Spiritual Yoga: Awakening to Higher Awareness
Nayaswami Gyandev McCordis the director of Ananda Yoga Teacher Training, which he teaches at The Expanding Light Retreat in Northern California. For more than 30 years he has taught Ananda Yoga®around the world. Gyandev has worked closely with Swami Kriyananda (founder of Ananda Yoga, and a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda) to fine-tune the teachings and practice of Ananda Yoga.Gyandev is also a lecturer and minister, and a founding board member of Yoga Alliance, the non-profit organization that sets professional training standards for yoga teachers in the U.S. In addition toSpiritual Yoga: Higher Awareness Through Ananda Yoga, he has coauthored two books (with Dr. Peter Van Houten)—Yoga Therapy for Headache ReliefandYoga Therapy for Overcoming Insomnia—andhas produced two videos:Yoga for Busy PeopleandYoga to Awaken the Chakras, as well as the 12-volume video set,The Ananda Yoga Series.Prior to embarking on the yogic path, Gyandev received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Stanford University. After deeply contemplating the purpose of life, he decided to relinquish the outer science of mathematics to explore the inner science of yoga. Since 1984 Gyandev has lived at Ananda Village in Northern California.