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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]
Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati set out as a wandering sannyasin and travelled extensively by foot, car, train and sometimes even by camel and elephants throughout India, Afghanistan, Burma, Nepal, Tibet, Ceylon and the entire Asian subcontinent.
Bihar School of Yoga, located at Ganga Darshan Vishwa Yogapeeth, Munger, is the karma bhumi of Sri Satyananda Saraswati, declared by him to be the epicenter of the yogic renaissance in the 21st century.
Satyananda Saraswati was a monk, yoga teacher and guru in both India and the West. He wrote more than 80 books, including the popular 1969 booklet Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha.
Yoga sadhanas developed by Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati and the Bihar School of Yoga aim to integrate all levels of human life and experience. These yoga sadhanas, taught globally during 50 years of yoga propagation from 1963 to 2013, are known as Satyananda Yoga®.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati was born in a well-to-do family of Bikrampur, Dhaka, East Bengal (present Bangladesh) on the day of Makara Samkranti (January 13) in 1900 AD. He was the youngest of many siblings in the famed Dey Sarkar family, owner of extensive stretches of lands.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati is a yogi and spiritual guru who teaches tantric and vedic yoga sadhana - puja, fire worship, and Sanskrit chanting.
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. The system of yoga taught at the Bihar School of Yoga is recognized worldwide as Bihar Yoga or the Satyananda Yoga tradition.
Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati was born in 1923 at Almora (Uttaranchal) into a family of farmers. His ancestors were warriors and many of his kith and kin down the line, including his father, served in the army and police force.
His Holiness Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati Maharaj. Swami Satyananda was a teenager, a little boy, when he came to the Ashram, but very active and proficient in Hatha Yoga right from the beginning. Many were the departments of the Ashram in which he rendered service, particularly during the later days in the Hindi department of the Ashram.
