Personal attention, sincere attempt to bring the complete range of the teaching to you in a systematic manner!
We completed our 15th year in 2020 and our founder completed 27 years of teaching yoga. With more than 15000 hours of personal teaching experience and with more than 100000 hours of cumulative teaching experience of all our teachers, we are waiting to offer our expertise to everyone who approaches us with humility and dedication.
The courses we offer have been designed with the experience gained through these years of teaching and reaching more than a million people in the last 27 years!
We welcome you to a journey of total self transformation,
The practices of Satyananda Yoga were given out by Sri Swami Satyananda after travelling all over India, with an understanding of the prevailing health conditions of people and the needs they have.
At SYC TRIPLICANE they are offered as a progressive course, delivered in modules most suited to householders, so that they will have the time and opportunity to practice and bring the impact into their personality.
With more than 50 years of contributions of the tradition to the cause of yoga and uplifting human consciousness to spiritual heights as our background, our call is that of a golden tradition
In 2013 Bihar School of Yoga Celebrated it’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. A WORLD YOGA CONVENTION was convened by Bihar School of Yoga.
Satyananda Yoga Centre organised a series of awakening talks all over Chennai in honour of the tradition. The citizens of Chennai and Satyananda Yoga Centre together hosted talks on 50 different topics related to yoga. The talks we so well received that at the end of the series of talks, SYC TRIPLICANE conducted a two day Yoga retreat for people of Chennai.
Hundreds of great institutions and organisations have collaborated with SYC to receive the expertise of SYC and our tradition.
Having served in this field for more than quarter of a century, SnShivarishi has been invited to share the yogic wisdom in numerous forums.
Our team has grown from one person with deep knowledge to a community of yogis with immense person experience and ample teaching experience.
We will be more than delighted to share the wisdom with any organisation that has the interest to introduce such elevating yogic wisdom in their environment!
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An unbroken tradition of living masters disseminating the wisdom of the Sages in a modern and contemporary manner
Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati was born at Pattamadai, (Tamil Nadu) in 1887. After serving as a medical doctor in Malaya, he renounced his practice to search for his Guru in the foothills of the Himalayas. He settled in the sacred valley of Rishikesh and was initiated into the Dashnami Sannyasa tradition in 1924 by Swami Vishwananda Saraswati.
In subsequent years he wrote hundreds of books and articles on yoga and spirituality to maintain and introduce yogic values in the minds of the general public. His emphasis was on breaking down the barriers which separated the needy from the teachings that could help them, whether this took the form of yoga for health, peace of mind or spiritual aspiration. This ideology continues to guide the work of the Satyananda branch of his lineage.
To this end Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati toured India extensively, inspiring people to practice yoga and lead a divine life. He founded the Divine Life Society at Rishikesh in 1936, the Sivananda Ayurvedic Pharmacy in 1945, the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy in 1948 and the Sivananda Eye Hospital in 1957 and attained Maha Samadhi on 14th July 1963.
As a major spiritual voice of not only his time, but forever, Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati guides thousands of spiritual seekers, disciples and aspirants all over the world.
If you wish to read more about Swami Sivananda and the mission that was started by him, you may visit the website of DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY : https://www.dlshq.org/
Sri Swami Satyananda was born in1923 at Almora on the foothills of The Himalayas. At a young age he had the inclination and the opportunity to meet and serve several sadhus, who were on their way to the Himalayas. It had a strong influence in the young Dharmendar!
At the tender age of six, when most people would play with toys, he had a profound spiritual experience. His parents were reassured by many saints about the spiritual potential of their son!
In the life of Sri Swamiji, several spiritual, tantric, yoga Gurus were eager to adopt him and even offered to make him their successors. Sri Swamiji also received guidance into several aspects of spiritual sadhana.
In 1943, at the age of 20 Sri Swamiji met Swami Sivananda at Rishikesh and the rest of his life is history that the whole world knows.
If you wish to actually read about the life and work of Sri Swami Satyananda, you can visit the website of Bihar School of Yoga : https://www.biharyoga.net/
Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati was born in Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) in 1960. Guided by his guru, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, from birth, at the age of four he came to live with him at the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger where he received training in yogic and spiritual sciences through yoga nidra.
In 1971 he was initiated into Dashnami sannyasa, and thereafter for eleven years he lived overseas, mastering skills in varied areas, acquiring an understanding of different cultures and helping propagate yoga in Europe, Australia, North and South America.
