Ananda Center for Self-Healing

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Foundation Courses

In the Foundation Courses you learn the basic principles and techniques which you can practice at home to achieve and maintain a state of dynamic health. You may participate in the Foundation Courses, or in any of the programs and intensives, in any order.

Life Therapy
What You Can Do Yourself To Have a Dynamic, Healthy and Happy Life

13-18 May 2012 (in Italian only)
3-5 August 2012 (in Italian or English, with translation) (A deposit of € 50.00 is required to confirm your reservation.)
2-7 September 2012 (in Italian or English, with translation)

This course will give you the opportunity to evaluate and improve the present condition of your physical-emotional-spiritual health and to go deeper into the concepts presented in the introductory Life Therapy weekend. Classes are based on Yogananda’s principles of dynamic health, and include a rich array of self-healing techniques that work on all levels of our being. In addition, we will deepen our understanding of how to use the basic techniques of Ananda Yoga, meditation and Yogananda’s energization exercises, for our own healing.

Topics in the week-long course include:

• Six points of a radiant health
• How to work with subtle energy
• Affirmations for Spiritual Self-healing
• Yogananda’s magnetic healing and heliotropic exercises
• How to be a channel of healing energy
• The therapeutic effects of meditation
• How to contact your higher Self

Interview with Shivani

Meditation Therapy
Superconscious and Energetic Techniques of Self-Healing

24-29 June 2012 (in Italian only)

In this program you will learn to use meditation and Energization exercises for healing yourself on all three levels of consciousness. In addition to the group practices, the morning classes and afternoon workshops, each participant will have an opportunity to speak personally with one of the Meditation Counselors.

During this course you will experience:

• How to deepen your meditation practice, or if you are a beginner, how to establish a regular practice
• A greater understanding and ability to deal constructively with your subconscious habits and emotions
• How to use the meditative state and superconscious awareness to answer questions and solve problems
• Yogananda’s “superconscious self-healing technique,” and his “magnetic and heliotropic healing exercises”
• How to pray effectively, and receive an answer
• How to pray for others in the best way
• The powerful Purification Ceremony
• Heart-opening and healing chants and mantras
• For those who practice Kriya: two workshops on how to use Kriya for healing

Balanced Living
Harmonizing Your Material Duties with Your Spiritual Dharma

1-6 July 2012 (in Italian or English, with translation)

How can we find time for our spiritual life and at the same time fulfill all of our responsibilities to families and job? When we manage to balance this equation, our daily lives become an extension of our spiritual practices, and we are able to make more rapid progress in both areas.

In this course you will find inspiration and practical exercises for:

• Using your time more wisely, both for spiritual practices and at work
• Increasing the energy and emotional stamina you have available
• Dealing with stressful situations and aggressive people with an attitude of inner calm and intuitive understanding
• Being true to your inner values and principles
• Becoming aware of the thought and behavior patterns that lead you to a state of imbalance
• Steps for correcting a state of imbalance
• Guidelines for balanced eating
• Making and maintaining priorities and commitments
• Exercises and practices to disengage your mind quickly when you want to meditate
• Practices for focusing your mind and energies quickly while working
• Integrating your spiritual practices with your family life.

Inner Freedom
Free Yourself from the Habits which Block Your Happiness and Success

20-25 May 2012 (in Italian only)
23-28 September 2012 (in Italian or English, with translation)

Yogananda has said that 99% of our thoughts and actions are actually controlled by our habits and not our free will. In this course you will discover the habits which are blocking your energy, your creativity, and holding you back in your spiritual progress. Your spiritual counselor will help you in this process, as will the classes and the practice of introspection. You will then discover how to create the positive patterns which will strengthen your free will and lead you to inner freedom.

Inwardly determine to change yourself, and you can change your destiny according to your will. —Paramhansa Yogananda

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General Self-Healing Courses

An important part of Yogananda’s teachings on healing revolves around the profound healing power of sound and thought. He writes:

If sound waves can be carried through the ether, then sounds impregnated with healing Soul Force can also be transmitted through the ether. Ordinary songs and speeches, received through the radio, produce some mental effect upon the listener, but words impregnated with Soul Force remain in the ether, ever ready to work.—Paramhansa Yogananda, “The Healing Power of Thought,”Inner Culture, July 1934

There are many kinds of healing, each of which can be used in healing physical, mental, or spiritual diseases. Of the different kinds of healing . . . Vibratory Healing is of great importance.

Vibratory Healing consists in creating and sending vibrations to diseased individuals, internally by energy charged by will-power, or externally by superconsciously-impregnated chants, intonations of the human voice, enlivening words, phrases, and affirmations . . .

