Satyananda Saraswati, was a Sanyasi, yoga teacher and guru in both his native India and the West.
16 Facts About Satyananda Saraswati
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Satyananda Saraswati was a student of Sivananda Saraswati, the founder of the Divine Life Society, and founded the Bihar School of Yoga in 1964.
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Satyananda Saraswati wrote over 80 books, including the popular 1969 manual Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha.
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Satyananda Saraswati was born in 1923 at Almora, Uttaranchal, into a family of farmers and kshatriyas, the warrior caste.
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Satyananda Saraswati stated that he began to have spiritual experiences at the age of six, when his awareness spontaneously left the body and he saw himself lying motionless on the floor.
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Satyananda Saraswati claimed to have met a tantric bhairavi, Sukhman Giri, who gave him shaktipat and directed him to find a guru to stabilise his spiritual experiences.
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In 1943, at the age of twenty, he met his guru Sivananda Saraswati and went to live at Sivananda's ashram in Rishikesh.
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Satyananda Saraswati stayed with Sivananda for a further nine years but received little further formal instruction from him.
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In 1962, Satyananda Saraswati established the International Yoga Fellowship Movement in Rajnandgaon.
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Some people in turn invited Satyananda Saraswati to teach in their own countries.
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Satyananda Saraswati lectured and taught for the next twenty years, including a tour of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, North America between April and October 1968.
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In 1988 Satyananda handed over the active work of his ashram and organisation to his spiritual successor, Niranjanananda Saraswati, and left Munger.
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati's teachings are based on the yoga teachings of Swami Sivananda.
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati's name is closely associated with the modern form of yoga nidra, a deep relaxation technique.
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Satyananda Saraswati wrote over 80 books, including his popular 1969 manual Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha.
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Satyananda Saraswati's writings have been published by the Bihar School of Yoga and, since 2000, by the Yoga Publications Trust established by his disciple Swami Niranjanananda.