At the behest of his guru, he returned to India in 1983 to guide the activities of Bihar School of Yoga, Sivananda Math and the Yoga Research Foundation at Ganga Darshan. In 1990 he was initiated as a paramahamsa sannyasin and in 1993 anointed spiritual preceptor in succession to Swami Satyananda Saraswati. He established Bihar Yoga Bharati, the first university of yoga, in 1994 and the Yoga Publications Trust in 2000 in Munger. He also initiated a children’s yoga movement, Bal Yoga Mitra Mandal, in 1995. In addition to inspiring the activities at Munger, he travelled extensively to guide seekers around the world.
In 2008 he relinquished the presidency of the Bihar School of Yoga and all institutional responsibilities were handed to the next generation of yoga sevaks. Before his Mahasamadhi in 2009, Sri Swami Satyananda gave Swami Niranjanananda the mandate to explore the sannyasa lifestyle and to revive and expound the classical yoga vidya. Author of many classic books on yoga, tantra and the upanishads, Swami Niranjan is a magnetic source of wisdom on all aspects of yogic philosophy, practice and lifestyle. He ably combines tradition with modernity as he continues to nurture and spread his guru’s mission from his base in Munger town.
In 2017, he was awarded the third highest civilian award of India, the Padma Bhushan, by the President of the Republic of India for meritorious work in yoga.
To read more about Swamiji and his contributions visit : https://www.biharyoga.net/
Individuals and families can directly learn from us for immediate and long term goals. Organisations can collaborate with us and bring the inputs of Satyananda Yoga to the benefit of your people and organisation
There is so much that can be obtained from the wisdom of yoga which has relevance to the modern human problems and maladies. Inspiring and informative workshops can be conducted for your people!
We have conducted Workshops and meaningful discussions for every environment in the last three decades.
Few sample workshops are detailed below. We can be contacted, to guide you and plan an interesting workshop, for your organisation.
Variety of workshops can be conducted for families and members of families to bring individual empowerment and enhance family harmony and prosperity. Yoga can be beneficial to the child, youth, adult, old, convalescing and dying members of a family.
Globally, more and more people have found yoga improve their lives in every way. The fact that, when The Prime Minister of India proposed motion in UNO for celebrating International Day of Yoga 175 countries expressed their solidarity to the motion. This happened because the wings of yoga had already spread across to each and every nook and corner of the world! Thanks to the incessant initiative taken by the devotees of Sri Swami Sivananda!
We will be happy to bring your families into the healing fold of YOGA,
Every employee is an asset and resource to its organisation. If the resource is functioning at half their capacity, how would the individual be satisfied or grow. How would such an organisation be able to achieve its full.
In today’s modern world, people find it extremely improbable to balance between their work and life. Everything seems so smudged up. There is perineal stress and disturbance in harmony leading to disease, mediocrity and creates a vicious circle.
A timely yoga intervention in the lives of corporate executives can bring such a welcome change in the entire environment.
We provide professional services to corporate companies to improve the efficiency of their executives. Some of the organizations are mentioned here:
We are so much used to being restless and stressed out, that we don’t even understand the meaning of the experience called as relaxation!
To feel relaxed almost everyone needs some trigger to stimulate them! Like a chocolate, coffee, smoke, sex, or need intoxication to forget themselves so much that they can temporarily become unconscious!
The world has tried the best of liquor, Hasish, Ganja, Sex, music, drama, food, touring and everything else but have only miserably failed to have a complete and total experience of relaxation.
In the end instead of experiencing relaxation, they only became addicted to the habits and their experience of stress and suffering only intensified many fold. People who are unable to find such an escape route, suppress their conflicts, emotional burdens and intellectual confusion and suffer internally.
Why do people turn to self limiting addictive habits? You might be used to abusing yourself with substance like liquor or tobacco, and would be needing it because you are very stressed. You are free to continue what you feel is OK for you, though you are responsible for what you will have to face in the future!
Give yourself a chance to experience the perfect technique of relaxation. “YOGA NIDRA” is a brilliant practice developed by our Parama Guru Sri Swami Satyananda! Today, Yoga Nidra is a common name and used by most of the yoga teachers all over the world.
A 30 minute practice of yoga nidra can leave you rested, rejuvenated and deeply relaxed as if you have slept for as many as 8 hours.
