Yogananda developed the Energization Exercises, a series of thirty-nine exercises that enable us to draw cosmic Life Force at will and direct it where it is needed. Thanks to these unique exercises, we can purify, revitalize, and rejuvenate the body cells, strengthening the muscles and reinforcing the body’s immune system. During this course you will experience them for yourself and be able to evaluate their physical, mental and spiritual benefits.

Yogananda wrote:

This course is based on the book: LIFE FORCE. Healing with Life Force, written by Shivani Luck, who will conduct many of the lessons and practices.

The self-healing exercises you will learn include:

• energy recharging: thirty-nine exercises that will bring prana to cells, muscles, tissues and organs.
• exercises for a superconscious life: a series of six simple movements and affirmations that elevate our mental perspective and activate a greater awareness
• pranayam techniques for self-healing
• heliotropic techniques: practices that combine prana with the power of the solar rays
• meditation techniques that concentrate the powers of the mind and calm emotional disorders

Among the topics covered will be:

• Yogananda’s guidelines for a healthy life
• the karmic causes of the disease
• how to keep your Life Force reserve full throughout the day
• using meditation as a healing therapy
• the importance of diet, exercise and purification for a healthier life

Your teachers:

Nayaswami Shivani Lucki, founder of the Ananda Raja Yoga School of Europe and Life Therapy School, is one of the founding members of Ananda Village in California, where she lived from 1969 until 1985 when she and her husband Arjuna moved to Italy to help create Ananda Europe.

Shivani studied with Swami Kriyananda and attained a diploma as an Ananda Yoga and meditation teacher in 1973. She became an Ananda Minister in 1982 and a Yogacharya in 1993. In 2005 she was authorized to give initiation into Kriya Yoga (Kriyacharya).

In 1979 Shivani started the yoga programs at The Expanding Light in California and coordinated Ananda teachers and ministers in the United States. At Ananda Assisi Shivani creates the guest courses and training programs for meditation teachers in all of Europe. She often travels, giving lectures and seminars on Self-realization and Kriya Yoga.

She is Executive Producer of the film, Finding Happiness, released in the United States, Europe and India in 2014.


Nayaswami Manu has lived at Ananda since 2004, and has been on the spiritual path of Kriya Yoga since 1997. She graduated from the University of Foreign Languages and Literature in Bergamo, Italy, and has been a regular teacher for about ten years. She is a certified teacher of Educare alla Vita (Education for Life), the teaching method developed by Swami Kriyananda, and has taught in the Ananda Assisi school. She teaches a variety of courses including training courses for meditation teachers. She loves to study and deepen the teachings transmitted by the Masters of Kriya Yoga, and shares them with great joy, enthusiasm and energy.

Tiyagi 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.


Bramachari Ahimsa (Ana Cristina Rivera Garcìa) was born in Spain and has lived in the Ananda Assisi community for several years, following with dedication and depth the spiritual teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, whom she met in 1999.

Driven by a strong desire to find truth and transform her life to achieve greater balance, peace, harmony, health and happiness, she has been training as a teacher of Energization Exercises, Meditation, Ananda Yoga and as a Practitioner of Spirit-in-Nature Flower Essences.

The gifts of deep intuition and sensitivity, which she possesses in a special way, lead her to help others as a teacher and counselor and to continue studying and perfecting herself, including in the science of yogic nutrition and natural remedies,

In 2016, she began teaching in Ananda Assisi's Life Therapy school. Her joy is to be able to help people regain balance, harmony and happiness in their lives.


The total price of your all-inclusive stay, which includes course, board and lodging, is:

700 euro (140 euros per day)* in a single room, 
550 euro (110 euros per day)* in a double room,
500 euro (100 euros per day)* in a 3- to 5-bed dormitory.

* Price of membership card not included  €. 18,00



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