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    Swami Kuvalayananda (born Jagannatha Ganesa Gune, 30 August 1883 – 18 April 1966) was a yoga guru, researcher, and educator primarily known for his pioneering...
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    centre founded by Swami Kuvalayananda in 1924. It aims to coordinate ancient yogic arts and tradition with modern science. Kuvalayananda founded the journal...
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    knowledge of the practice of yoga. His notable disciple includes Swami Kuvalayananda and Shri Yogendra. He was born in 1798 to a Mukhopadhyaya family...
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    Yoga How to do Uddiyana Bandha From Guy Powiecki from tradition Swami Kuvalayananda "Monier Williams Online Page: 420". Retrieved 2020-01-21. White 2011...
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    Niels Bukh's early 20th century Danish text Primitive Gymnastics. Swami Kuvalayananda incorporated Supta Virasana into his system of exercises in the 1920s...
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    system influenced by the physical culture of Max Müller. In 1924, Swami Kuvalayananda founded the Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center in Maharashtra...
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    influenced by Swami Kuvalayananda and his student Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who taught from 1924 until his death in 1989. Both Kuvalayananda and Krishnamacharya...
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    Western gymnastics and haṭha yoga pioneered by Shri Yogendra and Swami Kuvalayananda. Before 1900, hatha yoga had few standing poses; the Sun Salutation...
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    exercises nor Surya Namaskar were considered to be yoga in the 1930s. Swami Kuvalayananda incorporated Downward Dog into his system of exercises in the early...
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    been taken up by his pupils Pattabhi Jois and Iyengar. In 1924, Swami Kuvalayananda founded the Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center in Maharashtra...
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  • Freedom fighter (1987) G. Sankara Kurup (2003) Kusumagraj (2003) Swami Kuvalayananda (2019) M.M. Kuzhiveli (2019) Mohammad Abdul Aziz Lakhnawi (2019)...
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    with a cloth, a deerskin and kusha grass on top. Swami Vivekananda. "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Raja-Yoga/Appendix - References...
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    Institute. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2018. Swami Kuvalayananda; Shukla, S. A., eds. (December 2006). Goraksha Satakam. Lonavla,...
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  • junior college, Nimbalkar practiced Yoga under renowned teacher, Swami Kuvalayananda, one of the pioneers of Yoga research and the founder of Kaivalyadhama...
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  • Fellowship to conduct a scientific study of yoga in India under Swami Kuvalayananda. He received his doctorate in 1934 and subsequently joined the multi-disciplinary...
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    tradition of gymnastics. The pose had arrived in India by the 1920s. Swami Kuvalayananda incorporated it into his system of exercises, from where it was taken...
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    spiritual to physical in yoga as exercise, as pioneered by Yogendra, Kuvalayananda, and Krishnamacharya. The transformed role of the guru can be seen in...
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    mere reflections... " (p.64). Cf. 49, 50. The author studied under Swami Kuvalayananda (pp. xix, 251). Nikunja Vihari Banerjee, The spirit of Indian philosophy...
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  • integrative and preventive healthcare by Rethink India on 21 June 2021. Swami Kuvalayananda Yoga Puruskar for promotion of yoga and contributions to the science...
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  • eleven pioneering figures: Sri Yogendra; Swami Kuvalayananda; Seetharaman Sundaram; Tirumalai Krishnamacharya; Swami Sivananda; the bodybuilder K. V. Iyer;...
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  • of yoga, the prevailing yoga as exercise, was created by Yogendra, Kuvalayananda, and Krishnamacharya, starting in the 1920s. It was predominantly physical...
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  • themes in the history and practice of yoga in the 20th century: Swami Kuvalayananda's medicalisation of yoga; naturopathic yoga; and the influence of...
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  • and gold are preserved in this temple. He wrote a rare commentary on Kuvalayananda in year 1700 (a book on Alankara Shastra) of Appayya Dikshitar viz:...
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  • prevailing yoga as exercise developed in the 20th century by Yogendra, Kuvalayananda, and Krishnamacharya, which was predominantly physical, consisting mainly...
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  • experiments of N. C. Paul. The early 20th-century pioneers Yogendra and Kuvalayananda both set up institutes to study yoga systematically. Yoga helps to maintain...
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    known to have been influenced by Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Satyananda, Kuvalayananda and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Amrta Suryananda is the author of two books...
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  • earlier pioneers influenced by physical culture such as Yogendra and Kuvalayananda, he contributed to the revival of hatha yoga. Krishnamacharya held degrees...
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  • yoga, yoga teacher training, the British Wheel of Yoga, Yogendra and Kuvalayananda's attempts to treat yoga as science, and Sivananda Yoga. Mind-yoga is...
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    (Ramachandra Charitre), Surala (Padmavati Charitre), and Jayendra (Karnataka Kuvalayananda). Vaishnava writers who distinguished themselves were Lakshmakavi (Bharata...
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