To know more about yoga nidra read Yoga Publications Trust book “Yoga Nidra” by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
You can invite us for a totally relaxing workshop on “MASTERING STRESS” or any other workshop in your company
Yoga Education has been an important area of work for Satyananda Yoga Centre since 2005. Even before its inception Sn.Shivarishi has been involved in introducing yoga to educational institutions since 1995.
SYC has extended its expertise to schools all over Tamilnadu, and particularly in and around Chennai.
We have conducted workshops, lecture demonstrations, seminars, courses and classes for students, Teachers, Principals, even Management members of many schools.
Teachers in schools are the third authority next only to Mother and Father! The expectation that a child has from a teachers is extremely demanding. The responsibility that is laid on the shoulders of a teacher are burdensome.
If teachers wish to have an enjoyable career experience, it is not enough, if they are capable of conducting classes in the best way. First of all they should be having an impressive and inspiring personality. Within themselves they should enjoy an inexhaustible level of energy and enthusiasm, boundless creativity, and a lot more!
On the contrary, most teachers are not even fit, where is the question of being creative. They try their best and somehow pull off the career.
ABC of Yoga Education is an eye opener to teachers. Hundreds of schools in Chennai have invited us to conduct this workshop for their teachers. The day long workshop helped them to do course correction, refine and fine tune themselves and find renewed energy and enthusiasm.
Amazing yet simple yogic tools that teachers can use to bring harmony in the classroom environment and bring a balance in their students are taught to teachers during the workshop.
You can invite us to conduct this illuminating workshop for your teachers!
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The DAV Group of Schools functioning under the auspices of Arya Samaj, invited us to introduce yoga to their school children in 2006. We started our intervention in 2006, under the leadership of Smt.Lalitha Chandrasekharan, the then Principal of DAV Girls Senior Secondary School, Gopalapuram. Our first batch of +1 and +2 students were about 160. In the year 2016, the last year when we offered our expertise to the group of schools, 9600 children across seven schools under their management attende the course.
Seeing the efficacy of the program, after enjoying the rich benefits, the school lapped up our service and asked us to offer courses for their teachers, parents. In 2012 before the schools reopened, Satyananda Yoga Centre conducted a day long workshop for Principals and Head Mistress of all their schools in Chennai. The members of the management also participated and Shri.Jaidev Chowdhry, the secretary of the school joined us in the evening for the valedictory function of the workshop.
Discipleship, Intuition, Insight and Inspiration are the qualities required to become a teacher of the Satyananda Yoga tradition.
Yogic, Tantric and Vedic wisdom are an endless ocean. Gratitude and prayerfulness are the final feeling one gets, when properly exposed to this wisdom.
A Yoga teacher is very much aware of the vastness of the scriptural and practice traditions. Having exposed to the wisdom through their Acharyas and Masters, the feeling a teacher remains in, forever is that of HUMILITY.
The teachers at Satyananda Yoga Centre are not yoga professionals. They are actual testimonials that prove the efficacy of Yoga, they are the proof of Guru’s grace flowing in people’s lives. Being touched by the spirit of seva and samarpan, they have humbly offered their seva to touch more lives.
It has been a delightful experience for Satyananda Yoga Centre & its founder Shri Shiva Rishi serving these ordinary people who were led to perceive “The extraordinary” in themselves. Now they are in a journey of expanding their horizons of knowledge and in the process of self purification.
The teachers of Satyananda Yoga Centre consider themselves as servants of Guru. Teaching yoga to people is not a profession for them, instead it is a spiritual effort “SADHANA“.
Satyananda Yoga Centre does not Surrogate from other places, we create our teachers through a systematic training spread over couple of years!
A thorough course, spread over a period of two years of intense learning, followed by exhaustive experience to imbibe, the teaching methodologies and skills, that have been tested and verified over the last 25 years of teaching, give participants a great leverage to take aspirants of yoga to have a metamorphic experience of Satyananda Yoga.
We got the mandate from our Guru Swami NiranjananandaSaraswati to organise a Yoga Yatra to South India. Satyananda Yoga Centre arranged its first program “Discovery of Human Potential – A Yoga Yatra” conducted by Swami Niranjan in February 2007. Thousands of people attended the morning & evening programs and basked in the divine presence of the great Yogi. Swamiji Spoke on several topics for discovery & awakening of the human potential. Swamiji also initiated about 700 people into mantra Sadhana. This program was a memorable event.
Students of the school were fortunate to have a direct session with Swamiji. A lecture, Kirtan and distribution of prasad to every student was organized. Swamiji shared with students an interesting and a powerful message of how one’s personality can be totally awakened through the system of Yoga.
