weekend.

A Thanksgiving Retreat: Opening to the Blessings of Life

Wednesday, Nov 27 – Sunday, Dec 1

A holiday weekend to leave you refreshed and uplifted, with practical tools to keep you feeling blessed throughout the year. Open yourself to the flow of gratitude...

Preparing for a Lifetime of Kriya

Wednesday, Dec 4 – Sunday, Dec 8

For disciples of Yogananda: a review and deepening of your practices of AUM technique, Hong-Sau in the spine, and other advanced practices to prepare you for Kriya Yoga initiation.

Kriya Yoga Initiation

Friday, Dec 6 – Sunday, Dec 8

This program is for those who have completed Kriya Yoga Preparation, or equivalent course. Receive Kriya Yoga Initiation at a formal Vows Ceremony, a Kriya technique review, personal instruction, guidance with your practice, and continued support.

The Next Step in My Relationships
Fearless Loving: Deepening and Finding Relationship Fulfillment

Friday, Dec 6 – Sunday, Dec 8

Relationships are the most powerful motivators for inner growth and an unparalleled way to learn about yourself. In the mirror of others you have the opportunity to see your own self.

Restorative Yoga to Relax and Rejuvenate

Friday, Dec 6 – Sunday, Dec 8

Restorative yoga is currently the most popular style of yoga in the United States - with good reason. Restorative yoga is safe, nurturing, and systematic, and helps you relax and release deep tension with no effort.

First-Timers' Week

Sunday, Dec 8 – Friday, Dec 13

A well designed getaway—with a blend of relaxation, inspiration, yoga postures, meditation instruction, and delicious vegetarian food—in a beautiful atmosphere.

Discover Your Own Happiness Retreat

Friday, Dec 13 – Sunday, Dec 15

Take a weekend for personal transformation. During this retreat, you will learn how to experience happiness within you, and learn to find it amidst the many challenges of life.

Therapeutic Yoga Retreat

Friday, Dec 13 – Sunday, Dec 15

Learn techniques of yoga to improve your health in body, mind, and spirit. Discover the healing power of posture, movement, energy flows, breath, self-talk, and focus.

A Christmas of Inner Awakening
Divine Stillness, Joy, and Spiritual Community

Sunday, Dec 22 – Thursday, Dec 26

You will be surprised by the power of this retreat to uplift your consciousness and restore your energy and inspiration for days and weeks to come.

Ananda Yoga Intensive

Friday, Dec 27 – Sunday, Dec 29

Explore more challenging yoga postures in stages to suit your body’s needs, and take your asana practice to the next level.

New Year Renewal: Relax, Recharge, Refocus
A New Year's Retreat

Saturday, Dec 28 – Wednesday, Jan 1

How to examine the lessons of the past year and set goals for the new year! Enjoy a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere, and a powerfully uplifting New Year's Eve ceremony.