Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility

How much energy do old hurts, resentment, guilt, or lingering emotional patterns quietly take from your life? This retreat offers a supportive space to step back from reactivity and reconnect with a more centered, expressive, and peaceful way of being. Even when we have sincere spiritual intentions, habits from the past can surface unexpectedly and disturb our sense of calm. Excessive attachment, excitement, anger, negativity, or depression can also pull us off balance.

Through guided practices and uplifting teachings, you’ll explore how to release inner conflict and meet life with greater clarity. The retreat draws on meditation, yoga, nature, and spiritual wisdom rooted in the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, creating an environment where you can reflect, renew, and reconnect with your highest Self.

What you’ll experience:

• Identify and release core emotional patterns that create disharmony and inner conflict
• Experience the Full Circle Emotional Awareness Exercises, a guided process for understanding, integrating, and transcending 26 key emotions
• Learn how to stay even-minded and cheerful without suppressing your feelings or “spiritually bypassing”
• Gain tools for working with anger, fear, and sadness, and transforming them into strength, calmness, and understanding
• Enjoy a supportive community and soul-nourishing space to express yourself, reflect, and renew
• Connect with your highest Self through meditation, yoga, nature, and timeless spiritual wisdom

September 11 – 13

At The Expanding Light Retreat
2-Day Retreat
All Meals Included
Twice Daily Yoga and Meditation
FREE book!

Insights and Skills for a New Way of Being

• Turn harmful emotions into constructive self-expression — Learn to transform difficult emotions into clarity, creativity, and inner strength rather than suppressing or reacting to them.
• Understand the difference between emotion and feeling — Gain insight into reactive emotions and deeper intuitive feelings so you can respond with greater calm and wisdom.
• Work with emotions—when to control, and how to avoid repression — Discover practical tools for managing emotional energy skillfully while maintaining balance.
• Master the keys to redirecting destructive emotional energy — Learn techniques to channel anger, fear, and restlessness into positive, life-supporting directions.
• Attract the circumstances you need to succeed — As your inner state becomes more harmonious, supportive people and opportunities naturally begin to appear.
• Consciously draw upon the “success powers” of your Inner Self — Access intuition, confidence, joy, and clarity to meet life with purpose and ease.

What’s Included in Your Stay

• Your Room — Choose from a range of accommodations, from a cozy cabin to a private ensuite room.
• Your Meals — All-you-can-eat vegetarian meals are included, so you can relax and enjoy the retreat.
• Activities — Philosophy and experiential activities, including yoga and meditation sessions.
• Free Handbook — Every participant receives a complimentary copy of Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility by Swami Kriyananda.

Prices and Accommodations

Serenity House is an inn-style house with twelve rooms and four shared hallway bathrooms. Most rooms have two twin beds, with queen or converted king options available in limited quantities and by special request. Each room includes a bedside table, wardrobe, and mini split heating/cooling unit. Guests also have access to a centrally located lounge with a television, video player, and library of inspirational videos and books, plus a small kitchenette with tea and a refrigerator for personal items.

Standard Shared — $424
Standard Private — $578

Harmony House rooms include a private entrance, private bathroom, desk, mini split heating/cooling unit, ceiling fan, and hairdryer. The house reflects Yogananda’s expansive approach to religion, with each room decorated in the theme of one of the great world religions.

Ensuite Shared — $510
Ensuite Private — $750

Cabins offer one larger, more private room than other standard accommodations. Cabin guests share separate men’s and women’s shower houses about a minute’s walk away. All cabins have A/C.

Shared Cabin — $408
Private Cabin — $546

Tent/RV — $346

Tent camping is available on varied campsites, and RVs are welcome year-round. Please note that there are no RV hookups or facilities. All meals are included for tenters and RVers. Because of wild animals, food is not allowed in the tenting area, and tent spaces do not include cooking or picnic facilities. Guests may use the refrigerator on the outside deck behind the kitchen. Tenters must bring their own gear. This is fire country, so no campfires, candles, kerosene lamps, or open flames are allowed.

Extend Your Stay, Deepen Your Peace

If you’d like more time to rest, recharge, and go deeper, you can arrive early or stay longer with a flexible Personal Retreat option. Add extra nights during registration and enjoy yoga, meditation, and nature at your own pace.

FAQs

• Do I need prior experience with yoga or meditation? Not at all. This retreat is open to all levels, including beginners.
• What is included in my retreat price? Three vegetarian meals per day, tea, coffee, and fruit throughout the day, twice daily yoga and meditation sessions, classes and activities, and lodging based on your selection.
• What is not included? Airport transport, additional healing services such as massage or spiritual counseling, and extra snacks from the community market.
• Check-in / Check-out — Check-in is 3 pm to 5 pm, and check-out is 11 am.

Your Guide for the Weekend
Nayaswami Hansa brings a warm, compassionate presence and teaches with practical wisdom shaped by years of experience in family life, career, and spiritual practice. She has served as spiritual director at the Ananda Tucson Center, where she taught meditation, raja yoga, and Kriya preparation courses, and has supported many people as a spiritual counselor.

What Past Guests Have Shared
“I am back to me!”
“Wow, this course is a real blessing for me.”
“This course is extremely useful and practical.”
“This handbook is worth 10 times the class.”