Swami Vishnu Devananda

Swami Vishnudevananda (1927 -1993), a disciple of Swami Sivananda, was the founder of the International Sivananda yoga Vedanta Centres. He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachres’ Training Course, a unique program in the West at the time. His book The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga is considered to be the bible for yoga practitioners. Swami Vishnudevananda was a Karma Yogi and a peace actvist who flew on several ‘peace flights’ over places of conflict, bombarding war-torn areas with flowers and pamphlets while repeating the peace Mantra: Om Namo Narayanaya.