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Why choose Us
Our Uniqueness
Personal attention, sincere attempt to bring the complete range of the teaching to you in a systematic manner! With about 50000 hours of teaching experience of our founder and cumulative 500000 hours of teaching experience of teachers trained by us.
Bringing the tradition of Satyananda Yoga as given by Swami Sivananda, developed by Sri Swami Satyananda, preserved and propagated by the luminaries of the tradition.
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Yoga is not limited to practices that will make one better. What in preliminary stages begins with doing and benefiting to realising and knowing culminating in a true yoga of being!
Satyananda Yoga Education Charitable Trust provides scope of such ascension in the spiritual dimension.
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Our Parampara
About Us
An unbroken tradition of living masters disseminating the wisdom of the Sages in a modern and contemporary manner
Sri Swami Sivananda
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
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/
Paramahamsa Swami Niranjanananda
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/
Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati
On January 1st 2007, she was appointed as the Peethadhishwari of Rikhiapeeth by Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Presently she resides at Rikhia, and is dedicated to implementing Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati’s three precepts of serve, love and give, working tirelessly for the material and spiritual upliftment of the local community, who are the neighbours of her guru. She travels nationally and internationally carrying the light of Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati’s and Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati’s teachings to all.
Individuals and families can directly learn from us for immediate and long term goals. Organizations can collaborate with us and bring the inputs of Satyananda Yoga to the benefit of your people and organization
Dharana Shibiram – Intense Course for Concentration
2 Years
Shravan Sadhana – Scriptural Study
5 – 7 years
“Regular practice is the primary prerequisite for success in Yoga”
The greatest challenge for an adult is to identify the time and space regularly for the practice of Yoga, by themselves!
At Satyananda Yoga Centre, the courses are designed in such a way that the learning is “A little at a time” that can be assimilated by regular practice, followed by further learning.
“Development of Self Awareness & Awakening of the hidden potential is the approach to the experience of yoga”
Systematic practice and expanded states of awareness allow one to awaken the hidden energy & manifest it in daily life as Creativity, Enthusiasm, and Empowerment. These result in faultless thinking and clutter free mind and disease free body.
The courses are designed to gradually expand ones awareness from the grosser planes to the subtle plane & then develop the awareness that one is the awareness and not the things one is aware of. “Learning is Progressive”
In yogic learning there is a gradual transformation of the whole being. The body, mind, intellect, emotions, the energy; every part of the person engaging in yoga go through transformation.
Each small movement can be a great leap in life with respect to that dimension of one’s personality. The process of evolution is set in motion.
The courses conducted by Satyananda Yoga Centre, Chennai are planned carefully to give the time and space for the aspirant to adjust to the emerging changes.
Children enjoy and participate in any activity that is full of fun, if it is stimulating and satisfying. Any activity that allows them to use their freedom, does not interfere with their curiosity is welcome by them.
Shivarishi
The yoga program developed by teachers of Satyananda Yoga Centre, under the guidance of Sannyasi Shiva Rishi, based on the teachings of Sri Swami Satyananda and the luminaries of the Satyananda Yoga tradition, has been effectively introduced in several city schools for more than a decade! Our course our course is very popular with children who have attended them.
Every year more than 10000 children have received our specially designed courses and benefited from the simple and unique yoga course for children!
Our efforts to reach out to schools, orphanages, Veda Patasalas, Delinquent rehabiliation centers, Children wards of hospitals, Institutes for exceptional children, has given us rich and fulfilling experience of teaching yoga in the most interesting manner to children from all backgrounds.
We presently offer our courses for children at schools, in residents associations, orphanages and anywhere children can be congregated. We have been invited to offer our yoga course for children by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Rikhiapeeth Ashram, Can Stop – an organization working with children suffering from cancer, several exceptional schools and Veda Patasalas in Tamilnadu.
At our centre also we offer a year long course on weekends for children from our locality.
SYC & SYECT have taken several initiatives to make YOGA enjoyable to children
You can be inspired by reading through some of the initiatives we have taken for children here
Satyananda Yoga Centre has been a pioneer in introducing yoga in education! We have taken numerous efforts in the last fifteen years to bring the wisdom of yoga into the education stream. We had the opportunities to make lakhs of children look up to YOGA with hope and joy!
Through several initiatives, in collaboration with private educational institutions and with government run educational institutions, almost a lakh and fifteen thousand children have been introduced to yoga in an enjoyable manner, during the decade of 2005 to 2014!
We were able to let children have an enjoyable experience of Yoga and come to the conclusion that, “YOGA is FUN!”
