Dharma Yoga Wheel Workshop
with @andreatymczyszyn • 500 hr RDYT
📅 Saturday, June 13 • 2–3:30 PM
Experience the transformative support of the Dharma Yoga Wheel through a practice inspired by Sri Dharma Mittra’s teachings. This workshop is designed to cultivate strength, mobility, and spaciousness while creating greater freedom in the body. The wheel offers deep opening through the hip flexors, quads, chest, shoulders, and spine while improving posture, balance, and core strength. It also creates accessible pathways into deeper backbends and inversions with support and intelligence.
📍 Ananda Ashram Yoga Studio
Panini Annex
8 Shadowmere dr., Monroe, NY 10950
Limited to 12 spaces
$35 • Registration required
🔗 Register here: https://anandaashram.secure.retreat.guru/program/dharma-yoga-wheel-workshop/?form=1&lang=en
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All are welcome🤍
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☀️ Held in a tranquil, intentionally created space at @anandaashram , this immersive experience weaves together ceremonial cacao with gentle movement, chanting and sound healing. You will be supported in both deep restoration and joyful expression.
The grounding presence of your guides @jennidelillo & @kikayoga , will help you experience the resonance of your own voice as a pathway to healing.
☀️ This Summer Solstice gathering is an invitation to pause, align, and celebrate the light within and around you. You will leave feeling nourished in body, steady in spirit, open in heart, and connected to a community of kindred souls carrying the warmth and clarity of the solstice into the months ahead.
Register Here: 👉🏼 /event/summer-solstice-sacred-circle-journey-of-light-sound/
The Fires of Shakti: A Musical Celebration of Life & Renewal
Sat, May 16
8:00 PM
Admission $25 / members $20 / included in overnight guest rate
Click Here for Tickets
https://anandaashram.secure.retreat.guru/program/the-fires-of-shakti-a-musical-celebration-of-life-renewal/?form=1&lang=en
A heart-opening Kirtan. Fueled by sacred chanting, blissful melodies, and mesmerizing world class musicians.
SHAKTIPAT is a Kirtan band devoted to raising the collective consciousness, uplifting our children, opening hearts, and chanting with wild devotion, bringing communities together in unity and love.
Rev. Kim Lesley, vocals, harmonium & drums is a professional musician, offering Kirtan for over 25 years in NYC at multiple yoga and spiritual healing centers. This has included singing and drumming in Gaura Vani and Jahnavi Harrison’s bands and attending Kirtan for 30 years at Shri Shri Radha Govinda Temple BK, Siddha Yoga and Ananda Ashram. Rev. Kim, Jenni and Avi keep Kirtan alive Wednesday evenings at Ananda Ashram.
Priestess Jenni Shanti, vocals, has spent the majority of her life immersed in music and prayer. Her roots go back to the Siddha Yoga Ashram which laid the foundation for her spiritual path. She is devoted to Opening Hearts and Inspiring Minds.
Drummer, percussionist, author, Todd Isler has toured and studied around the globe, soaking up the flavors of Africa, India, Brazil, Japan, and many European countries. Currently, Todd co leads International Orange and The Aeolian Trio, showcasing his ability on drum set as well as hand drums. He was a winner of the Jazziz Percussion on Fire Award, and the Disc Makers Unsigned Band contest. Todd has released 5 albums as a leader, two solo albums and three with International Orange. His playing and recording experience spans genres with world class musicians. He’s also the author of the critically acclaimed book, “You Can Ta Ka Di Mi This”, which incorporates the South Indian rhythm system to ground and expand one’s beat, now in its second printing. He has utilized these concepts for master classes at The Collective in NYC
We are so excited to announce our upcoming 200hr yoga teacher training at @anandaashram . We will meet for a 2 week live in immersion with continued study online and in person until October. This is one of the most comprehensive programs available. Please register before the end of May for the early bird special. Directors @heartofvinyasa and @kikayoga brings decades of expertise to this training.
Register online at: /event/ananda-ashram-200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-by-the-school-of-hatha-yoga/
Herbal Tea Time with Isabel, May 17, 1:30-2:45 pm
Sundays 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Rain or Shine
Location: Ananda Garden*
*In case of rain, meet at the greenhouse next to the garden
Tuition: Single Class: $25, Full Series $150
Register Here https://anandaashram.secure.retreat.guru/program/herbal-tea-time-with-isabel/?form=1&lang=en
Register for either the Entire Series or Individual Classes:
April 19
May 17
June 21
July 19
August 16
September 20
October 18
This is a series of classes devoted to the joy of creating herbal teas to support health and vitality.
Join Isabel for a monthly herbal tea series! Learn to make seasonally inspired and delicious teas, cold and hot infusions and decoctions with herbs in the kitchen cabinet, in the garden and growing wild in the landscape. Learn to blend and prepare herbal teas based on how you’re feeling and what’s available. We will enjoy a cup of tea and discussion on healing herbs for tea that are easily available to us.
Isabel Arrieche is a devotee of Mother Earth. Her faith is All is Given. Her practice is through daily preparation of nourishing meals and drinks that enliven the body, senses and spirit. She is a grower, forager, cook, medicine maker, and fermenter. Her foundation is in small-scale “beyond organic” farming, herbalism, cooking, value added products, gardening, permaculture, and environmental non profit work. She is inspired by traditional foods, food as medicine, and whatever is fresh, abundant, and available. She tends the Ananda Ashram garden and up and coming Ananda Cafe.
