Swami Sivamurti Saraswati

Swami Sivamurti Saraswati was born and raised in Australia. In 1975 she traveled to India. In 1976 her guru, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, initiated her into poorna sannyasa and commissioned her to spread the teachings of yoga in Greece.
In 1978 she founded Satyanandashram Hellas which, since its conception at Kalamata, has spread throughout Greece. Today, there are yoga centres and teachers in most of the major cities. In 1984 she established an ashram at Paiania which was inaugurated the following year by Swami Satyananda.

Swami Sivamurti is a member of the International Yoga Fellowship Movement and, in 1993, she was recognized by the IYFM as a yoga acharya.
In 2004 she was appointed an official emissary of Satyananda Yoga by the Bihar School of Yoga.
She is a member of the Education Council of Bihar Yoga Bharati, India (Institute of Advanced Studies in Yogic Sciences).
She is also a guardian of the Satyananda Yoga Academy Europe and a member of its Governing Body.
In Greece, Swami Sivamurti is responsible for instituting the projects of Satyananda Math, the Karma Jignasu Sannyasa Body, and the Hellenic Satyananda Yoga Teachers Network.
Each year she visits her guru in India and spends some time at Rikhiadham and the Bihar Yoga Bharati. Swami Sivamurti is based at the Paiania ashram and travels regularly throughout Greece, and other parts of the world, giving seminars and lecturing on yoga.