Subramanya Yoga Centre

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TheInternational Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres is a non-profit organization named after Swami Sivananda, one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century and founded by his disciple Swami Vishnudevananda.

In 1957, Swami Vishnudevananda on instructions from his guru, Swami Sivananda, came to the West to bring the teachings of yoga. He established the first Sivananda Yoga Vedanta centre in Montreal, Canada, in 1959 and to date there are close to 60 Sivananda locations (ashrams, yoga centres and affiliated centres) around the world. Over 26,000 teachers have been trained in the TTC programs.

The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams and Centres are recognized worldwide for teaching yoga authentically, preserving its purity and tradition dating back several thousand years. They also offer a wide range of programs and even the possibility for spiritual growth through Karma yoga as a temporary or full time staff program participant.

Swami Vishnudevananda was sent by Swami Sivananda in 1957, from Rishikesh, Himalayas, to bring yoga to the West. After traveling extensively in the Far East and the U.S., Swamiji settled in Montreal in 1959 and established his first yoga centre there on Boulevard Saint-Laurent, where it remains to this day.

During summer weekends, Swami Vishnudevananda noticed a considerable drop in class attendance, as people left the city to enjoy nature in the countryside. He devised the concept of a Yoga Vacation and held his first Yoga Camp in 1961 in nearby Saint-Hippolyte. The Camp was a resounding success and an increasing number of visitors spent their weekends practicing yoga under his guidance. Looking to establish a permanent base, Swamiji was drawn to Val-Morin, nestled in the picturesque Laurentian Mountains. In February 1962, the present site of the Yoga Camp was established.

The Yoga Camp serves as the international headquarters for the organization, which has developed a global presence, including 9 ashrams and over 25 yoga centers throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia. International website.

On July 23, 2006 The Gazette reported, "An hour north of Montreal on Highway 15, via the quiet Laurentian community of Val Morin, one may find a passage to India. Home to a world-renowned yoga centre and a Hindu temple, one step through the Sivanada Ashram gates transports visitors to a world entirely outside of Quebec.Chai spices and roasted pine nuts sweetly beckon from an open door to the ashram's communal kitchen. Birds twitter as barefoot children run through butterfly gardens. The sound of om is everywhere.Founded in 1963 by Swami Vishnu-devananda, the ashram attracts people from all over the world to practice yoga, meditate or pray at the 11-year-old Hindu temple leading up from the ashram on a long wooden staircase.For two weeks every summer, the Subramanyam Aayapa temple is mecca for Hindu devotees from Montreal,Ottawa and Toronto. Some come from as far as Western Canada, the United States and Europe. They're here for the annual kaavadi ceremony, the largest Hindu festival in North America.This year's festivities culminate today with an elaborate parade, expected to draw 30,000 people. Hindus - mainly from the Sri Lankan diaspora - come to demonstrate their gratitude or ask a favour or forgiveness from Lord Subramanya, the temple's patron deity and commander-in-chief of god's army."

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