Satchidananda Ashram - Yogaville was founded in 1980 by Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda, whose western renown stems from his opening of the Woodstock festival. The ashram is the international organizational headquarters of Swami Satchidananda's documented teachings, located in the county of Buckingham, Virginia. The primary vision of this world-traveled guru Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda (1914-2002) was interfaith understanding as a vehicle to world peace.