“Taking Raja was one of the best decisions I have ever made.  It was life changing! Just do it.”

Ananda’s Most Popular
and Comprehensive Course!

OPEN HOUSE! Sunday, Aug 27, at 11:45a. In person at Blue Lotus Temple and online. Learn more about the program, ask questions, and meet the instructors. Free! All are welcome.

FALL 2023 with

Murali Venkatrao,PhD, E-RYT 500, YACEP, Director

Ananda Institute of Living Yoga

At the Raja Yoga Intensive, 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.

*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.

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 Raja Yoga Intensive is included in Yoga Teacher Training in the Ananda Institute of Living Yoga. Tuition for “YTT” includes the Raja Yoga course. The Raja Yoga Intensive is also a foundational course and prerequisite for those students who may be interested in kriya yoga preparation and initiation.

FALL 2023

Fall session starts on Thursday, September 7, 2023

Location and Dates:

11 Thursdays:  September 7 thru November 16, 2023, 6–9:15p Pacific time

 1 Saturday: October 21, 2023, 10a-4p Pacific time

We encourage you to watch the videos at the top of the page with testimonials from students who took the course online!

The course consists of two segments, hatha yoga and raja yoga. You can join class in person in Bothell, WA or online using Zoom.

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.

Costs: Tuition for the Hatha & Raja Intensive is $395.00. Text is purchased separately. 

Students taking the Intensive 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.

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

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for Raja segment only $250.

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.

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for Hatha segment only $175. Hatha Yoga includes: yoga postures (asanas),  pranayama,  affirmations,  healing, diet, and yoga routines.  The Hatha segment is from 6p – 7:15p pacific time.

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Have you taken this course with Ananda Washington before? For returning students the price is only $150. Register for re-take here:

Re-take Tuition: $150

Students will have online access to:

  • Archival re-mastered recordings by Swami Kriyananda on the topics of the Raja textbook
  • Chakra meditations by Savitri Simpson (“Chakras for Starters”)
  • Access to the Raja-student’s website with a library for the art of “living yoga”
  • Extras include mantras, special fasting and diets, and much more!

Articles from The Art and Science of Raja Yoga