| Beginning Meditation Classes Part One: Mondays, August 10th – August 17th 7:00pm – 8:00pm Offered by Mary Bruey available in-person and zoom |
| This class is suitable both for beginners as well as seasoned meditators who would like to deepen their daily practice and connect with their higher Self. Based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, this ancient meditation technique will help you to bring more peace, deeper relaxation, and focused concentration to every area of your life. PART ONE Class 1: What meditation is, how to sit for meditation, and a meditation practice to start with. Class 2: Learn the Hong Sau technique of concentration and meditation, discuss energy control, learn exercises for energy control. PART TWO: (dates to be determined) Class 3: Overcoming obstacles to meditation, how to engage the heart. Class 4: Putting it all together, making meditation a part of daily life, and how to stay inspired! This series is offered both in person, downtown Marquette, MI, and online zoom. Please register with Mary at maryhelenbruey@gmail.com or text/call 517-881-8833 with questions and to receive the physical address and the zoom link. Donations are gladly received and help support Ananda, MI continue to expand their work. Suggested class fee donation is $20 to $60 at anandamichigan.org/donate or https://www.paypal.com/US/fundraiser/charity/1466246 |
Copies of the book may be ordered from Crystal Clarity (or Amazon). https://www.crystalclarity.com/products/copy-of-lessons-in-meditation Mary is a community nurse, mother of three and a grandmother of three. She met Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings in August, 2022 through Ananda Worldwide. She is a certified Ananda Meditation Teacher and an Ananda Energization Exercise Teacher. She loves prayer, and loves to study Yogananda’s teachings with anyone who would like to study with her! |
Ananda Michigan Spiritual Family Reunion
Saturday, August 29th, 2026
Celebrating the Masters
Noon – 10:00pm
Hosts Mike and Martha Limauro
6449 Sherman Road, Charlotte, MI 48813
Noon – 2:00pm Vegetarian Potluck Lunch
Please bring a vegetarian/vegan dish to pass
Pool available! Bring a suit and towel!
Games, Kirtan and Meditation in Nature
Instruments, Games and Meditation Cushions Recommended
Friends! Food! Fun!
Ananda Michigan Annual Kriya Retreat
September 24th – 27th, 2026 with Nayaswami Pranaba
Director Ananda Sangha Worldwide
Nayaswami Pranaba is one of Ananda’s most widely traveled and experienced ministers, having meditated for over 53 years and offering classes and workshops in meditation and yoga for the past 47 years. He has helped to create and direct Ananda Centers in Palo Alto, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, and Assisi, Italy. Pranaba has been Director of the Ananda Yoga Teacher Training program, and Manager of The Expanding Light Retreat in California, as well as Ananda’s Retreat in Assisi, Italy. He has directed the Living Discipleship Course, Ananda’s membership training program, and now works with Ananda’s outreach ministry.
All events are at the Lighthouse Center
740 E. Shore Drive, Whitmore Lake, MI 48189
https://www.anandamichigan.org/registration/
*Pre-registration is recommended*
Classes also payable by cash or check at the door at the event time at the Lighthouse Center. Please make checks payable to Ananda MI.
All are welcome. Scholarship and Seva (service) opportunities are available.
Thursday, September 24th
6:30pm – 7:30pm Vegetarian/Vegan Potluck Dinner
7:30pm – 8:30pm Talk by Nayaswami Pranaba – Healing with Divine Energy
Learn to be a channel of healing for yourself and others
Paramhansa Yogananda brought ancient yogic techniques that teach us to combine the use of concentration, will-power, and the life-force within and around us, to help recharge ourselves and others in body, mind and spirit.
You Will Learn:
• Principles for channeling healing energy with clarity and refinement
• How to get yourself out of the way so that a Higher Power can flow through you without obstruction
• Paramhansa Yogananda’s techniques for healing at a distance
• Techniques for self-healing with the help of affirmations and the chakras
• How to pray for the appropriate kind of healing in difficult circumstances for an individual or for situations involving groups of people or the world
*Also offered and recorded on Zoom.
Cost: $20
Friday, September 25th
7:00pm – 8:30pm Kirtan: An Evening of Chant, led by Nayaswami Pranaba. Kirtan is from the bhakti yoga tradition, the yoga of devotion. Devotional chanting helps to still the mind and quiet the heart, preparing one for deep meditation and inner communion. The blending of voices and unified focus make for a sweet, yet powerful practice which beautifully expresses and enhances devotion.
This event is offered In-Person only.
Donations are welcome.
Saturday, September 26th
10:00am – Noon Talk by Nayaswami Pranaba – Opening Your Heart… Awakening our Inner Self
Our spiritual life can often be compartmentalized and separated from what seems to be our “real life”. But this needn’t be so! Paramhansa Yogananda said that the most practical wat to live is to tune increasingly to spiritual consciousness.
We all yearn to be loved and to share love with others. But how do we actually go about doing this, so that love is truly fulfilling? Learn how to unblock the flow of love, how to open your heart and how to awaken your inner Self.
This workshop will help you to develop a deeper understanding as well as the tools to live more fully in the joy of unconditional love. We’ll use affirmations, chanting and meditation as key ingredients to success in working with opening our hearts. An inspiring and practical approach to spiritual growth.
*Also offered and recorded on zoom
Cost: $35
Noon – 2:00pm Vegetarian Potluck Lunch
Sunday, September 27th
9:30am – 10:15am Purification Ceremony with Nayaswami Pranaba
10:30am – 11:45am Sunday Service & Festival of Light with Nayaswami Pranaba
Also offered and recorded on zoom.
Donations are welcome.
Noon – 2:00pm Vegetarian Potluck Brunch