Ananda Washington

✨ Vibes High: A Healing Retreat ✨

📅 August 1, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT

Ready for a powerful mind, body, and spirit reset?

Join long-time Ananda members Steve Bonnell and Melissa Yaden at the beautiful Heart Song Retreat for an uplifting day of chanting, creativity, and sound healing designed to elevate your vibration and deepen your connection with the Divine.

🎶 Chanting
Experience both beloved and lesser-known chants as we explore the transformative power of the voice. Through devotional chanting, we'll energize the throat center, strengthen intuition, and create a deeper connection between the heart and mind.

🎨 Healing Through Creativity
Creativity is one of our most sacred gifts. Whether you're an artist, hobbyist, or simply curious about awakening your creative spirit, this session will offer inspiration, practical tools, and insights into how creativity can support healing, joy, peace, and love.

🔔 Sound Healing
Relax deeply with the ancient practice of singing bowl sound healing. Used for centuries in Nepal, Tibet, and beyond, these sacred vibrations help quiet the mind, soothe the body, and create space for Divine awareness. We'll conclude the day with a healing sound bath to integrate our journey together.

💫 Early Bird Special: $80 (through June 14)
💫 Regular Price: $95

Your registration includes:
✔️ Full retreat program
✔️ Program materials
✔️ Sound bath healing session
✔️ Nourishing snacks and refreshments throughout the day

Come raise your vibration, awaken your creativity, and reconnect with your highest self. We can't wait to share this special day with you! 💖

💰✨ The Yoga of Money ✨💰

📅 Sunday, June 14, 2026
🕛 12:00–2:00 PM (following Service)
📍 Blue Lotus Temple or online via Zoom
💙 Cost: Donation

You are warmly invited to a roundtable forum exploring the spiritual aspects of financial responsibility and material success.

Paramhansa Yogananda described the ability to make money “industriously and honestly” as an important spiritual practice that helps the soul evolve toward Self-realization. When we offer our skills, resources, and success back to God in a spirit of service and non-attachment, they become blessed many times over.

Together, we will share practical skills, spiritual principles, and inspiring stories from the lives of those who have successfully brought Spirit into their work and daily lives. Drawing on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda, we will explore how to spiritualize our intentions and align material success with higher values.

Topics may include:
• The importance of intention
• Non-attachment to results while maintaining energy and enthusiasm
• Failure as the road to success
• There are no obstacles—only opportunities
• Adapting to change
• Concentration
• Skill, luck, or karma?
• How success can serve a spiritual work
• The practice of tithing
• Is honesty a burden to success?
• Developing skills
• Choosing a co-owner or employee
• Staff relations
• Debt, vendors, and creditors

All are welcome!

The Yoga of Money
June 14, 2026 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm PDT
Blue Lotus Temple, Bothell.

You are invited to a roundtable forum to discuss the spiritual aspects and techniques of financial responsibility and material success. Paramhansa Yogananda described the skill and goal of making money “industriously and honestly” as an important spiritual practice for the soul’s evolution toward Self-realization. Any skill or possession that we offer back to the source of Life in a spirit of service and non-attachment becomes blessed many times over.

In this roundtable we will share skills, practices and techniques together with the counsel given to us by Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda that we might clarify our goals and spiritualize our intentions around material success. Individuals will share stories from the lives of successful people who have brought “Spirit to work” in the world.

Topics may include:

Date: Sunday, June 14th, 12-2pm (after Service)
Location: Blue Lotus Temple
Cost: Donation
Questions? Please contact us.
The importance of intention
Non-attachment to results vs energy and enthusiasm
Failure as the road to success;
There are no obstacles: only opportunities
Adapting to change
Concentration
Skill, luck or karma?
How success can serve a spiritual work
The practice of tithing
Is honesty a burden to success?
Developing skills
Choosing a co-owner or employee
Staff relations
Debt, vendors, and creditors

Cost: By Donation

All are welcome!

Guided Meditations to Recharge and Refresh Your Practice
June 13, 2026 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Blue Lotus Temple

We invite you to energize and inspire your meditation practice using guided meditations and insights into refinements and variations on meditation practices, together with time for sharing with one another.

Guided meditations will be designed to refresh and recharge all three aspects of our triune nature: intellect, feeling and will. Practices will include chanting, Hong Sau meditation (watching the breath), pranayama, visualization, affirmation and inner silence.

Presented by Nayaswami Hriman, a lifelong meditator and an Ananda kriyacharya, Hriman will share from his years of practice and teaching meditation and meditation teachers.

For more information and to register visit the link in the comments.

✨ Spiritual Counseling Open House ✨
📅 June 7 | 12:00–1:00 PM- FREE
Curious about the Spiritual Counseling Course? Join us for a free Open House!
Nayaswami Padma, the course leader, along with a team of experienced Ananda teachers, will share details about the program and answer your questions.
Attend in person at Blue Lotus Temple or join us online via Zoom.
To join by Zoom, click the link in the comments.

What our students say:
S.T.: "I learned just as much about my own spiritual development as I did
about Spiritual Counseling. I would definitely recommend it!"

N.C.: "This course is something everyone should take if they want to be a
better friend, parent or partner to anyone. Don’t wait. Take it twice!"

M.J.: "You will come out of this course completely transformed, highly
recommend it! It will help and deepen your connection with students."

We look forward to seeing you there!