Ananda’s Spiritual Retreat for Meditation, Yoga, and Health
A Place of Inner Transformation
We invite you to come for a relaxing personal retreat, attend a program, or transform your life through a professional training. We offer more than 120 programs in stress management, health & diet, meditation, yoga, and more. We can customize programs for your group’s needs (see Group Retreats below).
Creacon Lodge Retreat Centre and Cafe is an Irish oasis of relaxation, rejuvenation and healing!
Nestled in the majestic green hills of southern Ireland, Creacon Lodge is a warm and loving place, where you can get in touch with who you really are, beyond the stress and illusion of everyday life. You will find peace and quiet in its relaxed healing environment, making it easier to find your way back to your own true joyful self.
The nourishing energy of Creacon will rejuvenate your soul, gently helping to awaken the loving and service-oriented consciousness within you.
One of our most popular teachers for the last eight years, Diksha McCord is a minister, counselor, Ananda Yoga Teacher Trainer, Level 2 Hatha Yoga teacher, Raja Yoga teacher and co-director of the Meditation Teacher Training program. Diksha, a native Israeli who came to the U.S. in 1990, is a powerful and dynamic woman who has shared yoga postures and yogic teachings across the United States, in Canada and Europe.
Gyandev McCord is a minister, Level 2 Hatha Yoga teacher, Raja Yoga teacher and the Director of the Ananda Yoga Teacher Training programs and Ananda Yoga Worldwide.
He has helped develop and refine the Ananda Yoga system and has shared it across the United States and Canada, as well as in Europe and India. Gyandev is also a founding board member of Yoga Alliance, the non-profit organization that has developed standards for yoga teachers nationally.
A 28-year resident of the spiritual community of Ananda, Nevada City, CA, Savitri is a Minister, Counselor, Raja Yoga Teacher and the Co-Director of the Ananda Meditation Teacher Training program. Among Ananda's most popular teachers, Savitri has taught at the Expanding Light and several of Ananda's branch communities since she came to Ananda. Prior to becoming Co-Director of the Meditation Teacher Training program, Savitri was the Director of the Ananda Yoga Teacher Training program.
Wiawaka is the only remaining operational retreat center which arose out of the women's rights movement of the early twentieth century. Mary Fuller established Wiawaka in 1903 as an affordable respite for women immigrants working in the shirt-collar factories and laundries of her native Troy and Cohoes, NY.
Wiawaka is a 501C3 nonprofit organization and continues as a summer retreat for all women over 18 years of age. We offer affordable vacations on a sliding scale and enrichment programs which focus on health and wellness, self expression and life skills.
