Dear Friends, Happy Valentine’s Day, Friends! Made by and for Perfect Love, let your heart joyfully expand in the Divine Romance! Join us this Sunday and every Sunday for meditation and supportive practices as taught by Paramhansa Yogananda. All levels welcome. I am holding a class on Yoganandaji’s Hong Sau meditation technique this Saturday, Feb 15, at 3:00 at the … Read More

Dear Friends, Icy rains in Texas, fires raging in Los Angeles — dangerous weather events are in the forefront of our awareness right now. With the Palisades Fire in LA being uncontained and surrounding one of Yoganandaji’s most important sites, The Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, many of us have been eager for any updates regarding that exact location in … Read More

Dear Friends, Happy Winter Solstice and the first annual World Meditation Day designated by the United Nations! How wonderful that meditation has become so mainstream that its uplifting, peaceful influence on individuals, as well as the collective global consciousness, is common knowledge. Some think that meditation is something they are “good” or “bad” at. Not so. It is every soul’s … Read More

Dear Friends, It’s true that meditation can elude us at times. A big block comes from all the media in our faces, which we willingly cooperate with! Staring at our phones, scrolling through reels and posts (even “nice” ones), startling news items, and binging on movies and series on streaming apps — this is the new normal. In fact, it … Read More

Dear Friends, During this time of Thanksgiving, something that we can be grateful for is a tool that brings us out of material consciousness, with its disappointments and delusions, and into the reality of Spirit. I know after much togetherness, eating, and all the drama and excess that can sometimes accompany the holidays, it is ever more necessary to dive … Read More

Dear Friends, I remember when I first came onto the Ananda path in 2006 while living in India. I had already read Paramahansa Yoganandaji’s Autobiography of a Yogi a couple of times. Browsing the Bangalore bookstore shelves, I discovered many published books containing his writings and talks. I found them to be such treasures: The Divine Romance, Man’s Eternal Quest, … Read More