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Listen to Sri Aurobindo’s mantra here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our inspiration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sri Aurobindo’s third dream…<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On Aug 15, 1947, when India became free, Sri Aurobindo<\/strong> talked about his dreams for the new India. Among other things, he said…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“….<\/strong>The third dream<\/strong><\/em> was a world-union forming the outer basis of a fairer, brighter and nobler life for all mankind. That unification of the human world is under way; there is an imperfect initiation organised by struggling against tremendous difficulties. But the momentum is there and it must inevitably increase and conquer….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

….there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear<\/em><\/strong>, perhaps such developments, as dual or multilateral citizenship, willed interchange or voluntary fusion of cultures…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inspired by this vision of Sri Aurobindo<\/strong>, Yoga Alliance International<\/strong> aims to create a world-wide community of persons dedicated to authentic Yoga traditions, joined by the commonality of Spirit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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YOGA ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT US<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

YOGA ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL<\/strong> (YAI<\/strong>) is a network of dedicated, like-minded people and institutions devoted to the cause of authentic Yoga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by Sri Aurobindo<\/strong> and the Mother<\/strong> of Pondicherry, YAI<\/strong> was founded by Swami Vidyanand<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, the well-known Yoga Master, assisted by Sri K M Chandrashekaran<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, who has had a lifelong interest in Yoga and allied matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI<\/strong> has a number of Divisions<\/strong> around the world, each headed by a dedicated Director<\/strong>, who serve as our representatives in their respective countries. They come from all corners of the world and share a passionate commitment to the cause of authentic Yoga traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI Ambassadors<\/strong> serve as our flag-bearers and take the YAI<\/strong> message around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here for international Yoga news<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here for the latest global YAI news<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here for the latest YAI news from EUROPE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ONLINE GRAND MASTER OF YOGA & MEDITATION COURSE
With Swami Vidyanand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekend Sessions
Every Saturday Starting 23 August for 5 months
Followed by 1 monthly Sessions for 9 months + Self Practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 year program | Live Sessions + Recordings available
$175 per month for 1 year
25% Scholarship available for those in need of financial assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the links below to Register or to get the Brochure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register Now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get Brochure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grand Master of Meditation Training provides a very practical multi-dimensional system of meditation that aims giving you the keys for establishing a genuine connection to the Eternal Self while serving the community as a Wellness Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Times as per Time Zones:
Los Angeles: 8:00 am-10 am
New York: 11 am-1 pm
London: 4 pm to 6 pm
Paris: 5 pm to 7 pm
Buenos Aires: 12 pm to 2 pm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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YAI’s Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

create a world-wide network of Yogic minded people and institutions, regardless of affiliation or tradition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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establish an Yoga Institution that is open to all traditions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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provide a platform for the encouragement of new Masters of Yoga<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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encourage research and innovation in applying Yoga techniques to the complex problems faced by modern man<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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establish an Yoga Institution that is open to all traditions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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YAI Divisions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

