Swami Satyananda Saraswati
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Sep 1, 2026
Charlie BurnhamGUEST
My dad's brother, older brother, was one of the, back in, I'm guessing, 30s or 40s, I'm not sure the exact time frame, I'm thinking probably 40s, The Indian, what's the guy's name? Vivekananda, am I thinking right? Vivekananda?
David EllenbogenHOST
Not Satyananda.
Charlie BurnhamGUEST
Not Satyananda.
Charlie BurnhamGUEST
Satyananda was later.
Charlie BurnhamGUEST
This guy was, I think it was Vivekananda, came over for the All Religions Conference, which was a big deal.
Charlie BurnhamGUEST
Sabha Nidhi Kav or something like that.
Yamuna DeviHOST
I prayed deeply and I found my teacher, my spiritual master, Swami Brahma Vidyananda Saraswati.
Yamuna DeviHOST
His param guru is Swami Satyananda Saraswati.
Yamuna DeviHOST
And his parampara guru, which is like teacher of teacher, is Swami Sivananda.
Yamuna DeviHOST
Swami Sivananda was an Ayurvedic physician And he had this beautiful phrase, meditate, serve, love, give, and realize.
Yamuna DeviHOST
Selflessness, loving others, being of service, giving unconditionally, and meditating, cleansing your mind, cleansing yourself of all preconceptions and notions of who you think you are, who you believe to be.
Yamuna DeviHOST
And he had, or he has, he still currently has, but he passed this beautiful Ayurvedic hospital in India that serves people who are needy, impoverished, continues to serve the community without any gain, just serving.
Yamuna DeviHOST
And his guru, his student, his shisha, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, was a great propagator of yoga.
Yamuna DeviHOST
He believed in the practice of yoga, but a holistic approach.
Theo WildcroftGUEST
And certainly within the modern history of the practice at least, um, that's, that's always been there.
Theo WildcroftGUEST
I mean, in many ways, although we don't see yoga nidra really emerging until Swami Satyananda starting to develop it in the kind of '60s and '70s, um, it's based on a kind of a historical concern with the pace of modern life that interestingly begins in kind of the late 19th century, right? So, so in the 19th century, we get this kind of general, um, concern about the pace of modern life, the speed of information coming into people's brains, all sorts of things that will feel very familiar, uh, to people in the [laughs] today, you know? Um, and you get this wave of practices and ideas that are, that are, that, uh, that are starting to work with different ideas of rest.
Theo WildcroftGUEST
Um, and, and, um, you get some fantastic kind of names and people involved in that, and it, and it, it has a wider impact, I think, than we realize today.
Theo WildcroftGUEST
So you have what's sometimes known as 19th century relaxationism, which is like, that's...
Theo WildcroftGUEST
And certainly within the modern history of the practice at least, um, that's, that's always been there.
Theo WildcroftGUEST
I mean, in many ways, although we don't see yoga nidra really emerging until Swami Satyananda starting to develop it in the kind of '60s and '70s, um, it's based on a kind of a historical concern with the pace of modern life that interestingly begins in kind of the late 19th century, right? So, so in the 19th century, we get this kind of general, um, concern about the pace of modern life, the speed of information coming into people's brains, all sorts of things that will feel very familiar, uh, to people in the [laughs] today, you know? Um, and you get this wave of practices and ideas that are, that are, that, uh, that are, are starting to work with different ideas of rest.
Theo WildcroftGUEST
And, and, and, um, you get some fantastic kind of names and people involved in that.
Theo WildcroftGUEST
And it, and it, and it has a wider impact, I think, than we realize today.