Date: Wednesday, March 28th
Time: 10:00am EST

Topic: LIVING THE LIFE...ANANDA

Host: Savitri Simpson
URL: www.ananda.org
Bio: Since 1975, Savitri Simpson has taught classes and workshops based on Paramhansa Yogananda's teachings on yoga, meditation, the chakras, and many other related topics. She serves as a counselor, minister, and teacher at Ananda's Expanding Light Retreat Center, where she also served as the director of the Ananda Yoga Teacher Training Program. She is presently the director of the Ananda Meditation Teacher Training Program and administrative assistant to the Spiritual Directors of Ananda Sangha worldwide. She has written three books: Chakras for Starters, The Chakras Workbook, and The Meaning of Dreaming: Paramhansa Yogananda's Teachings on Why We Dream and What Our Dreams Mean. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Baylor University, Waco, Texas. In addition to her primary devotion to yoga, meditation, and all related subjects, she is a musician, herb gardener, gourmet cook, and nature lover. She lives with her husband, Sudarshan and her cat, Grayson in a dome-home at Ananda Village near Nevada City, California.

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On Wednesday, March 28th join Savitri for an introduction to the Ananda organization, their communities around the world, their teachings and their lifestyle.

Ananda is a worldwide group of individuals who share the search for higher consciousness and the ideal of service to others. We express this service by offering uplifting values and techniques for achieving peace of mind and inner happiness. Ananda, which means "joy" in Sanskrit, was founded in 1968 by J. Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda) to support others in their quest for spiritual growth.

Ananda is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi. Yogananda was the first yoga master of India to take up permanent residence in the West. His teachings emphasize direct inner experience of God, which he called 'self-realization.' Yogananda's teachings are nonsectarian, and offer practical solutions to the challenges of modern life.

The Ananda Joy logo represents the soul's aspiration upward toward God, and outward to embrace all beings in its quest for enlightenment. The downward curve shows the corresponding descent of divine grace.