Lessons in Meditation: Ananda Online Classes

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Learn Meditation, Yoga, & Spiritual Living

Experience your Higher Self through an online learning community based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda

Lessons in Meditation
Step 1 of the Ananda Course in Self-Realization
Taught by Dharmadevi & Patricia
learn to meditate

"I love it. It's a wonderful course. You've made the original information so much more modern and easy to understand. Well done! Thank you again." - Susan, Florida

Right from the start, you will learn a simple yet effective technique of meditation. It will help you to be focused and calm, and to obtain direct inner experience of the divine realities within. You will also learn how to create and maintain a sustainable meditation practice, and feel the joy that is always within you.

In addition, you will learn Yogananda’s “Energization Exercises”, a unique set of exercises that will give you better health, more energy, and an ability to direct the energy in the body at will.

"My life has completely changed since starting the Ananda Meditation class. I am living in love, peace and joy, with the presence of God within at all times. This is such a wonderful class. I recommend it for everyone that is interested in furthering their spiritual journey. My meditations get deeper and more amazing all the time." -Nancy, California

Tuition: $49.95

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What you receive

This course is available on-demand and you can begin right away. Immediately, upon registering for the course, you will have access to the course materials, including:

textbook (pdf format)
audio learning tracks (mp3 format)
digital videos
personal support (via email, telephone, or live chat)
certificate of completion

The course consists of seven, week-long lessons, which are designed to help you maintain a consistent meditation practice or take you deeper into your practice.

Your instructor

Dharmadevi

Dharmadevi is the Administrator of Ananda Online Classes (AOC). She is currently living at Ananda Village in Nevada City, CA. Before that, she was blessed to be a part of the core team at Ananda Los Angeles.

She found Ananda and Paramhansa Yogananda through Swami Kriyananda's books and the Ananda Course in Self-Realization, which she studied from Georgia. She took her "discipleship at a distance" in 2006 and after a year, she traveled to India with a group of Ananda Pilgrims from around the world, where she received initiation to Kriya Yoga and met Swami Kriyananda and many other wonderful souls (including her fiance, Narayan, who is sales manager for Crystal Clarity Publishers).

Dharmadevi has experience with distance learning through her correspondence school, Reiki Blessings Academy. She also helps lead Learn to Meditate weekends at The Expanding Light Retreat.

Co-instructor for the Learn to Meditate class
pat kirby

Pat has many years' experience teaching in the social sciences at the college level in both online and traditional formats, adult religious education, corporate training, and instructional design. Moving from her native Washington, DC, area to "The Village" when she joined Ananda in 2002, she "just kept going west" to Ananda India in 2005. There her main contributions have been in writing, Web site work, photography, and "Education for Life" activities.

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