Swami Vidyananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Swami Vidyananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP, has taught Integral Yoga to thousands of students from Australia to Zimbabwe since 1973. She has served as a Yoga Therapist since 1979. She has taught Yoga for Stress Release for many different populations, including people with cancer through Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, children with learning disabilities at Montreal public schools, and university students with eating disorders. She trained as a chaplain at the University of Virginia Hospital, where she served in Cardiac Intensive Care helping patients, families, and staff cope with the stress of life-threatening illness.

She became an Integral Yoga teacher and trainer in 1973, and taught at the Integral Yoga Institute in Montreal for a decade before moving to Yogaville, VA. Vidyananda co-developed and has taught the Integral Yoga Stress Management teacher training program with Swami Ramananda since 1994. She has also taught Yoga, Meditation, Yoga for Emotional Resilience, and Raja Yoga in studios, schools, businesses, and healthcare settings. She served as a video producer for Integral Yoga for 20 years, and recently as the director of the Integral Yoga Therapy training program.