Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi are dynamic emissaries of Paramhansa Yogananda, spiritual master whose best-selling book, Autobiography of a Yogi, sparked a revolution of yoga and meditation in the West. Living examples of spiritual values in action, Jyotish and Devi travel the world, sharing Yogananda’s teachings, and blessing people with the practical and heart-opening path of Kriya Yoga.

Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi are Spiritual Directors of Ananda, a global movement of spiritual communities, centers, and meditation groups—people living the change they want to see in the world. Guided by the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, Ananda will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2019.

Touching each person with friendship, Jyotish and Devi’s clear, centered energy delivers spiritual insight with a delightful joy in people’s individual paths. They offer a rare example of successful spiritual partnership, living yogic values through their marriage, parenting, and organizational leadership. Each year, Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi spend four months teaching in Europe and throughout India, touching thousands of people.

With his best-selling book, How to Meditate: A Step by Step Guide to the Art and Science of Meditation, Jyotish Novak has touched over 250,000 people with meditation. With her book, Faith Is My Armor: The Life of Swami Kriyananda, Devi Novak illuminated the life of one of Yogananda’s most prolific disciples. Together, Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi wrote Touch of Light, after their popular blog illuminating Yogananda’s teachings for spiritualizing daily life.

For nearly 50 years, Jyotish and Devi trained and worked side-by-side with Swami Kriyananda building Ananda. Jyotish and Devi took nayaswami vows when Swami Kriyananda founded the new swami order for married as well as single people of all faiths and paths who wished to commit their lives to God. Some years before his passing in 2013, Kriyananda named Nayaswami Jyotish as dharmacharya, his spiritual successor. “Joy is who we are.”

— Nayaswami Devi

“ Jyotish and Devi exemplify the most honorable and effective qualities of Westerners who represent Eastern spiritual traditions: faithful emissaries of Yogananda and his lineage and respectful of the social customs where they teach; able to adapt ancient teachings to the modern world without distorting or diluting them.”

- Philip Goldberg, American Veda: From Emerson and the

Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West

Founded in 1969, Ananda worldwide today includes:

M 7 modern ashram communitiesM 5 retreat centersM 5 schools (nonsectarian, pre-K through high school)M 3 organic farmsM Over 145 meditation groups and teaching centers in 28 countries, and online

Living in an Ananda community offers a complete yogic life: small, egalitarian village communities guided by spiritual values; meditation and yoga training; devotional community celebrations.

In Seattle, Portland, Palo Alto, Ananda Village, and in Assisi, Italy, Living Wisdom Schools offer accredited, nonsectarian education that builds inner and outer world success for pre-K through high school students from around the world.

Ananda serves people worldwide with training and guidance for meditation, Kriya Yoga initiation, as well as accredited certification programs for yoga teachers, meditation teachers, and yoga therapists. Members and guests at Ananda enjoy a vegetarian diet and a drug-, alcohol-, and tobacco-free environment.

Jyotish and Devi lead Ananda’s largest annual retreat programs: Spiritual Renewal Week, Inner Renewal Week, and the Kriyaban Retreat.

“Ananda” means bliss: ever new, ever expanding joy.

Like Buddha, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama, Yogananda taught universal spiritual truths, and practical ways to live every day with higher consciousness. His mission was twofold: to illuminate the underlying unity between original Christianity and original Yoga, and to share Kriya Yoga with the West.

Ananda Worldwide

Contact: Jacqueline Debets Public RelationsAnanda530-478-7765pr@ananda.org

“The surest path to happiness is to help others be happy.”

—Nayaswami Jyotish, 30-Day Essentials for Career

“When done deeply, meditation gives you an expanded sense of

connection with life and an experience of profound joy.”

—Nayaswami Jyotish,How to Meditate

Written by Jyotish Novak:

Lessons in Meditation

30-Day Essentials for Marriage

30-Day Essentials for Career

Meditation Therapy™ and the companion 3-volume video series

How to Meditate: A Step by Step Guide to the Art and Science of Meditation

Edited by Devi Novak for Swami Kriyananda:

The Light of Superconsciousness

Intuition for Starters

“The challenge of our world, and our lives, is a precious spiritual

opportunity,”

say Nayaswamis Jyotish & Devi.

“Let us raise our consciousness

to the occasion.”

Press Kit

The SPEAKING TREE