Founder

SWAMI VIDYANAND, FOUNDER PRESIDENT

Swami Vidyanand is a renowned yoga master and the founder of Transformational Yoga , a new yogic system that synthesizes techniques of hatha, white tantra, raja, mantra, astanga and kundalini yoga to bring about rapid transformations in practitioners.Transformational Yoga®️ was created by Swami Vidyanand in 2004. Since, then there have been over one thousand teachers trained in this system and several thousand practitioners worldwide.

His signature system is inspired by the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and was developed when he taught yoga for more than a decade at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Adchini, Delhi.

After establishing YOGA ALLIANCE ASIA-PACIFIC, he has established the YOGA ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL and YOGA ALLIANCE INDIA to foster a community of dedicated Yoga practitioners. Swami Vidyanand is also a LIFE MEMBER – SRI AUROBINDO EDUCATION SOCIETY, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, Delhi.

Swami Vidyanand mastered yoga in the traditional Indian yogic way,  through apprenticeships under enlightened yoga masters in India and  anonymous ascetics in the Himalayas. Hailing from a long line of  renowned Bhakti yogis, he was born into the deeply spiritual environment  of Datiya, an area in Madhya Pradesh, India, recognized as being one of  the 17 sacred centres of tantra in India.

His first guru was his father, Sri Harihar Goswami, a highly  respected devotional yogi and founder of the Yoga Mandir of Datiya.  Later on, he studied Kundalini Yoga with Paramhansa Swami Satyanand, the  famous founder of the Bihar School of Yoga. He has also enjoyed Satsang  with Swami Rama, the late founder of the Himalayan Institute. In the  Himalayas, Swami Vidyanand learnt esoteric meditation techniques from  Tibetan masters.

Swami Vidyanand’s techniques are well recognized in India, evident  from the respect he has received from many cultural bodies which have  recognized his efforts to promote ancient Indian wisdom, systems and  practices. In Hong Kong, Swami Vidyanand taught Transformational Yoga  courses at the Centre on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong  Kong.

He operates today as an urban master, using the yogic system he has  developed to help individuals in big cities rid and heal themselves of  stress.

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