How to Achieve Glowing Health and Vitality

Date
July 25 - 27, 2025

Retreat Highlights

  • Practice Ananda Yoga to awaken energy and awareness
  • Learn yogic principles for diet, posture, and vitality
  • Cultivate inner peace through daily meditation
  • Discover the power of magnetism and energy control
  • Replace limiting habits with positive new patterns
  • Receive personalized support for lasting lifestyle changes
  • Explore practical steps to improve attitude and mindset
  • Deepen your connection with your higher Self
  • Enjoy nourishing vegetarian meals in a serene setting
  • Receive a free copy of How to Achieve Glowing Health and Vitality

About this Retreat

Details of this retreat

Boost Your Energy and Transform Your Wellbeing 
Have you been yearning to transform your lifestyle and health habits, yet feel stuck and unable to move forward? Are you ready to achieve greater balance in your life? To creatively and proactively diminish stress?
Ignite Your Life Force
Many seek to improve health solely through diet, exercise, and other physical techniques. While these are important, the great yoga master Paramhansa Yogananda tells us that energy and magnetism are the keys to glowing health. Vitality is developed from the inside out. Learn the true source to living with radiant health by using time-tested, ancient yogic techniques.
Proven Steps to Transform Your Life

Cultivate inner peace and tranquility
Practice Ananda yoga for higher awareness
Learn secrets of right diet, posture, and physical health
Incorporate daily meditation to boost mental strength and promote serenity
Change unhelpful habits into positive ones
Learn techniques to discover your inner joy
Improve and change your attitudes
Deepen your connection with your higher Self

This program is designed to send you home equipped with practical tools and fresh insights, reenergized and empowered to embrace a more vibrant, happier lifestyle.

 

Receive a FREE book, How to Achieve Glowing Health and Vitality from the “Wisdom of Yogananda” series as part of your retreat experience

Schedule

Morning
6:30 – 8:00 am Community Meditation (Join us for all or part of this silent meditation)
6:30 – 8:15 am Sadhana (spiritual practices) which consists of: Energization Exercises (20 – 25 min), Ananda Yoga Postures * (45 – 50 min), Chanting (5 min), Meditation (15 min – 30 min)
8:15 – 9:00 am Breakfast (in silence Monday-Saturday)
10:00 – 11:30 am Scheduled program, class, group activity, or free time
Afternoon
Noon – 12:30 pm Meditation (5 min chanting, 25 min meditation)
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
2:00 – 4:00 pm Scheduled program, class, group activity, or free time
4:45 – 6:30 pm Sadhana (spiritual practices)
Evening
6:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner
7:30 – 9:00 pm Scheduled program, class, group activity, or free time
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon Expanding Light Retreat

Directions

Yes, our retreat is a little out of the way. And once you get here, you’ll be glad it is!

Our address is 13930 Expanding Light Drive, Nevada City, CA. If using Google Maps. We are located 1.5 hours away from the Sacramento International Airport, as well as the Reno/Tahoe International Airport. If you need a ride to or from the bus, train, or plane, please contact us and we can share contact information for a drivers who have helped our guests in the past.

Accommodation

Most of our cozy rooms feature two twin beds, easily combined for couples. A limited number of queen and king beds are also available—simple, restful spaces designed for comfort and renewal.

PRIVATE ENSUITE - King

Accommodation
Equally appropriate for a single person or for a couple, a king private room can provide the peace and solitude you crave. This airy room has a king-sized bed with a private, ensuite bathroom. An inviting outdoor space awaits you outside your front door, surrounded by a serene, forest setting.

PRIVATE ENSUITE - Twin

Accommodation
Equally appropriate for a single person or for a couple, an ensuite private room can provide the peace and solitude you crave. These charming rooms have two twin beds with a private, ensuite bathroom. An inviting outdoor space awaits you outside your front door, surrounded by a serene, forest setting.

PRIVATE STANDARD - Queen

Accommodation
Equally appropriate for a single person or for a couple, enjoy your own peaceful room with a queen bed and a shared bathroom down the hall. Your room is simply and tastefully decorated, with windows opening toward the surrounding forest. A bright and airy communal lounge and kitchenette is available 24 hours a day, perfect for relaxing with a book or sharing a cup of tea with friends.

PRIVATE STANDARD - Twin

Accommodation
Equally appropriate for a single person or for a couple, enjoy your own peaceful room with two twin beds and a shared bathroom down the hall. Each room is simply and tastefully decorated, with windows opening toward the surrounding forest. A bright and airy communal lounge and kitchenette is available 24 hours a day, perfect for relaxing with a book or sharing a cup of tea with friends.

PRIVATE CABIN - Twin

Accommodation
Equally appropriate for a single person or for a couple, your private cabin is tucked into a gentle hillside, bright and airy inside, with expansive windows that connect your room to the surrounding forest. Each cabin has two twin beds, with a communal shower house that is centrally located and shared by other cabin guests, campers, and our karma yogis.

SHARED ENSUITE - Twin

Accommodation
Share this charming room with someone else. Each room has two twin beds with a private, ensuite bathroom. An inviting outdoor space awaits you outside your front door, surrounded by a serene, forest setting.

SHARED STANDARD - Twin

Accommodation
Share this charming room with someone else. Each room has two twin beds and a shared bathroom down the hall, and is simply and tastefully decorated, with windows opening toward the surrounding forest. A bright and airy communal lounge and kitchenette is available 24 hours a day, perfect for relaxing with a book or sharing a cup of tea with friends.

SHARED CABIN - Twin

Accommodation
Share this charming cabin with someone else. The cabins are tucked into a gentle hillside, bright and airy inside, with expansive windows that connect your room to the surrounding forest. Each cabin has two twin beds, with a communal shower house that is centrally located and shared by other cabin guests, campers, and our karma yogis.

CAMPING

Accommodation
Fourteen campsites scatter across a gentle, forested hillside, with level areas for pitching your tent. A centrally located shower house is close by, shared by other campers, cabin guests, and our karma yogis. Please bring your own camping gear and towels. We do live amidst bears and other wildlife, so avoid storing any food or scented toiletries in your tent.

RV

Accommodation

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms icon A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi icon Free Wifi
Spa icon Spa
Sauna icon Sauna
Pool icon Pool
Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
Kitchen icon Kitchen
Tour Assistance icon Tour Assistance
Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea icon Coffee/Tea
Cafe icon Cafe
Restaurant icon Restaurant
Fitness Center icon Fitness Center
Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
Housekeeping icon Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent icon Bicycles For Rent
For over 45 years, The Expanding Light Retreat has been a sacred haven for groups seeking inspiration, clarity, and connection. Nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills, our campus features an octagonal Teaching Temple, sunlit dining room, garden-view piazza, and a range of lodging options—from deluxe en-suites to cozy cabins and tent sites. Enjoy three nourishing vegetarian/vegan/GF meals daily, and peaceful gardens and meadows.

Meals

Menu Types

Enjoy three nourishing, organic vegetarian meals daily, with always-available vegan and gluten-free options. All-you-can-eat buffet. Fresh fruit, coffee, and tea are offered throughout the day.

What's Included

  • 3 Organic Vegetarian Meals per day
  • 2 Yoga and Meditation sessions per day
  • Accommodations

What's Not Included

  • Airfare
  • Massages or other healing services (additional charge)
  • Private sessions, such as yoga, yoga therapy, spiritual counseling (additional charge)

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