About Swami Janakananda
Swami Janakananda Saraswati is a tantric yoga and meditation teacher and a writer, who has had a significant influence in the dissemination of yoga and meditation in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. He is the oldest active sannyasin disciple of Satyananda Saraswati in Europe.
Early life
Born Jorgen Dreiager on 13 June 1939 in Copenhagen, Denmark he was introduced to yoga by his medical doctor as a child and continued to practise as a teenager and while in his twenties. From 1962 to 1965 he was part of a professional pantomime group, in which he learned through intensive practice how to use physical yoga as a means for creative expression and concentration.
In 1968 he met his teacher Swami Satyananda Saraswati, who initiated him into Kriya Yoga and other advanced tantric practices. For two years he lived with Swami Satyananda in his ashram in Bihar, India, and for several months traveled with him throughout the country.
Swami Janakananda Saraswati is a tantric yoga and meditation teacher and a writer, who has had a significant influence in the dissemination of yoga and meditation in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. He is the oldest active sannyasin disciple of Satyananda Saraswati in Europe.
Early life
Born Jorgen Dreiager on 13 June 1939 in Copenhagen, Denmark he was introduced to yoga by his medical doctor as a child and continued to practise as a teenager and while in his twenties. From 1962 to 1965 he was part of a professional pantomime group, in which he learned through intensive practice how to use physical yoga as a means for creative expression and concentration.
In 1968 he met his teacher Swami Satyananda Saraswati, who initiated him into Kriya Yoga and other advanced tantric practices. For two years he lived with Swami Satyananda in his ashram in Bihar, India, and for several months traveled with him throughout the country.
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