Daya Mata, born Faye Wright, served as president and spiritual leader of the Self-Realization Fellowship for fifty-five years. Her tenure ended on November 30, 2010 when she died at the age of 96 ...

If you stream yoga classes online, meditate to alleviate stress, or consider yourself more spiritual than religious, you have Paramahansa Yogananda, in part, to thank, said Diana Eck, professor of ...

BANGALORE:If India's idea of an International Yoga Day has found easy acceptance in the UN, much of the credit must go to Paramhansa Yogananda, India's first yoga guru in the U.S. whose 62nd death ...

“Awake: The Life of Yogananda” wants to do two things: Introduce Paramahansa Yogananda, who imported yoga and meditation to the United States, to a wider audience. And provide us with a mystical ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the arrival in the West of Paramahansa Yogananda - regarded as the father of Yoga in the West, whose best-selling classic, Autobiography of a Yogi, continues ...

Long before he arrived in the United States to bring the ancient Indian practice of yoga to the West, Paramahansa Yogananda visited a temple in Indian-administered Kashmir and fell into an ecstatic ...

(RNS) — Pioneering a vision of wellness in which spirituality and self-help converge, Yogananda created a new model for pop spirituality. (RNS) — One hundred years ago on Sept. 19, the Indian yogi and ...

Each day, Lisa Leeman tries to find the time to sit on her yoga mat, relax in a forward bend, take deep breaths and slow the endless merry-go-round of thoughts. “That totally changes the quality of my ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Long before yoga became known in the West for its muscle-honing, gravity-defying postures and see-through stretch pants, it was a very different practice in ...

Long before he arrived in the United States to bring the ancient Indian practice of yoga to the West, Paramahansa Yogananda visited a temple in Kashmir and fell into an ecstatic trance: in his vision ...