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The primary goal of guru Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda (1914-2002) was interfaith understanding as a vehicle to world peace. To this end, the LOTUS (Light Of Truth Universal Shrine) was constructed and inaugurated in 1986. Swami Satchidananda had been living in Yogaville, though he was visiting Madras, in South India at the time of his death. [1]
The back cover illustration showed a photograph of the swami at Woodstock. The album was re-released in digital format as: Swami Satchidananda: The Woodstock Years. [17] Satchidananda became a US citizen in 1976, [16] having arrived on a visa stating that he was a "Minister of Divine Words". [10]
Swami Satchidananda opening the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. In 1966, the first Integral Yoga Institute was founded on the Upper West Side of New York City. There, Swami Satchidananda, and some of his newly trained students began leading classes for the general public in Hatha, meditation, breath work, and stress management. [18]
She was a monastic disciple of Swami Satchidananda, creator of Integral Yoga, for over 20 years. [2] She especially approved of the fact that Satchidananda was trained in and continued Swami Sivananda 's tradition of initiating women as monks ( sanyassins ) and treating women as equals, despite much criticism from other leading Hindus. [ 3 ]
1918: The Yoga Institute - Shri Yogendra [1] 1920: Agni Yoga - Nicholas Roerich and his wife Helena Roerich [2] 1920: Self-Realization Fellowship - Paramahansa Yogananda [3] 1921: Integral Yoga - Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga [4] 1924: Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center [5] 1948: Divine Life Society - Swami Sivananda [6]
'World Conference on Scientific Yoga', 1970. From left: Swami Satchidananda, B.K.S. Iyengar, Amrit Desai, Kumar Swami, Dhirendra Brahmachari, and Dr B.I. Atreya In the 19th century, the Bengali physician N. C. Paul began the study of the physiology of yoga with his 1851 book Treatise on Yoga Philosophy, noting that yoga can raise carbon dioxide levels in the blood (hypercapnia).
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The guru–shishya tradition involved a long-term, one-to-one relationship between master and pupil. [3] Watercolour, Punjab Hills, India, 1740. Before the creation of modern yoga, hatha yoga was practised in secret by solitary, ascetic yogins, learning the tradition as a long-term pupil or shishya apprenticed to their master or guru.