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Channels

The Ananda Village choir performs “Channels” at Ananda’s Spiritual Renewal Week concert in a unique and beautiful dance. We apologize for the poor sound quality — it improves as the video progresses.

Music and the Arts, Spiritual Community, Thank You, God

The Singer and the Nightingale

by Nayaswami Prakash

This past August, during Spiritual Renewal Week, we were treated to a dramatization of Swami Kriyananda’s beautiful story/allegory “The Singer and the Nightingale.” The play was a delight, profoundly funny and, in its serious purpose, just as profoundly moving. We rejoiced with the Singer when at last his voice soared free. I think we were equally touched by the light … Read More

A Place Called Ananda, Music and the Arts

Become a Singing Spiritual Superhero

by David Eby

You have a self-realization superpower. The world is in dire need of spiritual superheroes, and Ananda Music is a key to unlocking your hidden abilities. Paramhansa Yogananda writes in Cosmic Chants that: Sound, or vibration, is the most powerful force in the universe, and music is a divine art, to be used not for pleasure but as a path to God-realization. Vibrations resulting from … Read More

Music and the Arts

4 Spiritual Lessons I’ve Learned from Singing

by Radhika Cosley

Over the past several months I’ve been taking voice lessons with a man named Ramesha, previously part of a singing group at Ananda Los Angeles and now co-leader of the music ministry at Ananda Village. He also gives voice lessons on Skype. Over the months I have taken lessons with him, there have been a few things he’s needed to … Read More

A Place Called Ananda, Music and the Arts, Parenting and Education

Spirit Warriors: Adventures of Inner Growth for Young Girls

by Carianne James

For the past year, I have been helping to lead an after school girls group called Spirit Warriors. The girls range from age nine to eleven. The focus of the group to help the girls with self-acceptance, self-confidence and a personal connection to the Divine within them through creative play and activities. Before it began, I had this strong sense … Read More

Video / Audio

I Am Om

Gurubhakti Bros

This version of this chant was published in 1938 and is now in the public domain.

Video / Audio

Thou Art My Life

Gurubhakti Bros

Words and music by Rabindranath Tagore, adapted for English by Paramhansa Yogananda, performed by Badri and Ramesha. This version was published in 1938 and is now in the public domain.