Swami Shankardevananda Saraswati
Big Shakti, Digital Update Project
Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati and Jayne Stevenson provide an integrated yoga and psychology product through the Big Shakti platform. It is designed for a wide range of students, particularly experienced practitioners and including international yoga enthusiasts. Their initiative addresses the increasing demand for deeper insights into yoga philosophy and psychology, which are essential for mental well-being. Drawing on Swami Shankardev’s expertise as a clinical psychologist and training at Bihar Ashram with Swami Satyananda Saraswati, they integrate Eastern and Western perspectives to make yoga accessible and relevant for modern audiences.
To build its brand offering, the Big Shakti website received a YFG Grant to enhance its learning module, resulting in a revamped experience.
This included designing a new website structure, adding a membership portal for the online community and creating specialised content for marketing and social media channels through a mobile app.
The results for mental health and spiritual development
Access to higher teachings addresses the need for authentic, in-depth yoga philosophy, particularly regarding mental health and spiritual development. Dr Shankardev notes that contemporary yoga often emphasises asana and meditation. Meanwhile, broader, higher teachings demonstrate yoga’s potential for self-development.
During the grant period in 2022, Big Shakti conducted a comprehensive Light on the Chakras and Kundalini training for 100 participants.
They significantly improved old courses for a better user experience and wider reach on the new platform. With the YFG Grant, Big Shakti increased user engagement, sales and the number of course offerings.
The Intensive Chakra and Kundalini Course extended to two years of therapy sessions, guiding an exceptional group of advanced yogis and health practitioners. Recently celebrating 20 years of dedicated teaching, Big Shakti continues to share a wealth of healing, psychological and spiritual knowledge, connecting with a global audience. Thousands of students worldwide embrace the practices of Yoga Tantra merged with Western Psychology for optimal well-being and creative living.
Testimonials
Our sole mission is to create opportunities to do good for others through yoga.
And we’re making an impact.
A huge thank you to the Yoga For Good Foundation...
…for their incredible contribution to our Life Now Yoga and meditation programs!
This generous donation will mean we can buy new yoga equipment, run a new yoga class in Broome, and enhance our meditation program for cancer patients and their primary carers.
Cancer Council Western AustraliaSending out gratitude to the Yoga for Good Foundation.
Their grant is enabling me to offer FREE trauma informed therapeutic movement and relaxation to frontline mental health and social services staff in Bega.
Participants are really valuing the time out for themselves and experiencing integrated poly vagal theory. And I get to be in a teaching space, yay!
PremKranti CounsellingThe generous grant we've been awarded from the Yoga For Good Foundation...
…allows us to reach more underserved and vulnerable community groups who can benefit from a trauma-informed yoga and embodied mindfulness practice at zero cost to the participants.
Some of the community groups we’ll be serving in the current months include 000 Foundation, Men’s Walk and Talk and WAGEC.
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