Harmonious sound and chants impregnated with superconsciousness and soul force, will-power and faith, awaken the drooping tissues of the nervous system by rousing vital energy in them.
—Paramhansa Yogananda, “Vibratory Healing,”Inner Culture, September 1936

Introduction to Spiritual Self-Healing: Life Therapy

A special weekend with reduced fees

This introductory program presents the concepts and practices which are developed more deeply in the longer spiritual self-healing programs. You will learn Yogananda's Life Therapy method, and his six keys to healthful living. Fundamental to all of the self-healing programs is Yogananda's set of energy recharging exercises, some of which you will learn during the weekend. He writes: “The method which can directly and quickly rouse the life energy to effect healing I term ‘Life Therapy,’ or direct healing by the rays of the inner Life Force.” Also included are lessons in Ananda Yoga and in the practice of meditation.

Affirmations and Prayers for Spiritual Self-Healing

1-3 June 2012 (in Italian or English, with translation)
13-15 July 2012 (in Italian or English, with translation)
9-14 September 2012 (in Italian only)

There is immeasurable power latent in the human mind—to create, to transform, to heal. When this power is properly expressed in words, it becomes an instrument for changing any circumstance in our lives. In this course we will practice techniques of scientific affirmations and healing prayers to help ourselves, our friends, and the world environment reach a higher level of harmony.

Some of these subjects will be addressed:

• The nature of the causal realm, and how it influences our health
• Physical, psychological and spiritual diseases: their causes and cures
• The use of sound, color and electricity in self-healing therapies
• The placebo effect and why it works
• How to turn your mind into a powerful healing instrument
• Yogananda’s scientific healing affirmations and how to use them for various conditions
• How important is faith in spiritual healing practices?
• The spiritual laws behind the healing miracles of Jesus Christ
• Are all prayers answered?
• How to use pray for ourselves and others
• The healing properties of Master’s flower essences
• The use of music and the voice in the practice of prayer and affirmation
• The Cosmic Sound: how to hear it, feel it, and use it for healing.

See also: Whisper to God by Swami Kriyananda.

A blind repetition, taking the name of God in vain, is fruitless. Repeating a demand or prayer over and over again, mentally or orally, and with deepening attention and devotion, spiritualizes the prayer, and changes conscious, believing repetition into superconscious experience.

The Divine Being cannot be deceived by the mockery of a prayer, because He is the fountain of thoughts. He cannot be bribed at any time, yet it is easy to move Him with sincerity, persistency, concentration, devotion, determination and faith. Repeating a demand with deepening concentration and faith is not mechanical repetition, but a changing, progressing power and mental preparation which, step by step, scientifically reaches God.

— Paramhansa Yogananda, Whispers from Eternity, 1936

Spiritual Self-Healing with Flower Essences

8-10 June 2012 (in Italian only)

Flower Essences are a form of vibratory healing which directly influence the astral and causal bodies, helping our self-healing and stimulating our hidden spiritual potentials. In addition to use the well-known instruments like meditation, yoga, affirmations, it is also possible to introduce into our energy field certain vibratory frequencies that directly strengthen our life force, and help us to realize the spiritual qualities that we seek to achieve: inner strength, calmness, compassion, positivity, courage, etc.

Flower Essences are prepared from the blossoms of sattwic plants. By taking them, we activate profoundly spiritual qualities within our nature. They are inspired by the wisdom of the great Indian master, Paramhansa Yogananda.

NEW! Flower Essences for Self-Healing and Perfect Well-being, with Lila Devi

Master’s Flower Essences (Spirit-in-Nature Essences), established in 1977, is the oldest flower essence firm outside the U.K. Based on the wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda, these 20 essences work by stimulating our positive qualities—for example, Grape Essence for love, Tomato Essence for strength and endurance, and Pear Essence (our most popular!), for peacefulness and emergency support. Prepared from the blossoms of fruit trees and vegetable plants, they unite us, in a yogic way, with our own perfect well-being. Time-tested and well-researched, they have helped people, pets, and plants on every continent for several decades.

This basic course will give you significant background information, including:

• An introduction to the 20 Master’s Flower Essences (Spirit-in-Nature Essences)
• How they are prepared
• How they work and what results to expect
• How you can use them in many different aspects of your life
• Shared direct testimonials, case histories, and research collected over 35 years
• The flower essence songs, written by Swami Kriyananda and sung by Lila Devi

A limited number of private consultations will also be available (separate fee, separate booking).