One may be a great practitioner of asanas, or capable of demonstrating the most complex and advanced asanas! One may be able to explain all the scientific facts behind every practice. These things cannot hold the child even for a moment to consider YOGA as FUN!
Teaching Yoga to children and teaching yoga to adults are completely different things and require totally different skill and knowledge sets!
YOGA AT B.Ed COLLEGES
Since 1995 Sn.Shivarishi has been conducting certified course for students of B.Ed. Several of them trained between 1995 – 2021, have become teachers and are passing on the yogic wisdom that was received by them to thousands of students in their career as a teacher! Click on the link below to read about our program for B.Ed Colleges
Yoga orientation to teachers and educationists
In over 300 schools, in Chennai and in many parts of Tamilnadu, we have conducted a specially designed one day program to sensitize teachers of schools from kinder garden to senior secondary levels, on the effective role of yoga in education.
Inputs of the workshop, opened up their mind to possibilities. The condition of the teacher, their health, energy, state of mind, calmness, enhances their ability to be more emphatic about their students, be creative, a reliable and respectable resource person in the life of a child!
Read more about the special workshop that can be organized for teachers of schools, click on the image given below!
Satyananda Yoga in Schools
Government Run schools, Government aided Private schools, Corporation Schools and private schools in Chennai and in many parts of Tamilnadu, have invited Satyananda Yoga Centre, to teach yoga to their school students.
From a single inspirational and experiential session, to a long term course offered through several successive academic years, we have conducted a variety of program for students from 5th class to X+2 students.
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Satyananda Yoga Teacher Training
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 of practices and shastras, followed by exhaustive experience to imbibe, the teaching methodologies and skills, that have been received from the parampara of Satyananda Yoga, personally, tested and verified over the last 25 years of teaching, conceived in the most effective way to minimize loss of knowledge during the transmission, give participants a great leverage to take aspirants of yoga to have a metamorphic experience in the cocoon of Satyananda Yoga.
To meet the teachers trained by us, know their stories and learn from their experiences CLICK on the image below
In 2013 Bihar School of Yoga celebrated its 50th year – the Golden Jubilee! This marked the completion of the first chapter of taking “YOGA FROM SHORE TO SHORE” to a renewed direction of “LIVING YOGA FROM MOMENT TO MOMENT”.
In honour of the ageless tradition SYC has been organising a series of talks followed by a retreat to give the people of Chennai, an exposure to teaching of our PARAMPARA
We are delighted to share with you a wonderful Yoga programme that we have conceived exclusively for you, your kith & Kin.
Satyam’s AWAKENING CALL OF A GOLDEN YOGA TRADITION – ACOGYT is Satyananda Yoga Center’s effort to liberally share with the people of Chennai, the blessings and the wonderful wisdom of Satyananda Yoga or Bihar Yoga. You can be a catalyst for the positive development of your family, friends and also the larger society.
Please spare few minutes of your time to know more about ACOGYT. You can share this information with everyone known to you. They can also arrange an ACOGYT programme.
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One time, Short term, Long term and forever
Collaborations of SYC
In 30+ years, we had the opportunities to help people in countless organisations. You can collaborate with SYC to intervene the inputs and wisdom onto nourish your organisation
Satyananda Yoga Centre actively collaborates with the society through individuals and through several organizations, to create opportunities for all to have contemporary, researched authentic inputs about Yoga as a system of self development, to help them improve the quality of their lives.
Several programs, ranging from one time session of 45 minutes to year long periodic interventions have been conducted effectively to the benefit of a variety of people from different strata of society.
Our association has been with every aspect of the fabric of human development, which include, Educational institutions, corporate multi national companies, Government departments, Government undertakings, Private firms, Spiritual and cultural associations, Sports academies for more than two decades.
