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He works at the Art of Living Foundation in Bangalore, India, teaching yoga around India and abroad, [2] and working on rural development and educational projects run by the foundation in the North-Eastern Region of India. He is a member of the Art of Living Council for yoga.
Its stress-elimination and self-development programs are based on the breathing technique Sudarshan Kriya, Meditation and yoga. [9] This technique is a major part of Art of Living courses. [12] [13] These courses have been conducted for students and faculty, [13] government officials, [14] firemen, [12] ex-militants, [15] and prisoners. [16]
Shankar was born on 13 May 1956 in Papanasam, Tamil Nadu, to Vishalakshi and R.S.Venkat Ratnam.He was named "Ravi" (an Indian name which means "sun") because his birth was on a Sunday, and "Shankar" after the eighth-century Hindu saint, Adi Shankara, whose birthday was the same day as Ravi Shankar's.
The foundation, established in 1992, operates an ashram and yoga centre that carries out educational and spiritual activities. Sadhguru has been teaching yoga since 1982. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy and Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny , and a frequent speaker at ...
Satchidananda taught a blend of hatha yoga and yoga philosophy which he named Integral Yoga. [14] In 1971, he began training students to teach yoga in prisons and drug rehabilitation centers. [ 23 ] In 1976, Sandra McLanahan founded one of the first integrative health clinics in the US, offering yoga therapy , at that time new to America. [ 24 ]
The Jivamukti Yoga method is a proprietary style of yoga created by David Life and Sharon Gannon in 1984. [1]Jivamukti is a physical, ethical, and spiritual practice, combining a vigorous yoga as exercise, vinyasa-based physical style with adherence to five central tenets: shastra (scripture), bhakti (devotion), ahims ā (nonviolence, non-harming), nāda (music), and dhyana (meditation).
Adi Shankara, in his commentary on Yoga Sutras, distinguishes Dhyana from Dharana, by explaining Dhyana as the yoga state when there is only the "stream of continuous thought about the object, uninterrupted by other thoughts of different kind for the same object"; Dharana, states Shankara, is focussed on one object, but aware of its many ...
Tao Porchon-Lynch (born Täo Andrée Porchon; August 13, 1918 – February 21, 2020) was an American yoga master and award-winning author of French and Indian descent.She discovered yoga in 1926 when she was eight years old in India and studied with, among others, Sri Aurobindo, B.K.S. Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois, Swami Prabhavananda, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.