Swami Vishnudevananda speaks about Yoga Unions 1985
Many states in the U.S. are regulating Yoga teachers which has sparked a new movement of Yoga Associations, Alliances or Unions which are vying to define Yoga in America. Swami Vishnudevananda, the founder of Yoga Teacher Training Courses in America spoke in 1985 about the danger of any group to authorize who can teach Yoga.Listen to MP3 of this lecture
Yoga For Inner Peace - August 2010
- A Worldwide Reunion of Sivananda Yoga TeachersA three-day celebration of Sivananda Yoga. Reconnect with Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda at the Sivananda Yoga HQ in Canada. Yoga classes, satsang, music, dance, and workshops. Meet up with friends, senior disciples and staff from the four corners of the world. Re-energise, revitalise and create peace.
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Our History
Upon the instruction of his guru, Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, India, Swami Vishnu-devananda headed to the West and began travelling and teaching throughout the United States in 1957. He established the first Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Montreal, Canada, in 1959.
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Yoga Means Union
Although many people think this term refers to union between body and mind or body, mind and spirit,
the traditional acceptance is union between the Jivatman and Paramatman that is between one's individual
consciousness and the Universal Consciousness.
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Yoga Life Magazine
Yoga Life Magazine, published by the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers twice a year. Articles from past issues of the Sivananda YOGALife Magazine are available online.
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Staff Program
For those who would like to dedicate their life fully to the spiritual Yogic path, the Sivananda Yoga Organization offers a full-time staff program at its different Yoga Ashrams and Centers around the world.
Karma Yoga is acknowledged as a means to inner purification, ego removal and spiritual growth.
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Teachers Training
Swami Vishnu-devananda developed a training program for yoga teachers with the vision to develop messengers of peace.
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