Swami Sivananda
1887–1963 · Indian (Tamil Nadu) · 20th Century
Known for: The doctor-turned-monk who taught yoga to the world and wrote 200 books from a Himalayan ashram
Sivananda was a physician who renounced medicine to become a monk, founding the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh. He trained many of the yoga teachers who brought yoga to the West.
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