Supplemental Fee: € 50.00

NEW! Flower Essences for Overcoming Challenges and Negative Emotions, with Lila Devi

In these times of economic instability, global conflict, and rampant stress, Master’s Flower Essences (Spirit-in-Nature Essences) can help us to find easy, inexpensive, permanent, and quick-acting solutions for the difficulties in our daily lives. These flower essences are based on Paramhansa Yogananda’s insights into the psycho-spiritual qualities of the different foods from whose blossoms our essences are made, and Mother Nature, who has given us tools for wellness through flower essences.
This special week-long course, a more advanced adjunct to the weekend course, will delve deeper into the use of this sacred line of flower essences. During the course, Lila Devi will suggest which essences can help overcome certain specific challenges and emotional problems. She will share techniques for intuiting which essence is best for your needs at any given moment, and help you create your own healing program of essences. An exciting part of this program is learning about your theme essence as a way of tuning in to your soul nature. (Consultations are also available by appointment.)

This course includes:

• A deeper understanding of these 20 sacred flower essences and how to make the “best” essence choices
• Yogananda’s wrist-holding technique to access our soul strengths
• Partner work, small group work, and self-study (please bring a journal)
• Botanical background and the Doctrine of Signatures
• Incorporating theme and plot essences into an understanding of subtle flows of energy.

 

Supplemental Fee: € 120.00

NEW! Flower Essences Explained for Shopkeepers, Distributors, and Potential Practitiones, with Lila Devi

This course is for a very targeted group of individuals who want to deepen the understanding and the benefits of Master’s Flower Essences (Spirit-in-Nature). Significant time will be given to answering your specific questions and needs so that, when you leave this seminar, you will be knowledgeable and confident in helping others. It is advisable to first read “The Essential Flower Essence Handbook” by Lila Devi, before attending. Please come prepared for this weekend with your written questions. A limited number of private consultations will also be available (separate fee, separate booking).

What you will learn:

• How to best answer your customers’ questions.
• What are the key sales points of Master’s Flower Essences (Spirit-in-Nature)?
• What are the main objections to Master’s Flower Essences (Spirit-in-Nature)?
• How do they compare with other prominent flower essence lines?
• How are they taken?
• How to know which are the “right” and “best” essences to use?
• What are the most commonly asked questions by your customers and clients?
• How to explain what results people can expect to see?

 

About the founder

Lila Devi is the founder of Spirit-in-Nature Essences, the oldest flower essence firm within the U.S. and globally outside the U.K, and is also an Ananda minister and member for 35 years. An engaging seminar leader with over 35 years’ experience, Lila lectures nationally and abroad. Through experiential wisdom, humour, and music, she brings an expansive view of plants, animals, and people to her seminars, radio shows, and television appearances. She has authored 3 books: The Essential Flower Essence Handbook and Flower Essences for Animals—in several languages and the texts for the SiNE Home Study Courses—and Bradley Banana and the Jolly Good Pirate, the first in a series of 20 children’s picture books, each personifying a flower essence. Lila holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Psychology and is considered one of the foremost flower essence developers in the world today. She lives at Ananda Village outside Nevada City, California. Learn more about Spirit-in-Nature Essences at www.Spirit-in-Nature.com, with 21 youtube videos available; her blog: www.Spirit-in-Nature.com/blog; archived webinar series of 13 programs at www.anandaonlineclasses.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=1674, or write to her at info@Spirit-in-Nature.com.

Supplemental Fee: € 50.00

Help for Those Who Help Others
How To Serve Others without Losing Your Own Health and Inner Peace

15-17 June 2012 (in Italian or English, with translation)

When life calls upon us to help others, we sometimes find that we haven’t the physical or spiritual resources necessary to truly serve them. In this course you will learn how to connect with the source of divine grace, becoming a channel for a power far beyond your human strength and knowledge.

This program is especially useful to people who serve in the healing and counseling professions, those who work with the elderly or disabled, to anyone who is caring for a sick relative or friend, and to those who teach or guide the activities of others. You will learn things that will increase your ability to truly help others in the way they need, and to do so in a way that fulfils you.

Some of the things we will discuss:

• How to be loving and effective without becoming emotionally and egotistically involved
• How to keep your vital energy high and constantly renewed
• How to perceive guidance for yourself, and for those you are helping
• How to open a channel within you for divine Grace to flow to others
• Can your prayers help others?
• How to use meditation, visualization and affirmation to help others
• When is it appropriate to give others guidance and what is the best way to do so?
• How to transmit cosmic energy and divine love to others from a distance
• How can you help those who are seriously ill or dying?
• Finding the right words to comfort others
• Using the hands, eyes and voice to transmit energy, comfort and hope
• Can we help people who don’t want to be helped?
• How to listen intuitively and understand what someone needs
• How to strengthen your aura and protect yourself from negativity, exhaustion and burnout.