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New Book Brings Yoga Philosophy “Off the Mat”
A new book from North Atlantic Books invites practitioners to rediscover Yoga as something far more expansive than physical postures. Yoga Off the Mat: A Practical Guide to the Wisdom of Yoga—Find Balance, Meaning, and Liberation in Your Daily Life, by longtime Yoga...
Brother David Steindl-Rast: 100th Birthday Celebration
Br. David Steindl-Rast — Grateful Living founder and beloved longtime interfaith advocacy collaborator of Swami Satchidananda — became a centenarian on July 12, 2026! Enjoy a replay of the virtual celebration, highlights of the 100th Birthday celebrations at Br....
LOTUS 40th Anniversary Celebration: September 2026
Join us at Satchidananda Ashram—Yogaville to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Light of Truth Universal Shrine (LOTUS) September 4-6, 2026. This weekend is a time to come together and renew our commitment to the universal message of LOTUS dedicated to the Light of...
Practice
Q & A with Swami Satchidananda on Spiritual Energy
Question: I sometimes experience the rising of the sacred Kundalini, accompanied by a soft humming sound and a certain degree of bliss or peace. Why does this energy remain only briefly? Swami Satchidananda: It’s a beautiful question. I’m glad to know that you have...
The Art of Relaxation
Life has become very complex these days. The struggle for existence is very acute and keen. A great deal of constant mental and physical strain is imposed on humanity by its daily work and unhealthy mode of life. Action produces movements and these in turn cause...
Workplace Yoga & Meditation Lower Stress
Twenty minutes per day of guided workplace meditation and Yoga combined with six weekly group sessions can lower feelings of stress by more than 10 percent and improve sleep quality in sedentary office employees, a pilot study suggests. The study offered participants...
Lifestyle
Q & A with Swami Satchidananda on Finding Contentment
Question: I’m basically happy and peaceful but feel that something is missing. How can I find the missing part? Swami Satchidananda: If you are basically happy and in peace, what can be missing? It’s a sort of contradiction. If you are basically happy and in peace,...
Questions & Answers with Swami Satchidananda: What’s the Difference between Attachment and Love?
Question: Aren't you also attached to a person when you truly love that person? Swami Satchidananda: One should be loving but not attached. Attachment is far different from love. Attachment is always personal and selfish: "So and-so makes me happy when we are...
Rosa Parks: Yoga and the Practice of Quiet Strength
There is another image of Rosa Parks, far removed from the photographs most Americans know. She is not seated on a Montgomery bus. She is not being fingerprinted after her arrest. She is not standing beside Martin Luther King Jr. or addressing a civil rights...
Philosophy
Spiritual Luminaries Series: Aldous Huxley
From Brave New World to the Wisdom of Vedanta To millions of readers, Aldous Huxley remains the author of Brave New World, the chilling 1932 vision of a society pacified by conditioning, consumption, entertainment, and chemically induced contentment. Yet the man who...
The Charged Ground
The Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville ground is charged. Once someone tells you to notice it, you cannot stop noticing it, and I mean this in more than a figurative sense. A practitioner who arrives with a settled enough mind can feel the field the way you feel a...
The Practice of Enlightenment
As a yogi, mainly in the Krishnamacharya lineage, and as a practitioner of Buddhist meditation for many years, Chip Hartranft’s work bridges the traditions of Yoga and Buddhism. His deep contemplation and study of the Yoga Sutras is evident in this interview,...
Education
Raja Yoga Teacher Training – September 2026
Join the Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco for a 2-part Raja Yoga Teacher Training with trainers Swami Ramananda and Swami Divyananda Date and Times (PDT) Part 1: September 30, 2026 – December 12 and Part 2: February 27 – April 3, 2027. For Yoga teachers, Yoga...
Adaptive Gentle & Chair Yoga Teacher Training – Online September 2026
The Integral Yoga Institute of New York is presenting The Adaptive Gentle & Chair Yoga Teacher Training online starting September 9th, 2026. This training provides a solid foundation for Yoga teachers to know how to adapt traditional Yoga asana for those students...
200-hour Integral Yoga Hatha Teacher Training – October 2026
The Integral Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training is a month-long residential intensive running from October 4 – November 1, 2026 at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville where you will learn to teach asanas (Yoga poses), Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation), pranayama (breathing...
Health
Overcoming Fear, Anger, and Depression
Fear, anger, and depression are all related. It all starts with fear. You want something and you become afraid of not getting it, or you get it, and you become afraid of losing it. There is a beautiful sequence in the Bhagavad Gita that illustrates this point. First...
Are We Practicing Yoga Therapy Or Yogopathy?
In this article on Yoga therapy, Dr. Ananda discusses the state of Yoga therapy as it moves into the mainstream of complementary medicine. He expresses the concern that modern Yoga therapy could fall prey to losing the real essence of Yoga. He cautions that if Yoga...
The Eight Limbs of Yoga in Ayurvedic and Yogic Therapy
Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedic Studies. This article offers a preview of the Teacher Training program that Dr. Frawley developed based on how the eight limbs of Yoga can be...
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