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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 ]
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) Satyapramoda Tirtha (1918–1997) Satyatma Tirtha (born 1973) Shaunaka, Seshadri Swamigal (22 January 1870 – 4 January 1929) Shastriji Maharaj (31 January 1865 – 10 May 1951) Shivabalayogi (24 January 1935 – 28 March 1994) Shreedhar Swami (7 December 1908 – 19 April 1973)
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 ...
The word asana, in use in English since the 19th century, is from Sanskrit: आसन āsana "sitting down" (from आस् ās "to sit down"), a sitting posture, a meditation seat. [13] [14] [15] A page from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and Bhasya commentary (c. 2nd to 4th century CE), which placed asana as one of the eight limbs of classical yoga
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 ]
Satyananda repeats the Resolve stage and then gradually brings the mind back to wakefulness. Yoga nidra in this modern sense is a state in which the body is completely relaxed, and the practitioner becomes systematically and increasingly aware of the inner world by following a set of verbal instructions.
Swami Janakananda Saraswati [2] is a tantric yoga and meditation teacher [3] and a writer, [4] who has had a noted influence in the dissemination of yoga and meditation in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. [3] [5] He is the oldest active sannyasin disciple of Satyananda Saraswati in Europe. [2] [6]