Ananda Dallas Meditation & Yoga Center

We welcome you to our Ananda Sangha House in the spirit of community support for whatever your spiritual aspirations may be! Transform with us! (You can join us online as well if you can’t make it in person)

Sunday Satsang at Ananda is inspired by the meditation tradition of the East and the ancient teachings of mystical Christianity, with inspirational readings from both the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. Service usually includes purification, chanting, affirmations, and meditation as well.

On the second Sunday of each month we invite one of Ananda’s most prominent teachers and leaders from around the world to join us online and share with us. We still come together in person and do the first part of the satsang as our traditional Sunday service with chanting, affirmations and readings and then at 11:00am we spend the last hour online with our special guest.

This week Dana Anderson join us from Ananda Village, CA.

About Our Guest

Nayaswami Sudarshan Simpson was born in Southern California in 1948. His mother’s family were Nevada and California pioneers, and his father’s were Colorado miners and ranchers. His Mom was a writer and his Dad was an executive at Douglas Aircraft Corporation.
Sudarshan graduated from University of California, San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. He first visited Ananda Village in May 1974, joined the Sacramento Ananda meditation group, and moved to the Village in February 1976. He met Nayaswami Savitri Simpson at the Ananda Meditation Retreat and they were married in 1980.
He was in charge of buildings and grounds at the Meditation Retreat, managed the Ananda Print Shop, was minister at Ananda’s Ocean Song community, and San Diego center, and minister and community manager at Ananda Mountain View Community. At Ananda Village, Sudarshan has worked for Ananda Design and Construction and Ananda Property Services in a wide variety of construction areas including plumbing, electrical, mechanical and site utilities for Ananda buildings.
His most recent projects include overseeing construction of site utilities for Ananda’s new Temple of Light, remodeling buildings at Ananda Village to provide more housing, training younger workers to rebuild utility lines, leading online meditations and a long-running Bhagavad Gita study group on Zoom and in-person.
Sudarshan’s interests include meditation, seclusion, writing and poetry, communing with God in nature, acting, storytelling, teaching classes, spiritual counseling, being a divine friend and creative solutions to material world problems.
He wrote a booklet for beginners on the practice of seclusion which has proved useful to numerous people over many years, and continues what he calls “Adventures in Consciousness” in his annual seclusions, which continue to be inspiring and joyful.
He is an Ananda Lightbearer minister, a Nayaswami in the Nayaswami Order and a Sevaka Life Vow member of Ananda’s Sevaka Order.
Sudarshan and Savitri currently live in a geodesic dome home in the Ranikhet housing cluster at Ananda Village.

10:00am Welcome, & Opening Prayer, Chanting
10:15am Meditation
10:45am Affirmation from Affirmations for Self-Healing
10:50am Offertory and announcements
10:55am Reading Bible & Bhagavad Gita readings and commentary from Rays of the One Light
11:00am: Introduce Nayaswami Sudarshan!

Sunday Satsang at Ananda is inspired by the meditation tradition of the East and the ancient teachings of mystical Christianity, with inspirational readings from both the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. Service usually includes purification, chanting, affirmations, and meditation as well.

✨ Dana Andersen is coming to Dallas! ✨
Join us for a weekend of art, inspiration, and spiritual connection:

🎨 Friday – Book presentation ($20, free with workshop)
🌟 Saturday – Full-day workshop ($108–$180, sliding scale)
🙏 Sunday – Sunday Service with Dana

⚠️ Only 15 spots available for Saturday’s Workshop!
This is your chance to reconnect with your creativity and let the divine express itself through art.

📅 Final registration: May 10 (Dana will also join us via Zoom that day).

✨ Guess who’s back at Ananda Dallas? Our beloved Maitri returned for an unforgettable Easter Retreat 2026 Rise and Shine! 🌸 She completed a very special project — the Sangha House labyrinth, a true gift of love and inspiration.

Infinite gratitude to this great soul who fills everything she touches with light 💫
And thank you, dear Zunny and Patrica #, for nurturing our garden with so much love, and to everyone who contributed.

Javi gurú 🙏