Awake: The Life of Yogananda (2014) on Netflix

Plot summary

Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian mystic who left his homeland in the 1920s and carried meditation and yoga practice to Western countries. He wrote Autobiography of a Yogi, a spiritual classic that has sold millions of copies and still draws seekers, philosophers and yoga students. He described his own search for enlightenment and the difficulties he met along the way, which opened ancient Vedic teaching to a modern public. Many followers gathered around him, and he became known as the Father of Yoga in the West.