Admission to the event and does not include accommodations or meals.

This option is for guests who have made their own accommodations and may request to purchase meals and/or scheduled shuttle transfers.

Admission to the event and does not include accommodations or meals. All guests must purchase an Event Pass to attend. This option is for guests who have made their own accommodations and may request to purchase meals and/or scheduled shuttle transfers.

The Garden Party Fundraising Gala and Indian Celebration are meals and are not included in the Event Pass. Tickets for these events are available separately.

With 250 beds and 8 RV spots, guest accommodations at Shady Creek will feel like an extension of Ananda Village with joyful satsang at breakfast, cooling down after lunch outside at the pool or inside the cool sadhana space or rooms.

This all-inclusive package includes:

• Admission to Ananda’s 50th Anniversary event
• A twin bunk bed (towels and bedding available for purchase—please email us) or RV spot (hookups not available; please email us to request a spot)
• Shared shower and bathroom facilities
• Breakfast at Shady Creek and lunch and dinner at The Expanding Light Retreat

Notable features at Shady Creek include a swimming pool, cool rooms for sleeping, eating, meditating, and daily event shuttle service.

Full Week — $693 — Sunday, June 30 to Sunday, July 7
4-Day — $396 — Wednesday evening, July 3 to Sunday, July 7

This all-inclusive package includes admission to Ananda’s 50th Anniversary Event, a tentsite at campgrounds created especially for this event and centrally located to the Temple of Light with access to shared shower houses and bathroom facilities, breakfast available for purchase at Master’s Market, lunch and dinner included at The Expanding Light Retreat. Camping gear not provided. Please, no camp stoves or open flames permitted.

Full Week — $443 — Sunday, June 30 to Sunday, July 7
4-Day — $256 — Wednesday evening, July 3 to Sunday, July 7

Family Camping

For families with children interested in camping, our Living Wisdom Center will be outfitted with a small campsite providing tent sites, restrooms, electricity, potable water and food storage (not for cooking or substantial meals).

This will also be the site of daily programs for children and is centrally located in Ananda Village, providing relatively easy access to Master’s Market and adjacent shower facilities, The Expanding Light and the new Temple of Light.

For More Information

If you’d like to know more about camping, please contact Badri at badri@ananda.org or 530-478-7651.

Please join us for Ananda’s 50th Anniversary celebration and register for the event by purchasing an Event Pass or an All-Inclusive Pass. Please pay 50% of the total price to confirm your reservation. You may arrange your own accommodations and purchase an Event Pass or stay in our event accommodations and register for an All-Inclusive Pass.

The event takes place June 30–July 7, 2019.

If you have accommodations and meals covered, please purchase an Event Pass Only. There are two Event Pass Only options, a 7-day pass and a 4-day pass. The 7-day pass provides access to the event from June 30-July 7, 2019. The four day pass provides access to the event from July 3-July 7, 2019.

We ask that everyone who plans to attend this event purchase an Event Pass prior to June 1, 2019. We intend to do our best to accommodate all of our guests. Timely registration provides a way to coordinate an event program in which all guests are blessed with an inspiring and memorable 50th Anniversary experience.

No, we are not offering the option to purchase individual day passes. Further inquiry can be made at ananda50@ananda.org.

Shady Creek is about a 5-minute ride away from Ananda Village, off of Tyler Foote Road. You pass it on the way to the Village from highway 49. Ananda will run scheduled daily event shuttles back-and-forth between Shady Creek and Ananda Village.

From their website:

Shady Creek Outdoor School is a residential environmental science camp. Our goal is to teach to the whole child including:

• developing a feeling of personal responsibility to help preserve, conserve, and enhance our environment;
• developing heightened observation skills to appreciate the beauty and diversity of the natural world;
• and developing a feeling of self-confidence and self-acceptance while also instilling the ability to cooperate with and appreciate the diversity of others.

This beautifully stewarded 130 acres of nature, rammed earth and eco-conscious facilities will offer a retreat of quiet comfort with the simple essentials for a blissful and celebratory pilgrimage.

Shared rooms may accommodate up to 250 guests according to their requests and the logistics. Each room has the capacity to sleep 6-8 people as needed.

For example, a group of 8 traveling together could all share one room or they could share two rooms depending upon availability and assignments. A group of friends could request to share a room together.

Please feel free to collaborate with your friends, center leaders, etc. We are all gurubais coming together to celebrate 50 years of Ananda sharing the light!

Make a note in your reservation about who you would like to share a room with and/or send an email to ananda50@ananda.org.

The rooms at Shady Creek include twin bunk beds and shared shower and bathroom facilities. Notable features include a swimming pool, cool rooms for sleeping, breakfast, meditation space, daily event shuttle service.

With 250 beds, guest accommodations at Shady Creek will feel like an extension of Ananda Village. Bedding or towels are not provided.

You may request to purchase bedding and towels from us. Make a comment in your reservation requesting to purchase bedding and/or send an email to ananda50@ananda.org. As we get an idea of how many sets to purchase we will be able to give a more accurate quote.

Sorry, private rooms are not available at Shady Creek.

Yes, there are limited RV parking spots available at Shady Creek. Hook ups are not available.

Yes, we are happy to offer pick-ups from the Sacramento International Airport (SMF) between 9am – 5pm on Sunday July 30 and Wednesday July 3, and drop offs on Sunday July 7, between 9 am-5 pm for $85 one way. Please include your flight information in your reservation when you select to add a scheduled ride and/or send an email to ananda50@ananda.org.

Yes, we hope to get a close to accurate count of guests for this event in order to accommodate every one.

Standard camping provides a camp site location on Ananda Village property, in close proximity to shower houses and restrooms. Standard camping requires that guests provide their own tent and sleeping supplies.

At this time, we do not have food storage options for guests.

Unfortunately, no! Due to high risk of fire in Northern California’s dry season, camp stoves and open flames are too dangerous to permit.

No, guests who are accommodated through a standard camping registration are welcome to purchase breakfast daily at Master’s Market.

Meals are available for purchase with an Event Pass reservation. Please purchase your Event Pass and include a comment in the reservation that you would like to purchase meals and/or send an email to ananda50@ananda.org.

Guests who have arranged accommodations on their own have the option to purchase a 7-day or 4-day meal pass, opting to select lunches only, dinners only, or both.

Prices for meal passes:

7-day, lunch and dinner: $168
4-day, lunch and dinner: $96
7-day, lunch OR dinner only: $84
4-day, lunch OR dinner only: $48

Meals may be purchased with an event reservation but are not available for purchase a-la-carte or after June 1, 2019.

Lunches and dinners will be catered by Taste Your Roots and require payment prior to June 1, 2019.

Food items will be available for purchase at Master’s Market during the week.

Yes! The only meal option we are offer individually for this event is the Temple dedication dinner on Saturday July 6, 2019. This meal will follow our day-long celebration of the Temple of Light.

A single meal pass for the Temple of Light dedication dinner is $15.

This meal pass is available for purchase with an Event Pass reservation. Please purchase your Event Pass and include a comment in the reservation that you would like to purchase meals and/or send an email to ananda50@ananda.org.

For guests who purchase a 7-day or 4-day meal pass or a 7-day or 4-day dinner meal pass, the Temple of Light dedication dinner is included in that purchase.

Yes, we welcome all to join us with their children. We will have childcare provided during special events and family-friendly activities throughout the day. For information regarding family registration and family accommodations, please contact Badri Matlock at badri@ananda.org.

Yes, group registrations are joyfully welcomed for this event. All inquiries regarding group registration can be directed to Jayeswari at jayeswari@expandinglight.org.