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Biography
Yogacharya Sahasrabudhe (1912 – 1996), was a yoga teacher and practitioner in his native India and the kingdom of Nepal.
Youth and education
Yogacharya Kashinath Balkrishna Sahasrabudhe was born on 12 December 1912 (12.12.12) in Adra (Bihar, India).
Yogacharya Sahasrabudhe was keenly interested in outdoor sports during his childhood and youth. He played Football (soccer) and was an expert practitioner of Mallakhamb (form of Indian gymnastics) and Surya Namaskara.
Sahasrabudhe Guruji (as he was called, along with his usual moniker yogacharya) got initial yoga inspiration from Nagpur-based Janardana Swami in 1953.
In 1959, he embarked on a formal yoga education from Swami Satyananda Saraswati at Munger, India. Yogacharya Sahasrabudhe was one of the very first disciples of Swami Satyananda Saraswati before Swamiji founded Bihar School of Yoga in 1964.
Successful culmination of yoga training resulted in Swami Satyananda Saraswati conferring, then very rare, title of Yogacharya on Sahasrabudhe guruji.
Career
He worked in Calcutta-based B.N. Railway as a Signal Inspector for 40 years.
Teacher
Yogacharya Sahasrabudhe relocated, along with his family, from central India to Thane, Maharashtra in middle part of the 1960s. Sahasrabudhe guruji started actively teaching yoga, in 1968, under the aegis of Thane-based Ghantali Mitra Mandal. During this time, Yogacharya Sahasrabudhe traveled to 40 cities in India (spanning multiple states) and even neighboring Nepal where he taught yoga to the King Birendra of Nepal and his wife Queen Aiswarya.
In the early 1980s, Sahasrabudhe guruji undertook whirlwind Yoga Prachar Dindi visiting close to 100 cities/towns across Maharashtra and training 5000+ men and women. Besides these training activities, Yogacharya Sahasrabudhe taught yoga to prison inmates and brought positive ideological transformation in these inmates.
Government of Mahrashtra conferred Kuvalayananda Puraskar in 1986 on Yogacharya Sahasrabudhe for his contributions in the field of yoga for over two decades. Besides this recognition, he was also appointed to the chair of Maharashtra State Yoga Council for a period of two years during the early 1980s.