Swami Ahimsadhara Saraswati

In 2009 Swami Niranjanananda (Satyananda Yoga / Bihar School of Yoga) outlined a simple, profound yoga program (sadhana) for daily practise. The yoga routine supports whatever we do in daily life, enabling us to live with health, happiness, understanding and harmony. Yoga Day by Day is a beautiful book which makes this gift of practical wisdom available to all.

About the Author:

Ahimsadhara is the manager of the Hobart Yoga & Meditation Centre in Tasmania, Austraia. She teaches the advanced classes plus specialised sessions such as Yoga for Mood Management, the Vietnam veterans’ yoga, yoga for migrants and refugees, workplace, conference and school programs.

Ahimsa has practiced and been inspired by Satyananda Yoga since her early teens in the mid-1970s. She has a deep, personal connection with the Satyananda Yoga tradition, which has guided and strengthened her through life’s many twists and turns. Ahimsa is a freelance writer, publishing yoga articles and also specialising as a gardening writer and editing books for Bihar School of Yoga. She has worked in the television and print media and published several books, both fiction and non-fiction.

Ahimsa coordinates courses at Mangrove Mt Ashram, NSW and has taught internationally. These have included Yogic Studies course coordination, Yogic Ecology, Yoga & Creative Writing and Yoga for War Veterans. She also offers retreats in Tasmania on a variety of themes.
Ahimsa visits the Bihar School of Yoga, India, annually.

About the Inspirer:

Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati was born in 1960 in Rajnandgaon (central India) to devout parents who were closely aligned with Swami Satyananda and his work. Recognized as a balyogi (yogi from birth) Swami Niranjan began his training in the ashram at the tender age of four and was initiated by his guru, Swami Satyananda, into the Dashnami sannyasa tradition in 1970. For the next eleven years he toured extensively in Europe, South America, Australia and North America to further the establishment and development of international ashrams and centres. This exposure gave him great insight into the western mind and culture, and prepared him for the years ahead as a yoga master who would convey the ancient wisdom and teachings of yoga across a broad spectrum of the global community.

Swami Niranjan has guided the activities of Bihar School of Yoga and the International Yoga Research Foundation since 1983. In 1990, he was initiated into paramahamsa sannyasa. In 1993, he was chosen as Swami Satyananda’s spiritual successor, inheriting the role of guiding the activities of Satyananda Yoga worldwide. In 1994, he founded Bihar Yoga Bharati, an Institute for Advanced Studies in Yogic Sciences. In 1995, he founded the Bal Yoga Mitra Mandal movement to introduce yoga into the lives of children.

Swami Niranjan has travelled the world for the past forty years, teaching and inspiring people from all walks of life. He has also authored over twenty books on yoga, tantra and the upanishads. Now retired from ashram administration as well as national and international travel, he has entered a new phase of service and sadhana. The directorship of Bihar School of Yoga and its affiliated activities has been passed on to his successor, Swami Suryaprakash, who has been trained for many years by Swami Niranjan to take on this role.… (altro)