- Through personal Spiritual Sadhana and rich spiritual, intellectual heritage from parents, he has experienced the highest state of consciousness.
- His father Maharshi Nyayaratn Vinod was the World Peace Ambassador and mother Maitreyi was a great Sanskrit scholar and Educationist. She topped the SSC exams held in 1926, in Bombay Province.
- Dr. Samprasad Vinod is a well-known international Yoga Guru of high repute.
- Founder-Director of ‘Maharshi Vinod Research Foundation’ with 40 + years of experience in the Training, Treatment and Research in yoga.
- Published author of 14 books with several editions and about 30-40 are in pipeline for publication.
- Has written hundreds of popular articles in the leading newspapers, weekly and monthly magazines for common people from India and other countries, which are highly appreciated by the readers.
- Second edition of his book ‘Nine Secrets of Successful Meditation’ has been published by the Watkins Publishing, a leading publishing house from UK. It is also available in Portuguese.
- Has been living and teaching Yoga as a ‘Way of Life’ for inner transformation and for developing ‘Right Attitude’ towards life.
- Has been invited to numerous workshops, seminars, research conferences and symposia as Main Speaker, Chairperson, Guest of Honor and Resource Person in India and other countries like USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, etc.
- Has appeared on BBC France and Ireland
- Advisor, Member of many leading Yoga Institutes like Kaivalyadhama from India and Yoga Therapy Ireland, Samatol from Reunion; France, Yoga for Health and Education Trust, UK.
- Hon. Member of Dept of Physical Education, Savitribai Phule Pune University and of Sientific Advisory Committee Ramkumar Rathi Patanajali Yoga Chair (SPPU)
- Originator and proponent of the unique concepts/practices like Shavasan-Meditation, Meditation-Meditative Way of Doing Yoga Postures-Meditative Way of Living, Swanand Sahayog Sadhana and Atmabodh-Sadhana.
- Recipient of several awards for his outstanding contribution to the field of Yoga- FIE Foundation National Award, Yoga Maharshi Award, Life Time Achievement Award by Suryadatta Group of Institutes, Ankur Jeevan Gaurav Sahitya Puraskar, Yogaratna and Vijayashri, to name a few.
- Has been felicitated 300+ times at national and international levels.
- Has given Special Training to Maharashtra Cricket Ranji Team and Arjun Award Winner and current captain of Indian Women’s Team Harmanpreet Kaur. Also, provided Yoga Training to the Thialand Women’s Cricket Team. Professional Tennis, Badminton, Shooting, Chess players also come to him for guidance.
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