What is it that we call “death?” Death is only a change of form, a change of name. In a way, everything is immortal. Everything is filled with life. There’s no dead matter in the entire universe. God created everything. And God created everything in God’s image. So,...

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.

In our continuing exploration of the Tamil spiritual heritage that shaped Swami Satchidananda, and the Integral Yoga Tradition he taught, we encounter a remarkable saint whose devotional poetry expresses some of the most profound insights of nondual realization. Sri...

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,...

More than a century before Vedanta and Yoga became familiar parts of the American spiritual landscape, Ralph Waldo Emerson discovered in the wisdom of India a profound resonance with his own deepest intuition: that beneath the apparent separateness of life is an...

During October 2026, we celebrate the founding of Integral Yoga by Swami Satchidananda in 1966 in New York. We look back at how Integral Yoga came to the West, the memories of some who were there in those early years, explore some of the spiritual roots from which it...

It was 1966. The Beatles had stopped touring. A generation of young Americans was searching for meaning, for peace, for something the world around them could not seem to provide. From that searching rose the counterculture: restless, idealistic, and beneath all its...

It all started in June 1968. I had just graduated from Columbia University with a degree in math and philosophy. But after all those years of studying Eastern and Western philosophy, much of it still felt theoretical. I wanted a real practice. Then I noticed an ad in...

The Beginning When Peter Petronio first encountered Swami Satchidananda in the summer of 1966, he was already a renowned spiritual master with students in India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and Europe. It was Peter’s close friend, the artist Peter Max, who had met Swami...

The Integral Yoga community celebrates the extraordinary life and legacy of Peter Max (1937–2026), known to us by the name Atman, given to him by Swami Satchidananda. One of the most celebrated artists of the modern era, Peter helped define the visual language of a...