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Welcome to Oregon's most comprehensive life-changing course! Whether you desire to improve your health, increase your concentration, or deepen your awareness of God’s presence in your life, Raja (literally "royal" or "complete") Yoga practices can unlock your potential to tap your hidden, inner resources of vitality, creativity, and joy.

The Art & Science of Raja Yoga is a three-month intensive (see Course Specifics) on the "royal" or "complete" yoga involving yoga postures, meditation, pranayam, diet, health, and much more. The emphasis is on practice and personal experience in an atmosphere of openness and respect. Enrollment is limited to only 20 students to ensure the opportunity for personal interaction with our instructors.

From this experience you can expect to realize a higher degree of self-mastery, a greater understanding and connection with life, more access to your personal energy, increased concentration and clarity, and spiritual awakening.

Our primary text is The Art & Science of Raja Yoga by Swami Kriyananda (direct disciple of Yogananda), the most comprehensive book on yoga and meditation available today presented as 14 specific lessons. Combining age-old wisdom with contemporary experience, this course teaches us how to apply the teachings of yoga on a practical as well as spiritual level in our modern lives. For lesson titles as well as an overview of the other texts for the course, see the Materials List.

Ancient Roots, Modern Expression

The course is grounded in the ancient traditions of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, a collection of pithy aphorisms that describe the universal evolution of consciousness through its various stages—dealing first with our relationship to the world around us, then our relationship to the subtler, inner realities of our own selves.

At the same time, the course is also highly applicable to modern realities through the insight and understanding of this time-honored science as presented by Paramhansa Yogananda, the great yogi of the 20th century (and author of Autobiography of a Yogi). Taken together, the clarity and intuition of both sages gives Raja Yoga its transforming power.