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).
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.
Our Mission
We believe that food is our medicine, exercise is our strength, and knowledge is our power. The majority of our health problems stem from what we eat and how we think. We know we can change this! Our mission is to train mothers, fathers, wives, and husbands to feed, motivate, and support their friends and family back to health.
Our Mission
We believe that food is our medicine, exercise is our strength, and knowledge is our power. The majority of our health problems stem from what we eat and how we think. We know we can change this! Our mission is to train mothers, fathers, wives, and husbands to feed, motivate, and support their friends and family back to health.
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.
— Spiritual Community — Yoga & Meditation in Hawaii
Come experience the qualities of living together in community — getting to know people deeply, group yoga, meditation and chanting; service projects that build skills and developing friendships.
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.
Stowel Lake Farm is located in the gorgeous south end of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. We are a group of people dedicated to living a healthy and happy lifestyle. Our farm combines a large forest, pasture and certified organic vegetable and fruit fields. We host many diverse events on Stowel Lake Farm, including daily wellness activities in our Gatehouse, meditation retreats, yoga retreats and other community events.
