in 1976, having arrived on a visa stating that he was a "Minister of Divine Words". Global travels In over fifty years of public service, Satchidananda made eight world tours and logged nearly two million miles of travel around the globe. "I don't belong to any one country or organization", he often said. In 1971, he made the first of several visits to Australia and New Zealand, as part of his second world tour. In late 1979, he opened the first Nambassa Festival in New Zealand, inspired by the Woodstock Festival. In 1975, he made his first South American trip, visiting Venezuela including giving a lecture at the Central University of Venezuela. In Europe, Satchidananda was often a guest speaker at programs sponsored by institutions such as the British Wheel of Yoga and the Italian and German Yoga Federations. From the late 1970s he spoke each year at the European Union of National Yoga Federations conference in Zinal, Switzerland for fifteen years. He traveled to Eastern Europe twice, as part of a citizen-diplomacy delegation. In 1985 and 1986, he went to Finland and the Soviet Union for 10-day tours by two peace organizations. He made yearly tours of India and Sri Lanka, and traveled in Asia and the Middle East to speak at yoga, peace, health, and other conferences. Integral Yoga Satchidananda taught a blend of hatha yoga and yoga philosophy which he named Integral Yoga. In 1971, he began training students to teach yoga in prisons and drug rehabilitation centers. Satchidananda advocated vegetarian diet for its health, ecological, and spiritual benefits. In 1972, he established the first vegetarian health food store in New York City, which remained the only all–vegetarian store in Manhattan, until its closure in late 2018. In 1976, Sandra McLanahan founded one of the first integrative health clinics in the US, offering yoga therapy, at that time new to America. Branches were opened in many places around the world. The Integral Yoga headquarters at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville was founded in 1986. The LOTUS shrine cost $2 million, and Satchidananda blessed it on its opening by flying his helicopter to sprinkle holy water over it. The opening parade included a "flame-tossing juggler" and a baby elephant as well as religious figures. Satchidananda was an early advocate of the interfaith movement in America. In the early 1950s, when the Divine Life Society was preparing for Guru Poornima Day, where