Congratulations to Yogacharya Swami Atmarupa Saraswati
The Bihar School of Yoga celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2013 where it was announced that Swami Satyananda’s mandate to spread yoga from “door to door and shore to shore” across the world had been fulfilled. Moving forward, Swami Niranjanananda declared that the next fifty years will focus on the consolidation of yogic teachings; on learning, immersion and research; and on the preservation, refinement and distillation of yoga for future generations.
Tasked with this mission is the newly formed Yoga Vidya Council. The purpose of yoga vidya sadhana is to cultivate the faculties of head, heart and hands; experience equipoise; live yoga and express the truth, beauty and auspiciousness of life. We are pleased to announce that the Yoga Academy of North America is home to one of six individuals invited to serve as founding Yogacharyas of this Council, Swami Atmarupa Saraswati.
As many of you know, Swami Atmarupa has devoted the last 21 years of her life to making Satyananda Yoga accessible to all. She began teaching classes out of her home in 1995 and at various locations throughout the greater Cleveland area. In 1997, she opened the Atma Center in Cleveland Heights, which continues to thrive and serve hundreds of students. As Director of Education for the Yoga Academy of North America, she has provided unparalleled instruction and mentorship to students of Yogic Studies, Teacher Training and specialty programs so they can align more fully with yogic principles as well as bring the benefits of Satyananda Yoga to their communities throughout North America and the world.
The Yoga Vidya Council is dedicated to inspiring and encouraging serious, sincere, and committed yoga aspirants from every strata of society to live a yogic life of peace, wellbeing and harmony. We congratulate Yogacharya Swami Atmarupa on receiving this great honor and offer our support as she devotes her energies to the fulfillment of this mission. The entire YANA community is blessed to have her wisdom, experience and commitment to help guide us further along the yoga path.