Meditation, Yogic Philosophy, and Science: Monthly Series with Paras (Kenneth) Pugh
Sun, May 17
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Suggested Donation to the Ashram: $20
This ongoing series uses different critical Yogic teachings, with a focus on biomedical and neuroscience connections, from Vedantic, Jain and Buddhist perspectives. Each time, the stage will be set with an exploration of different meditation techniques, to create a readiness for Svādhyāya (Self-study) and Bhāvana (contemplation). Group meditation with other seekers creates a very special energy. Our meditation practices and understanding of things are enriched when connected with systematic exploration of ancient and modern ideas on consciousness, brain and learning.
Topics we may want to explore together over time will include:
1. Brain structure, function, chemistry and plasticity
2. Genetics, brain and ideas of karma
3. Embodied cognition, language and intuition
4. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and consciousness
5. Meditation and general mental health
6. Meditation and intelligence (creativity, insight and wisdom)
To join via zoom please click here: https://yale.zoom.us/j/7297581197
Dr. Ken Pugh has been the Director of Research at Haskins Labs since 2009 and holds faculty appointments at both the University of Connecticut and at Yale University School of Medicine. His research program employs genetic, neuroimaging and cognitive methods to explicate the brain bases of typical and atypical language and reading development in children. At the age of sixteen, Dr. Pugh began seven years of training in the Jain monastic traditions and carries these experiences into his work on brain and cognition.
Clarity Through Creativity with Jan Greenfield
Sun, May 17
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Tuition: $125
Register Anandaashram.org/
This workshop is for people who feel stuck or uncertain around career and purpose, money and abundance, or love and relationships, or who are simply craving a creative reset. It’s especially helpful during moments of transition, when something feels like it’s shifting but clarity hasn’t yet landed.
This is not an art or writing class. It’s a guided clarity and decision-making process that uses drawing, image-making, and reflective writing as tools for insight. You’re encouraged to arrive with a question or dilemma you’d like clarity around, while remaining open to what may reveal itself.
No art or writing experience is needed. Only curiosity and a willingness to explore. Participants are welcome to bring a journal and any materials they enjoy working with, though nothing is required.
Participants often describe the process as deeply meaningful, and for some, genuinely transformative.
You’ll leave with:
*A visual reflection of your inner landscape
*A creative clarity tool you can return to again and again
*A stronger sense of direction, confidence, and self-trust
Inspired by the Painting Your Personal Mythology approach, the workshop uses intuitive prompts, visual storytelling, and journaling to bypass the inner critic and access clarity beneath the noise. The focus is not on technique or performance, but on listening, sensing, and translating inner signals into image and language.
Jan Lauren Greenfield is an award-winning screenwriter, author, artist, and podcast producer. Her work spans film, podcasts, and visual art, including Perfect Jewish Parents and StonerKatz, and has been featured in Italian Vogue, the Jerusalem Biennale, NPR, and The Times of Israel. She leads reflective, creative workshops that help people reconnect with clarity, self-trust, and what matters most. She lives and works in the lower Hudson Valley.
KIRTAN FESTIVAL at @anandaashram on June 26th - 28th!! Join us for a beautiful summer weekend filled with music, yoga, sound healing and connection!
We have a wonderful lineup of events and artists!
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@lesley.kim@kikayoga
Joyful Discipline with Yuval Samburski
Fri, May 08 to Sun, May 10
Tuition: $285
Register Here https://anandaashram.secure.retreat.guru/program/joyful-discipline-with-yuval-samburski/
Register for Overnight Stay: https://anandaashram.secure.retreat.guru/program/overnight-summer-lodging-package
Overnight Stay
Immerse yourself in a weekend of transformation and a celebration of Prana! Includes Yogic Practices, Sound Healing, Pranayama, UVYogaDance, Yoga Sutras study and more.
Being “on a spiritual path“ does not negate the honest struggles one faces. How to stay in disciplined practice while being compassionate and caring towards oneself? How to stay focused on spiritual study and at the same time be nourished on all levels? Join Yuval Samburski on an inward journey of healing vibrations, joy, self-expression, soul connection, study, and laughter.
Sthira-sukham asanam (Yoga Sutra 2.46) says: ‘Strong and easy must be your pose.’ Yoga practice must be both disciplined and joyous. We each must find our own unique answer.
This weekend’s focus will be on exploring the balance between play and work, freedom and structure. Then, return home with tools to stay in practice and on the path. All levels are welcome. A strong physical practice and knowledge of the Yoga Sutras or of Pranayama is not necessary to join this program.
Yuval Samburski is a Sound Healer, Yoga instructor, Teacher Trainer and mentor, E-500RYT, YACEP. Lead faculty at Kripalu Center and presenter at Omega Institute, he creates and leads programs, retreats and teacher trainings worldwide. Yuval is known for his soulful chanting, live-music sound healing sessions, Vinyasa Flow classes, Pranayama teachings, Restorative work, as well as UVYogaDance and UVYogaJam, joyous healing movements. With his mindful and fluid teaching style, Yuval provides a safe environment for students to make their own self-discoveries through practice. He is found to be personal, nurturing and humorous, allowing for a true teaching and learning experience between him and his students.
Find Yuval on Instagram @UVYBoogie .
“Bhava Sagara”
We are very much looking forward to coming to @anandaashram in Monroe, NY this August.
Please join us for an evening of Kirtan, Fellowship & Song.
Tickets available now at anandaashram.org
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#anandaashram #kirtan #bhajan #soma #somakirtan
