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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...
How to Navigate Pain and Other Challenges
In this short video teaching from Integral Yoga Teacher, therapist, and center head Nalanie Chellaram, she gives practical strategies for those going through painful times, relationship problems and living in gratitude. She shares inspiration from Yoga and the...
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...
The Gateway and the Mountain: How the Yoga Sutras and the Nondual Vision Fit Together in Integral Yoga
The Recipe Swami Satchidananda once explained Raja Yoga with a recipe. In New York in September 1966, in his first conversation with a young student named Sadasivam Greenstone, he asked whether Sadasivam could cook. You get a recipe from a trusted source, Sadasivam...
Swami Sivananda and the Yoga of Synthesis: A Formative Stream of Integral Yoga
As we celebrate sixty years of Integral Yoga, we also look back to the spiritual streams that helped shape the path Swami Satchidananda brought to the West. In 1949, Swami Satchidananda met his Guru, Sri Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, and received Sannyas initiation...
The Spirit of Sat-Chid-Ananda
Looking Back at the First Ten Years In 1976, Integral Yoga marked ten years since its founder, Swami Satchidananda, first came to America and began the work that would take root as Integral Yoga in the West. To commemorate the anniversary, Satchidananda...
When Integral Yoga Was Young in New York
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...
“He’s Here!”: Meeting Swami Satchidananda in 1966
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...
How Integral Yoga Came to the West
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...
Integral Yoga at Sixty: Carrying the Whole Path Forward
In a handwritten aerogramme from Swami Satchidananda to Sohini Mehta – his first Indian disciple living in Bombay – he wrote, "I am now in New York, America. I just came for 2 days here, but many devotees have gathered round and insisted that I must stay longer. They...
Integral Yoga’s 60th Anniversary
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...
Sadasivam Greenstone: A Life of Yoga, Teaching, and Spiritual Transmission
On September 17, 2026, Sadasivam Greenstone (Richard Alan Greenstone) passed away peacefully at his home in Yogaville, Virginia, with his beloved wife, Satya, holding his hand. He was 80 years old. For 60 years, Sadasivam had been a student of Swami Satchidananda. He...
Peter (Atman) Max: A Life of Color, Yoga and Love
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...
Pranayama Teacher Training – November 2026
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville will host a Pranayama Teacher Training with Integral Yoga Master Teacher Swami Karunananda, E-RYT 500 and Krishna Howeth, E-RYT 500 from November 9 - 13, 2026. Pranayama enables us to unlock the great power and mystery that lie hidden in...
Spiritual Luminary Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...
This Will Change How You See Your Life
In this short video, Doreen Gail Hemp shares her journey of loss and learning how to find gratitude amid the loss. Even in life’s most challenging moments, beauty quietly waits to offer us comfort. In times of pain or loss, noticing the small things around us — the...
Celebrate Integral Yoga’s Lineage!
During the month of September, we celebrate Sri Swami Sivananda’s Jayanthi (the Guru of Swami Satchidananda's birth anniversary) and, on October 7, 2026 commemorate 60 years of Integral Yoga in the West. Our Integral Yoga Shop offers a special way to honor the lineage...
How to Keep Growing as a Yoga Teacher
Integral Yoga Master Teacher Swami Asokananda will lead a workshop on Living the Practice: How to Keep Growing as a Yoga Teacher at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville in central Virginia from November 13 - 15, 2026 As Yoga teachers, we give from the heart—sharing not only...
Integral Yoga’s 60th Anniversary: San Francisco Event!
Celebrate Integral Yoga’s 60-Year Anniversary Weekend – Friday–Sunday, Oct 2–4, 2026 online or in-person hosted by the Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco. Join the opening night events and also stay for the weekend offerings as well. Our Opening Night features...
An Urban Ashram Experience
The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco is offering an Ashram Immersion — an invitation to fully enter the disciplined rhythm of yogic life. Rather than a personal retreat, this is a committed immersion into daily spiritual practice, communal living, and the...
Yoga, Meditation, Arthritis & Chronic Pain Relief
In this episode of the Integral Yoga Podcast, host Avi Gordon is in conversation with with Yoga therapist Steffany Moonaz. The topic of the podcast is "Yoga, Meditation, Arthritis & Chronic Pain Relief" and a central question posed is: What if changing your...
The Samadhi Where You Still Do the Laundry
There is an image of spiritual realization that can exert a powerful attraction: one rises beyond the noise and demands of ordinary life into a peace so complete that the world, with all its complications, seems finally left behind. The great Yoga and Vedanta...
Embarking on a Spiritual Odyssey, Part 30: The Saintly Old Lady Avvaiyar
Among those influences, one figure stands out with remarkable clarity, authority, and spiritual force: Avvaiyar, lovingly remembered throughout Tamil Nadu as “the Old Lady” or simply, Avvaiyar. Swami Satchidananda quoted Avvaiyar often—so often that even a brief...
The Ground We Share
One of the root causes of suffering for us all is the illusion that we are each a separate body/mind. On one level, we are separate and we must function that way in our daily lives. But to understand ourselves only this way prevents us from experiencing the ground of...
Carry the Harmonium Through the Door
On September 8, 2026, we celebrate the 139th birth anniversary of Sri Swami Sivananda Maharaj, one of the great spiritual luminaries of modern India and the beloved Guru of Swami Satchidananda. We know Swami Sivananda as the sage of Rishikesh, founder of the Divine...