Affiliation to this Yoga Charter enables the person to become a messanger of goodwill and peace in the worl, through active involvment in various far-reaching yoga-related projects.

The Bihar School of Yoga is a charitable and educational institution founded by Swami Satyananda at Munger in 1963, with the aim of imparting yogic training to all nationalities and to provide a focal point for a mass return to the ancient science of yoga.

The Chief Patron of Bihar School of Yoga is Swami Niranjanananda.

The original school, Sivanandashram, is the centre for the Munger locality. Ganga Darshan, the new school established in 1981, is situated on a historic hill with panoramic views of the river Ganges.

Yoga Health Management, Teacher Training, Sadhana, Kriya Yoga and other specialized courses are held throughout the year.

BSY is also renowned for its sannyasa training and the initation of femal and foreign sannyasins.
BSY provides trained sannyasins and teachers for conducting yoga conventions, seminars and lectures tours around the world.

Bihar Yoga Bharati (BYB) was founded by Swami Niranjanananda in 1994 at Munger, India as an educational and charitable institution for advanced studies in yogic sciences. It is the culmination of the vision of Swami Sivananda and Swami Satyananda.

Residential courses are conducted in a gurukul environment, so that along with yoga education, the spirit of seva (selfless service), samarpan (dedication) and karuna (compassion) for humankind is also imbibed by the students.

At present BYB is restructuring its courses and no diploma or postgraduate courses are currently available. The four month (English) Certificate Course in Yogic Studies (October-January) is available. For further info, please send an international self-addressed and stamped envelope (sized 15 cms x 23 cms) to:

Bihar Yoga Bharati, Ganga Darshan - Fort Munger - Bihar 811 201 India | more about this

Sivananda Math is a social and charitable institution founded by Swami Satyananda at Munger in 1984, in memory of his guru, Swami Sivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh. The Head Office is now situated at Rikhia in Deoghar district, Bihar. Swami Niranjanananda is the Chief Patron.

Sivananda Math aims to facilitate the growth of the weaker and underprivileged sections of society, especially rural communities. Its activites include: distribution of free scholarships, clothing, farm animals and food, the digging of tube-wells and construction of houses for the needy, assistance to farmers in ploughing and watering their fields. The Rikhia complex also houses a satellite dish system for providing global information to the villagers.

A medical clinic has been established for the provision of medical treatment, advice and education. Veterinary services are also provided. All services are provided freeand universally to everyone, regardless of caste and creed. | more about this

The Yoga Research Foundation is a scientific, research-oriented institution founded by Swami Satyananda at Munger in 1984. Swami Niranjanananda is the Chief Patron of the foundation.

YRF aims to provide an accurate assessment of the practises of different branches of yoga within a scientific framework, and to estabilish yoga as an essential science for the development of mankind. At present the foundation is working on projects in the areas of fundamental research and clinical research. It is also studying the effects of yoga on proficiency improvement in various social projects, e.g. army, prisoners, children. There projects are being carried out in affiliated centres worldwide.

YRF's future plans include literary, scriptural, medical and scientific investigations into other little-known aspects of yoga for physical health, mental well-being and spiritual upliftment.

Sri Panchdashnam Paramahansa Alakh Bara was estabilished in 1990 by Swami Satyananda at Rikhia, Deoghar, Bihar. It is a charitable, educational and non-profit making institution aiming to uphold and propagate the highest tradition of sannyasa, namely vairagya (dispassion), tyaga (renunciation) and tapasya (austerity).

It propounds the tapovan style of living adopted by the rishis and munis of the vedic era and is intended only for sannyasins, renunciates, ascetics, tapasvis and paramahansas. The Alakh Bara does not conduct any activities such as yoga teaching or preaching of any religion or religious concept. The guidelines set down for the Alakh Bara are based on the classical vedic tradition of sadhana, tapasya and swadhyaya, or atma chintan.

Swami Satyananda, who resides permanently at the Alakh Bara, has performed the Panchagni Vidya and other vedic sadhanas, thus paving the way for future paramahansas to uphold their tradition.

Yoga Publications Trust was established by Swami Niranjanananda in 2000. It is an organisation devoted to the dissemination and promotion of yogici and allied knowledge - psychology (ancient and modern), ecology, medicine, vedic, upanishadic, tantric darshanas, philosophies (Eastern and Western), mysticism and spirituality - nationally and internationally through the distribution of books, magazines, audio and video cassettes and multimedia.

YPT is primarly concerned with publishing textbooks in the areas of yoga philosophy, psychology and applied yogic science, research materials, practise texts and the inspiring talks of eminent spiritual personalities and authors aimed at the upliftment of humanity by means of the eternal yogic knowledge, lifestyle and practise.

Bal Yoga Mitra Mandal (Childern's Yoga Fellowship is an organization of the children, for the children, run by the children. BYMM was founded by Swami Niranjanananda in 1995 on the initiative of seven school children and a college student. By 2002 BYMM had trained 350 child yoga propagators, 400 child yoga instructors and 1,000 child yoga demonstrators, who had in turn introduced yoga to 56,000 children nationwide. BYMM is dedicated to:

•   Development of the total personality of children between the ages of 7 to 14.

•  Training of child yoga propagators, instructors and demonstrators.

•  Conducting and coordinating research in the field of yogic education.

BYMM has five major operational groups: yoga learning group, yoga training group, personality development group, research administration group and parent/teacher group.

BYMM has imparted yoga training in 300 schools of India, and since 1997 has conducted the biggest children's yoga festival in the world with over 5,000 children participating every year.