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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).
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 ]
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 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]
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 ...
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 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... [73] and Swami Satchidananda of Integral Yoga, founded in 1966. ... a long way from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and while ...
Yoga Sutra (योग सूत्र): One of the six darshanas of Hindu or Vedic schools and, alongside the Bhagavad Gita and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, are a milestone in the history of Yoga, compiled sometime between 500 BCE and 400 CE by the sage Patanjali; Yoga Vasistha, the discourse of sage Vasistha to prince Rama.