Swamiji even shared with them his experience from his age eleven, when he was sent to the Americas to enhance the mission of his Guru. Children were awe struck by the details that they came to know on that day.
The only time when Swami Arundhati Saraswati, Canada, visited Chennai, was when we were blessed with an opportunity to host her program in Chennai, for the education system, for children, for teachers.
They were stupendous days of utter inspiration! Everyone who participated were swept by the creativity and energy that Swami Arundhati could manifest effortlessly at the age of eighty.
We organized programs for students of DAV Girls Senior Secondary School, their teachers, parents in Chennai and for yoga teachers from our own tradition. Two programs were organized
Swami Arundhati Saraswati is the founder and director of “YES – Yoga Education in Schools” an organization that has pioneered in taking yoga to schools in Canada. She has over sixty years of experience teaching yoga.
She is the author of Yoga Education for Children – Vol 1&2. An authority of introducing yoga to children in the most interesting and enjoyable manner. Her books have been published by Yoga Publications Trust. They have been a source of guidance for thousands of teachers over the last five decades.
It was indeed a blissful experience to host Swami Arundhati, whom Swami Niranjan respects and treats as his mother!
The first CHILDREN YOGA FESTIVAL was celebrated in August 2008 in Chennai, to the honour our Guru, Paramahamsa Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati. Since then CYF has been celebrated to make yoga an enjoyable involvement for children.
The first program was conducted at New Woodlands Hotel, thanks to the generosity of Shri.Murali Bhat, the event attracted 450 participants from 38 schools in Chennai. The winning participants were taken on a fully sponsored flight trip to our ashrams in Bihar and Jharkhand!
It was an experience of a lifetime for all the children who made the trip to ashrams. They had a holistic experience of yoga, not as a matter of something to be done on a mat for few minutes, but an attunement of every moment of life. A life time learning from a trip of a life time!
From an even which happened in one venue for one day, the celebration took a huge form, of being celebrated throughout the year in every school in Chennai. We celebrated the Children Yoga Festival every year, with great festivities and to promote the CHILD & YOGA!
Every year children were taken on sponsored trip to both our ashrams. What started of with 16 children in 2008, grew to as many as 200 children visiting ashram every year.
Everyone involved in the Children Yoga Festival were blessed with bliss divine. Swamiji and sannyasins of both ashrams we’re delighted to receive children from Chennai.
We had the greatest good fortune of presenting the grand finale of Children Yoga Festival on 14th February 2014, on the very Bal Yoga Divas in the most graceful presence of Swamiji on his birthday.
We can surely say that it was indeed one of the greatest moment in all our lives, to bring delight to Swamiji’s heart! This is what Swamiji said after being part of the grand finale of Children Yoga Festival!
Swami Anandkumar Saraswati, David Behrens, from Brimhingam, UK, attended Teacher Training Course at Mangrove Yoga Ashram in 1981. Met Sri Swami Satyananda in 1983, in Australia.
Swami Anandkumar met Swami Niranjananada Saraswati in 1992 in Munger. Taped in 1999 to Bihar School of Yoga and stayed for the next eight years. Swami Anandkumar frequents Thiruvannamalai and teaches yoga with a focus on meditation.
Sn Shivarishi met Swami Anandkumar in 2003 when he attended the yogic studies course and had further interactions when Swami Anandkumar conducted Kriya Yoga course in 2005!
With the blessings of Swami Niranjan, Sw.Anandkumar was invited for a five day visit to Chennai. Mornings were planned for visiting several schools in Chennai to inspire students to try yoga in their lives. Over thousand students attended the sessions and felt the efficacy and power of yoga.
Evening sessions were conducted at Chinmaya Heritage Centre. Introduction to meditations from Satyananda Yoga were introduced by Swami Anandkumar!
Swami Nirmalananda a Medical Doctor, has been the coordinator of Yoga Research work at Yoga Research Foundation, Lecturer of Applied Yogic Science in BYB, author of YOGIC MANAGEMENT OF CANCER, was invited to Chennai by Sn Shivarishi to observe the research work at cancer institute, Adyar, Madhuram Narayan Centre and DAV Group of Schools, in Chennai.
We had the good fortune of hosting programs for mothers and special educators of Madhuram Narayan Centre and public on Yogic Management of Health Disorders.
All the three programs were quite rewarding and well appreciated by all participants. The interactions and programs paved way for three research activities in Chennai, under the guidance of Yoga Research Foundation.
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