classes, events & satsangs

Loving, enthusiastic, energy personified — Shanti is an Ananda minister, life-long devotee, and a Stanford trained M.D. Her classes encompass all aspects of the spiritual path with a particular bent toward devotion, wellness, and healing.

All of Shanti’s talks are included on this page except Sunday sermons. Many of these classes were co-taught, and to preserve the flow of the topic, all of the teachers are included.

Recent | Healing | Raja Yoga | Devotion & Holidays

Recent

(date, descending)

Paramhansa Yogananda's Birthday Celebration
Shanti & others. • 1/5/2022
video | audio (01:20:25)

First Things First (Sunday service at Ananda Portland)
Shanti • 10/17/2021
video

Astral Ascension Ceremony for Uma Devi
Shanti & staff • 6/6/2021
video | audio

Kriyananda’s Birthday Celebration
Shanti • 5/19/21
video | audio 01:26:46 hr.
video of entire celebration  01:55:25 hr.

Celebrating Yogananda’s Birthday
Shanti & others • 1/5/21
video | audio    01:13:45

Secrets of Emotional Healing - New Online Course with Shanti
Shanti • 7/15/20
video | audio

Divine Inspiration: Satsang with Shanti
Shanti • 6/21/20
video | audio

The Beatitudes Retreat - Inner teachings of
Jesus through music, dance & talk
Shanti • 6/17/20
video | audio

Soul Consciousness not Ego
Consciousness, Part 2
Shanti • 6/13/20
video | audio

Spiritual Questions Answered - Q&A
(a series of 11 talks, below)

Spiritual Questions Answered
Introduction - Q&A
Shanti • 6/6/20
video | audio

Helping Family Members who are Not on a Spiritual Path - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

Difference between Suppression and
Self-Control - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

Overcoming the Fear of Rejection - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

Overcoming Trauma and Opening the
Heart - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

Racial Injustice and What We
Can Do - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

Protecting One's Self While Being
Empathic - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

What is Right Action? - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

How to Overcome Feeling Victimized - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

Letting Go of Judgement - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

Keeping Your Meditation Practice
Inspired - Q&A
Shanti • 6/7/20
video | audio

Soul Consciousness not Ego Consciousness
Shanti • 5/30/20
video | audio

Mistakes are what we make of them - Part 2
Shanti • 5/22/20
video | audio

Formal Renunciation - Is it necessary?
Shanti • 5/17/20
video | audio

Feeling vs Emotion
Shanti • 5/17/20
video | audio

Balance between Spirituality and Maya
Shanti • 5/17/20
video | audio

Mistakes are what we make of them - Part 1
Shanti • 5/17/20
video | audio

Serving others through prayer
Shanti • 5/16/20
video | audio

Focus on giving rather than receiving
Shanti • 5/16/20
video | audio

What is Intuition - Intuition vs Introspection
Shanti • 5/15/20
video | audio

Joy in the midst of suffering
Shanti • 5/15/20
video | audio

Impact of inner consciousness on global events
Shanti • 5/15/20
video | audio

Intuition and Inner Guidance
Shanti • 5/8/20
video | audio

The Source of Abundance, Part 2  
Shanti • 5/8/20
video | audio

The Source of Abundance, Part 1
Shanti • 5/1/20
video | audio

How to be Happy All the Time
Shanti • 4/28/20
video | audio

Paramhansa Yogananda’s Affirmations
Shanti • 4/27/20
video | audio

Swami Kriyananda’s Moksha Anniversary
Shanti • 4/21/20
video | audio

How to Know & Trust Your Inner Guidance
talk at Yogananda Fest
Shanti • 3/7/20
video | audio

Importance of Spiritual Communities
Shanti • 4/17/20
video | audio

Finding Happiness
Shanti • 4/16/20
video | audio

God's Love Flowing Through Us
Shanti • 4/13/20
video | audio

Conquering Fear
Shanti • 4/9/20
video | audio

We Are Energy
Shanti  • 4/3/20
video | audio

Life is a Battlefield
Shanti • 4/3/20
video | audio

A Tiny Bubble of Laughter
Shanti • 3/27/2020
video | audio

Becoming Saints
Shanti • 3/24/2020
video | audio

For This Moment Were We Born
Shanti • 3/20/2020
video | audio

The Beatitudes & Self-Realization
Shanti • 12/7/19
video | audio

Mainstays of the Spiritual Path - Attunement
Shanti • 7/10/19
audio

Making Spiritual Progress
Shanti • 6/22/19
audio

Our Spiritual Lineage: Paramhansa Yogananda
Shanti • 5/29/19
audio

Renunciation in Everyday Life
Shanti • 3/27/19
audio

Healing with God's Unlimited Power
Shanti • 11/3/18, Ananda Los Angeles
video

The Saints: Those Who Walked With God
Shanti & others, October, 2018
audio  Rajasi Janakananda
audio Anandamayi Ma
audio  St. Francis

Ananda Sadhaka Retreat
Shanti • 09/08/18
audio | video 

How to Use Your Chakras
in Everyday Life
Shanti & others • June, 2018
#1 audio Shanti  
#2 audio Shanti  
#3 audio Bhajana  
#4 audio Bhajana  

The Mystery of Avatara,
or Divine Incarnation
2/9/18
audio 0:33 

Death, Dying, Karma and Reincarnation
February, 2018
audio

Healing

(date, descending)

Yogananda 100: How to be truly well
Shanti • 8/1/20
video | audio

Secrets of Emotional Healing - New Online Course with Shanti
Shanti • 7/15/20
video | audio

Medicine & Spirituality
Shanti • 4/9/20
video | audio

A Miracle in a Hospital|
Shanti • 12/11/19
video | audio

Death, Dying, Karma and Reincarnation
February, 2018
audio

July, 2017
#1 audio Shanti
#2 audio Bhajana
#3 audio Amara
#4 audio Connie & Lahari

July, 2016
#1 video | audio Shanti
#2 audio Connie
#3 audio Lahari

April, 2014
#1 audio Asha
#2 audio Shanti
#3 audio Shanti
#4 audio Asha

Consciously Coping with Stress
audio • January, 2017
audio • March, 2016

How to Be Truly Well
Shanti, Rammurti & Sita, November, 2016
#1 audio | #3-part 1 audio
#2 audio | #3-part 2 audio

May 2014, Shanti & Connie
#1 audio | #3 audio 
#2 audio  | #4 audio 

March 12, 2014, Shanti, East West Bookshop
audio  

Understanding the Chakras,
in Sickness & in Health
audio • 9/28/16 at East West

Affirmation: Key to Transformation
audio • 2/24/16 at East West
audio | video • 10/17/15
audio • 1/18/14

Death & Dying as a Spiritual Journey
audio • 10/10/15
audio • 4/11/15

How to Pray
April 2015
Shanti & Lahari
#1  audio  
#2  audio
#3  audio
#4  audio