Ananda Meditation

Ananda Meditation


With Yogananda's Teachings


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2.2.3for iPhone, iPad and more
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Ananda Church of Self-Realization
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32.2 MB
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Jul 12, 2023
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About Ananda Meditation

Ananda Meditation: Guided Meditations and Techniques based on Yogananda's Teachings

Meditation is a pathway to the joy of your own soul. It’s easy to learn and rewarding but can take a lifetime to master. Wherever you are on your path, this app can help. Ananda has taught meditation to thousands of people around the world for nearly 50 years.

• Learn the ancient technique of Hong-Sau to focus your attention
• Over 100 guided meditations and techniques to inspire your practice, with more added regularly
• Use a timer to concentrate on your breath, not the length of the meditation
• Create your own custom meditations for the time you have available, and add chants, periods of silence, affirmations, and more
• Set reminders to establish or strengthen your daily meditation routine
• If you are a Kriyaban, access the dedicated Kriya Yoga section.

You can download meditations for offline viewing, including videos or just audio-only if you need to save bandwidth. A variety of guided experiences are available, including:

• Lessons in meditation
• Meditations led by teachers at the Ananda School of Yoga and Meditation
• Pranayama lessons and techniques taught by Nayaswami Gyandev, a co-founder of the Yoga Alliance
• Visualizations and guided meditations from Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda

Guided meditations include focuses on:
• Inner balance
• Healing
• Peace and joy
• Love
• Awakening the chakras
• Connecting to your divine power

Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings on meditation are intended not just to de-stress you, but to take you to a deep place of peace, wisdom, and bliss. Download the app now and experience it for yourself.

--- REVIEWS

"The app is really amazing. I have seen a ton of self help apps, but nothing comes even close to the joy that you get when following these practices." —Kailash, Kerala, India

"I am loving the build your own meditation option!" —Angela, Seattle, USA

"Well designed and offers flexible meditation practices. I can see that it will come handy during drier times or while traveling, helping me to stay structured and focused."
—Mireille, San Diego, USA

"Love what you have done. The individual meditation has so many options." —Chandi, OR, USA

--- WHAT IS ANANDA?

Ananda is a global movement based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, who showed how everyone can realize God in their daily lives as a tangible, loving reality.
You can expand your sense of harmony, and gain an increased sense of God’s active presence in your life through ancient and effective techniques including meditation, Kriya Yoga, spiritually oriented Hatha Yoga, community, and divine friendship.

Ananda was founded in 1968 by Yogananda’s direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, who passed away in 2013. Swami Kriyananda’s spiritual successor is Nayawami Jyotish who, along with his wife Nayaswami Devi, serves as Ananda’s spiritual director.

Ananda Meditation® is a trademark registered by Ananda Church of Self-Realization of Nevada County.




meditation, yogananda, guided meditation, kriya, kriya yoga, pranayama, paramahansa yogananda




Support URL

https://www.ananda.org/meditation/app/contact-support/







Marketing URL

https://www.ananda.org/meditation/app/





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Ananda Church of Self-Realization of Nevada County






APPLE REVIEW INFORMATION

apptest@ananda.org
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If it is needed, we're an approved non-profit and our Benevity Unique Identifier is 237366714.

If needed, the password for the private Kriya Yoga section is hiranyaloka1008pyom -- however, this section shares advanced meditation techniques not intended for release to anyone who hasn't specifically gone through the preparatory training to receive them.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.2.3

Last updated on Jul 12, 2023
Old Versions
- Improved offline and network management
- Bugfix involving logs
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Version History
2.2.3
Jul 12, 2023
- Improved offline and network management
- Bugfix involving logs
2.2.2
Mar 24, 2023
- A Kriyaban section added
- Some bug fixes
- Better error logging to be able to respond better to bug reports
2.0.14
Jul 15, 2021
Sessions now play completely as they should rather than getting stuck in the first track.
2.0.11
Apr 6, 2021
A lock-screen playback feature was added, silent timer bugs fixed with the new Custom Silent Timer feature added recently, and a number of other bugs were worked on, including offline downloads and interruptions in playback of some tracks. Enjoy!
2.0.9
Mar 11, 2021
Thanks to feedback, we added a custom silent timer that you can use for your silent meditations. If you choose, it can include prayers, chanting, and affirmations. A few bugs were fixed, too.
2.0.7
Nov 23, 2020
We fixed a few bugs related to the video playback.
2.0.6
Nov 12, 2020
We've made small improvements to the user interface.
2.0.5
Nov 6, 2020
NEW IN VERSION 2.0:
• Save your custom meditations, favorites, and logged records to the cloud.
• An easier custom meditation creation and editing process
• All video and audio recordings are free — no more in-app purchases
• Record journal entries with your meditations
2.0.4
Oct 27, 2020
Completely re-created design, with the new ability to save your favorites, custom meditations, and meditation logs to a personal account.

