About us

About Ananda Rishi Foundation

The Ananda Rishi Foundation is a spiritual platform, driven by passion, to provide sadhaks the utmost important aspects of life, health and happiness. This organization helps individuals gain knowledge and grow in their spiritual journey.

Who we are?

The motto of Ananda Rishi Foundation is to spread VIDYA not only in India but around the world. This organization is led by our Guruji Shri Vijayanand Ji and a group of enthusiastic Sadhaks who are willing to learn and follow this knowledge regularly. The team also includes a few core dedicated sadhaks who act as pillars and are involved in creating a website so that we can reach a wide group of people from around the globe.

Cultural and Core Values

Initially, the approach was through offline sessions but due to the pandemic, we created online classes as well. ARF gives 100% support to all those who seek a journey in the Spiritual path and want to progress to a higher level of consciousness. Our goal is to establish and maintain yoga centers throughout the country to develop the personalities of humanity as needed. We have established this organization to also function as meditation centers and spread ARF culture. We also conduct healing workshops like Acupressure, Pranic healings etc. We train thriving youth in Rishi Culture.

Other achievements & associations

ARF also encourages and supports exemplary meritorious students from rural areas, those who are economically deprived and underprivileged, with scholarships and encourage them by awarding them prizes for achievements in Literature, Culture, Art, Science, Teaching, and Sports & Games. We collaborate with government institutions to implement Rural Development Programs, and we train rural youth in self-Employment programs.

Other insights

We sponsor and also work in collaboration with other institutions & organizations situated across the country and abroad to help them achieve their Aims and Objectives compassionately. ARF holds, organizes and conducts seminars, symposiums, debates and social awareness campaigns. We publish, print literature by excluding electronic media to improve the quality of Human Life. You now might understand that we want to enrich and enlighten the lives of many people which is not possible by us alone. It would be amazing if you extend your support by donating to our organization or by serving empathetically as a volunteer, initiating to fulfill the above objectives at free of cost.

YOUR SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS, BEST HEALTH AND PEACE…. STARTS HERE!

Our
Guruji

Guruji

Shri Rishi Prabhakar

Guruji Rishi Prabhakar was most importantly, a builder of world leaders. He was the founder of the Rishi Samrkrithi Vidya Kendra. He is a world-renowned teacher of meditation, self-management and social consciousness. He was a computer scientist and aeronautical engineer, and a management graduate from Western Ontario University, Canada.

A silent meditator, he was an active inspiration through his simplicity and dynamism for tens of thousands around the world whose lives have been touched by him and his dedicated band of leaders.

Pujya Guruji's discourses, programmes and trainings still keep having a permanent impact on people's lives and open their hearts to greater joyful possibilities that are normally unavailable.

Guruji attained Mahasamadhi at Bangalore on Feb 16, 2014 at the age of 66.

Our
Guruji

Guruji

Vijayanand

Guruji Vijayanand is a disciple of Rishi Prabhakar Guruji who is from the ancient lineage of Indian spiritual gurus.

Guruji Vijayanand was trained in Yoga Acupressure Reiki, Pranic healing and has practised these for For the past 25 years. In the same time, he also worked to bring these ancient knowledges into the light by teaching them to others. His specialities is teaching this very difficult Sahaja Ananda Yoga into a simple enough way that a common man could understand it.

He is devoted his life to these ideals and to teaching them to others people through Ananda yoga classes. Not only is he championing this lifestyle he is also proving that it is easy for the common man to accomplish. Guruji Vijayanand not only acquired intricate knowledge of this spiritual art art but also earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and MBA from Andhra University. Guruji‘s programmes in Sahaja Ananda Yoga are well known and renowned in the Visakhapatnam area.

He is inspired many people through the books he has written and through the training programs that he teaches. The lifestyle provides satisfaction in life, a good health and happiness to all who follow and live it. Guruji while living a normal ordinary life he’s also harmoniously leading a healthy spiritual life with a wife and two kids.

He is perfect example of the lifestyle that he is teaching at Ananda Yoga . He is maintaining an ideal personal world encompassing his role as a teacher, a family man, a friend and a professional engineer.

He is a humanitarian and a great inspiration.

Vision

Guruji Vijayanand was trained in Yoga Acupressure Reiki, Pranic healing and has practised these for For the past 25 years. In the same time, he also worked to bring these ancient knowledges into the light by teaching them to others. His specialities is teaching this very difficult Sahaja Ananda Yoga into a simple enough way that a common man could understand it.

Mission

ARF is here to spread Positivity and encourage people to lead a Happy, Healthy and Balanced life through Yoga classes and workshops. Ambition is to establish a center where we can coach enthusiastic individuals and they further can reach out to vast number of people so that maximum number of common people will be benefited. We wants to encourage individuals to practice Meditation on day-to-day basis.

We are very compassionate on supporting economically background students, youth employees with workshops and training institutions.

Ananda Rishi

Teachers

Nagamani

School teacher, Rajahmundry

Ramesh

National 7th rank holder in Yoga, Patapatnam

Swati

School Teacher, Patapatnam

Shyamji

Yoga Teacher, Kakinada

Koti

Teacher, Patapatnam

K Eswararao Achary

Teacher, Hiramandalam Srikakulam

P.Narasimha Rao

Teacher(Govt.Teacher), Patapatnam

Venkateswara Rao

Teacher, Visakapatnam

Ananda Rishi

Core Committee

Anitha Kusuma

Director - Ananda Rishi Foundation, Visakhapatnam

Mythreyi Meda

Software professional, Seattle - USA

Sharmeela Moningi

Software Professional, Visakhapatnam

Panduranga Varma

Ananda Rishi Director, Visakhapatnam

Nageshwar Rao Mykala

Design Thinker - UI/UX, Hyderabad

Madhu Rapeti

Business & IT Consultant, Sydney, Australia