Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati (born 1923), is an important yoga master and guru in both his native India and the West. 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A woman practicing hatha yoga Yoga, meaning union in Sanskrit, is a family of ancient spiritual practices, and also a school of spiritual thought that originated in India, where it remains a vibrant living tradition and is seen as a means to enlightenment. ... Guru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

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. Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ... Almora is the cultural and geographic centre the Kumaun region, approximately 80km north of the railhead at Kathgodam. ... Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: , Urdu: اتر پردیش, IPA: ), also popularly known by its abbreviation U.P., is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Union of India. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887-1963), as he is known under his monastic name, was born Kuppuswamy in Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu, India. ... Rishikesh (also spelt Hrishikesh, another name for Lord Vishnu), in the state of Uttaranchal, is a holy city for Hindus located in the foothills of the Himalaya in northern India. ... Sanyasa (pronounced sanyaas) symbolises the conception of the mystic life in Hinduism where a person is now integrated into the spiritual world after wholly giving up material life. ... Divine Life Society // Founder Swami Sivananda Saraswati Year & place of founding At Rishikesh in 1936, India Aims & ideals To Disseminate Spiritual Knowledge By publication of books, pamphlets and magazines dealing with ancient, oriental and occidental philosophy, religion and medicine in the modern scientific manner, and their distribution on such terms...

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. Yoga Nidra, which literally means sleep of the yogis, is used to prepare both mentally and physically prior to seeking deeper levels of consciousness and awareness through meditation. ... now. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... The Bihar School of Yoga is an entity founded by Swami Satyananda Saraswati in 1964 and is located in Munger (Bihar, India). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. Located near Munger, in Indias Bihar State, Bihar Yoga Bharati (BYB) is a yoga institute dedicated to the study of yoga in a gurukul environment. ... Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati (born 14 February 1960) is the successor of Paramahamsa Satyananda, founder of Satyananda Yoga, who passed on the worldwide coordination of Satyananda Yoga to Swami Niranjanananda in 1988. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Sanyasa (pronounced sanyaas) symbolises the conception of the mystic life in Hinduism where a person is now integrated into the spiritual world after wholly giving up material life. ... Integral yoga or purna yoga (Sanskrit for full or complete yoga) refers in Sri Aurobindos teachings to the union of all the parts of ones being with the Divine, and the transmutation of all of their jarring elements into a harmonious state of higher divine consciousness and existence. ...

In 1988, he passed on the worldwide coordination of Satyananda Yoga to his disciple, Swami Niranjanananda. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati (born 14 February 1960) is the successor of Paramahamsa Satyananda, founder of Satyananda Yoga, who passed on the worldwide coordination of Satyananda Yoga to Swami Niranjanananda in 1988. ...

See also

• Bihar School of Yoga
• Bihar Yoga Bharati
• Yoga Nidra
• Swami Sivananda
• Swami Niranjanananda
• Swami Janakananda

The Bihar School of Yoga is an entity founded by Swami Satyananda Saraswati in 1964 and is located in Munger (Bihar, India). ... Located near Munger, in Indias Bihar State, Bihar Yoga Bharati (BYB) is a yoga institute dedicated to the study of yoga in a gurukul environment. ... Yoga Nidra, which literally means sleep of the yogis, is used to prepare both mentally and physically prior to seeking deeper levels of consciousness and awareness through meditation. ... Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887-1963), as he is known under his monastic name, was born Kuppuswamy in Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu, India. ... Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati (born 14 February 1960) is the successor of Paramahamsa Satyananda, founder of Satyananda Yoga, who passed on the worldwide coordination of Satyananda Yoga to Swami Niranjanananda in 1988. ... Swami Janakananda was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1939. ...

External links

• Bihar School of Yoga
• Bihar Yoga Bharati
• Yoga Magazine published by Satyananda Yoga
• Sivananda Math
• Satyananda Yoga (Official German website)
• Satyananda Yoga (Official Australasian website)
• Satyananda Yoga ~ Mangrove (Residential Yoga Retreat Centre - near Sydney, Australia)
• Satyananda Yoga (Official German website)
• Yoga Satyananda (French website)