Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Awake: The Life of Yogananda” is a shallow introduction to the fascinating life of Paramahansa ...

The guru who brought kriya yoga to the West is the subject of a documentary exploring his lasting influence By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic Courtesy of Self-Realization Fellowship, Los ...

The opening line of Awake: The Life of Yogananda may serve as a general barometer of how viewers will receive this documentary about the revered titular yogi: “I was conscious in my mother’s womb.” ...

Directed by Lisa Leeman and Paola di Florio. Rating unavailable. “This earth is nothing but movies to me,” said Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi, calling life itself ...

Unity of Santa Barbara will present a special screening of the critically acclaimed film AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda at the Unity of Santa Barbara Sanctuary, located at 227 E Arrellaga Street, at 7 p ...

Fittingly enlightening, “Awake: The Life of Yogananda” is a vivid, elegantly assembled portrait of the savvy guru with the cherubic face and penetrating gaze who brought meditation to the West.

Paramahansa Yogananda was born to be a guru. Raised by devout Hindu parents in the shadow of the Himalayas, he claimed his first memories of seeing beyond the physical world came before he left the ...

This documentary walks us through the life of Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru who introduced millions of people in the Western world to meditation and yoga through his book Autobiography of a ...

Yoga's journey from 5,000-year-old spiritual practice to means to achieving flat abs and tight glutes encapsulates the interlocked processes of cultural appropriation, ravenous capitalism, and the ...

Long before yoga became known in the West for its muscle-honing, gravity-defying postures and see-through stretch pants, it was a very different practice in the West. In the 1920s, a swami from India, ...