Ananda's most comprehensive and popular course!
Next Session Begins September 5, 2024 in person & online.
At the Art and Science of Raja Yoga, you’ll learn how to meditate, how yoga postures can give you strength and confidence, and how the lifestyle of yoga can uplift your life and that of others.
You’ll discover how the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita integrates with the a deeper understanding of the Judao-Christian heritage, and how the science of yoga comes to us through the timeless psycho-spiritual insights of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (wherein is found the Eight-Fold Path known as Ashtanga Yoga).
The practical wisdom of Raja Yoga includes tools for working with the subconscious mind to change habits, and for using the breath to release tension and emotional blocks.
The secrets of success—personal magnetism, right attitude, creativity, and energy—form an integral part of the yoga science. This course features the modern, now “classic” textbook by Swami Kriyananda, The Art and Science of Raja Yoga.
In this course, you will:
- Experience how using the body and breath with deep awareness profoundly stills the mind.
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Learn the powerful technique of watching the breath to deepen concentration and bestow a sense of calmness and well-being. -
Explore meditation, affirmation, pranayama, chanting, and yoga postures, mudras, and bandhas.
It was life changing!”
All of these techniques lead to a place of profound stillness – and it’s in this stillness that we touch upon our true soul nature and experience the qualities of peace, joy, calmness, discernment, and great vitality.
The course is open to all, whether new to this or wanting to deepen your experience. There are no prerequisites. Meet new friends of like mind. No organizational affiliation needed or expected. Raja yoga is universal and nonsectarian.
The Art and Science of Raja Yoga is included in Yoga Teacher Training in the Ananda Institute of Living Yoga. Tuition for “YTT” includes the Art and Science of Raja Yoga course. The Art and Science of Raja Yoga is also a foundational course and prerequisite for those students who may be interested in kriya yoga preparation and initiation.
Location, Dates and Tuition:
Dates: 14 Thursdays: September 5 – November 21, 2024, 6–9:15p Pacific time.
Costs: Tuition for the Art and Science of Raja Yoga is $395. Text is purchased separately. Save $30 with Early Bird Tuition, expires 12/16/23! If you pay tuition in full by December 16th, tuition is $365.
Students taking the Art and Science of Raja Yoga as their prerequisite, foundation course for teacher training have documentation fees of $45, plus must already be enrolled in the Institute of Living Yoga ($50).
The Raja and Hatha segments are designed to be taken together, but can be taken separately as well. The costs for the segments are: $250/Raja and $175/Hatha.
Hatha Yoga includes: yoga postures (asanas), pranayama, affirmations, healing, diet, and yoga routines. The Hatha segment is from 6p – 7:15p pacific time.
Raja Yoga includes: meditation practices using breath, mantra, pranayama, affirmation, chanting, visualization, and chakra exercises; philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali’s Eightfold Path of Ashtanga Yoga; and the philosophy of Karma, Kundalini, astral and causal planes, cosmology, reincarnation, and much more. The Raja segment is from 7:15p – 9:15p pacific time.
Your Teachers
Taught by Murali Venkatrao, PhD, E-RYT 500, YACEP, Director of Ananda Institute of Living Yoga with Sita Tocco, Ananda Meditation and Yoga Teacher, E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP.
Murali Venkatrao PhD
E-RYT 500, YACEP
Murali Venkatrao is the director of the Ananda Institute of Livng Yoga. He has been teaching yoga teacher since 2002, and is an active researcher studying Yoga’s impact on diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and other metabolic disorders. He is currently the Director of yoga teacher programs at the Ananda Institute of Living Yoga in Bothell, WA, and a Professor of Yogic Physiology at Vivekananda Yoga University in Norwalk, CA.
Murali also serves as a Minister at Ananda Washington where he teaches various courses on Vedanta, Hatha Yoga, Yoga philosophy, yoga therapy, beginner and advanced teacher trainings, and more.
Murali earned his PhD in Yoga from S-VYASA Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana University in Bangalore, India where his research focused on diabetes risk reduction and glycemic control through yoga techniques.
Nancy Callan
E-RYT 200
Nancy Callan is an experieced yoga instructor with years of experience in teaching and personal practice. She has also been part of the team of instructors of Ananda Yoga Teacher Training for a long time. People say that she is energetic, clear and able to create a safe space for her students.
To sign up for the “Art and Science of Raja Yoga,” students should fill out the registration form and purchase the appropriate class from the options below. Most students will select “Art and Science of Raja Yoga,” which is the full class, including both Hatha and Raja segments.
