Ananda Yoga at East West Bookshop - Ananda Washington

Ananda Yoga at East West Bookshop

Event details

  • Monday | July 2, 2018
  • 7:00 am - 8:15 am
  • East West Bookshop 6407 12TH AVE NE, SEATTLE, WA 98115
  • 206 523-3726

 

“The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the divine vision in the universe.”

Paramhansa Yogananda

 

Ananda Yoga includes:

* Asanas (classic yoga postures)
* Pranayama (traditional raja yoga breathing and energy-control techniques)
* Effective meditation & centering techniques, including affirmations

Ananda Yoga is gentle for beginning students and becomes gradually more challenging as the student gains experience and chooses to expand his or her boundaries.Because of this Ananda Yoga is not competitive or forced.

What makes Ananda yoga unique?

The Energization Exercises were developed by Paramhansa Yogananda. Their effect is both immediate and long-term, for their purpose is to increase the amount of vitality and energy drawn into the body by concentration and will power, sensitively applied. Their benefits are numerous and include enhanced health, accelerated healing, emotional balance, concentration and self-control, positive attitude, and will power. They serve as excellent warm-ups for hatha yoga and for meditation. 

* Each yoga posture is paired with its own affirmation, which one practices silently while in the posture. The affirmation is designed to reinforce the posture’s natural effect on one’s state of consciousness, bringing the mind actively and directly into one’s practice.

What is the Lineage and History of Ananda Yoga?

Ananda Yoga is an expression of the Raja and Kriya Yoga precepts of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi.

Yogananda was the first great master of yoga to make his home permanently in the West. (He became a U.S. citizen in the 1930s.) Ananda Yoga arose from his training of close disciples and was later developed from that training into its current form by his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, the founder of Ananda, and by those yoga teachers whom Kriyananda commissioned to do so.

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Instructors

Devaki Soupios

Devaki Soupios, has been a disciple of Yogananda and member of Ananda for well over 30 years. A minister and teacher she began her yoga studies in the 80’s with…

Shaefeather Windsong

Shaefeather Windsong is a certified 200hr Ananda Yoga instructor, certified Energy Medicine Yoga instructor, certified Group Fitness Instructor and Level 1 Reiki Practitioner. She regularly teachers at East West Bookshop…

Stanley Dombrowski

As an Ananda Meditation Temple staff member, Stanley is the overall coordinator of Ananda Washington’s premier event of the year Yogananda-Fest, featuring Ananda Worldwide directors Jyotish and Devi Novak. He…

Susan Hoyt

Susan Hoyt is a certified Ananda Yoga teacher and the accountant for East West Bookshop.