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Community Yoga (at the Ananda Community)

  • Ananda Community 240 Monroe Dr Mountain View United States (map)

Sundays, 4-5pm
Led by Pooja, Offered in-person only

Gentle yoga session offered by Ananda yoga teachers on the community green. All levels welcome!

Ananda Yoga® brings yoga back to its original spiritual essence. Exercise and stress relief are only the beginning; the higher purpose of Ananda Yoga practice is to uplift your consciousness. To accomplish that, you’ll work not only with the physical asanas, but also with pranayama (breathing and energy-control techniques), yogic meditation techniques, and applied yoga philosophy.

Donations welcome and will support the Ananda community and Ananda palo alto yoga ministry.

What is the Practice Like

Yoga posture practice in Ananda Yoga® is gentle for beginning students, becoming more challenging with experience. It is an inwardly directed practice, and is never aggressive or aerobic.

The primary emphases are:

  • Safety and correct alignment

  • Being relaxed at all times, even during the midst of effort

  • Working directly with the body’s subtle energy via the yoga postures

  • Using the power of the mind to increase and direct subtle energy

  • Adaptation – modifying each yoga posture to fit the needs and abilities of the practitioner

Our team
Pooja Bhakta (Copley)
Pooja Bhakta (Copley)

Pooja Bhakta (Copley) is long time devotee and Kriya yogi, and a certified teacher of Yoga and meditation. She grew up in Kolkata, India and later moved to the United stated to pursue a career in hi-tech. She lived and served at the Ananda Center of Laurelwood, Gaston, Oregon from 2011 to 2018. Before moving to the Ananda community here, she lived at the Ananda community in Portland. She is warm and personable, and always willing to help and serve in numerous ways both at the Ananda temple and the community.

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