The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
21 teachers
Yoga & Tantra
Patanjali
Samyama and the eight limbs of yoga
fl. c.200 BCE-400 CE (date debated)
Yoga & Tantra
Lahiri Mahasaya
Householder Kriya Yoga
1828-1895
Yoga & Tantra
Ramakrishna
Direct God-realization across all paths
1836-1886
Yoga & Tantra
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Kriya Yoga and the unity of science and scripture
1855-1936
Yoga & Tantra
Yogi Ramacharaka
Yogic breath and prana for health & mind
1862-1932
Yoga & Tantra
Swami Vivekananda
Raja Yoga / Vedanta for the West
1863-1902
Yoga & Tantra
Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon)
Serpent Power / kundalini for the West
1865-1936
Yoga & Tantra
Sri Aurobindo
Integral Yoga / evolution of consciousness
1872-1950
Yoga & Tantra
Mirra Alfassa ("The Mother")
Cellular transformation / supramental yoga
1878-1973
Yoga & Tantra
Swami Sivananda
Integral 'Yoga of Synthesis'
1887-1963
Yoga & Tantra
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Yoga adapted to the individual, breath linked to movement
1888-1989
Yoga & Tantra
Paramahansa Yogananda
Kriya Yoga / God-realization
1893-1952
Yoga & Tantra
Neem Karoli Baba
Bhakti, love, and service (seva)
c. 1900-1973
Yoga & Tantra
Gopi Krishna
Kundalini as evolutionary energy
1903-1984
Yoga & Tantra
Swami Muktananda
Shaktipat awakening of kundalini
1908-1982
Yoga & Tantra
B.K.S. Iyengar
Precision hatha yoga / body as gateway
1918-2014
Yoga & Tantra
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Yoga nidra; tantra and pranic energy
1923-2009
Yoga & Tantra
Swami Rama
Voluntary control of involuntary states
1925-1996
Yoga & Tantra
T.K.V. Desikachar
Viniyoga; breath-led individualized yoga
1938-2016
Yoga & Tantra
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A rhythm of the breath can wash the mind clear, and a calm individual is the seed of a stress-free, violence-f…
1956–present
Yoga & Tantra
Swatmarama
Awakening kundalini through body, breath, and lock
15th century