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Yoga master Swami Satchidananda opens the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
1969
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Washington, DC, United States
Yoga master Swami Satchidananda opens the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Bethel, New York, 1969. Satchidananda would later found Yogaville, a yoga retreat in Buckingham, Virginia.
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- Title: Yoga master Swami Satchidananda opens the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
- Date: 1969
- Story: Yoga, which gets its name from the Sanskrit yog (“union”), may be India’s most popular contribution to American culture. Spiritual teacher Swami Vivekananda introduced this ancient philosophy to America in 1893. Years later, in the tumultuous 1960s, yoga intrigued Americans intent on embracing Eastern spirituality and rejecting Western materialism.
- Rights: Courtesy of Yogaville
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