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Swami Brahmavidananda Saraswati is a traditional and contemporary teacher of Vedanta. He believes that “Vedanta is not only for sadhus but very much for people who are living life to the fullest and who want more from life.” Armed with this understanding, for more than thirty years, Swamiji has taught and reached out to different groups of people – students of Vedanta, students and teachers of yoga, seekers and people across all ages and stages of life.

Connections Between Yoga & Vedanta. Explaining the connection between yoga and vedanta using the definitions of yoga.

Swami Sarvapriyananda is an ordained monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India as administered by the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Belur, India. Their ideology consists of the eternal principles of Vedanta as lived and experienced by Sri Ramakrishna and expounded by Swami Vivekananda. This ideology has three characteristics: it is modern in the sense that the ancient principles of Vedanta have been expressed in the modern idiom; it is universal, in that it is meant for the whole humanity; it is practical in the sense that its principles can be applied in day-to-day life to solve the problems of life. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York, since January 2017.

Vedanta non-duality. Advaita Vedanta is an ancient nondual tradition which seeks to attain enlightenment through self-enquiry. Who am I? The answer to this ageless question is stunning - you are limitless consciousness. Learn how to discover your deepest reality and awaken through nondual meditation.

Swami Ambikananda began her Yoga studies when she met her guru, Swami Venkatesananda, the worldrenowned Sanskrit scholar and disciple of Swami Sivananda, founder of the international Divine Life Society. Swami Venkatesananda trained her in Yoga and Vedanta, encouraging her to find the inner meaning of ancient texts, mantra and asana by searching out the spiritual truths of each. In 1998, on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, she was initiated into sannyasby Swami Chidananda, then President of Sivananda Ashram. She has since founded the Traditional Yoga Association in the UK which, as well as training Yoga teachers and offering workshops on all aspects of Yoga, organises the Mukti Project, raising funds for homeless people in India and the UK.

Blind-folded yoga class.