• Morning guided practices every day, which include Yogananda's technique for recharging your body with life-force energy, Ananda Yoga asanas and pranayama, and guided meditation.
• Satsangs focusing on different aspects of the Path of Self-realization, such as meditation and Kriya Yoga, discipleship, self-healing, and facing life's challenges
• Guided nature walks in the beautiful Umbrian hills near Ananda or a visit to the various parts of the Ananda community
• Afternoon sessions of Ananda Yoga, all in English
• Group practice of Energization and meditation for experienced meditators, or lessons in the basic tecniques of the path of Kriya Yoga for those who are here for the first time

Your teachers:

Nayaswami Uma Macfarlane is a Kriyacharya, Counselor and Raja Yoga Teacher. An astute counselor and teacher, Uma offers a number of classes on Raja Yoga at the Ananda Assisi center.
A student and teacher of yogic philosophy and spiritual science for 40 years, Uma lived for many years at Ananda Village in California, where served for a time as secretary for Swami Kriyananda.

She has taught at Ananda communities in the United States, as well in India and many parts of Europe. A native of the England, she brings wonderful wit and charming warmth to her classes as well as obvious depth of experience. She is currently serving in our Assisi, Italy retreat.

Tyagi Yogindra Claudio Gregorelli began practicing yoga at a very young age and in the early 80's taught therapeutic yoga in Milan. He was particularly attracted by the books of Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda, and in 1985 he moved from Brescia to Lake Como, where the Ananda Europa community was located at the time.

After training as an Ananda Yoga teacher at Ananda Village in California, from 1997 until 2004 he taught yoga and the practices and basic principles of Kriya Yoga, both in the programs at Ananda and in courses and seminars in various Italian cities. He was invited by the University La Sapienza of Rome to teach a two-year course sponsored by a well-known pharmaceutical company, studying the effects of yoga on patients suffering from multiple sclerosis.

From 2005 to 2010, with his wife Gitanjali, he lived mainly in India at the newly founded Ananda community in Gurgaon, spreading the ideals of community life and the teachings of Kriya Yoga through seminars and satsangs in several urban centers of India.
Upon returning to Ananda Assisi, in recent years he has been mainly involved in organizing guest programs and coordinating Ananda's teaching staff.

Tyagi Gitanjali Deborah Gregorelli grew up in Colorado, U.S., where she received a degree in psychology. She moved to California in 1980 and lived in the Ananda ashram in San Francisco. In 1982, she has received a certification as a Holistic Health Practitioner. She moved to Ananda Village that year and became involved in the music activities there, eventually directing the choir. In 1989, she arrived in Ananda Assisi where she directed the choir and began teaching. In 2005 she moved to the ashram of Ananda Gurgaon, in India, with her husband Yogindra, returning to Italy in 2010.

Gitanjali has been teaching a wide variety of courses at Ananda for more than 30 years. It is one of her greatest joys to share the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. Along with her husband Yogindra she serves as a minister and Light Bearer conducting Sunday Satsangs and other ceremonies.