Internationally known for its scientific
and cultural achievements, The Yoga Institute is a non-sectarian
and non-profit humane culture movement for self-education (physical,
moral and psychic) aided by the philosophy of yoga. Since the
beginning of this century we could see a proliferation of academies
devouted to the teaching of yoga on a large scale, and The
Yoga Institute was the first one. It was founded in 1918
by Shri Yogendra who was educated, in yoga, in the traditional
way of the last century: he left the social life (family and
school) when still adolescent to follow his guru, Paramahamsa
Madhavadasaji (1798-1921). He was taken as his best disciple
and asked by the guru himself, to initiate the process of divulgation
of yoga on a large scale. His wisdom was recognized in India
as well as outside it, he worked hard to prove the scientificity
of the techniques of yoga and the specificity of its philosophy.
He was also the one responsible for the recuperation of the ideals
of classical yoga, cleasing it up from the adherencies taken
through the centuries since the times of Patanjali, the father
of classical yoga (300 b.C.).
Internationally known for its scientific
and cultural achievements, The Yoga Institute is a non-sectarian
and non-profit humane culture movement for self-education (physical,
moral and psychic) aided by the philosophy of yoga. Since the
beginning of this century we could see a proliferation of academies
devouted to the teaching of yoga on a large scale, and The
Yoga Institute was the first one. It was founded in 1918
by Shri Yogendra who was educated, in yoga, in the traditional
way of the last century: he left the social life (family and
school) when still adolescent to follow his guru, Paramahamsa
Madhavadasaji (1798-1921). He was taken as his best disciple
and asked by the guru himself, to initiate the process of divulgation
of yoga on a large scale. His wisdom was recognized in India
as well as outside it, he worked hard to prove the scientificity
of the techniques of yoga and the specificity of its philosophy.
He was also the one responsible for the recuperation of the ideals
of classical yoga, cleasing it up from the adherencies taken
through the centuries since the times of Patanjali, the father
of classical yoga (300 b.C.).