RESIDENTIAL COURSE: Creating Communities - Small Community Big Solution
Yogananda foresaw a future where small intentional communities, now called Communities of Light, would thrive even during times of great global challenge and where like-minded, inspired individuals would flourish by embracing such principles as "Simple living and high thinking” and “People are more important than things.”
Join us for this enlightening workshop, guided by three long-time devotees and community members, Jyotish and Devi Novak and Kabir MacDow. Explore the transformative power of community living and experience the profound essence of a Community of Light firsthand.
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In this workshop designed to explore the concept of Communities of Light, you will discover how they serve as powerful catalysts for unity in today's world. Communities of Light are needed and can be created everywhere, including within families, schools, neighbourhoods, social groups, businesses, corporations, and intentional residential communities.
Through presentations, experiential exercises and dynamic discussions, you will delve into the fundamental principles and transformative benefits of communities. Our journey will include interactive activities such as learning how to build the vision of the future and will take you through the discovery and deepening of the forty-nine aspects of community development based on the Seven Chakras of Light Communities.This workshop is an opportunity to experience firsthand the essence of a Community of Light.
You will take with you practical tools and insights to create and nurture your own communities wherever they are, and learn how to advocate for positive change in your life, your family and all of humanity.
In this course we will focus on some fundamental principles for successful community living:
- People are more important than things.
- Simple living plus high thinking leads to the highest happiness.
- Where there is adherence to truth and right action, there is success and victory.
- The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.
- Many hands make a miracle.
- What is a "Community of Light"?
- The importance of communities in today's world
- How communities can lead us to unity
- History of communities
- Key characteristics of a Community of Light
- Communities of Light related to the Chakras system
- Overcoming barriers and creating unity and higher consciousness in communities
- …And much more.
Your teachers:
Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi are living examples of spirituality and loving friendship. Having served closely with Swami Kriyananda for nearly fifty years, they continue to travel as a couple, serving dynamically—and when necessary, virtually—around the world as global emissaries of yoga master Paramhansa Yogananda and his universal spiritual teachings of Self-realization.
Nayaswami Kabir (Peter Macdow) has played an active role in the Ananda Living Wisdom schools for over forty years. He studied child psychology at New York State University. He then moved to California where he obtained his doctorate and began serving in the Ananda Living Wisdom School at Ananda Village, near Nevada City. He studied the methods of Waldorf and Montessori, dedicating himself to deep and profound research regarding education. He worked with children in Italy for eight years, and has taught in Austria, India and the United Arab Emirates."It's been a fantastic experience for me to be independent and to teach in many different countries. This has given me a much broader vision of education and its potential and has made me more aware of the great crisis that education is suffering in the world today. I believe that children everywhere are ready for a better system."
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The total price of your all-inclusive stay, which includes course, board and lodging, is:
260 euros (130 euros per day)* in a single room,
200 euros (100 euros per day)* in a double room,
180 euros (90 euros per day)* in a 3- to 5-bed dormitory.
* Price of membership card not included €. 18,00
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Friday
17:30-19:30 Spiritual Practices
19:30 Dinner
20:30 Orientation
Saturday
7:00-8:45 Morning spiritual practices
8:45 Breakfast in silence
11:00-13:30 Morning lesson
13:30 Lunch
16:15-17:30 Ananda Yoga
17:45-19:30 Energization and meditation or lesson in the spiritual practices
19:30 Dinner in silence
20:30 Evening program
7:00-8:45 Morning spiritual practices
8:45 Breakfast
10:00-11:15 Morning lesson
11:30 Sunday satsang and Festival of Light
13:30 Lunch
Services
260 euros (130 euros per day)* in a single room,
200 euros (100 euros per day)* in a double room,
180 euros (90 euros per day)* in a 3- to 5-bed dormitory.
* Price of membership card not included €. 18,00
We will offer you:
● Full board from the evening of arrival to lunch on the day of departure
● All meditations and guided sadhana
● Ananda Yoga classes
● The course and materials (if any)
● The essentials for your practice: meditation cushions, yoga mats, Aum-board
● Kirtan and other evening programs
Accommodation: information and prices
Cost table
Attention: During the Covid-19 period the prices below are no longer applicable. The correct all-inclusive price for each course can be found on its individual page.
| Single room with bathroom | € 72.00 |
| Single without bathroom | € 61.00 |
| Double room with bathroom | € 56.00 |
| Double without bathroom | € 48.00 |
| Triple room with bathroom | € 48.00 |
| Triple without bathroom | € 41.00 |
| Dormitory (4-5 beds) | € 36.00 |
Note: To the price of lodging and food, you have to add the price of the seminar, that includes all activities: Energization Exercises Lessons, yoga and meditation and evening activities (on most evenings).
Payments can be made in cash, by Eurocheck, credit card (MasterCard and Visa), Bancomat. We can’t accept cash over 1000.00 euros.
Opportunity
Next time you come to Ananda, sign up for the program Yoga in Action to get a taste of community service and receive a discount on the cost of the course. You can choose the option Yoga in Action for any course where this program is available and you can continue with this option as long as you wish. Your service project might change each day.
When we learn to serve with the right attitude, this is a spiritual practice and is called Karma Yoga. The daily practice of Karma Yoga is a joyful and practical spiritual discipline that will benefit every aspect of your life.
At Ananda, there are two levels of the Yoga in Action option:
Yoga in Action Level 1
75€/course of 5 days
With Level 1, you will serve for a period of one and a half hours. This experience gives you a chance to contribute to the beautiful atmosphere of Ananda.
Yoga in Action Level 2
35€/course of 5 days
Yoga in Action Level 2 is only available if you have had prior experience of the Yoga in Action Level 1 option, or any of the Community Living Programs. With Level 2, you will serve for a period of three hours, split into two periods of daily service.
How to Register for This Program
In the page of the course you want to participate to, you will find, if available, the special price of the course with Yoga in action level 1 and 2. When you sign-up on the website or call or write us to book the course, just indicate that you wish to participate to the Yoga in Action Level 1 or 2 program. It’s that easy. Once you arrive at Ananda you will need also to complete a Yoga in Action Form and return it to our reception office.
How to book
You may make your reservation directly here on the website or by phone (+39 0742 813620) or email (info@ananda.it). Your booking needs to be confirmed by our reception office. For courses held online, there is no need to indicate the details of your stay (date of arrival, departure…).
For courses held at our center in Assisi, please indicate your arrival and departure dates and times, the program you wish to attend, your preferred accommodation, your address, phone and email. If you need to modify your reservation, please inform us at least one week in advance.
Our reception office is open from:
Monday to Saturday 9:30-1:30pm, 2:30-5:30pm
Sunday 9:30-11:30am, 2:30-5:30pm
For on-site courses, the programmes start on the evening of the day indicated.
If you cannot arrive during office hours, please let us know in advance.
Please contact us to check what translations are available. Courses, both on-site and online, may be cancelled if there are fewer than five participants.
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