Swami Janakananda Saraswati

Swami Janakananda is the founder of the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School, one of the most respected yoga centres in the West. He emphasizes the restorative, de-stressing and spiritual core of yoga. Through his profound teaching of meditation, yoga, kriya yoga, pranayama and yoga nidra he contributes to upholding authentic yoga.

He was introduced to yoga at the age of eight. Twenty years later, he met his teacher, Swami Satyananda, who initiated him into the thousand-year-old Swami order and taught him the basic principles of the tantric tradition.

For over five decades, Swami Janakananda has trained yoga teachers and enriched the lives of countless students by initiating them into advanced yoga practices. His work has inspired multiple research projects on yoga and meditation. He is known for consistently adhering to the tradition he received from his guru, preserving yoga and meditation in its original form and rejecting the excessive commercialisation of yoga seen today. This attitude has attracted seekers of genuine yoga and meditation methods.

Swami Janakananda currently resides at the Hċċ International Retreat Center in southern Sweden, where he teaches Kriya Yoga as part of the annual three-month sadhana retreat.

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