Rudi Movie Project

The RUDI Movie Project is a restoration initiative to transfer the 1981 documentary of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda) to DVD. RUDI: The Teachings of Swami Rudrananda is the only substantial legacy we have on film of this remarkable teacher giving lectures, offering shakti, and teaching classes. This DVD— newly restored with many bonus features— is a valuable vehicle and teaching class for students of any spiritual tradition to learn more about the nature of inner practice and working with spiritual energy.

It came as a shock to everyone when Rudi was killed on February 21, 1973 in a small plane crash in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York while traveling with three students. While many snapshots and amazing teaching pictures were taken during Rudi's brief life, the film footage shot in 1970 remains as the only substantial legacy we have of this remarkable teacher of Kundalini yoga giving lectures, offering shakti, and teaching classes on film. To this day the film is a valuable vehicle and teaching class that students of any spiritual tradition can use to broaden their inner work and to receive Rudi's shakti.

In 2005 the RUDI movie project was initiated to preserve and restore the original film to DVD, which also offered the opportunity to reclaim never-before-seen footage.