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DIED. SWAMI SATCHIDA-NANDA, 87, prodigiously bearded guru who opened the 1969 Woodstock festival; while attending a peace conference in Madras, South India. Satchidananda attracted hundreds of om-chanting followers, including the '60s psychedelic artist Peter Max, musician Carole King and heart doctor Dean Ornish...
DIED. SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA, 87, Indian guru who opened the 1969 Woodstock festival by teaching the crowds to chant "om"; in Madras. A native of South India, the thickly bearded swami went to the U.S. in 1966 on the crest of a wave of counterculture interest in Eastern religion, and he eventually served as spiritual adviser to such celebrities as Carole King, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern. Satchidananda founded a number of ashrams, including Yogaville in Virginia, where he made his home. At Woodstock he shared the stage with rock luminaries Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young...
That was nothing compared with the existential dilemma of the New York bureau's Richard Ostling when he found himself trying to interview the followers of Swami Satchidananda during one of their "silent retreats" at Yogaville East in Connecticut. Possibly the most metaphysical experience of 1973 belongs to Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who was sent through Mexico's Sonora Desert one night in search of the Yaqui medicine man Don Juan for TIME'S Carlos Castaneda cover story (March 5). At one point, she recalls, she and Photographer Eddie Adams pulled their car off a deserted...
...scores of gurus who have come to the U.S. in the past decade is India's Swami Satchidananda, who gained national attention by opening the Woodstock rock festival in 1969. Satchidananda teaches "integral yoga," a combination of yogic disciplines, in 15 metropolitan centers as well as two new live-in communities in Middletown, Calif., and Pomfret, Conn. Catholic nuns and priests often attend the integral-yoga weekend retreats...
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