Satyam Yoga Centre

                                                                                                              

Swami Mounamurti Saraswati

 

 

 

 Profile

Mounamurti (Dave) was introduced to Yoga in 1968 at the age of eleven when his mother began attending weekly classes with her friends. Dave was the eldest of four kids who all took a brief but keen interest in their mothers yoga practices. Interestingly enough during the time their mother was practicing Yoga there was a television show on TV that Dave & his siblings watched during 1968-69 called, “Relaxing with Roma”. Later it was well known that the TV show host was Roma Blair (Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati) a disciple of Swami Satyananda.

Dave’s interest in Yoga was later resurrected during his late teens and early twenties through his love of surfing. During these years his best friends younger brother Cheyne Horan was then conquering the world of professional surfing, and it was whilst visiting his friends one weekend in Bondi, that Dave’s memories of Yoga were again awakened, after browsing through Cheyne’s book on stretching, which used mainly yoga asanas.

Another  major Yoga influence for Dave came in 1981 when another one of his best friends returned from a holiday to Sri Lanka and India. With his close friend he then began exploring the Hatha Yoga Asanas and began studying the Classical Hatha Yoga Text,   Hatha Yoga Pradipika. In 1984, after three years of dedicated Hatha Yoga training dave then began a dedication to Traditional (Classical) Indian Yoga, after meeting a Sannyasin (Swami) Disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. He started investing many hours daily, learning and trying to experience the depth of Satyananda Yoga.

Dave commenced teaching the Satyananda Yoga ~ Bihar Yoga systems in 1986, and has a deep respect for its founder Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati and has been heavily influenced by his teachings.  -

The Satyam Yoga Centre Website was launched into cyberspace by Mounamurti in 1998 as a tool to express the creative energy that Yoga has channelled for him, and as a Yoga resource for the Satyam Yoga Centre’s yoga students. The Satyam Yoga Centre website soon grew with a lot of international interest and patronage, especially coming from India.

Mounamurti is dedicated to helping preserve the ancient “Tantric Kriya Yoga” sadhana and which has been propagated by Swami Satyananda Saraswati since 1963, and personal yoga re-search projects.

His love of Yoga has taken him to India and Nepal for deeper training on a number of occasions, and he has met and been inspired by some rare Yogic personalities. These sojourns have deepened his commitment to experiencing spiritual evolution, as defined by the Yogic masters since ancient times as the true meaning of life.

 

 

1981       Started training in Hatha Yoga.

1984       Began practicing (intensely) the integrated Sadhanas of Satyananda Yoga, after meeting a Sannyasin disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati.

1985       Kriya Yoga & Mantra Yoga Sadhana courses.

1986       Initiated into Karma Sannyasa by Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati

1986       Experienced a series of deep inner experiences and since then has been dedicated to the unfolding of Prana Shakti – Kundalini.

1986       Commence teaching Satyananda Yoga after being asked by an Australian Swami to start teaching.

1988       Met Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati at the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger, Bihar, India, just before Paramahamsaji renounced his role as a Guru to take up the lifestyle of a Paramahamsa Sannyasin and received instructions to continue Kriya Yoga.

1993       Initiated into the Kriya Yoga lineage of Lahiri Mahasay & Babaji by Shidendu Lahiri in November

1995       On 19th April was initiated into the Dasnami order of Sannyasa as a Poorna Sannyasin by Paramahamsa Niranjanananda Saraswati, on behalf of Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati.

1995       Attended the inaugural four month certificate course in Yogic studies at Bihar Yoga Bharati, Munger Bihar India – Distinction.

1996       At the World Yoga Convention in Sydney met the inspirational Swami Anandakapila Sarasawati (Dr Jonn Mumford), who is a master of the Tantric Yogic Sciences including Kriya Yoga, Yantra Yoga, Jyotish. Mounamurti has found a close mutual friendship develop with his respected Gurubhai who has become also a mentor.

1997       India & Nepal. India = Darshan with Paramahamsa Satyananda & Niranjanananda at Rikhia, Kriya Yoga & Tattwa Shuddhi courses at BSY Munger. Nepal = Met a few special Gurus & Sadhus and the beautiful HIMALAYAS, which inspired greatly.

1998       July 1, started teaching Satyananda Yoga fulltime (from Culburra Beach NSW) & registered Satyam Yoga Centre which started trading from this day. Satyam Yoga Centre was one of the first affiliates ( 08/07/98 ) of the newly developed Satyananda Yoga Academy – Australia 1998 – 2004.

2000       Graduated with a Diploma in Health Science & Massage Therapy from TAFE NSW, after completing a two year (1999 & 2000) fulltime diploma. Moved to Wollongong in August 1999 to pursue academic training at TAFE and University.

2000       Satyananda Yoga - Yogic Studies II & Teacher Training II.

2003       After running a Yoga Studio from a rented commercial premises at Balgownie (Wollongong NSW ) from Dec 2002 – Dec 2003 retired from full time Yoga teaching to focus more on personal yoga SADHANA and yoga projects.

2006       Visited Swami Anandakapila Saraswati on Guru Poornima, and was inspired to continue writing and inspiring others.

2009       May 28th announced independence from organisations

 

 

 

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