The Ananda Institute of Living Yoga has been established to train teachers who want to share the benefits and practices of yoga and meditation, and to deepen their own practice and understanding as well.

The Institute offers teaching certification training for yoga and meditation. These courses are open to any qualified student who wants the opportunity to study, practice, and experience yoga and meditation as a healthy, wholesome, creative, and transformative way of life and to meet others who share your ideals and interests. Enrollment in the Institute includes access to an Ananda staff teacher as a personal guide and mentor.

What is Yoga?

Yoga is more than a routine of beneficial stretches, though this is a good beginning. Yoga is more than sitting in silent meditation, for how can inner peace exist if it is not expressed in daily life through selfless service, kindness and compassion? Yoga is an attitude and a discipline that seeks solutions and harmony, whether at home, in the workplace, for our health, in our local community and in national and international relations.

Why Yoga?

Today’s fast paced world is over-stimulated and inclines towards restlessness and confusion. Yoga helps us find our center in a world with no center, no common culture, language, religion, customs or shared values. Yoga brings inner security and confidence in a world where no outward security exists. Yoga brings us true wealth in the form of vitality and creativity, in a world where no material wealth is safe. Yoga brings us contentment in a world that is bent upon stimulating material desires. Yoga brings us friends of like-mind in a world where relationships are often merely fleeting and transient.

As the practice of yoga postures and meditation continue to grow in popularity, more and more people are realizing that there’s more to “yoga” than just keeping the body fit and managing stress!

Nayaswami Hriman McGilloway,
Institute Director