Essential Attitudes for Success on the Spiritual Path

With Asha Nayaswami

January 29 - February 1, 2026

Location: The Expanding Light Retreat

Address: 13930 Expanding Lgt Dr, Nevada City, CA, USA

  • SHARED ENSUITE - Twin – $717.00
  • SHARED STANDARD - Twin – $593.00
  • SHARED CABIN - Twin – $569.50
  • CAMPING – $479.00

Discover the Keys to Lasting Success and Fulfillment on Your Spiritual Path

Are you seeking clarity on how to experience true success and happiness in your spiritual journey? Or perhaps you’re looking to refine your inner approach to align more deeply with your highest aspirations.

The real difference, and determining factor, between progress and discouragement on the spiritual path isn’t about mastering techniques or rituals — it’s all about attitude. Too often, spiritual seekers get caught up in chasing results. Then, when progress doesn’t appear as expected, disillusionment can creep in and derail the entire journey. But with the right inner attitude, you gain the resilience and inspiration to keep going — no matter the obstacles.

Join popular spiritual teacher and international lecturer, Asha, author of several acclaimed books on spiritual living, for a transformative weekend retreat. 

Together, you’ll explore powerful, universal principles that support steady, joyful progress on any spiritual path. You’ll gain tools to cultivate an unshakable inner compass — one that empowers you to persevere until your spiritual goals are realized.

Some areas that will be explored:

Courage
We come on to the spiritual path in search of joy, but the way is strewn with thorns as well as roses. Every delusion must eventually be faced and overcome. To find God, we have to live and love heroically, meeting life’s tests with unwavering faith.

Positive thinking at all times
It isnt enough just to affirm right attitudes. We have to re-program our whole way of perceiving life. Ego wants ease and pleasure. The soul wants freedom. Every problem has a solution because all difficulties ultimately resolve into bliss. Why waste time in suffering and worry?

Even-minded and cheerful
This is an energy-based universe. Our reality is shaped by the quality of our magnetism, which is determined by our thoughts and feelings. When we succumb to the downward pulling forces of agitation and pessimism, it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. Calmness and joy brings victory over all challenges.

Serving the Divine in All
Everything in creation is a manifestation of God. Even the hardest times are just Divine Mother helping us to grow, to shift our understanding of life from What can I get?” to What can I give?” That is the path to freedom.

Living for God Alone
At the end of his life, Jesus gave his disciples a deeper teaching: “Eat my body and drink my blood.” These words, though mysterious, were a call to full surrender. Many turned away. Jesus asked Peter, “Will you also leave me?” Peter replied, “Lord, where could I go?” In that moment, he affirmed the ultimate realization: There is no other life but this — a life lived wholly for God.

No matter where you are on your journey, this retreat will help you walk your path with greater clarity, purpose, and joy.

 

About the Host

Asha Nayaswami

With warmth and wisdom, Asha weaves spiritual teaching into daily, ordinary life. She is a master teacher, considered by many to be one of the most nuanced and clear teachers of Yoga in the world today. Asha is a lifelong disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda. She studied and worked closely with his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, for 45 […]

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