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Guided Meditation with Badri Matlock

Badri Matlock leads you in an uplifting 20-minute guided meditation based on Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings. He is a longtime meditator and teacher and lives at Ananda Village, California.

Ananda Yoga, Yoga Teacher Training

10 Tips for Yoga Teachers

These are principles we focus on at The Expanding Light Retreat and in our Ananda School of Yoga and Meditation for teaching yoga and training teachers. Practice what you teach. Always teach from your own experience and realized knowledge. Constantly draw from this well of inspired, ever-new experience through your own daily, dedicated practice. Always be a student. Study and … Read More

Ananda Yoga, Superconscious Living, Yoga Postures, Yoga Teacher Training

Dharma and the Destruction of Suffering

Dharma, or right action, wrote Paramhansa Yogananda, “means those immutable principles which protect man permanently from the three-fold suffering of disease, unhappiness, and ignorance.” An embodiment of dharma himself, Yogananda explained: “Destruction of suffering involves the permanent elimination of all possibility of any return of suffering.” The science of yoga offers us specific direction in how to uplift our consciousness … Read More