Fittingly enlightening, “Awake: The Life of Yogananda” is a vivid, elegantly assembled portrait of the savvy guru with the cherubic face and penetrating gaze who brought meditation to the West.

Long before yoga became known in the West for its muscle-honing, gravity-defying postures and see-through stretch pants, it was a very different practice in the West. In the 1920s, a swami from India, ...

Directed by Lisa Leeman and Paola di Florio. Rating unavailable. “This earth is nothing but movies to me,” said Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi, calling life itself ...

The opening line of Awake: The Life of Yogananda may serve as a general barometer of how viewers will receive this documentary about the revered titular yogi: “I was conscious in my mother’s womb.” ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Awake: The Life of Yogananda” is a shallow introduction to the fascinating life of Paramahansa ...

Paramahansa Yogananda was born to be a guru. Raised by devout Hindu parents in the shadow of the Himalayas, he claimed his first memories of seeing beyond the physical world came before he left the ...

The late great Ravi Shankar, the late Beatle George Harrison, Bollywood’s Amitabh Bachchan, Jesuit scholars, Western academics et al, the makers of this biopic on the life of Paramahansa Yogananda ...

The guru who brought kriya yoga to the West is the subject of a documentary exploring his lasting influence By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic Courtesy of Self-Realization Fellowship, Los ...

Yoga's journey from 5,000-year-old spiritual practice to means to achieving flat abs and tight glutes encapsulates the interlocked processes of cultural appropriation, ravenous capitalism, and the ...