• Centre of Classic Yoga works in city of Karaganda (Kazakhstan) since 1992.
• The main purpose of the Centre is the training those who wish to study eight-stepwise Yoga in full volume, not selecting and not belittling any components of its parts.
• In 1998 the chief and some instructors of the Centre, were traveling in India, had got in BYB — Bihar University of Yoga which working in Ashram on a bank of Ganga. It was built by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. The chief of this Fellowship is — Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati.
• In 2000 Karaganda Centre of Classic Yoga entered the International Yoga Fellowship Movement and received Satyananda Yoga as the main direction thus, most satisfyimg the goal of the Centre.
• On 1st December 2008 Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati appropriated to the Center of Classical Yoga the status of the Kazakhstan Academy of Yoga.

Head — Saraswati Swami Akhilesh

The head of the Kazakhstan Academy of Yoga Swami Akilesh Saraswati, is a master of Yoga and Tantra international level. For many years he studied and mastered classical methods in practice (Ashtanga) Yoga of Patanjali, Rishi, and based on ancient Tantric teachings.

Dedication to them he had received from the hands of masters who kept these teachings in a straight transfer of knowledge from teacher to student by parampara of Saraswati, which has not been interrupted since the time of Adi Sankara to the present day. Swamiji has the fourth stage of initiation into Yoga, he is Purna sannyasin.

Swamiji — a very purposeful on one-way person in the language of Yoga: more than twenty years he devoted to deeper study of this system, and the last fifteen years of his life were devoted entirely to Yoga. Like many others, health problems led him to yoga. But, unlike the others, he has determination and desire in every case to get to the point. Therefore, its progress towards Yoga has brought its results — now Swamiji feels perfectly healthy.

Swami Akilesh learned a lot in his life. In particular, in the 90 years he was trained at the school of psychotropic’s at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was taught by leading specialists in the secret Soviet research directions, world class scientists. Delving into Yoga, he simultaneously studied many sciences, in particular, physiology and practical psychology. For some time he taught a course of «Fundamentals and methods of psycho-physical self-regulation» at the Institute of Teacher Training at the Department of Applied Psychology.

In 1992, Swami Akilesh created Center of Classical Yoga in Karaganda, which is headed now. The main objective of this organization — teaching people the basics of a healthy lifestyle and the fundamental teachings of Yoga and Tantra.

Talk about Swamiji — means to talk about the Center. Swami Akilesh purposeful man and a skilled leader. He is a bright example of an informal leader. For many years, thousands of people touched with Centre. The meeting with Swami Akilesh made in their life at least a particle of consciousness and self-sufficiency.

In 1999, the Centre has reached the international level. Now Swami Akilesh supervises the work and the development of the Centre within the International Movement of Satyananda Yoga under the guidance of Swami Saraswati Nirandzhananandy. In December 2008, the Center granted the status of the Kazakhstan Academy of Yoga.