A 1976 manual by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, founder of the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger, India, setting out his systematized method of guided relaxation, the modern practice taught worldwide under the name yoga nidra. Satyananda presents the method as a modern synthesis, developed from his own training and from tantric sources, of an older Sanskrit term for a state of conscious, deep relaxation. Its strength is that it is the founding document of the specific modern practice; its limit is that it is a practitioner's own account of his method's lineage rather than an independent historical study of how much of it is genuinely continuous with older tantric usage of the term.
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Reliability Tier2
The founder's own manual, published by the institution he founded, and so the authoritative primary account of what the systematized modern practice teaches and claims for itself. It is not independent scholarship and is not a substitute for an outside historical or clinical assessment; it sits a tier below an independently authored academic or peer-reviewed source for exactly that reason. Citation
AuthorSwami Satyananda Saraswati
PublisherBihar School of Yoga
Publication Year1976
Source TypeBook (practitioner)
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Bihar, Regions This source names Bihar directly: "Satyananda Saraswati, founder of the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger, India, setting out his systematized method of guided relaxation, the modern practice taught worldwide under the name yoga nidra."
This source names Swami Satyananda Saraswati directly: "A 1976 manual by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, founder of the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger, India, setting out his systematized method of guided relaxation, the modern practice taught worldwide..."
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This source backs 51 claims across the atlas. As facts: 33 well-attested. As cited relationships: 10 holds, 2 connected. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 24 claims: 16 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 connected, 4 general references.
- Historical Figures, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Practices, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
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