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The Bihar School of Yoga is a modern school of yoga founded and developed by Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati in Munger, Bihar, India, in 1963. [1] The system of yoga taught at the Bihar School of Yoga is recognized worldwide as Bihar Yoga or the Satyananda Yoga tradition. [2]
Satyananda Saraswati (25 December 1923 – 5 December 2009), was a Sanyasi, yoga teacher and guru in both his native India and the West. He was a student of Sivananda Saraswati, the founder of the Divine Life Society, and founded the Bihar School of Yoga in 1964. [1] He wrote over 80 books, including the popular 1969 manual Asana Pranayama ...
Bihar School of Yoga has published several books by Swami Niranjananda. These include: [9] Jnana Yoga; My Inheritance of Sannyasa; The Yoga of Sage Vasishtha; The Yoga of Sri Krishna; Yoga in Daily Life; Dharma of a Disciple; Head, Heart & Hands; Karma & Karma Yoga; Mantra & Yantra; Mind, Mind Management & Raja Yoga; Origin of Yoga & Pashupata Yoga
The Bihar School of Yoga, in India has published several books on meditation that discuss trataka. Dharana Darshan by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati has an entire chapter devoted to the practice. v
Shiva with Parvati. Shiva Swarodaya is an ancient Sanskrit tantric text. A comment and translation termed as swara yoga has been made by Satyananda Saraswati in 1983. [1] It is also termed "Phonetical astrology": the "sound of one's own breath" and is written as a conversation between Shiva and Parvati. [2]
The book was one of the first three reference works on asanas (yoga postures) in the development of yoga as exercise in the mid-20th century, the other two being Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich's 1941 Sport és Jóga (in Spanish: an English version appeared in 1953) and Theos Bernard's 1944 Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personal Experience. [2]
India and other Asian countries are home to thousands of yoga schools founded over the last century to teach yoga as exercise, which unlike all earlier forms consists in large part of asanas. Below are some and their style of yoga. 1948: Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga - Sri K. Pattabhi Jois [17] 1963: Bihar School of Yoga - Swami Satyananda Saraswati [18]
In his 1969 book Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha, Swami Satyananda Saraswati of the Bihar School of Yoga uses the name Bakasana for a different pose entirely (Dandayamana Janushirsasana, pose 5 in Bikram Yoga). [11]