Thursday, August 10, 2006

The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta website

I found this interesting website www.sivananda.org while casually surfing the internet. I found myself drawn to read more simply because of the quality of the website. Here are some basic facts about this organisation:

The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta centres is a non-profit organization founded by Swami Vishnu-devananda , under the instructions of his Guru, Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, to spread the teachings of Vedanta worldwide. The first Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center was established in Montreal, Canada, in 1959.

The website states that there are now close to 80 Sivananda locations (ashrams, yoga centers, and affiliated centers) around the world and that the organization has trained more than 10,000 yoga teachers.

The content of this website has been nicely classified topic-wise and the instructions on Yoga and Meditation are well structured. The 5 points of Yoga and the 4 paths of Yoga have been very well covered and is quite comprehensive.

This site also has an entire section covering Yogic vegetarian recipes used in the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and Ashrams.

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