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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 ]
There, he discovered his guru, Sivananda Saraswati, founder of the Divine Life Society, who ordained him into the sannyasa in 1949 and gave him the name Swami Satchidananda Saraswati. [5] The name Satcitananda (Sanskrit: Saccidānanda) is a compound of three Sanskrit words, sat, cit and ānanda, meaning essence, consciousness and bliss ...
Early disciples included Satyananda Saraswati, founder of Satyananda Yoga. In 1945, he created the Sivananda Ayurvedic Pharmacy, and organised the All-world Religions Federation. [ 7 ] He established the All-world Sadhus Federation in 1947 and the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy in 1948. [ 7 ]
Krishnananda Saraswati (25 April 1922 – 23 November 2001) Lahiri Mahasaya (Shyamacharan Lahiri) [19] (30 September 1828 – 26 September 1895) Lakshman Joo (9 May 1907 – 27 September 1991), modern scholar of Kashmiri Shaivism; Lakshmanananda Saraswati (1926 – 23 August 2008) Lalleshwari (c.1320 – 1392), Kashmiri literature
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]
B.K.S. Iyengar was born into a poor Sri Vaishnava Iyengar family [10] in Bellur, Kolar district, [11] Karnataka, India.He was the 11th of 13 children (10 of whom survived) born to Sri Krishnamachar, a school teacher, and Sheshamma. [12]
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]
Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati (born 14 February 1960) is the successor of Satyananda Saraswati, founder of Satyananda Yoga, [1] who passed on the worldwide coordination of Satyananda Yoga to Niranjanananda in 1988. He is Born Kayastha family in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, Niranjanananda is considered by his followers to be a yogi from ...