Swami Sivananda (1887 - 1963) The spiritual strength behind the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers, Swami Sivananda's teachings are a synthesis of all the formal doctrines of yoga. Author of more than three hundred books on yoga, Swami Sivananda was a medical doctor before renouncing worldly life for the spiritual path. His main message was: Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize. In 1957, he sent one of his foremost disciples, Swami Vishnu-devananda to the West to spread the ideals of yoga. Swami Sivananda entered mahasamadhi on July 14 1963. Swami Vishnu-devananda (1927 - 1993) Born in South India in 1927, Swami Vishnu-devananda entered the ashram of Swami Sivananda at the age of 18. A world-famous authority on hatha and raja yoga, Swami Vishnu-devananda founded the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in 1957 and was author of The complete Illustrated Book of Yoga, Meditation and Mantras, Karma and Disease and a commentary on the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Swami Vishnu-devananda entered mahasamadhi on November 9, 1993.

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HEADQUARTERS SIVANANDA YOGA ASHRAM YOGA CAMP Eighth Avenue, Val Morin, Quebec, Canada J0T 2R0 Tel 819.322.3226 E-MAIL: hq@sivananda.org With ashrams and centers located around the world. The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, founded by Swami Vishnu-devananda is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to propagate the teachings of yoga and vedanta as a means of achieving physical, mental and spiritual well being and Self-realization.