YAI in Russia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in France<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in the GCC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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YAI in India<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in Spain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in Iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in Vietnam<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in Korea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAI in South America<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NEWS from YAI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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YAI-certified Schools and teachers may kindly note that the e-Certificates (which are sent to the schools) should be printed out locally and distributed, and will be deemed valid YAI-certificates<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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YAI in ASIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Connie Chia
Director, Yoga Alliance International, Asia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Connie is a Yoga Alliance International Certified Yoga Teacher for 500 hours level, Master in Transformational Yoga and Meditation. She studied under the guidance of Swami Vidyanand in New Delhi, near Auroville\/Pondicherry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is also the Director of Yoga Alliance International Asia and Meditation Alliance International and in charge of Vidyanand Transformational Yoga Center Taiwan. She has been engaging in physical and mental health services for more than 10 years, focusing on Transformational Integral Meditation Education, integrating Eastern and Western mindfulness meditation cultures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connie is well versed professionally in the theories and knowledge on international hypnotherapy experience, mental health assessment, personality behavior analysis and neuro-linguistic programming. She has conducted more than 2,000 sessions of lectures, teacher training programs and related activities on topics such as body and mind wisdom, mental health risk control, interpersonal relations, parent-child relationship, life development planning and cognitive brain development at renowned enterprises, international schools, and major hospitals in many countries.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She specializes in multi-faceted teaching and training methodologies of integrating body-mind healing and enhancing sensory awareness. Connie possesses great charismatic personality and is able to guide participants into deep feelings and experience, and hope that everyone can move towards joy, happiness and a fulfilling life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jin Kuroinu
Director, YAI – Japan<\/strong>
He is an enthusiastic and experienced yoga teacher with a deep knowledge of yoga.  As a tarot reader, he had always wondered why clients were aware of their problems but unable to face them, and he found the answer when he found yoga. He was fascinated with the teachings of yoga and eventually decided to go to Rishikesh in the Himalayas, the holy land of yoga in India, to practice. There, through intense training, he attained the state of samadhi and was certified as a yoga master teacher. He then returned to Japan. He has been running TREE OF LIFE YOGA STUDIO, Tokyo<\/a> for more than 10 years and has been teaching yoga according to the Indian tradition to many people in order to give back what he has received. He has been invited by the Tokushima Medical Association to teach yoga and provide counseling to over one hundred medical professionals, police officers, and firefighters, and his activities have been recognized in various fields.


He is also a comparative mythologist, a preacher of Awa-no-uta; Japanese oldest healing song, the head of Shinden Bujutsu Tegoiyuga Genrokai, a tarot reader, and an actor. 

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International Ambassador<\/strong><\/em>
Home Country: Finland\/Bangladesh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ahsan Rashid was born and  raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh .He has been in this field for over 15 years with love for meditation and yoga. He has graduated from Bsc in Economics and Masters in Economics .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a true learner. Throughout his life he has attended & participated numbers of professional & spiritual pathway courses, workshops & trainings from USA, UK, Europe, Malaysia, Bangladesh & as well as from the Yoga’s mother land of India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been associated & worked as CEO with numerous companies to work in Human Resource of Business Administration industry & International business relation for nearly over 20 years.  Ahsan Rashid is internationally  trained certified yoga & meditation trainer as well.He has conducted numbers of training sections in his spiritual journey. For the most of his life, he has been a devoted practitioner of meditation, and at some point, he wanted to impart his skills to aspiring instructors and pupils. The Self Healing Hub was founded by him because of his exceptional combination of a highly successful economic career and profound spiritual insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahsan Rashid is is straightforward, modest, happy, and well educated. He is kind and giving in his lectures, generously imparting the wisdom and techniques that enable individuals to raise their consciousness and improve  their life.His  presence, compassion, and dazzling energy, which serve as a tribute to his own spiritual growth.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

YAI is now in PERU !<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Swami Yoga Brahmananda \/ Fernando Calvi\u00f1o <\/strong>
Director, Yoga Alliance International, Peru
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Pioneer of Yoga in Latin America. Founder of the Siddhi Yoga school in 1983. International Yoga Master personally certified by BKS Iyengar in Pune, India, in 1986. Recognised as Yogacharya (yoga teacher) and Swami (honorary degree in Yoga) in 1993 by the International Yoga Fellowship Movement and the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger, India. Direct disciple of Swami Niranjanda Saraswati. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 35 years now, he has been constantly travelling to India & East practising, studying and experiencing the most internal yoga practises of India, China, Thailand and Tibet with expert teachers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In parallel with his wife, they dedicate themselves to teaching Yoga and training teachers with international endorsement of 200 and 500 hours and periodically lead their students to the Bihar School of Yoga in India and different sacred places in that country that they call their second home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with his wife he runs Siddhi Yoga Peru in Lima and in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Pisac, Cusco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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 International Yoga Teacher certified by the Bihar School of Yoga, India. Direct disciple of Swami Niranjananda Saraswati and Swami Satyasagananda Saraswati. Initiated in the tradition of Karma Sannyasa by its spiritual masters . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She spent the last 12 years dedicated to the study, practice and experience of yoga at the Bihar School of yoga and Rikhiapeeth in India, starting and training especially in the Kriya yoga of the tradition of the Bihar School of yoga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with her husband they have toured different countries of the East and studied and practised their most internal traditions and practises, all in relation to the cultivation and management of energy and its use in the human body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They currently direct Siddhi Yoga Peru together, in Lima and in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, in Pisac, Cusco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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On-line classes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In view of the current crisis, YAI is pleased to announce that our certified schools are free to conduct on-line TTC classes. YAI will support such initiatives and Certificates will be made available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certified Schools\/Teachers who are interested in conducting on-line TTC courses under the YAI banner<\/strong> are requested to contact us by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e-mail: contact@yogaalliance.in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other YAI sites<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our visitors from Europe and elsewhere are invited to look at our new site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YOGA ALLIANCE EUROPE NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You are also invited to visit our other main site: YOGA ALLIANCE <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swami Vidyanand now offers meditation classes at Pondicherry <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timings: 5:00 to 6:00 PM only on Sundays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World Yoga Federation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

