Swami Vishnudevananda Giri (Swami Vishnu Dev) is a Russian-speaking, certified yoga master with 20 years of spiritual practice, having studied with more than ten teachers in his youth.

He is the founder of the only higher education institution for yoga in Russia, the "Collection of Secrets" Yoga Monastery-Academy (Advaita Yoga Ashram "Collection of Secrets"), with its unique system of training and practice, as well as the Worldwide Laya Yoga Community, which has followers in the CIS countries and abroad.

Enlightened Master Swami Vishnudevananda Giri (Swami Vishnu Dev) spent an extended period (approximately three years) in retreat.

He is the author of over 90 books, the most famous of which are:

~ "The Radiance of the Precious Secrets of Laya Yoga" (volumes 1 and 2),

~ "The Master's Code"

~ "The Liberating Nectar of Precious Instructions"

~ "Laya Yoga in the Siddha Tradition"

~ "Songs of the Awakened One"

~ "The Heart of Yogic Sadhana"

~ and many others

numerous articles and essays on the philosophy, theory, and practice of yoga and tantra in the Sahajayana tradition.

Swami Vishnudevananda Giri (Swami Vishnu Dev) is an initiated successor of the Siddha yogic tradition of the natural path of Sahajayana, a holder of several lineages of the Laya Yoga teachings, and a spiritual mentor for many followers in Russia and Ukraine.

Between 1995 and 2005, he delivered over 2,000 lectures on the philosophy and practice of Advaita, Tantra, and Laya Yoga, and conducted approximately 200 educational and practical seminars and retreats.

In addition, Swami Vishnudevananda Giri (Swami Vishnu Dev) conducts research into particularly challenging theoretical issues in philosophy and yoga (prophecy, Parasattarka logic, game theory, reality control, research into the common roots of the Vedic civilization of the Aryans and ancient Slavs, etc.).

In the outside world, Swami Vishnudevananda Giri (Swami Vishnu Dev) is also the founder of the World Transhumanist Immortalist Movement "Immortality" and a new movement in Russian transhumanism and immortalism—Transcendental Transhumanism, based on yoga theory and other sacred texts. The author of the "Attaining Immortality in the Physical Body" program (the so-called "Five Steps" program) and the conceptual transhumanist project-forecast "The Age of Immortals."

Since February 2010, Swami Vishnudevananda Giri has been the Mahamandaleshwar of the Dattatreya Monastic Order - Juna Akhara.

His work in spreading Dharma and supporting Advaita Vedanta in Russia has received the approval and recognition of many eminent teachers and saints, including:

Mahamandaleshwar Pilot Babaji

Mahamandaleshwar Swami Parmanand Giriji Maharaj