Now includes The Energization Exercises DVD

Part I: Learn the Basic techniques of meditation through clear, step-by-step instructions.

Experience the importance of the breath/mind connection and the power of the focused mind. Also learn Paramhansa Yogananda's Energization Exercises, a unique system of exercises for controlling and increasing your energy level and overcoming fatigue. This course offers techniques of the path of Kriya Yoga including the Hong-Sau technique of concentration. There are also simple, "do-able" suggestions of how to sit comfortably for meditation, how to still the restless mind, how to take experiences of peace and joy into daily life. Includes an illustrated, lay-flat book and two CDs with guided meditations, visualizations, and guided Energization Exercises.

Part II: The Art and Science of Raja Yoga is the most comprehensive course on yoga and meditation offered today. It gives us the balanced and complete approach of raja yoga, which is also known as the "royal" yoga. The course is organized around seven topics-Philosophy, Meditation, Postures, Breathing, Routines, Healing Principles and Techniques, and Diet. It also includes in-depth discussions of the paths of karma, bhakti, and gyana yoga. The author, Swami Kriyananda, excels in showing the interdependence of these seemingly separate areas and how all of them, when correctly approached, further our spiritual progress.

The main purpose of yoga postures, for example, sometimes thought to bestow only physical benefits, is to prepare the body and mind for meditation. Affirmations, visualizations, breathing exercises, healing techniques, the different paths of yoga, and, to a certain extent, diet are similarly helpful. What unites these various areas is raja yoga's inward, spiritual focus, which achieves its fullest expression in the practice of meditation.

Along with The Art and Science of Raja Yoga comes a CD. It is 74 minutes in length. It has three tracks: track 1 is a talk: "Meditation: The Great Problem Solver;" track 2: is a 37 minute routine of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness; and track 3: is an 18 minute guided meditation entitled, "Guided Meditation On The Light."

The course also includes the Energization Exercises DVD. They are a wonderful system of exercises originated by Paramhansa Yogananda. They are, undoubtedly, his unique contribution to the science of yoga.

Based on ancient teachings and eternal realities, Yogananda explains that the whole physical universe, including man, is surrounded by, and made of cosmic energy. We can, through the act of our will, release tension that blocks the energy flow to our body and mind, and draw on this infinite storehouse of life-force all around us. Through daily use of these exercises we can systematically recharge our bodies with greater energy and train our minds to understand the true source of that power.

Barbara Bingham teaches the Energization Exercises during a comprehensive 34 minute session. Then Swami Kriyananda leads the Energization Exercises during a Kriyaban Retreat at Ananda Village, 1991.

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