RESIDENTIAL COURSE: How to Manage Fear - Live Courageously in Today's World
Fear, often seen as a limitation, can become a powerful life teacher on our evolutionary journey, guiding us from limitation to the realization of our higher Self.
Thanks to the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, in this experiential and practical journey, you will discover how to transform this emotion into awareness and inner strength. Yogananda used to say: "You must learn to remain unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds."
Find your stability and courage, and become a spiritual warrior.
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We live in an era of profound change: wars, ecological crises, economic instability...
How could we not be afraid?
But let’s pause for a moment and ask ourselves: has the world ever truly been a safe place?
True security does not come from the outside; it is born within us. The ancient science of Raja Yoga offers practical tools to face and dissolve the roots of fear, helping us develop our inner energy. In this course, using spiritual introspection, targeted exercises, and meditation techniques, we will learn to:
- Understand and release energetic blockages related to fear
- Strengthen our inner stability through breath and awareness of the energy body
- Use visualization techniques to transform limiting emotions
- Integrate a simple and powerful meditation technique into daily life to elevate our state of consciousness
"God does not want you to live in fear.
He is the source of all courage."
—Paramhansa Yogananda
Through interactive practices, guided explorations, and moments of sharing, we will discover how to cultivate a new awareness, free from conditioning and rooted in deep trust in life.
Topics covered:
✨ Strategies to release the first chakra and strengthen our center of inner security
✨ Experiential workshop to face and transform fear
✨ The power of chanting and poetry as tools for elevation
✨ The Yugas: a broader perspective to understand global changes
✨ ... and much more!
If you feel the call of this path, you are welcome to join us. Come and experience how fear can become a bridge to a freer, more conscious, and brighter life.
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Your teachers:
Darshan (Jan Lotichius) has been practicing meditation since 1981. In 2000 Swami Kriyananda ordained him as a minister of Ananda Sangha, the international movement that presents Yogananda's teachings worldwide.
In 2023 he was ordained as a Kriyacharya (authorized to give initiation in Kriya Yoga). Darshan gives workshops in both Europe and America and currently resides in the Ananda Assisi community, where he teaches how to integrate meditation into all areas of life: professional, artistic, social and personal.
Bramachari Lakshmi (Fulvia D'Alessio) moved to Ananda in 2013, but first encountered, the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda in 1999.
It was a falling in love at first sight that revolutionized her life in every way.
Yoga and meditation become the tools to be able to live in the world, but not belong to the world.
Manager of a large international company she feels strong in her heart the call to give a higher meaning to her life by putting herself at the service of her Master and Swami Kriyananda at Ananda.
Infinitely grateful for the blessing of being able to serve guests and communities it is with contagious joy that Lakshmi serves, as her primary service, as manager of the Ananda Center.
The total price of your all-inclusive stay, which includes course, board and lodging, is:
420 euros (140 euros per day*) in a single room,
330 euros (110 euros per day*) in a double room,
300 euros (100 euros per day*) in a 3- to 5-bed dormitory.
* Price of membership card not included €. 18,00
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17:30 – 19:30 Spiritual practices
19:30 Dinner
20:30 Orientation
Friday-Saturday
7:00-8:45 Spiritual practices
8:45 Breakfast in silence
11:00-13:30 Morning lesson
13:30 lunch
14:45-16:00 Lesson
16:15 - 17:30 Ananda Yoga
17:45-19:30 Energization and meditation or lesson in the practices
19:30 Dinner in silence
20:30 Evening program
Sunday
7:00-8:45 Spiritual practices
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 Morning lesson
11:30 Sunday satsang and Festival of Light
13:30 Lunch
Services
420 euros (140 euros per day*) in a single room,
330 euros (110 euros per day*) in a double room,
300 euros (100 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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