
Clarifying Your Path. Deepening Your Practice. Walking with Purpose.
Are you standing at a crossroads, unsure which way to go? Or perhaps you’ve been walking your spiritual path for years but feel called to recalibrate and refocus? This transformative program is an opportunity to pause, reflect, and realign with the deepest truths of your being.
Where are you now? Where are you going? What will you need for the journey—and how will you find the strength to keep moving forward?
Guided by timeless wisdom and grounded in real-life experience, this program will help you chart a course that’s authentic, sustainable, and uniquely yours. Together, we’ll explore the landscape of spiritual awakening with clarity, honesty, and heart.
What We’ll Explore:
What Are You Seeking? Clarifying Your Spiritual Goal
Spirituality is not a theory, a checklist, or a demand to give up all that brings you joy. It is the sacred art of aligning your life with your soul’s purpose. Whether your path includes family, creativity, simplicity, or solitude, we’ll help you define a goal that resonates with your own nature—and your current reality.
Getting Started and Staying on the Path: Overcoming Resistance and Fear
Knowing what’s good for you isn’t always enough. Fear, inertia, and inner resistance can quietly sabotage even the sincerest intentions. Learn how to work with your nature, not against it—gently coaxing yourself toward growth through compassion, self-awareness, and love.
Thorns Among the Roses, Roses Among the Thorns: Coping with Spiritual Tests
Every path has its challenges. The key is not in avoiding them—but in transforming them. Discover how to see breakdowns as breakthroughs, and how even pain and confusion can become portals to deeper freedom and grace.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know (But Maybe Never Asked)
These open Q&A-style sessions are raw, real, and often surprisingly joyful. Ask anything. Share openly. You’re not alone in your struggles or your curiosity. This space invites honesty, laughter, vulnerability—and growth.
God Reads the Heart: Living from Love, Not Just Willpower
Discipline is valuable—but love is transformative. Learn how to tap into the deep well of devotion, sincerity, and longing within you. When spiritual practice flows from the heart, the journey becomes not only possible—but luminous.
This Program Is For You If…
Come as you are. Leave with a map.
And perhaps, even more importantly—with the courage and clarity to follow it.
Offered as 3 satsangs and 2 workshops (subject to change).
PLEASE NOTE: Due to limited room availability the day before this program begins, participants for this program can arrive on February 17, the day the program begins, as it begins at 8:00pm.
The presentations associated with this Yoga Vacation Program begin with an 8pm satsang on the first day of the program and conclude with an 8pm satsang on the last day of the program. Click here to read more about the Yoga Vacation Program details and view the ashram schedule for yoga classes and meals during your stay.

In 1969, when she was 22, Asha met Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda. Recognition was instantaneous. From that day to the present Asha has dedicated herself to learning and practicing the teachings of Yogananda as Swami Kriyananda taught them. She is a founding member of two Ananda spiritual communities, the first, Ananda Village, located in a rural area. The second, Ananda Palo Alto in Silicon Valley in California, where she has resided for the last 36 years. Asha is Ananda’s “Global Ambassador,” sharing the Guru’s teachings all over the world. She is the author of four books and has an extensive presence on YouTube and Instagram.
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