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Satchidananda taught a blend of hatha yoga and yoga philosophy which he named Integral Yoga. [14] In 1971, he began training students to teach yoga in prisons and drug rehabilitation centers. [ 23 ] In 1976, Sandra McLanahan founded one of the first integrative health clinics in the US, offering yoga therapy , at that time new to America. [ 24 ]
Statue of Patañjali, its traditional snake form indicating kundalini or an incarnation of Shesha. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtra) is a compilation "from a variety of sources" [1] of Sanskrit sutras on the practice of yoga – 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to others, including BKS Iyengar).
A swami leads an Integral Yoga hatha course at the Satchidananda Ashram in Yogaville. Raja Yoga is the path of meditation and self-discipline, based on ethical principles. Practicing the eight limbs of Yoga described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali helps to strengthen and harmonize all aspects of the individual, culminating in Self-realization. [8]
Satyananda Saraswati (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]
M. Govindan Satchidananda has been given the honorary "Patanjali Award" for 2014 for his outstanding service to Yoga by the World Wide Yoga Council and Dharmachari Swami Maitreyananda, President of International Yoga Federation, which is the oldest and largest international Yoga association and registry of Yoga teachers. Satchidananda has been ...
Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati (1880-1975) is an exponents of traditional Advaita Vedanta in modern times. Born as Sri Yellambalase Subbarao, he worked as a school teacher in the Indian state of Karnataka. [1] He gave lectures and wrote articles on the Vedanta in English, Kannada and Sanskrit. [1]
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 ]
In the Yoga Sutras II.1, Patañjali and his commentators write that the Kriyāyoga (action-oriented type of yoga) is to be undertaken by those whose mind is not already fixed. The fixing or "stilling of the changing states of mind" ( Yoga Sutras I.2) is the goal of yoga, for which Kriyāyoga is necessary as a first step for a sādhaka. [ 11 ]