Nayaswami Anandi, a longtime meditator and teacher at Ananda, guides this 15-minute meditation. Video by the The Expanding Light Retreat. Transcript Nayaswami Anandi: Hi. My name is Nayaswami Anandi. I’m an Ananda meditation teacher with the Ananda School of Yoga and Meditation. Today’s meditation is based on current studies on the brain, combined with a classic technique of meditation brought … Read More
Watch this stunning video of a 20-minute guided meditation and visualization to awaken the chakras. This guided chakra meditation will take you on a journey into your chakras using amazingly beautiful imagery. Experience an inner awakening through this inward practice and realize a higher aspect of your own self. Nayaswami Diksha is a long time meditator and teacher at The Expanding … Read More
Nayaswami Diksha leads a 16-minute guided meditation. She is a long time meditator and teacher at The Expanding Light Retreat. Intent of the Meditation A specific, highly effective technique of meditation (brought to the West by Yogananda) to help you develop greater concentration. With just a little practice each day, you can learn to concentrate, and you can feel more … Read More
Nayaswami Diksha guides you in this 14-minute guided meditation to help you tune into your Divine Spiritual Power, as power is one of the 8 aspects of God. Nayaswami Diksha is a long time meditator and teacher at the Expanding Light Retreat. Video by the The Expanding Light Retreat. Transcript Nayaswami Diksha: My name is Nayaswami Diksha and I’m the … Read More
Nayaswami Anandi leads us in a guided meditation for releasing negativity. You are guided to relax your body, bring a negative feeling or tension to mind, accept the feeling completely without judgment, visualize the tension melting and evaporating away, continue to relax and accept the feeling, and offer it up to the Divine so that it can be released. The … Read More
The Indian scriptures say that creation is cyclic: the universe comes into being, stays for a time, and then is dissolved. Furthermore, they say that these three phases of universal existence are in operation at all times: The universe is constantly being created, constantly being preserved, and constantly being dissolved again. These three forces co-exist; they are not opposing energies, … Read More
Each year in March we celebrate the mahasamadhis of two great masters, Paramhansa Yogananda and Sri Yukteswar. Mahasamadhi means “great samadhi” — it is the conscious, willful, final exit of a master from the physical body. Scripture states that the anniversary of a mahasamadhi is a very auspicious time and consequently a great opportunity to tune into the consciousness of … Read More
Hold to the great calmness you feel during and after this practice. Cling to that peace as long as possible.
Paramhansa Yogananda came to the West to show us how we can attain the state of yoga-union with God. He taught that our true home is not the mud of this earth, but the light of heaven. He described earth as that which is finite, fleeting, temporary, and giving pseudo-happiness, and heaven as that which is eternal, permanent, and giving … Read More
