Hardcover: 471 pages
Publisher: Crystal Clarity Publishers; Book & CD edition
Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds.

Intended as a 14 week home-study course, the book's 14 chapters cover teachings, routines and postures, meditation and breathing techniques, healing and health topics and diet. Walters's long teaching record shows in his ability to discuss key yoga practices and concepts in simple terms. Fourteen illustrated lessons blend timeless theory with authentic practices. Covers philosophy, meditation, postures, breathing, energy, affirmations, yogic diet, and much more. Complete with audio cd with guided affirmations.

Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) is widely considered one of the world's leading 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.

Raja yoga - the "royal" yoga, or the "king's" yoga is traditionally the yoga that comes after hatha yoga. In the Patanjali sutras it is sometimes associated with the limbs of yoga beginning with pratyahara and concluding with samadhi, with the earlier limbs of niyama, yama, niyama, asana (physical posture), and pranayama (breath control). Yoga is rooted in religion, and if you open yourself up to the basic philosophy presented here, and surrender skepticism towards Kriyananda's medical advice you'll find yourself believing instead of doubting.

The manual is divided into 14 chapters, each chapter into 7 subsets: Philosophy, Postures, Breathing, Healing, Routine, Diet, and Meditation - all treated with equal gravity, although meditation does figure prominantly throughout Raja Yoga. The audio supplement really helps to hear Kriyananda's magnetic voice.

"The Art and Science of Raja Yoga" has everything from easy beginner routines, to more advanced postures. And this book doesn't make you feel like some couch potato just because you can't do advanced poses. You can also contact the publishers of the book for followup support with your practices- everything from retreats, to other books.