At this time, the text was completely revised and new material was added from class notes taken during the 1970-71 Sannyasa Training Course, which was the last course that he personally conducted. The second edition was published in 1973 to commemorate his Golden Jubilee. The first edition of Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha, published in 1969, was derived from the direct teaching of Swami Satyananda Saraswati during the nine month Teachers Training Course conducted at Bihar School of Yoga, Munger, in 1969. In 1988 he renounced his mission, adopting kshetra sannyasa, and now lives as a paramahamsa sannyasin. In 1987 he founded Sivananda Math, a charitable institution for aiding rural development, and the Yoga Research Foundation. Over the next 20 years Swami Satyananda toured internationally and authored over 80 books. In 1995 he left his guru's ashram to live as a wandering mendicant and later founded the international yoga fellowship in 1963 and the Bihar school of yoga in 1964. In 1943 he met Swami Sivananda in Rishikesh and adopted the Dashnami sannyasa way of line. Swami Satyananda was born at Almora, Uttar Pradesh, in 1923. This edition successfully brings the exposition of yoga practices to the standard of a university text. A therapeutic index is included for use by doctors and yoga therapists incorporating recent information from research into yoga. It guides the practitioner or teacher from the simplest to the most advanced practices of the hatha yoga system. This comprehensive text provides clear illustrations, step by step directions and details of chakra awareness. It is the main reference text used by yoga teachers and students of Bihar Yoga/Satyananda Yoga within the international Yoga Fellowship Movement, and many other traditions as well. Since its first publication by the Bihar School of Yoga in 1969, it has been reprinted thirteen times and translated into many languages. Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha is recognized internationally as one of the most systematic yoga manuals available today.

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