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Yoga Gives Back: Annual Fundraiser, Nov. 12, 2022
Join Yoga Gives Back for their 15th Anniversary Gala online on Nov. 12, 2022. Let's unite for inspiration, mindfulness, and Yoga to raise funds to support more than 2400 women and children with YGB programs of empowerment in India. YGB is honored to present their...
H. H. the Dalai Lama’s 87th Birthday
The 87th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was celebrated on July 6, 2022 around the globe. On the occasion he inaugurated a library and museum in the hillside of his Indian headquarters in Dharamshala. The Washington Post reported that: "He was cheered by a...
The Heart’s Journey! Online April 3–4
Join Dr. Edwin Bryant, renowned scholar/practitioner, for a deep dive into ancient yogic texts and the devotional practice of Bhakti Yoga hosted by Yogaville Online. This online workshop features stories of the great devotional heroes of the Bhakti texts. Dr. Bryant...
Should I Re-open My Yoga Studio/Center?
Gary Kissiah has practiced corporate and technology law for over twenty years and serves on the Board of Directors of the Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco. Recently, we asked him for some guidance as Covid guidelines begin to be more relaxed and Yoga teachers...
Rama Jyoti Vernon (1941 – 2020): American Yoga Pioneer and Luminary
Yoga lost one if it's great Western pioneers with the passing of Rama Jyoti Vernon. If Mataji Indra Devi can be called the first lady of Yoga, Rama Jyoti Vernon was certainly the keeper of the flame of classical Yoga in America. In later years Rama was also known as...
BOOK: Temple Dancer
Before Amy Weintraub published her first novel, Temple Dancer, she was known as the bestselling author of Yoga for Depression. Readers may be surprised to find out that prior to becoming a Yoga therapist, she was a fiction writer for many years, suffering from...
Assistance for Yoga Professionals!
The Yoga Alliance Foundation Emergency Relief Fund provides financial support to those within the Yoga community who are experiencing extreme economic hardship due to COVID-19. The Fund is a global resource available to Yoga professionals worldwide. To initiate this...
Tao Porchon-Lynch, The Grande Dame of Hatha Yoga: A Tribute
On February 21, 2020, the Yoga world lost one of its icons: Tao Porchon-Lynch who was 101 years old. Tao was beloved by young and old, and in addition to being the oldest living Yoga teacher (named as such by the Guinness World Book of Records) she was also an...
Baba Ram Dass: He Awakened a Generation
Integral Yoga Magazine pays tribute to one of the great spiritual luminaries of our time: Baba Ram Dass. Ram Dass left the body on Dec. 22, 2019 (which is also the day of our founder Swami Satchidananda's 105th birth anniversary). Swami Satchidananda and Ram Dass...
Five Essential Albums of 1971: Journey in Satchidananda
By 1971, Alice Coltrane had gained a reputation as a major music innovator and was developing her own musical language. On Journey in Satchidananda, she still made use of the compositional structures of her previous acclaimed Impulse! albums. However, this LP was also...