Satyananda Saraswati

Satyananda (* 1923 in Almora, India, † December 5, 2009 in Rikhia, Jharkhand ), called by his followers with the spiritual honorary title Paramahamsa and Saraswati, was a yoga master. He spent more than 50 years of trying out yogic techniques and make accessible to people of today.

In 1956 he called the " International Yoga Fellowship Movement" ( IYFM ) to life and founded in 1963 the Bihar School of Yoga ( BSY ) in order to help more people on their spiritual path can. His teachings spread soon all over the world. The BSY has published over 80 books with his teaching. The book " Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha " by Satyananda forms the basis of many yoga classes and yoga teacher training programs in Germany.

1988 Satyananda sparked by all organizational commitments. His successor Niranjananda leads since the business of the Satyananda tradition. Satyananda Yoga is represented in Germany by the Satyananda Yoga Centre in Cologne under the direction of Prakashananda.

Works

• Paramahamsa Satyananda: Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha Yoga Ananda Publishers, ISBN 978-3-928831-31-4
• Paramahamsa Satyananda: Yoga Nidra Ananda Publishers, ISBN 3-928831-25-9