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News
New Year’s Silent Retreat 2027: The Power of Presence
The New Year’s Silent Retreat: The Power of Presence with Swami Karunananda, E-RYT 500 and Swan Michelle, E-RYT 500 will be held at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville from December 28, 2026 - January 2, 2027 Join us at the peaceful sanctuary of Yogaville for our signature...
Thanksgiving Benefit Yoga Class
The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco will host a Thanksgiving morning Hatha Yoga class to benefit the Community Outreach Program. As we move through our Yoga practice, we will focus on gratitude and the profound effects that cultivating gratitude can have in...
Integral Yoga 60th Anniversary Commemorative Booklet – free!
Integral Yoga Magazine is pleased to present a special Integral Yoga 60th Anniversary Commemorative Booklet available online and for free. The more than 90-page flipbook is the expanded version of the recent anniversary issue eMagazine. This publication celebrates...
Practice
The Science of Pranayama: How Breath Transforms Mind and Body
In this episode of the Integral Yoga Podcast, host Avi Gordon welcomes Dr. Sundar Balasubramanian to explore the connection between breath, mind, body, and the ancient wisdom of Yoga through a modern scientific perspective. Dr. Sundar shares insights into prana,...
Practicing Yoga’s Ethics in Children’s Yoga
Imagine a children's Yoga class becoming a constellation. Arms spread into stars. One child's star is tiny, made with two fingers. Another stands firmly on the floor. Then somebody announces, “My star is going to sleep.” A teacher could correct the astronomy: stars do...
Sitting Like Nandi: A Lesson in Steady Devotion
In the courtyard of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, a great golden image of Nandi, the sacred bull associated with Lord Shiva, sits facing the main shrine. Visitors who cannot enter the temple courtyard may glimpse him from outside the walls. Evening after evening,...
Lifestyle
A Pilgrim’s Guide to a Day at Yogaville
A first day at an ashram is best approached the way one approaches a yatra, a pilgrimage. The word matters. A visit is something you do to a place. A pilgrimage is something a place is permitted to do to you, and the difference lies almost entirely in the preparation....
The Integral Yoga Dharma Sutras
A spiritual tradition lives not only through its teachings and practices, but through the way those teachings are embodied. Integral Yoga asks us to bring spiritual life into every dimension of our lives. This includes the way we speak and act, respond to...
Allowing Our Yoga Practice to Shape How We Live
We are systematically damaging our home, Mother Earth, and our response to this crisis is an important part of spiritual life. Yoga invites us to recognize our interconnection with all of life and to let that awareness guide the choices we make. Spiritual practice can...
Philosophy
How I First Came To The Bhagavad Gita
I was five years old when I first learned to chant the Gita Dhyanam, the meditation on the Gita. My mother had learned it from her father, and she passed it on to me the way such things tend to be passed: during bath time, when she was helping me get dressed, at...
Understanding the Guru Principle (Guru-tattva)
One of the central teachings of the Integral Yoga Tradition is also one that can be difficult to understand in the modern West: the principle of Guru. In the traditions of Yoga and Vedanta, Guru means more than an individual spiritual teacher. Behind the human teacher...
Embarking on a Spiritual Journey, Part 31 – Thirumular: Yoga, Love and the Divine
In the previous installment of the Spiritual Odyssey series, we paused after Ramaswamy’s time at Sri Ramanasramam to explore another voice from the Tamil spiritual world that had helped form him: the beloved poet-sage Avvaiyar. Before following Ramaswamy on his...
Education
200-Hour Integral Yoga Teacher Training – February 2027
This 200-Hour Integral Yoga Teacher Training will be taught in 2 parts by Swami Divyananda Ma, E-RYT 500, Saci Murphy, E-RYT 500 and Aurélie “Anjali” Gauthier, E-RYT 500, YACEP, ISMETA starting February, 2027. Part 1 will be taught online from February 14–April 25,...
Yoga Nidra Teacher Training March 31 – April 4, 2027
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville will host a Yoga Nidra Training with Chitra Sukhu from March 31 - April 4, 2027. This transformative Yoga Nidra Training is open to all: Yoga teachers who want to share this practice, and anyone who wants to experience it more deeply for...
Meditation Teacher Training in India – January 2027
Join Integral Yoga's Meditation Teacher Training In India with Swami Ramananda, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT and Ram Wiener, E-RYT 500 from January 10 - 24, 2027. Travel to the birthplace of Yoga and earn your certification as an Integral Yoga Meditation Teacher. In the...
Health
A Turning Point: Learning to Breathe While I Listened
A father whose son has cystic fibrosis learns, standing in a dark hallway at night, that the breath he keeps holding is his own, and that listening itself can become a practice.
“Restoring Our Natural Center of Balance and Peace” Retreat – Dec 2026
The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco is holding a 4-Day Yoga Retreat: "Restoring Our Natural Center of Balance and Peace" at the Commonweal Retreat Center in Bolinas, California from December 10–13, 2026. As the holiday season approaches, we invite you to step...
Coming Home: Reweaving Integral Yoga and Ayurveda
There are moments along our path when something new enters our lives and, strangely, feels less like a discovery than a remembering. That is how Ayurveda came to me. My formal path into Yoga began at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville in 2009, where I completed my...