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What’s happening at SYC
News & Events
Catch up with recent event and upcoming announcements
Satyananda Yoga Centre completed fifteen years of its contributions on the auspicious day of Diwali last year! As a meaningful offering, we have been conducting workshops on Parenting Secret in a Dynamic World! as a seva and offering to interested participats. A special program was conducted on 11th April, for youngsters on the topic SAMSKARA. The participants have requested for further insights into the topic and we have obliged! We will be conducting our next workshop today. A group of pre-registered participants will participate in today’s workshop. Further a crisp introductory course into Yogic and Ayurvedic Samskaras will be introduced …
We are delighted to announce this inspirational program during this critical time! Yoga and Ayurveda are traditional sciences that have many easily implementable methods to strengthen immunity and prevent from getting sick! In this session we will be asking our students, who are Ayurvedic Vaidya and Yoga teachers, to share insights into some simple yet, profound methods to maintain great health! Daily Ayurvedic regimens and yogic practices can go a long way, in the forthcoming months, to help you and your family, remain in the best possible physical and psychological health! COVID HOSPITAL FOR POOR Students of Satyananda Yoga Centre, …
Last week Sn Shiva Rishi, was requested by Murugappa Group Corporate Communications Department to conduct a one hour online awareness program for their executives across the country on how to keep the lungs healthy, improve the immune system, be calm and relaxed during these pandemic times. After giving a basic outline of the structure and function of the pulmonary and cardiac system, some simple breathing practices were introduced to participants. About 800 people joined the online session. Participants learnt the simple yogic breathing and relaxing practices. The program was well received and appreciated. Several questions were answered at the end …
Hari Om 🙏I made this mandala a couple of months ago when physical classes resumed. There were only three or four of us in the Paduka hall, the rest were boxes on the computer. It was not always like this. There was a time when we would all gather, not as in a social setting, but in our own individual spheres, pursuing our own motives for doing yoga, according to our individual capabilities. Yet the energy that reverberated in the hall was of one single soul. This mandala is my representation of that reverberation. In spite of the differences, there …
Satyananda Yoga Centre is delighted to take note that the first batch of TYCOON Academy foundation course results have proven to be outstanding! As part of their course, hey were given basic course in Satyananda Yoga by SYC. We will soon be conducting our second level course, as part of the Intermediate Course! We congratulate TYCOON academy for such an outstanding result by their students!
We conducted a successful and satisfying workshop – 1, on 24th January 2021. It was a delightful experience listening and interacting with the resource persons. Their experiences in their respective fields combined with their life experiences, the simple terms in which their views were expressed made the workshop worthwhile, inspiring and educating. The feedback received from participants of the first workshop, has left us with conviction that the initiative to offer this expertise to young parents and would be parents is a much needed one. WORKSHOP – 2 We are delighted to announce the second workshop on 7th February 2021. …
Hari Om We just completed fifteen years last Diwali and are in the sixteenth year.We have planned an awesome series of workshops for families throughout this year. Volunteers of Satyananda Yoga Centre will be organising these online for families and future generations to benefit. The first workshop of the series will be on the topic of positive parenting! can we create a nourishing and uplifting environment for our children to bloom into happy individuals, able to fulfill their aspirations in an appropriate and effective way! How can we as parents contribute to a great destiny of our children! Who Should …
From the Desk of Shiva Rishi Hari Om Since I started the basic course module, I’ve been wondering what is the aim of this course & what are the benefits that one can get? Since I started teaching Simplified Kundalini Yoga in 1993, I was an immature and impatient teacher. From 1993 to about 2000 several intense initiatives were taken by me to reach out to as many people to introduce them to the spiritual tradition. To my shock & surprise not even 5% were continuing practice, which I realized when I interacted with them. As many as 7000 people …
CORONA Virus has made everyone realise the importance of having strong IMMUNITY! Power, Wealth, Fame, Clout, Contacts, Authority, Knowledge, nothing has he capacity to protect anyone! President of America, Prime Minister of United Kingdom and Home Minister of India weren’t spared! Shri.S.P.Balasubramaniam or Shri.Vasanth Kumar couldn’t be saved! Thousands of our friends and relatives are affected by the pandemic and nothing could stop these developments. The most powerful economies have crumpled down, many airline companies and many hospitality industry giants have announced more than 50% lay off! Thousands of people have gone into deep depression, the plight is simply unimaginable! …
All our courses are now offered online! Since March 19th 2020, Satyananda Yoga Centre offered three classes per day free of cost, as a SEVA for the welfare of everyone. Over a million people were reached through the online classes conducted over forty five days. Considering the situation, all our courses are offered ONLINE now! Call or Telegram 9841738069 for starting a course.
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Seva Projects of SYECT
Students of Satyananda Yoga Centre take upon themselves the responsibility to offer sincere seva to fulfill the mandate given by our Paramaguru Swami Sivananda! Read about these soul elevating seva experiences
The life and teachings of Swami Sivananda our Paramesti Guru and our Parama Guru Sri Swami Satyananda, fulfilling the mandate received from his Guru till the last breath have been our inspiration. A movement from Selfishness to Self Centeredness to Non Self Centeredness to Selflessness is the purpose for which Satyananda Yoga Education Charitable Trust has been formed.
