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Sri 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 transformation in practitioners. 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 Ashram, Delhi Branch.
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.
Swami Vidyanand's techniques are well recognized in India, evident from the respect he has received from cultural bodies such as the prestigious Bharat Nirman, an organization that recognizes individual efforts to promote ancient Indian wisdom, systems and practices. Among the awards and titles he has received are the Bhaskar Award, the highest award conferred by Bharat Nirman. He is also an Honorary Member of the Vishwa Yoga Samsad (World Yoga Council) of the International Yoga Federation, the world governing body of yoga that provides standards and recognition for yoga professionals internationally.
Under steadily increasing guidance of the divine, the swami moved to hongkong. There he finally formed and named, “ Transformational yoga”, A yoga which harmonized many of the limbs of yoga which were now under this system to be practiced simultaneously, thus increasing there dynamism. This new system’s aim was to bring about rapid purifications in practiotioners, and to raise their station of conciousness to the higher potion of the being. Once this is achieved then it would be possible to consider beginning. ‘The mother and shri aurbindos integral yoga’. All 5 layers of our being were clear.
In hongkong he began to teach two courses at the university of Hongkong, The first was titled ‘Tranformational yogic living’, the second ‘transformational yogic healing’.
In 2003 the swami returned to India, feeling that Indian soul and the seekers that it attracts provided a far more condusive base to teach this new dynamic form of yoga.
In 2005 he gathered together in a meeting many key figures connected to different styles of yoga, with the aim of discussing how the decision and the feeling of superiority amongst differebt schools could be disvolved they reached an agreement and with swami vidyanand as, the honorary president, they formed yoga alliance asia pacific. Its main function was to unite all schools of yoga as one family of aspirants, and to have some standards and a regulatory body for the purpose of grading would be teachers. Evantualy it expanded to encompass the entire world in yoga alliance internantional and later yoga alliance India.
He also organized a conference of yoga in Rishikesh, inviting old masters who were established and renowened combined with little or unknown masters in an attempt to undo the hierarchy that had the beloved amongst a handful of teachers.
Transformational yoga continues to develop under the guidance of the divine mother. The school is expanding, gradually aquiring teachers all over the globe to pass on this powerful new fusion of yoga.
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