Stéphane Boisjoly (Sri Venu) Owner/Director

Celebrating 50 years of Teaching Yoga & Meditation

Yoga Lynx

Montréal/Vancouver

yoga@mail.com www.yogalynx.com

Born in Montréal Sri Venu (Stéphane Boisjoly) is a Canadian from Abenaki First Nation and French ancestry. He started to practice Yoga and Meditation daily in 1969. In 1971 he moved to the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram in Québec to study full time with Swami Vishnudevananda. One of North America's most experienced Yoga Acharyas, Stéphane (Sri Venu) started to teach at the Sivananda Headquarters in 1972 (Where he still teaches.) and continued his advanced training in the Sivananda Ashram California and in British Columbia until 1976. Also a graduate of the International Meditation Institute of India his studies take him to the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, Auroville in Pondicherry, the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh and Kullu-Manali in the Himalayas. Founder of the Vancouver Sivananda Centre, Sri Venu teaches traditional East Indian Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Philosophy and Chanting. With Production Company InformAction and Director Carlos Ferrand he completed Planet Yoga in 2011, a documentary feature film on Yoga around the world and how it developed in the West. This feature film has been released in Film Festivals and Theatres and has been broadcast on Television Networks around the world including CBC/Radio-Canada. Acharya Sri Venu has trained Yoga and Advanced Yoga Teachers at his privately owned Affiliated Sivananda Centre in Vancouver as well as at Langara College and other fine Yoga Institutions in British Columbia. Acharya Sri Venu also organized the United Nations International Day of Yoga in Vancouver from 2016 to 2018. He is registered (E.R.Y.T. 500) with the Yoga Alliance and Registered Senior Teacher with the Yoga Association of BC. Today, he offers Yoga Teachers' Training in person and Online. Find out more at www.yogalynx.com and on YouTube's Lynx Broadcast.