Product Description

The Art and Science of Raja Yoga contains fourteen lessons in which the original yoga science emerges in all its glory - a proven system for realizing one's spiritual destiny. This is the most comprehensive course on yoga and meditation available today, giving you a profound and intimate understanding of how to apply these age-old teachings, on a practical, as well as spiritual, day-to-day level in this modern age. Over 450 pages of text and photos give you a complete and detailed presentation of hatha yoga (yoga postures), yoga philosophy, affirmations, meditation instruction, and breathing techniques. Also included are suggestions for daily yoga routines, helpful information on diet, and alternative healing techniques. Apply these teachings and techniques in your daily life and you will attain your highest soul potential: true happiness, inner peace, and the dynamic joy of your soul. Included with this book are web links to free Raja Yoga course downloads containing a guided yoga postures session, a guided meditation, and an inspiring talk by Swami Kriyananda on the art of meditation, titled, Meditation: The Great Problem Solver.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #267790 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-09
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .2 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 471 pages

From Publishers Weekly
With yoga much in vogue these days, the prolific Walters, a longtime teacher and disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda and founder of Ananda Village, offers an ambitious package of instruction in the discipline. Intended as a 14-week home-study course, the book's 14 chapters cover teachings, postures and routines, meditation and breathing techniques, health and healing topics and diet. It's tough to do a good yoga book, because a number of variables have to converge: substantive integrity, clarity in how-to explanations and quality visuals. By those measures, this book succeeds. Walters's long teaching record shows in his ability to discuss key yogic concepts and practices in simple terms. Though the author is not a particularly gifted writer, the how-to part instruction in postures is adequately clear. Workmanlike b&w photos illustrate form, and each explanation includes a helpful statement of the benefits of each pose. This comprehensive guide has an extra medium to distinguish it on the crowded yoga bookshelf: an accompanying audio CD that contains a vague lecture as well as more helpful sections of guided meditation and posture instruction. The book has its fuzzy edges: relating the Bible to yoga teachings is fancifully unnecessary, and recipes are not its long suit. All things considered, however, it's superior to books that reduce yoga to a series of physical exercises taught by this year's guru.
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About the Author
Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) is widely considered one of the world's foremost experts on yoga, meditation, and spiritual practice. He is the author of more than 80 books that have sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide and which have been translated into 24 languages. He was educated at Haverford College and Brown University.