YAI has tied-up with World Yoga Federation (WYF)<\/a>, based in New Zealand. WYF has been set up primarily to offer Certification to Yoga schools in the USA, and other areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Existing (as on April 31st, 2020) YAI-certified schools are eligible for a 50% discount on certification by WYF as well. Existing YAI-certified teachers are also eligible for WYF certification on the payment of a nominal processing fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schools which are not YAI-certified schools can join WYF or YAI independently, or choose to obtain dual certification from both YAI & WYF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Utkarsh,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WORLD YOGA FEDERATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swami Vidyanand was an invited lecturer at the IX International Congress of Yoga and Ayurveda, held under the leadership of Swami Vasudevananda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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New YAI member from CANADA: YUNI YOGA, Montreal<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Yoga Yuni Montr\u00e9al<\/div>
\u00c9cole de yoga au centre-ville de Montr\u00e9al qui offre des cours de yoga, yoga pr\u00e9\/postnatal, m\u00e9diation et consultation en Ayurveda. Les cours sont bas\u00e9s sur le respect de l\u2019anatomie, de la biom\u00e9canique et des aspects mentaux et spirituels.\u00a0Respect, joie, sensibilit\u00e9 et diversit\u00e9 sont \u00e0 l\u2019honneur.<\/div>
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New YAI member from AUSTRIA: META YOGA WIEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Meta Yoga Wien<\/div>
22. Bezirk, Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga, Kundalni Yoga, Bodega Moves & Reflow<\/div>
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On-line course from YAI-certified school: OPEN SKY YOGA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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New member from Thailand: The Boiler Room, Koh Phangan<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Michael is currently Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Vinyasa Krama instructor.\u2020His journey in yoga has begun 14 years ago, when the passion for sports and bodywork brought him to the yoga world when he was looking to recover the lost flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael was an outstanding athlete, jiu-jitsu practitioner and runner, until he found his real passion for Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Since then he was developing his practice with expert teachers around the world. All started in New Zealand, in 2007, where he lived and practiced with John Scott, his first inspiration. After Rolf Naujokat in Goa, India and Matthew Vollmer in Brazil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael also experienced India`s classic tradition during eight times 3-month immersions at Mysore in the Shri K Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute, with R. Sharat Jois, one of the greatest specialist of Ashtanga Yoga nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After developing his practice and learn with different teachers, Michael was ready to share yoga and guide others. This was when he opened his first Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Phuket in 2011, in Sukko Spa, for 2 years. In\u20202014 he went back to his motherland and opened his yoga studio in Chile, where he was teaching the traditional method for more than 3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By practicing 3 series Ashtanga yoga for many years he started feeling pain and discomforts, and so realizing that some changes were needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019 in Ubud (Bali) he met Matthew Sweeney: another great teacher and his life-changing method Atapa Krama. A very clever way to approach the practice and an amazing tool for practice yoga developed in 6 different series, that has changed Michael`s teachings and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazed with the effects of the practice he started integrating the method in his classes and nowadays he teaches Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Vinyasa Krama in his own yoga studio in Ko Phangan (Thailand), where he currently lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLABORATION WITH SARLA BIRLA UNIVERSITY, RANCHI<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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