When Swami Satchidananda first arrived in the West in 1966, Yoga was largely unknown here. When most people thought of a yogi, they remembered a popular cartoon man sleeping on a bed of nails. All this changed when Swami Satchidananda arrived in the West.
This book, illustrated with the artwork of pop artist icon Peter Max, tells the untold story of the Woodstock Guru’s journey to Woodstock, the inspiration and legacy of Woodstock, and the Yoga movement it inspired.
“The image of Swami Satchidananda at Woodstock will always be a symbol of the moment when a battery of unconventional baby boomers turned eastward—and inward—in such large numbers that the process became irreversible.” —Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda
