"The
long path of
getting together
the yoga
schools,
teachers and
masters"
Swami
Vivekanada was
Yoga Master and
Master
Freemason,
He
was a key figure
in the
introduction of
Yoga
to the
Western world.
 
On February
19, 1884,
Narendranath
Datta or Swami
Vivekananda
joined the Anchor
and Hope Lodge (No.
234), which is
now the Grand Lodge of
India No.1.
He
was passed to
the degree of
F.C on 15-4-1884
and was raised
to the sublime
degree of M.M on
20 th May 1884.
On september 11,
1893 he meet
freemasons of
North America in
Chicago for the
idea of one
International
Yoga Federation.
On
1 May 1897 in
Calcutta,
Vivekananda
founded the
Ramakrishna
Mission for work
in Karma Yoga
and Masonic
service.
Carl
Kellner (1
September 1851 –
June 7, 1905)
was a chemist,
inventor, and
industrialis.
Carl was the
pioner of yoga
in Austria, was
master of yoga,
master freemason
and theosophist.
He study yoga
with Bhima
Sena Pratapa of
Lahore
and Sri
Mahatma Agamya
Paramahamsa. He
was also one of
the Idiologist
of the creation
of Masonic
Academy in
Ticcino,
Switzerland,
alonbg Theodor
Reuss and the
heosophist and
Master freemason
Franz Hartmann.
He wrote and
taught practical
yoga and
proposed new
asanas for yoga
and that it was
psychophysical-spiritual.
He proposed to
create and
international
yoga school and
an international
yoga federation
in Switzwrland.

William
Walker Atkinson
or Yogi
Ramacharaka, was
yogi and Master
Freemason, founded
the Yogi
Publication
Society, which
was located in
the
Masonic Temple
building in
Chicago.
Atkinson
proposed a new
yoga, and
published the
book: The Yogi
Philosophy of
Physical
Well-being.
introducing
the idea of
joining human
postures to
the religious
or classical
yoga to
transform yoga
into something
psychophysical
spiritual. He
also proposed
making
national yoga
organizations
and a future
International
Yoga
Federation in
the West.

Ida
Hofmann, Theodor
Reuss and
Rudolf Von Laban
founded the
International
Art School, the
School of Modern
Dance and the
International
Yoga School in
the Masonic
Academy of Monte
Verita in
Ascona, Ticcino.
Switzerland.
Theodo r

Reuss
was Yoga
Master,
Grand Master freemason,
Rudolf Von
Laban was
master
freemason and
Ida Hofmann,
also was yogini
and freemason,
both
theosophist,
kabalistics,
artistis, etc.
The practice
yoga every
day, and Laban
teache many
humans posture
and the
artistic
conception of
Yoga. Ida
Hofmann was
the founder in
1900 with Henry
Oedenkoven of
the Monte Verita
Ashram Sangha
Communit.Where
born the
international
yoga school and
international
yoga federation.
In 1920 Ida
Hofmann fly to
Argentina,
Uruguay and
Brazil, for open
the School in
Brazil and
Uruguay.
Alexandra
David-Néel
born Louise
Eugenie
Alexandrine
Marie David. Her
spritual name
was Yeshe
Tome, "Lamp of
Wisdom". She
was yogini,
buddhist,
theospohist and
archist, yoga
master, buddhist
yoga master,
tantric master
and buddhist
master,
she
would reach the
thirtieth degree
in the mixed
Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry. She
was member with
the
International
Yoga School.
In
1891, she
visited India
for the first
time, and met
her spiritual
preceptor,
Swami
Bhaskarananda
Sarwaswati of
Varnasi
(Matiram
Misra).
Bhaskaranada
was disciple
of
Paramahamsa
Swami
Purnananda
Saraswati of
Ujjain
and Pandit
Anant Ram of
Patna.
Alexandra
Eugenie, study
buddhist
master Lachen
Gomchen
Rinpoche.
Alexandra ask
to Ida and her
friend Mirra
Alfassa the
Monther and
Aurobindo for
do the
International
Yoga
Federation in
the west.
S
Swami
Bhaskarananda of
Varnasi the
lineage of
International Yoga
Federation.

1934,
Swami
Asuri Kapila of
France was Grand
Master of Yoga
Masters, Master
Freemason, Dr.
in Kabbalay,
Ayurveda, Yoga
Therapy and
Buddhist. Was
disciple of
Ramana Maharshi
in Inida and,
stablished the
the Ramana
Ashram, Maha
Boddhi
Shanga and the
International
School of Yoga
in Montevideo,
Uruguay. Was the
ideologist of
International
Yoga Federation
1936, Swami
Asuri Kapila
started the
first yoga
teacher training
course in
Montevideo.

Swami Asuri Kapila
Swami
Asuri
Kapila wrote to
his friend,
Swami Sivananda
(Rishikesh,
India), to
promote the
organization of
yoga all over
the World, and
proposed the
creation of the
International
Yoga Federation.

