Marshall Govindan (or Yogacharya M. Govindan Satchidananda) is a kriya yogi, author, scholar, and editor of literary works related to classical yoga and tantra, and a teacher of Kriya Yoga. He is the president of Babaji's Kriya Yoga and Publications, Inc., and chairman of the Order of Archaryas of Babaji's Kriya Yoga, a lay order of over 25 Kriya Yoga teachers operating in more than 20 countries with ashrams in St. Etienne de Bolton, Quebec, Bangalore, India, Colombo, and Sri Lanka.
In 2008, Govindan was awarded the title of "Yoga Acharya" by the Francophone Yoga Federation and was named one of the 39 "lifetime members of the World Yoga Council" from among more than 10,000 members of the International Yoga Teachers Federation, in recognition of his contributions to the field of yoga. On January 17, 2010, he was honored in Chennai, India, for his contribution to this work.
M. Govindan Satchidananda received the 2014 Patanjali Award for his outstanding work in the field of yoga, awarded by the World Yoga Council and Dharmachari Swami Maitreyananda, president of the International Yoga Federation, the oldest and largest international yoga association, and the yoga teachers' registry. Satchidananda joins the long list of awardees who have received this award annually since 1986.
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