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Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati (born 1923), is an important yoga master and guru in both his native India and the West.
He was born in the small Himalayan town of Almora, Uttar Pradesh. In 1943, at the age of nineteen, he met his spiritual master, Swami Sivananda, in Rishikesh. He took sannyasa and served his guru and The Divine Life Society for the following twelve years. For the next eight years he wandered through India, Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma and Ceylon, extending his knowledge of spiritual practices.
A respected master of Yoga Nidra and tantra, Swami Satyananda founded the International Yoga Fellowship in 1963 and the Bihar School of Yoga in the following year. He toured extensively, teaching yoga globally for the next twenty years, and authored a number of books. Hundreds of yoga teaching centres have been establishing under his name. In 1988 he retired from active involvement in yoga teaching and is now a patron of charitable institutions.
Bihar Yoga Bharati, the world's first university of yoga, was established under his guidance by his disciple Swami Niranjanananda in 1994. Swami Satyananda has trained thousands of yoga teachers and sannyasins all over the world and is a well respected author of over 80 books of yoga and spirituality. Swami Satyananda's system of yoga is considered to be Integral yoga.
In 1988, he passed on the worldwide coordination of Satyananda Yoga to his disciple, Swami Niranjanananda.
See also
- Bihar School of Yoga
- Bihar Yoga Bharati
- Yoga Nidra
- Swami Sivananda
- Swami Niranjanananda
- Swami Janakananda
External links
- Satyananda Yoga (Official website)
- Bihar School of Yoga
- Bihar Yoga Bharati
- Yoga Magazine published by Satyananda Yoga
- Sivananda Math
- Satyananda Yoga (Official German website)
- Satyananda Yoga ~ Mangrove (Residential Yoga Retreat Centre - near Sydney, Australia)
"Swami Satyananda Saraswati"