“Awake: The Life of Yogananda” wants to do two things: introduce Paramahansa Yogananda, who imported yoga and meditation to the United States, to a wider audience, and also provide viewers with a ...

The opening line of Awake: The Life of Yogananda may serve as a general barometer of how viewers will receive this documentary about the revered titular yogi: “I was conscious in my mother’s womb.” ...

It was 1920. A young yogi with flowing hair landed on America’s shores, as a delegate to the International Congress of Liberals in Boston. A century ago, India was very much the land of mystical hocus ...

Yoga’s journey from 5,000-year-old spiritual practice to means to achieving flat abs and tight glutes encapsulates the interlocked processes of cultural appropriation, ravenous capitalism, and the ...

The late great Ravi Shankar, the late Beatle George Harrison, Bollywood’s Amitabh Bachchan, Jesuit scholars, Western academics et al, the makers of this biopic on the life of Paramahansa Yogananda ...

Paramahansa Yogananda was born to be a guru. Raised by devout Hindu parents in the shadow of the Himalayas, he claimed his first memories of seeing beyond the physical world came before he left the ...

Fittingly enlightening, “Awake: The Life of Yogananda” is a vivid, elegantly assembled portrait of the savvy guru with the cherubic face and penetrating gaze who brought meditation to the West.

Directed by Lisa Leeman and Paola di Florio. Rating unavailable. “This earth is nothing but movies to me,” said Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi, calling life itself ...

Yoga's journey from 5,000-year-old spiritual practice to means to achieving flat abs and tight glutes encapsulates the interlocked processes of cultural appropriation, ravenous capitalism, and the ...

Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru who brought yoga to the West in the early 20th century, is the subject of this flattering documentary by Paola di Florio and Lisa Leeman. Yoga may be easily ...