The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres is a non-profit organization, named after Swami Sivananda and founded by Swami Vishnu-devananda. Its purpose is to propagate the teachings of Yoga and Vedanta as a means of achieving physical, mental and spiritual well being and Self-Realization.
Gurudev Swami Sivananda Saraswathi's books are bound to transform even atheists, agnostics and absolute non-believers. Here are a few books of Gurudev, presented right underneath, for the readers to purchase, explore and assimilate. Every single sentence of Gurudev is bound to get indelibly impressed on any reader's mind :
Here is a small glimpse of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams around the globe, set up by Swami Vishnudevananda, a direct disciple of Gurudev Swami Sivananda Saraswathi :
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams, Around The Globe |
The style of Yoga taught in these Centres and Ashrams is referred to as Sivananda Yoga. It is a non-proprietary form of Hatha Yoga. Teachers are all graduates of the Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Course, which is an intensive month-long immersion course. Classes emphasize proper breathing (Pranayama), exercise (Asanas), relaxation (Shavasana), diet (Vegetarian) and positive thinking and meditation (Vedanta and Dhyana).The mission of this Institution is to spread peace, health and joy through the practise of Yoga. All are welcome to these Ashrams and Centres, to learn not only about how Yoga can help maintain a healthy body, but also how Indian Yogic philosophy, applied in daily life, can help maintain an extremely peaceful mind and spirit. In 1957, Swami Vishnudevananda on instructions from his Spiritual Guru, Swami Sivananda Saraswathi of Rishikesh, came to the West, to bring the teachings of Indian Yoga to the West. He established the first Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Montreal, Canada, in 1959 and to date there are close to 60 Sivananda Locations (Ashrams, Yoga Centres and Affiliated Centres) around the globe. Over 26,000 teachers have been trained so far in this Institution.
The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams and Centres are recognized worldwide, for teaching Yoga very authentically, preserving its purity and tradition, dating back several thousand years of India's Spiritual History.
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