We'd love to hear your feedback!
1.17
Feb 13, 2018
- Fixed: New cards notification badge number is now persistent until user visits section
- Fixed: 1 App crash
1.16
Jan 9, 2018
- Mark your favorite meditations and view them all in new section My Favorites
- Added unique images for the cards in the custom meditation creation Track Selection page
- Fixed: 7 App crashes
1.15
Dec 16, 2017
- Link in About page to send feedback about the app (Thank you!)
- Fixed: 4 app crashes
- Fixed: Sometimes duplicate cards showing in Most Popular section
- Fixed: Sometimes a blank playback background showing when background is selected randomly
- Fixed: An iPhone 4 layout issue
1.14
Dec 8, 2017
- iPhone X ready
- Fixed: 7 app crashes
1.13
Nov 26, 2017
- We regularly add new guided meditations and techniques
- New section "Learn How to Chant"
- Download all track or background images with one tap, on the custom meditation creation page
- Link on the Meditation Timer page to navigate quickly to downloading more tracks
- Made it easier for us to track down and fix app crashes
- Fixed: Popular Now section cards sometimes not showing in the right order
1.12
Nov 2, 2017
We are continuing to add updates based on feedback from our users:
- Redesigned custom meditation creation page
- Adding optional subtitles for meditations to indicate a series
- Enjoy more selections of randomly selected background images for silent meditations
- Fixed: Stats meditation minutes being undercounted
- Fixed: Problems with initial launch of the app without internet connection
- Fixed: Fixed silence tracks never terminating when open-ended silence is also included in the meditation
- Fixed: Inbox messages showing duplicates and sometimes causing the app to crash
- Fixed: Sometimes wrong titles being shown in custom meditation creation page when numerous tracks are added
1.11
Oct 17, 2017
- New sections "Meditation Remedies" and "Devotional Chants and Music"
- Silent Meditations allows you to choose any meditation time without needing to create a custom meditation
- Silent and Custom Meditations allow random background images
- Include a random bell or AUM chant in your custom meditation
- Fixed: Bug causing a session download to end quickly without really having downloaded the files
- Fixed: Reset App button causing the app to crash later
1.10
Sep 29, 2017
- New section "Popular Now" shows top-20 popular selections
1.9
Sep 27, 2017
- Fixed: Community stats plots sometimes going off the chart
- Fixed: "Affirm" tab in custom meditation creation page crashing the app
- Minor design improvements
1.8
Sep 19, 2017
1.8
- Fixed: BUY button sometimes being non-responsive
1.7
- Divided selection cards into pages for fast loads and navigation
- Long-tap on playback screen to hear remaining minutes, so you can keep your eyes closed when you need to know the time
- Playback volume slider now controls system volume
- Re-enabled "Everybody" stats view
- Tap outside alert box to dismiss
- In-app purchases restore functionality
- Fixed: Stats plot not cleared when toggling date range offline
- Fixed: Silence-only custom meditations not starting
- Fixed: Downloads sometimes getting stalled and not resumed
- Fixed: Stats plot sometimes not updating or showing bars from previous date ranges
- Fixed: Playback buttons sometimes crashing app when loading is in progress
- Fixed: App crashing if a download completes while visiting a different page
1.7
Sep 16, 2017
- Divided selection cards into pages for fast loads and navigation
- Long-tap on playback screen to hear remaining minutes, so you can keep your eyes closed when you need to know the time
- Playback volume slider now controls system volume
- Re-enabled "Everybody" stats view
- Tap outside alert box to dismiss
- In-app purchases restore functionality
- Fixed: Stats plot not cleared when toggling date range offline
- Fixed: Silence-only custom meditations not starting
- Fixed: Downloads sometimes getting stalled and not resumed
- Fixed: Stats plot sometimes not updating or showing bars from previous date ranges
- Fixed: Playback buttons sometimes crashing app when loading is in progress
- Fixed: App crashing if a download completes while visiting a different page
1.6
Aug 28, 2017
- Enabled in-app purchases to allow entire audio titles from Crystal Clarity Publishers to be available within the app
- Improved initial launch experience and bug fixes
- Stability and design improvements
- Seek forward or backward faster via long-tap
- Uses session default background images in cases when downloading images is taking too long
- Fixed: Bug causing the a finished session download not getting noticed
- Fixed: Bug preventing an in-app message to show up in inbox page right away and causing possible crash on message delete
1.5
Aug 17, 2017
1.5
- New category "Short Meditations" with routinely added content
1.4
- New categories "Quick Practices" and "Guided Visualizations" with routinely added content
- Update to ensure cloud content info is kept up-to-date
- New background scenes to choose from for building custom meditations
- Turned off "Everyone" stats section while we're working on ensuring the accuracy of data shown
- Featured art and other credits page
- Other minor design and usability improvements
1.4
Aug 17, 2017
- New categories "Quick Practices" and "Guided Visualizations" with routinely added content
- Update to ensure cloud content info is kept up-to-date
- New background scenes to choose from for building custom meditations
- Turned off "Everyone" stats section while we're working on ensuring the accuracy of data shown
- Featured art and other credits page
- Other minor design and usability improvements
1.3
Jul 31, 2017
1.3
- Faster selection loads
- Fixed: media loading getting stalled
- Fixed: Random track items not showing
- Fixed: "meditating now" counter overcounting
1.2
- Faster audio/video loads
- Stability improvements
- Better initial launch experience
1.2
Jul 27, 2017
- Faster audio/video loads
- Stability improvements
- Better initial launch experience

Ananda Meditation FAQ

Click here to learn how to download Ananda Meditation in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Ananda Meditation.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Ananda Meditation supports English
Ananda Meditation contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
Affirmations for Self-Healing
$1.99
Metaphysical Meditations
$1.99

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