Ananda Kanan is a spiritually oriented, self-sustaining rural-development project. It is owned and operated by Ananda Marga, a meditation/yoga/social-service organization. It serves both as a facility for group retreats and as a model for spiritually based community development. Currently there are only single men living on the property and working on gardening and other projects. These are all members of Ananda Marga, and all practice vegetarianism, yoga, and meditation. A monk of Ananda Marga is the project director. In the future family people may live on or close by the property as businesses are developed to support them. Future plans include a bakery, a school, a children's home, seed and plant distribution, beekeeping, etc. Classes in yoga and meditation are taught, and special events happen year-round--like alternative spring break and yogafest. Ananda Marga holds semi-annual retreats there, and other groups (Quakers, etc.) rent the facilities for their gatherings. Visitors are welcome to join in daily meditations in the beautiful sanctuary. There are a lake, a hiking trail, and acres of fields and woods of the Ozarks. We wish to help create a universal human family living in close cooperation with all of creation. "Anandakanan" means "garden of bliss." See Web site for current events at AK: http://www.anandakanan.com.