Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Vishnudevananda Saraswati
Born	Kuttan Nair (1927-12-31)31 December 1927 Kerala, India
Died	9 November 1993(1993-11-09) (aged 65) Uttarakhand, India
Occupation(s)	Yoga guru, peace activist

Vishnudevananda Saraswati (31 December 1927 – 9 November 1993) was an Indian yoga guru known for his teaching of asanas, a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Training Course, possibly the first yoga teacher training programs in the West. His books The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga (1960) and Meditation and Mantras (1978) established him as an authority on Hatha and Raja yoga. Vishnudevananda was a peace activist who rode in several "peace flights" over places of conflict, including the Berlin Wall prior to German reunification.