Swami Prajñananda Saraswati

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Swami Prajñananda Saraswati

Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Teacher Trainer at Svaroopa Vidya Ashram I am a Teacher Trainer at Svaroopa Vidya Ashram. I teach both yoga & meditation.

My joy and goal is to share what my Guru, Gurudevi Nirmalananda has given to me. This yoga is amazing and I would love to share it with you. 🙏

01/19/2026

This is The Mango Story 🥭
I first heard it when I took teacher training with Gurudevi. I love this story and I thought it would be a perfect first offering because it explains the word “vidya” in the name of our Ashram: Svaroopa Vidya Ashram.

I hope you enjoy! ✨🥭✨
Feel free to share what you got from the story. And if you have any story requests, drop them in the comments below ☺️🙏

01/13/2026

I had fun making this doodle. I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to yoga philosophy. I find it fun to memorize sutras and write them out and I just discovered I like doodling about them too!

Caitanyamātmā is the first sutra in the Shiva Sutras, the foundational text of Kashmiri Shaivism.

When I took my very first teacher training with Gurudevi, we threw our hands up in the air while exclaiming CAITANYAMĀTMĀ!!!!!!
It was ecstatic 😍

I feel like this tiny doodle encapsulates the joy and freedom that is the hallmark of this teaching - that at our essence we are absolutely free, a mass of consciousness and bliss, which we express with our will, knowledge and action.

We all get a taste of this from time to time- feeling joyful, fully empowered, bursting with creativity like you could do anything. But feeling this way time to time is just not enough. My wish is for you and for me to know our true nature all the time. 🙏

01/09/2026

Sadhana (spiritual practice) is not always smiles and popcorn on the roof!

It’s a blessing to have companions on the path that understand the ups and downs that you experience while being transformed in the fire of yoga. 🔥 I love and admire you all and see you as a great blessing in my life. 🙏

And as you know, when you give yourself to the process you come out more shiny from the inside out. ✨✨✨

OM namah shivaya 💙🙏

01/06/2026

Sometimes the smallest thing like making a beaded key chain for my keys, brings me so much delight. 🥰 I love all the different colors and shapes and how shiny they are. ✨

It makes me think how there’s the possibility
to feel delight in every moment. And yoga is the science of maximizing your delight by finding it inside.

There are so many tools yoga offers from breathing, poses, mantra, meditation and more. While the practices are important it’s ultimately all about how you imbibe them in your life, day to day, moment to moment. ✨🙏✨

01/03/2026

I always love to pick a yogic quality to focus on in the New Year. This year I’m cultivating "focused practice" and "focused deepening". I've already been trying it out and for me it feels like getting completely present and embodied in the moment.

For example, as I was doing ujjayi this morning I reminded myself "focused practice" so I felt how my body was leaning into the floor. I felt my breath moving in and out. And then I turned my attention to my sound and really listened to it as it flowed in and out. My practice was more embodied than usual, and I could tell the difference.

Is there a quality you would like to cultivate this year? Share below!

12/19/2025

Like a rose, yoga is about the blossoming forth of your inner being. It’s about seeing the beauty inherent in everything. It’s about having something to give. For when you know who you are, you live your life from an inner fullness that effulges forth no matter who you are with or what you are doing. Not only do you feel great, but your presence is a gift to all.
So for this holiday season give yourself the gift of doing more yoga! It will be a gift for you and all those in your life.✨🎁✨

11/07/2025

I love how the leaves on the trees change color in the Fall. The various shades of red, orange and yellow are so beautiful, almost like the trees are on fire. 🍁🔥🍁

Yet, while the leaves are beautiful, their changing of color signifies death. Each of those beautiful leaves are like a flame burning out. Soon they will fall from the tree to be blown away by the wind or someone’s leaf blower. 🍂

We can learn from the leaves. There is a beauty, an art to letting go when it’s the proper time. When you allow the letting go, that part of you dies. We have many leaves some that we keep for a while and some that change color and drop away.

Yet, you aren’t the leaves. You are the tree. Even when all the leaves fall, the tree stands strong ready for the winter and for the coming spring too.

