Comments on: Satyananda in Australia, 1968

By: Yogamanas

Yogamanas — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:04:30 +0000

Hari Om Netty, thanks for giving us more of the picture of the time.

By: Netty

Netty — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:26:00 +0000

A little trivia to add.

Around 1964 – 1965 I attended Michael Volin’s evening Yoga Class in Sydney. If my memory serves me well the class was held at the Federated Iron Workers Building in George Street, Sydney.

Hare Om

Netty

By: Yogamanas

Yogamanas — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:43:15 +0000

Thanks Jyotimitra.
It’s great that you could shed so much light on the characters here.

By: Swami Jyotimitra Saraswati

Swami Jyotimitra Saraswati — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:20:00 +0000

Great photo. Thanks for putting it up on your website Yogamanas.

It is Roma Blair (Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati) on Swami Satyanada’s left. The guy on his right is Michael Volin, a yogi and yoga teacher who was one of the key people spreading yoga in Australia from the 1950s. He came to Australia from China in 1949 and is said to have set up the first yoga school in Sydney before moving to Adelaide and setting up the Michael Volin Yoga School there. He eventualy settled and taught yoga in America. He wrote several books on yoga and many of these are in the Saraswati Library at the Rocklyn and Mangrove Satyananda Yoga ashrams.

Not sure who the other women on the couch is but she looks like a yoga teacher luminary also. The women at the back of the couch are probably yoga students – students of Volin and/or Blair.

OM OM OM

By: swadee

swadee — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:02:03 +0000

I think mumford not mumfires

By: swadee

swadee — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:01:23 +0000

I agree roma blair, the male maybe john mumfries?
rest would’nt know

By: Yogamanas

Yogamanas — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:11:58 +0000

Hey Yogachakra, yes it is a great photo. I reckon you are spot on with Roma Blair, and bhramari! I’ll post it elsewhere and see if some others who have been around a bit longer can recognise them.

By: Yogachakra

Yogachakra — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:10:06 +0000

Classic photo! Look at all those beehives! Wondering if He was thinking to teach them bhramari. Does anyone know who it is sitting on Satyananda’s right? I think Roma Blair is on his left. Thanks Yogamanas.