Learn to meditate from the comforts of your home with this Online Course.
Enrol anytime and learn and practice at your own pace.
There are 7 lessons in this course.
Each lesson contains a mix of reading material, instructive videos, meditation routines, audios and transcripts.
The course is highly comprehensive and you’ll learn everything from “how to sit comfortably in meditation” to “experiencing feelings of deep peace and joy”.
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Course Fee $99.00
What you’ll learn:
The course is open to anyone who wishes to learn to meditate, regardless of religious or spiritual background. Whether or not you are a new to meditation, these lessons can help you establish and develop a deep, consistent practice and help awaken within the peace, joy and divine love that are a part of your true nature.
Based on the teachings of Yoga as taught by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi.
This course is step one out of four on the Path of Kriya Yoga. It can also be done as a standalone Learn to Meditate course.
The course is a joint effort between the monastics of Ananda Sangha India and members of Ananda New Zealand. The monastics oversee the technical aspect of the online course, and are also administrators for the online course in India. Ananda New Zealand offers personal mentoring to all enrolled in the course.
Special Features of the Home Study Course
Personal Mentoring:
You will be given a personal mentor when you enrol in this course. Your mentor will be available to guide you in your practice and answer your questions. We encourage you to stay in touch with your mentor throughout the duration of the course.
Quizzes:
To ensure you have learnt the important concepts, we recommend you complete the quiz at the end of each lesson. Answers to the quiz can be found in the reading material that comes with this course.Your personal mentor will grade your work and give you feedback.
Experienced Meditators:
Videos included in the course are from experienced meditators including Swami Kriyananda,Nayaswami Jaya and Nayaswami Devarshi.
Downloadable resources:
All audios and PDFs are downloadable and yours to keep for ever.
Participant Forums:
There is a participant forum where you can discuss your meditation related questions.
Course Completion Certificate:
At the end of the course you will receive a course completion certificate if you have completed all the required material
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Course Fee $99.00
Our Inspiration
Paramhansa Yogananda (1893 – 1952)
Paramhansa Yogananda, born in 1893, was the first yoga master of India to take up permanent residence in the West.
Yogananda arrived in America in 1920, and proceeded to travel throughout the United States on what he called his “spiritual campaigns.”
Yogananda’s initial impact on the western culture was truly impressive. But his lasting spiritual legacy has been even greater. His Autobiography of a Yogi, first published in 1946, helped launch a spiritual revolution in the West. Translated into more than a dozen languages, it remains a best-selling spiritual classic to this day.The lasting contribution brought by Yogananda to the West is the non-sectarian, universal spiritual path of Self-realization.
As the means of attaining Self-realization Yogananda initiated his followers into the ancient technique of Kriya Yoga, which he called the “jet-airplane route to God.”
Paramhansa Yogananda wrote, “Meditation is the highest form of activity a person can perform.” It is one of the most natural and rewarding of all human activities. It gives direct, intuitive experience of higher consciousness, and is the cornerstone of deep spirituality. It also brings balance, rest and a growing inner peace.
Swami Kriyananda (1926 – 2013)
Swami Kriyananda was a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda and the founder of Ananda Sangha. His deep spiritual quest for ‘truth’ led him, in 1948 at the young age of 22, to read Paramhansa Yogananda’s spiritual classic, “Autobiography of a Yogi.”
Instantly recognizing the author as his Guru, the young Kriyananda resolved to dedicate his life to practicing and sharing his Guru’s teachings. At their first meeting soon after, Yogananda accepted Kriyananda as his disciple.
Swami Kriyananda founded Ananda in 1968 to fulfill Yogananda’s vision for “World Brotherhood Colonies” – spiritual communities where spiritual aspirants, whether married or single, could live together and have their home, temple, school and office in one place, and support each other’s spiritual quest with Simple Living and High Thinking.
Today Ananda is a worldwide movement that spans many countries and serves several thousand seekers through its communities, meditation groups and online offerings.