Swami
Sivananda
1947,
Swami Sivananda
established the
World Sadhus
Federation and
in 1948
following the
example of Swami
Asuri Kapila,
Swami Sivananda
founded the Yoga
Vedanta Forest
Academy, to
train yoga
teachers and
swamis as Swami
Asuri Kapila.
Swami
Sivananda
founded the
World Religions
Federation and
Swami Asuri
Kapila founded
Mystic
International
Association.
1948, Swami
Asuri Kapila
wrote to his
friend, Lucien
Ferrier
(France), about
the idea of
opening Yoga
Centres in
France to
establish in the
future a
national
association and
follow the way
to the creation
of an
International
Yoga
Federation.Then,
Ferrier opened
the Academy of
Western Yoga in
Paris, France.
Swami Asuri
Kapila proposed
the creation of
national yoga
organizations
and continental
yoga
organizations to
base the future
International
Yoga Federation
to share the
Yoga all over
the world.
Wilfred Clark

1965,
Wilfred Clark
founded the
Wheel of
British Yoga.
In 1969 change
the name to
Western Yoga
Federation and
in 1974 become
the British
Wheel of Yoga.
1965,
Yogavatar
Krishna Kisore
Das founded the
World Yoga
Council VUS in
Kolkata, India.
1967, Roma Blair
(Swami
Nirmalananda),
founded the
International
Yoga Teachers
Association in
Australia. 1967, the
National Yoga
Teachers
AssocIation of
France was
founded.
. 
1972,
the European
Union of Yoga
was founded by
Roger Clerc, the
disciple and
successor of
Lucien Ferrier
and who
continues the
spirit of unity
with Andre Van
Lysebeth (Swami
Sivananda´s
disciple),
Claude Peltier,
Nil Hahoutoff
and Hug.

1982, Rama Jyoti
Vernon founded
the Unity in
Yoga
International
(now Yoga
Alliance of
U.S.) in the
United States,
integrating yoga
schools.
1985,
Fernando
Estevez Griego
(Maitreyananda) founded the Latin American Yoga Union with Vayuananda,
Swamini
Dayananda,
Mataji Indra
Devi, Luis
Alvares De Rose
and Swami
Sarvananda.
Yogacharya
Fernando Estevez
Griego
(Maitreyananda)
visited India
and met the
Dalai Lama at
his home in
Dharamsala,
Himalayas, Swami
Direndra
Brahmachari in
his Ashram in
New Delhi and
Swami Chidananda
from Divine Life
Society in
Rishikesh. After
working with the
founding of the
International
Yoga Federation
with Swami
Direndra
Brahmachari, he
met with the
members of Yoga
Federation of
India.

1984
to 1987 started
the
communication
between
Vayuananda,
direct disciple
of Swami Asuri
Kapila, Swami
Maitreyananda,
Swami Asuri
Kapila´s
successor and
Gerard Blitz.
Gerard Blitz met
Rama Vernon and
Swami
Satchidananda.
Swami
Satchidananda
becomes the
Honorary
President of the
International
Yoga Teachers
Association in
Australia.

1986,Fernando
Estevez Griego
(Maitreyananda)
met the leader and
general secretary
of European Union
of Yoga Gerard
Blitz in Paris, to
work with the
Latin American
Union of Yoga and
create the future
International Yoga
Federation.
1986,
December,
Fernando Estevez
Griego
(Maitreyananda)
and Carlos Trotta
(Yogacharya
Vayuananda), both
members of Swami
Asuri Kapila
School, meet the
members of Yoga
Federation of
Brazil, Yoga
Association of
Brazil and
National Union of
Yoga, in Rio de
Janeiro and Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
Swami Gitananda
Giri founds the
World Parliament
of Yoga or the
Vishwa Yoga Samaj
at Pondicherry,
India.
1987, Yoga
Federation of
India, States Yoga
Associations of
India, Yoga
Association of
Uruguay, Latin
American Union of
Yoga, National
Yoga Confederation
of Brazil, Yoga
Teachers
Association of
Brazil, National
Yoga Union, School
Yoga Federation of
Italy, Indra Devi
Foundation, founds
the International
Professional Yoga
Teachers
Federation (the
first name given
to the actual
International Yoga
Federation) in
Montevideo,
Uruguay under the
presidenship of
Yogacharya Fernando
Estevez Griego
(Maitreyananda)

The first board of
International Yoga
Federation
1987-1989, was:
Honorary
President: Mataji
Indra Devi
(Latvia),
President Luiz
Alvares de Rose
(Brazil) and
Secretary General:
Fernando
Estevez Griego
(Maitreyananda)
Uruguay, Tresaure:
David Lifar
(Argentina)
1988,
the International
Yoga Congress
meets in 1988 in
Zinal, Switzerland
to work towards
the integration of
national yoga
associations.
Presents:
Yogacharya Fernando
Estevez Griego
(Maitreyananda)
and Mataji Indra
Devi from Latin
American Union of
Yoga and
International
Federation of
Professional Yoga
Teachers; Gerard
Blitz and Raoul
Lenz from the
European Union of
Yoga, and Swami
Satchidananda,
Nancy Ford Khonne
and Larry Payne
from Unity in Yoga
International
(Yoga Alliance of
USA).
1988,
takes place the
First World Yoga
Congress of IYF at
the City Palace of
Montevideo
Government, in
Montevideo,
Uruguay, to work
towards the
integration of
national yoga
associations.
Presents: Fernando
Estevez Griego
(Maitreyananda)
and Mataji Indra
Devi from Latin
American Union of
Yoga and
International
Federation of
Professional Yoga
Teachers, Carlos
Fiel from the
European Union of
Yoga, Larry Payne
from Unity in Yoga
International
(Yoga Alliance of
USA), Auri Moya
from International
Yoga Teachers
Association of
Australia and
Puerto Rico, Luiz
de Rose from Yoga
Confederation of
Brazil, Goldemberg
from Yoga
Association of
Argentina, Babaji
Singh from Mexico
member of
Kundalini Yoga
Teachers
Association of
3HO, Swamini
Dayananda from
Yoga Association
of Uruguay, Swami
Pravananda Mexico.

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