2026 will soon be behind us: its joys and sorrows, obstacles and opportunities, its hopes and disappointments will eventually fade from our awareness. Before we let it go, however, let’s gather and cherish the precious lessons and gifts that have brought us a wider and deeper understanding of ourselves and life’s unexpected events.

Paramhansa Yogananda observed, “The minutes are more important than the years.” But as the pace of life approaches the speed of light, we arrive at the end of each day too exhausted to reflect on what we have experienced and how much we have learned.

These five days can bring a harvest of wisdom, insight and inner strength for our next adventures in evolution in 2027. If you wish, you can extend your stay to enjoy the course 'Your Next Steps in 2027' with Sahaja.

Each participant will receive a work book to write in and become the "book of your life" for 2026. Through guided exercises you will review the most important moments of the year, and begin to appreciate the lessons you have learned and the gifts you have received.

To help you better reconstruct the events of the past year, we recommend that you bring your diary (paper or electronic).

This is one of the most popular courses of the entire year, and you will want to reserve early.

Dear friends, we will do our best, but we cannot guarantee that we will be able to provide a translation for everything in your program. We apologise for any inconvenience!



Your possible 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.
She is the author of the trilogy: Life Force.

Darshan Jan Lotichius has been practising meditation since 1981. In 2000, Swami Kriyananda ordained him as a minister of Ananda Sangha, the international movement that presents Yogananda's teachings worldwide. This year he was ordained as a Kriyacharya (authorized to give initiation in Kriya Yoga). Darshan conducts seminars 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.

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.



                            Nirmala (Delia Cantú) was born in Milan, where she lived and worked for many years. An anthropologist and neuropsychomotor therapist, she is involved in therapy neuropsychocorporeal therapies and teaching. She specializes in posturology psychosomatics, craniosacral therapy, and systemic therapy. For the past ten years she has devoted herself to the physiology and regulation of the Nervous System, training in Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal Informed Practice.
Her encounter with Yogananda brings to the center of her life the spiritual. She is registered in the national register of Spiritual Companions in illness, death and bereavement.
In 2021 she moved to Assisi and joined the community of Ananda.
Here she continues her research between Spirituality and Science.



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

650 euros (130 euros per day)* in a single room,
500 euros (100 euros per day)* in a double room,
450 euros (90 euros per day)* in a 3- to 5-bed dormitory.

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




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