Australian Yoga Life

admin August 16, 2018 Yoga Styles Satyananda Yoga The Satyananda slogan “head, heart and hands” captures the holistic aims of Satyananda Yoga, which is one of the major yoga traditions represented in Australia. Satyananda Yoga traces its lineage from the influential Indian yogi Swami Sivananda, through to its founder, Swami Satyananda, and on to its current guru, Swami Niranjananda.

In December 2003, around the time of year when most people were madly running around doing last minute holiday shopping, Eileen Hall was flat on her back in the sterile confines of a hospital room recovering from breast cancer surgery – a mastectomy and the removal of her right lymph nodes. The senior Ashtanga yoga teacher, who had spent more than half of her 48 years dedicated to health and well being, was now at her personal ground zero.