Swami Janakananda
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Swami Janakananda is a Danish yogi who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1939. He learned to use simple yoga poses as a child, and decided when he was 19 that he wanted to be a yogi. In the years that followed he explored the possibilities of using yoga on himself, body and mind.
In 1968 he met Swami Satyananda and followed him to India. After the preliminary intensive training he stayed and travelled around India with his teacher.
On his return to Denmark in 1970, Swami Janakananda founded the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School. The first school in Copenhagen grew quickly and branched out to other places. He and his colleagues regularly practice meditation in daily life, particularly Kriya Yoga, and stay within the tradition of Tantric yoga.
Swami Janakananda lives in Sweden where he teaches meditation, based on the premise that even advanced yoga can be used as a tool for people in society today. It is characteristic of his teaching that he starts from the situation of the student as it is here and now, without demanding that something should be changed first.
