The Chakras: Practical Spiritual Tools for Self-Realization
With Nayaswami Krishna Das and Peter Kretzmann
March 6 - 8, 2026
Turning Timeless Truths into Daily Practice
Regain Your Inner Source of Energy
Are you looking for a simple, reliable way to feel more centered, focused, and spiritually aligned in the midst of a busy life? In this retreat, you’ll work directly with your chakras—the vital transfer points between your soul and body that serve as distribution centers for your life-force. Drawing from Paramhansa Yogananda’s practical teachings, you’ll learn how to activate and harmonize your inner energy system to bring clarity, balance, and daily spiritual guidance. As you unlock and release energy stored from past experiences and karma, you’ll experience firsthand how to shift your thoughts, feelings, and will—restoring inner peace, vitality, and trust in your own highest Self.
Most importantly, you will gain tools you can actually use — simple, repeatable practices that integrate spiritual realization into your work, relationships, purpose, creativity, and daily choices.
In this retreat you will experience how to:
- Locate and un-block your chakras
- Develop a working understanding of their function and power
- Increase the flow of life-force in your astral body
- Use the chakras for healing of body, mind and soul
- Cooperate with Kundalini Energy
- Bring forth your soul nature and highest potential
- Decipher the inner map of your spiritual unfoldment
- Recharge your daily and spiritual life
- Bring the many aspects of your being into harmony and balance
Understanding the Chakras Role in Your Spiritual Evolution
Learn about your chakras: how to access, balance, and direct your life-force consciously. Instead of your energy being accidental, drained, or reactive it becomes a reliable, steady flow that supports you in daily life, relationships, purpose, career, and choice.
Align Thought, Feeling & Will
Experience how subtle energy and consciousness shape your reality from within. Discover practical tools to harmonize mind, heart, and intention — so your inner world becomes coherent, empowered, and magnetic.
Live From Your Highest Self, Not Your Habits
Break out of old reactive patterns by understanding the energetic origin beneath them. Learn how to choose from soul-clarity rather than conditioned responses — so your actions, speech, boundaries, creativity, and service reflect your true divine nature.
Embody Spiritual Truth in Daily Life
Transform spirituality from concept into lived expression. When you understand the nature of the chakras, and what each one represents, you gain deeper and clearer insights into your strengths and challenges. With the tools and techniques that yoga offers, you can begin making the inner changes that lead to genuine, lasting transformation in your life.
Return to Peace, Purpose & Radiance
As energy flows freely again, inner peace becomes natural, devotion becomes effortless, and your life becomes guided from within — not driven from the outside. This is the path of Self-Realization lived through your body, mind, your chakras, and your soul consciousness.
Live your life from your Highest Self and return to your original alignment by awakening the energy of your chakras. Learn to harness this powerful life force in daily life — so you can live from clarity, peace, wisdom, and radiant power long after this retreat ends.
About the Hosts
Nayaswami Krishna Das
Nayaswami Krishna Das books and manages the many guest groups that The Expanding Light hosts, leads pilgrimage trips to holy places in India and the U.S., teaches weekend retreats, and gives spiritual counseling to guests. He came to Ananda in 1978 and immediately found his home and purpose in life at Ananda. An exceptionally knowledgeable […]
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Peter Kretzmann
Ananda Yoga and Meditation® Teacher, E-RYT 500 Born and raised at Ananda Village, Peter has served as a teacher, musician, and friend through Ananda Los Angeles and Ananda Worldwide. His particular passion is to share these timeless truths in a relatable and practical manner to inspire others in their own journeys. He also owns MeditationBench.com, a family-run […]
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