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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...
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    Venkatesananda Saraswati, inspirer of Ananda Kutir Ashrama in South Africa and Sivananda Ashram in Fremantle, Australia Vishnudevananda Saraswati, founder of...
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    Shantanand Saraswati as his successor and Dwaraka Prasad Sastry - 2) Swami Dwarakeshananda Saraswati, 3) Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati and 4) Swami...
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    Satchidananda Saraswati (IAST: Saccidānanda Sarasvatī; 22 December 1914 – 19 August 2002), born C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder and known as Swami Satchidananda...
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    Shantanand Saraswati (1913–1997) was Shankaracharya of the Jyotir Math monastery from 1953 to 1980; he was a direct disciple of Brahmananda Saraswati and succeeded...
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    a variation of Sirsasana. In Sivananda Yoga, as described by Vishnudevananda Saraswati, the pose with both feet behind the head is named "Dwipada Sirasan"...
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    Shantanand Saraswati in June, 1953." (This from an interview by the author with the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati on 12 June...
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    popularity of yoga and brought it to the Western world. In 1960, Vishnudevananda Saraswati, in the Sivananda yoga school, published a compilation of sixty-six...
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    Organization No Shankarananda 1942– Male US Shiva Yoga No Yes Sexual Vishnudevananda Saraswati 1927–1993 Male India Sivananda Sivananda Yoga Yes Yes Pranayama...
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  • Masters, Frederick S. (Fritz) Perls, Ira Progoff, and Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati. In 1931 Arthur Ceppos composed his first song, “Love is the Name...
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    Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose". Yoga Journal. Iyengar 1979, pp. 244–246. Saraswati, Vishnudevananda (1988) [1960]. The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga. Three Rivers...
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    Schultz 1959 Sivananda Yoga Vishnudevananda Saraswati Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga 1963 Bihar School of Yoga Satyananda Saraswati 1965 Ananda Yoga Kriyananda...
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    Satyananda Saraswati, founded the influential Bihar School of Yoga in 1964. Allegations of sexual abuse and rape of female followers by Vishnudevananda started...
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    Malaysia, twelve set up by mainly by Pranavānanda. In August 1969 Vishnudevananda Saraswati, Founder Director of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Montreal...
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    p. Plate 6. ISBN 81-7017-389-2.[permanent dead link] Saraswati 2004, pp. 182–183. Vishnudevananda (1988). The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga. New York:...
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    Nivedita Sivananda Swami Rama Tagore, D. Tilak Vaswani Vipulananda Vishnudevananda Vivekananda Yogananda more General Indian diaspora Indianisation Influence...
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  • Hunter, The Witches, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead), cancer. Vishnudevananda Saraswati, 65, Indian yoga guru. Anne Smith, 52, British middle-distance...
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    and several of his disciples—Swamis Satyananda, Satchidananda, and Vishnudevananda as "revitaliz[ing]" yoga nidra in the 20th century; also Boyes, Swami...
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  • Nivedita Sivananda Swami Rama Tagore, D. Tilak Vaswani Vipulananda Vishnudevananda Vivekananda Yogananda more General Indian diaspora Indianisation Influence...
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    discourses), and Sarada Jnana Putra (son of the Goddess of knowledge Saraswati). Chaganti Koteswara Rao was born on 14 July 1959 to the couple Chaganti...
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    Nivedita Sivananda Swami Rama Tagore, D. Tilak Vaswani Vipulananda Vishnudevananda Vivekananda Yogananda more General Indian diaspora Indianisation Influence...
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    Nivedita Sivananda Swami Rama Tagore, D. Tilak Vaswani Vipulananda Vishnudevananda Vivekananda Yogananda more General Indian diaspora Indianisation Influence...
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  • sacred dance. From 1965 to 1968, she lived at the ashram of Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati in Montreal. She retired to Oakleigh, Victoria in 1968 and continued...
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    under a different name, Hastapadasana ("Hand-to-Foot Pose") in Swami Vishnudevananda's 1960 Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga, suggesting an older origin...
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    Nivedita Sivananda Swami Rama Tagore, D. Tilak Vaswani Vipulananda Vishnudevananda Vivekananda Yogananda more General Indian diaspora Indianisation Influence...
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  • censored in modern editions of hatha yoga texts", giving as example Vishnudevananda's omission of it from his Hatha Yoga Pradipika with the explanation...
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    describes only Bakasana, with straight arms. In Sivananda Yoga, Swami Vishnudevananda's 1960 Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga describes only Kakasana, with...
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    uniquely as halftone plates. It is described independently in Swami Vishnudevananda's 1960 Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga in the Sivananda Yoga tradition...
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    Nepal in the 13th and 14th century. In the 16th century, Madhusudana Saraswati of Bengal organised a section of the Naga (naked) tradition of armed sannyasis...
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    (1st Indian ed.). Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 8120805437. Vishnudevananda, Swami (1988). The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga. Harmony/Rodale...
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