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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

What Do You Want?

Can one shift from body identification to spiritual awareness?

Through yoga practice we seek to turn within to contact the atman, the true self. Meditation and other yogic practices allow us to better understand life’s events and choose a course which leads to fulfillment. Discover how you can contact the inner self and allow its wisdom and love to express in your life.

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Turn Within

Through yoga study, meditation and insight, we begin to understand and accept responsibility for the internal and external chaos in our life. We seek to change our direction. Having often been focused on matter, confusion and delusion, we now wish to return to Spirit.

We aim to turn our consciousness away from identification with the body/mind and move toward attunement with the inner self, the perfect atman.

  • Our internal state influences external events and how people treat us
  • If we want to change our life, we first need to understand the causes involved
  • Yogis advise that we change directions, turning from identification with the body and mind to focusing on Spirit
  • The atman, the inner self, is all-wise, all-knowing and all-loving
  • Yogis seek to prepare the body, mind and nervous system to allow the atman to express
  • Commit time and energy to your sadhana (spiritual practice) while balancing service and recreation

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