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Vishnudevananda Saraswati (31 December 1927 – 9 November 1993, birth name Kuttan Nair) was an Indian yoga guru known for his teaching of asanas, a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams (ISYVC). He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Training Course, possibly the first yoga teacher training programs in the West.
His Holiness Sri Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati Maharaj. Born on the 31st of December, 1927, he was known as Kuttan Nair. He hails from Kerala, where he had his school education. After completing school, he was engaged in teaching for sometime, after which he joined the Indian Army. While searching for a misplaced paper, he happened to lay his ...
Vishnudevananda Saraswati was a spiritual leader yogi, peace activist and yoga guru from Kerala who lived during the period, 31 December 1927 – 9 November 1993. A disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, he founded the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. He started Sivananda yoga, a non-proprietary form of traditional hatha yoga ...
Swami Vishwananda Saraswati was a late 19th-century to early 20th-century yogi, who is most remembered as the guru of Swami Sivananda Saraswati, founder of the Divine Life Society and a prominent yogi and guru in his own right. Swami Vishwananda Saraswati belonged to the Sringeri Matha, or monastery, that was established by Sri Adi ...
Swami Mahadevananda Saraswati. Swami Mahadevananda joined Swami Vishnudevananda in 1968. In 1973, as one of his first students, he received the initiation into sannyas, the monastic order. He was the director of the Sivananda Yoga Center in Montreal for many years. In 1979 he went to India to direct the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Neyyar Dam.
The Teachings. The underlying purpose of all practices of yoga is to reunite the individual soul with the Absolute or pure consciousness. Union with this unchanging reality liberates us from all sense of separation and allows us to realise our true nature. Following the teaching lineage of his guru Swami Sivananda and by closely observing the ...
Vishnudevananda Saraswati (December 31, 1927 – November 9, 1993) was a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachers’ Training Course, one of the first yoga teacher training programs in the West. His books The Complete Illustrated Book ...