So, as you see the Fall leaves may they be a reminder to you both of the art of letting go and the inner strength that supports you in doing so. 🙏

11/05/2025

Your mind is a shapeshifter. Whatever you are thinking your mind is morphing into. That means every time you worry about something that worry takes shape in your mind. You experience it, even if it hasn’t happened on the outside.
Can you use this to your advantage though?
Ta**ra says yes! 🙌

Here is a practice you can do anytime from the Vijñana Bhairava verse 85:

Contemplate the sky as contained within or dissolved inside your head, to experience the inner infinity and
to feel the entire universe being bathed in Divine Light.

liina.m muurdhni viyatsarvam bhairavatvena bhaavayet
tatsarvam bhairavaakaaratejastattva.m samaavi.set.

11/03/2025

🌙🔱🙏

09/02/2025

I’ve been travelling most of August. While it was nice being away and seeing my Aussie peeps, it’s been really great to be home too.

I taught my first class back this Sunday, a Yoga & Meditation class, and the grace was so palpable. I had forgotten the feeling of stepping into that role and how simple yet powerful it is. It reminds me how I am never on my own with this seva. The power of the lineage is always there supporting me and my students. It makes it all work. ✨💙✨

Here are some of the yummy offerings I’m teaching this month:
✨ Therapeutic Yoga Series begins Fri Sep 5 - online https://svaroopa.org/therapeutic-yoga-series-250905
✨ Free Newcomers Yoga Class Sat Sep 6 - onsite https://svaroopa.org/newcomers-class
✨ Learning from Others’ Mistakes Sutra Studies begins Mon Sep 8 - online https://svaroopa.org/es-22-learning-from-others-mistakes-250908

And my ongoing classes:
✨ Tue Continuing Yoga 5:45-7:15 pm onsite
✨ Wed Continuing Yoga 10:30 am - 12 pm online
✨ Sun Yoga & Meditation 4-6 pm online
https://downingtownyoga.org/weekly-classes

If you have any questions, feel free to message me. :)

07/22/2025

I had no idea how many shades of orange there were until I became a swami. I hadn’t even worn orange much, but now I love it! I feel like a walking flame. This is meaningful to me for we call the power of transformation and upliftment as the fire of yoga.

Wearing the color of the flame reminds me of my commitment to this path, to my Self and serving as a flame to guide others through the support of my Guru.

You too can be a walking flame when you do the practices. This flame will burn up the things that limit you and keep you small so that you can shine with your own divine light all the time.

Gurudevi describes it this way:
“This is the fire of yoga, which opens up the radiance of your own being, so that you can know your own essence and recognize it in everyone and everything that exists.”
- Physics, Anatomy & Yoga February 2006

https://svaroopa.org/assets/pdfs/2006_Contemplations/0602_Physics_Anatomy_and_Yoga.pdf

07/05/2025

We saw the fireworks last night from the Ashram roof. It was ecstatic - the fireworks bursting forth right in front of us like we were sitting in a panoramic theater with the sky as our screen. 🎆

It made me think of the wonders of yoga. Just like how on the outside the fireworks show was amazing, so too on the inside the stages and steps of yoga are a wonder:

Vismayo yogabhumika.h - the stations and stages of yoga constitute a fascinating wonder
- Shiva Sutras 1.12

Once you receive the inner awakening from a Guru, called Shaktipat, there is an ecstatic expansion of your inner being. As you apply yourself to your daily practice, sadhana, you will experience many wonders inside which fill up your senses with different sights, sounds, smells, feelings and tastes. You experience bliss and profound peace.

And each day is different like a different firework revealing itself in its own unique brilliance. Your life too is touched by the inner wonder. You are filled with a joy for no apparent reason, you’re just happy. You can be watching fireworks or simply sitting on your own reading. Your bliss fills you from the inside.

While every moment of your life may not be bliss-filled yet, it is your future as you continue on the path.

It truly is a wonder this yoga. 🎇🙏

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116 E Lancaster Avenue
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http://svaroopa.org/, https://svaroopa.org/prajnananda, https://linktr.ee/swami.prajna

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