Ananda Sangha Chennai

Morning Group Sadhana
2016-10-04 06:30 - 08:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Ananda Sangha Chennai, No. 9, East Road, West CIT Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600035, India
Start your day in a supportive, centering, peaceful environment as you practice your meditation.
Feel uplifted meditating with fellow devotees
You can enter and exit anytime you like!
We start with energization exercises beginning 15 minutes before meditation starts followed by a reading, a prayer and chant. We end with healing prayers and a reading from Swami Kriyanandaji’s Living Wisely, Living Well.

Led by Nayaswamis Dharmarajan & Dharmini

Welcome Satsang
2016-10-04 | Ananda Sangha Chennai, No. 9, East Road, West CIT Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600035, India
7:30pm – 8:30pm: Join us in welcoming to Chennai Ananda’s Worldwide Spiritual Directors, Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi! This will be an informal gathering and an opportunity to interact with them personally.

Raja Yoga: Level 2
2016-10-02 14:00 - 17:00, 2016-09-04 14:00 - 17:00 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Level 2 of our Path of Kriya core series: Gain a profound understanding of how to apply the original yoga teachings in all aspects of your life. Learn Yogananda’s approach to Patanjali’s Eightfold Path, Hatha Yoga, Pranayama, Self-Healing, Meditation, and more. This course is based on Swami Kriyananda’s book of the same name.
(This course is required for Kriya initiation.) Prerequisite: Level 1

Preparation for Kriya Initiation
2016-10-01 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-09-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
The Path of Kriya Yoga, Level 4, Part 2
The basis of the practice of Kriya Yoga and specific techniques to prepare for Kriya initiation. Classes include the history of Kriya, the astral spine, and how to bring the benefits of Kriya into daily life. Prerequisite: Level 3.

Centre Closed
2016-09-30, 2016-09-13 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India

3-Hour Meditation for Lahiri Mahasaya's Mahasamadhi
2016-09-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Please join us for this meditation honoring the life and mahasamadhi of Lahiri Mahasaya.

Morning Group Sadhana
2016-09-20 06:30 - 08:30 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India

Learn to Meditate & Energise
2016-09-18 14:00 - 18:00, 2016-09-17 14:00 - 18:00 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
The Path of Kriya Yoga-Level 1: A one day class (choose Sat OR Sun) that will change your life! This course is based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi. Meditation is one of the most natural and rewarding of all human activities. It gives direct, intuitive experience of higher realities, and is the cornerstone of true spirituality. It also brings balance, rest, and a growing inner peace. Learn the hong-sau meditation technique as taught by Yoganandaji, and discover his Energization Exercises. (This course is required for Kriya initiation.)

Morning Group Sadhana
2016-09-17 06:30 - 08:30, 2016-09-16 06:30 - 08:30, 2016-09-15 06:30 - 08:30, 2016-09-14 06:30 - 08:30 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Start your day in a supportive, centering, peaceful environment as you practice your meditation.
Feel uplifted meditating with fellow devotees
You can enter and exit anytime you like!
We start with energization exercises beginning 15 minutes before meditation starts followed by a reading, a prayer and chant. We end with healing prayers and a reading from Swami Kriyanandaji’s “Living Wisely, Living Well”.

Led by Nayaswamis Dharmarajan & Dharmini

3-Hour Meditation for Swami Kriyananda's Discipleship Anniversary
2016-09-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Please join us for this meditation honoring the day Swami Kriyananda met Paramhansa Yogananda and became his disciple.

FREE LECTURE: Tools for the Spiritual Warrior
2016-09-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (2nd Floor), 20 East Mada Street, Mylapore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600004, India
More details coming soon!
PRESENTER: Nayaswami Jaya Helin, Co-Spiritual Director of Ananda India, was born in Los Angeles. He became a student of Swami Kriyananda soon after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. Upon learning of Swamiji’s interest in spiritual communities,”Jayaji” joined him as a founding member of Ananda Village, now one of the most successful such communities in the world. There he served as Village planner, property manager, and resident acharya for many years with his wife Nayaswami Sadhana Devi. They shifted to New England in 2002 to guide Ananda’s work on the East Coast of the United States and, at Swami Kriyananda’s request, they shifted again to India in 2006, serving first in Gurgaon and then in Pune. Nayaswami Jaya has been authorized by Swami Kriyananda to give initiation into the advanced meditation technique Kriya Yoga and he travels widely as an Ananda kriyacharya, sharing the teachings and techniques of Paramhansa Yogananda with audiences throughout India, America and elsewhere.

Special Retreat with Nayaswami Jaya
2016-09-10 14:00 - 18:00 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Nayaswami Jaya is Co-Spiritual Director of Ananda India. More details of his visit are coming soon!

Centre Closed
2016-09-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2016-09-06 - 2016-09-07, 2016-08-30 - 2016-09-02 | Tamil Nadu

3-Hour Meditation
2016-09-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Attune your midweek inspiration! Dive deeply with us into meditation. Please feel free to arrive and depart whenever you like.

Centre Closed
2016-09-05 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
The Ananda Chennai Centre is closed each Monday.

Sunday Satsang
2016-09-04 10:00 - 11:30 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Join us each Sunday for a spiritual celebration every week. Satsang includes chanting, meditation, readings from the writings of Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda including the Bhagavad Gita, and an inspirational talk drawn from the teaching of Paramhansa Yogananda. You can also join us before satsangs for a fire ceremony and meditation, 9:00 am-9:45 am.

Fire Ceremony & Meditation
2016-09-04 09:00 - 09:45 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Each week before satsang, we begin a meditation with a fire ceremony, chanting the Gayatri and Mahamritanjaya mantras. We then chant and meditate for the remainder of the time ending with a reading from Living Wisely, Living Well, by Swami Kriyananda and healing prayers.

Discipleship & Aum: Level 3 Part 1
2016-08-28 17:30 - 19:30 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
The guru-discipleship relationship and the Ananda line of gurus; the opportunity to take discipleship initiation into this path; and the AUM technique, an advanced meditation technique to help prepare you for Kriya initiation. (This course is required for kriya initiation.)

Krishna Jayanthi Celebration
2016-08-25 18:00 - 21:00 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
Join us as we celebrate Krishna Jayanthi. We’ll decorate the altar with Krishna murthis and images as well as chant, meditate, share stories of Krishna, and read from the Bhagavad Gita. We’ll also dedicate our evening to Babaji who was Krishna in a past incarnation (Yoganandaji was his disciple as Arjuna). We’ll end the evening with prasad. Bring your Krishna murthis and images to put on the altar! All are welcome.

Learn to Meditate & Energise
2016-08-21 14:00 - 18:00 | Tamil Nadu

Preparation for Kriya Initiation
2016-08-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Ananda Sangha Chennai (Old Centre), India
The Path of Kriya Yoga, Level 4, Part 1
The basis of the practice of Kriya Yoga and specific techniques to prepare for Kriya initiation. Classes include the history of Kriya, the astral spine, and how to bring the benefits of Kriya into daily life. Prerequisite: Level 3.
