December 13-14, 2024 - An Online Retreat
The New Year has come to greet you… Bring in the new year 2025 with joy!
Paramhansa Yogananda tells us that "Every day in the New Year must bring hope and cheer to yourself and all humanity." In this weekend retreat, we’ll focus on Yogananda’s teachings on learning our lessons from the past. Then we’ll learn tools to guide us forward towards the right goals.
Instrospective exercises will help us process major lessons and opportunities we had this year. We will also have guided inspirational and uplifting activities including a purification fire ceremony, mantras, music, meditation and more. Join us in recharging with the dawning of the New Year!
Retreat Highlights:
What does this retreat include?
- Introspection Exercises to bring in the New Year
- Yogananda's techniques for reflecting on the past & affirming the future
- Setting Powerful Goals:
– Forget the past, learn the lesssons and let them go
– How to set goals that last
- Fire ceremony, purification, music & meditation
- Missed a class? No problem! Recordings will be available on the same day
Please join us as we celebrate the coming of the New Year. All are welcome! Register now!
Weekend Schedule
Friday, 13 December
- 7:15 pm: Welcome, chanting, introduction
- 7:30 pm: Class #1: "The Art of Introspection" with Nayaswami Shivani
- 8:30 pm: "Highlights: 2024" - Orientation & Reflections
Saturday, 14 December
- Morning Sadhana + Breakfast
- 10:00 am - 12 noon: Class #2 : "Cherishing the Lessons: 2024" - Mistakes made, lessons learned
- 12 pm - Meditation & Chant
- Lunch Break
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm: Class #3 :"A New Tomorrow" - leaving it behind + setting resolutions & goals
- 7:30 - 8:30 pm: Class #4: "Looking Ahead: 2025!" with Nayaswami Jaya
(including Q&A - Keeping resolutions, Affirming success) - 8:30 - 9:00 pm: Conclusions, Takeaways & Sharing!
Live event has now ended - but you can Register Now and recieve the recordings to follow at your own pace!
New Year’s Retreat, Rs. 750
[Thank you! The proceeds will help fund our outreach and inspiration efforts].
(If you have any questions please call 9011041946 or email: online@anandaindia.org)
Complete the Checkout Process using our Secure Payment Gateway & we'll send you a reminder with the zoom link before the live session!
“The New Year has come to greet you…with new hopes, new determination, new will-to-achieve, new activities. In the Temple of the New Year renew your reverence for the unlimited hidden power of God within you.” Paramhansa Yogananda
Meet the Presenters:
Nayaswami Shivani is a founder member of Ananda Worldwide and a Kriya yogi and a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda for over 50 years. Residing in Ananda Assisi, Italy, she travels extensively giving seminars and lectures. She teaches locally and travels around Ananda offering training in the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.
Nayaswami Jaya is co- spiritual director of Ananda Sangha India. He became a student of Swami Kriyananda soon after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. Upon learning of Swami Kriyananda’s interest in spiritual communities, Nayaswami Jaya joined him as a founding member of Ananda. He travels widely sharing the teachings and techniques of Paramhansa Yogananda with audiences throughout the world.
Bharat and Shamini live in Ananda Chandigarh and have been sharing the principles of yoga & meditation in cities across India. Their current service entails building the offerings on Ananda India Online. They also help lead the work in Chandigarh there offering meditation classes, workshops and the opportunity for like-minded people to gather together in an uplifting environment! Bharat also directs the choir and shares classes on the impact that music has in uplifting our consciousness. Shamini is also an artist who explores the benefit of spiritual teachings applied through creativity & joyful living.
“I welcome everything that comes to me as an opportunity for further growth.Swami Kriyananda