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What is Ananda Yoga®?

Ananda Yoga brings yoga back to its original spiritual essence.

Above all, it seeks to raise your level of consciousness by reinforcing the natural effects the yoga postures. With this, it is also designed to harmonize your body, mind, and soul.

Ananda Yoga includes:

Asana (yoga postures)
Pranayama (breathing and energy-control techniques)
Yogic meditation techniques
Applied yoga philosophy

What Is the Practice Like?

Yoga posture practice in Ananda Yoga^® is gentle for beginning students, becoming more challenging with experience. It is an inwardly directed practice, and is never aggressive or aerobic.

The primary emphases are:

Safety and correct alignment
Being relaxed at all times, even during the midst of effort
Working directly with the body’s subtle energy via the yoga postures
Using the postures to raise your consciousness
Adaptation – modifying each yoga posture to fit the needs and abilities of the practitioner rather than trying to force the practitioner into some "ideal" position

What Makes Ananda Yoga Unique?

Energization Exercises

The Energization Exercises are a series of 39 special energy-control techniques that Yogananda developed in order to help the practitioner increase, focus, and control the life-force.

Affirmations

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.

Yogananda’s Autobiography

The Lineage:
Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda

Ananda Yoga comes from the renowned Raja Yoga / Kriya Yoga tradition of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi.

Yogananda was the first great master of yoga to make his home in the West. Ananda Yoga arose from his teachings and was developed into a definite system of practice by his close, direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, the founder of Ananda.

For More…

See our free yoga videos and articles, explore our yoga workshops, or check out the Ananda Yoga Teacher Training.

Yoga Courses Scheduled:

2013

June

16 – 22	The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita
16 – 22	Principles of Yoga Therapy
22 – 30	Musculoskeletal Yoga Therapy
23 – 30	Advanced Pranayama
28 – 30	Yoga Therapy for Back and Joint Pain

July

14 – 22	Bridge to Ananda Yoga
14 – Aug 11	Ananda Yoga Teacher Training
28 – Aug 3	The Essence of the Yoga Sutras

August

9 – 11	Spiritualize Your Yoga Practice
30 – Sep 2	Yoga Getaway for Labor Day

September

6 – 8	Integrating Yoga and Meditation
12 – 15	How to Have Courage, Calmness, and Confidence
27 – 29	Restorative Yoga for Men and Women

October

7 – 11	Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy
11 – 18	Yoga Therapy Specialty Areas I
27 – Nov 4	Bridge to Ananda Yoga
27 – Nov 24	Ananda Yoga Teacher Training

December

1 – 4	Yoga Therapy Training for Seniors and Osteoporosis
4 – 7	Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
13 – 15	Take Care of Yourself
27 – 29	Holiday Yoga Getaway