Yacki Raizizun

Yacki Raizizun (17 May 1892 – 2 August 1966) was an American naturopath, occult writer and yoga teacher.

Life

Raizizun was born in Bombay to a French mother and Hindu father. He was educated in London and Sydney. He graduated from Amherst College and spent five years teaching philosophy. Raizizun married May Martinez Smith of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1941.

Raizizun worked as a naturopath in an office at his home in Albuquerque. Raizizun was described as holding a number of interesting and unusual ideas about yoga, including a method of removing wrinkles. Raizizun argued that anyone can study yoga and that as a philosophy it does not need to interfere with one's religion. He taught that there are seven phases of yoga, the first being Hatha yoga that is concerned with physical health and the highest Bhakti yoga concerned with knowledge and love. , lecturing on topics such as auras, esoteric psychology and personal magnetism. He was a speaker at spiritualist churches. He was president of the Occult Research Society of Chicago. Raizizun was the author of eight books.

Death

Raizizun died at El Paso hospital on 2 August 1966.

Selected publications