Sivananda Yoga Singapore

Swami Sivananda was born in 1887 in Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu, South India. His natural selfless spirit led him to a career in the medical field. In the early 1900s, he travelled to Malaya (now known as Malaysia) to work as a doctor, and eventually had the responsibility of running a hospital.

As a doctor, Swami Sivananda was saddened by the physical and mental distress he saw in his patients. He longed to help people on a more profound level. Through the study of yoga and Vedanta, it became his innermost desire to help people not only heal in their physical bodies but also in their minds.

Swami Vishnudevananda was born in Kerala, South India in 1927. By a chance encounter, Swami Vishnudevananda came to know of the teachings of Swami Sivananda and decided to travel to Rishikesh to meet him. The meeting was a life-changing encounter which led him to enter monkshood in the Sivananda Ashram where he became the first professor of Hatha Yoga at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy.