Self-realization and Service to Humanity

Ananda Marga Canada:
The Path of bliss

"Keeping good company is essential for this positive development. While bad company strengthens the bondage of the soul, good company is conductive to liberation and salvation"
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Testimonials

The Ananda Marga Intuition retreat was deeply enriching for me🙏 Especially on the feminine level. Reconnecting with my sisters in a space filled with kindness, consciousness, softness, and expansion was truly magical. But what touches me even more is seeing people from all around the world gathered together in the middle of Rang Saint-Louis, in Saint-André-Avellin, Quebec. Watching this collective energy naturally emerge. Watching people unite through both their differences and their similarities. Being allowed to exist authentically, to share our talents, reflections, and vulnerabilities without judgment. Ananda Marga means “the path of inner bliss,” the path toward that deep inner peace that already lives within us. And I’m beginning to understand that this inner ecstasy doesn’t come only from working on oneself… it also appears in those moments where, together, we stop feeling separate. During the retreat, nature was everywhere. The sunlight moved through the trees like a silent blessing. The earth, the sky, the bodies, the chants, the breath… everything felt connected for a moment. As if the boundaries disappeared and we became part of one living whole again. Every moment I spend with this community reminds me why I am on this Earth, and how important respect, contemplation, and human connection truly are 🌞🌿

Catherine Nitrof

38 y.o.

The retreat in Anada Kanak was a very beautiful experience for me. It was very special to spend a weekend in the company of spiritual practitioners. I had many thought-provoking conversations, inspiring moments and genuine connections with beautiful people. This place is very calm and welcoming, inviting for deep self-reflection and a spiritual journey. I will definitely come back again if an opportunity arises.

Alexandra Volokhova

29 y.o.

Upcoming Retreats

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Yoga & Meditation

We usually identify our existence with our position in society, our friends and family, the needs and desires of our body, and the emotional and intellectual expressions of our mind. But we rarely take the time to contemplate the real nature of our existence; to ask the question, “Who am I?”

We all have the feeling of existence; of “I exist”. That “I am” feeling dictates our thoughts, our memories, our feelings and our actions. It defines who we are as individuals. It is our identity of our mind with our body and with the world around us.

If we take the time and the effort to look deeper into our “I am” feeling we would find a deeper sense of being: a deeper “self”. The realization of that experience is not merely one of “I am”, but the more profound experience of “I know that I am”. That “I” of “I know” is the essence of our existence: pure consciousness. And the realization of that consciousness – our inner self – is called self-realization.

OUR projects

In 1987 the founder of Ananda Marga, Shrii P. R. Sarkar, emphasized the need to create self-sustainable rural units that he named Master Units. Our members in Canada took up the challenge to establish Master Units and purchased the land and house of Ananda Kanak. The Master Units (MU) serve the community and act as the spiritual and social hub of the neighborhood. Amongst the main goals of Master Units is to achieve self-sustainability in food, clothing, housing, education, and medical, and to encourage research in all of these aspects in an ecological, cooperatively run project. Those goals require community engagement and the cooperation of several people. The first goal will always be to be self-sufficient with food.