In an earlier post, I had written about how I found the Yoga Farm and how I started spending all of my Saturday evenings there. This evening, being Swami Sivananda's birthday, instead of the usual chanting and discourse following the evening meditation, they showed a couple of short films -- one was on the life of Swami Sivananda, and the other one was about Swami Vishnudevananda. Swami Vishnudevananda is the founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers, of which the Yoga Farm is a part. He was a disciple of Swami Sivananda.
The screening of those movies inspired me to write a brief post about the lineage of the teachings at this ashram. Since I have been going there for many years, I have seen both of the movies several times. For the purpose of this post, I tried locating them on YouTube. I couldn't find the one on Swami Sivananda, but this clip on YouTube contains some representative material. The movie on Swami Vishnudevananda was called In the Name of Peace, and the entire movie is available on YouTube.
Incidentally, I came across this chart depicting A Brief and Incomplete History of Yoga. I'm no scholar on Yoga and its origins, so I have absolutely no idea how good this chart is. But, in this chart, Swami Sivanada is shown to be a disciple of Vishwananda Saraswati.
Swami Sivananda founded The Divine Life Society in Rishikesh in the Himalayas in India. They have made available for free many of the books written by Swami Sivananda.
Here are some ashrams in this lineage:
The screening of those movies inspired me to write a brief post about the lineage of the teachings at this ashram. Since I have been going there for many years, I have seen both of the movies several times. For the purpose of this post, I tried locating them on YouTube. I couldn't find the one on Swami Sivananda, but this clip on YouTube contains some representative material. The movie on Swami Vishnudevananda was called In the Name of Peace, and the entire movie is available on YouTube.
Incidentally, I came across this chart depicting A Brief and Incomplete History of Yoga. I'm no scholar on Yoga and its origins, so I have absolutely no idea how good this chart is. But, in this chart, Swami Sivanada is shown to be a disciple of Vishwananda Saraswati.
Swami Sivananda founded The Divine Life Society in Rishikesh in the Himalayas in India. They have made available for free many of the books written by Swami Sivananda.
Here are some ashrams in this lineage:
- Yogi Hari's Ashram in Florida (disciple of Swami Vishnudevanada)
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