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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...
The Difference between Attachment and Love
Question: Wouldn't I also be attached to a person when I truly love them? 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 together; if I...
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...
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...
Combating Aging with Rasayana
Rejuvenation is an Ayurvedic specialty whose main purpose is to maintain health and virility as age advances. We all age, but we don’t need in the process to enter an era of disease. We can age gracefully and avoid diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, autoimmune...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Embarking on a Spiritual Odyssey, Part 29: At the Holy Feet of Silence
Sambasivam Chaitanya’s journey now brings him to Tiruvannamalai, to the holy presence of Arunachala, and to Ramanashram, where one of modern India’s greatest sages sat in the stillness of Self-realization. At Ramanashram, Advaita was no longer only a subject of...
How to Deepen Your Meditation Practice
Deepening your meditation practice requires more than simply sitting for longer periods of time. A truly effective practice depends on cultivating a sufficient level of refined energy. This energy expresses itself as alertness, mental clarity, willpower, conviction,...
The Wisdom of Right Relationship
The majority of the suffering that you experience is caused not by something outside of yourself but by your internal reaction to things. And those reactions that bring pain are usually based on attachments and expectations that are unfulfilled. You make an...
The Guru Who Gives Us Eyes to See
The full moon of Guru Poornima has waned, but the contemplation it awakens does not end with the observance. Only a few weeks later, on August 19, we mark the Mahasamadhi of our beloved Guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda (Sri Gurudev). These two sacred observances...
Swami Daasyananda: A Life of Service, Stillness, and the Infinite Self
On the blessed morning that marked the beginning of the Guru Poornima celebration at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville, July 25th, 2026, our beloved brother and senior monastic, Swami Daasyanandaji, peacefully left the body. The timing of his departure seemed deeply...
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...
A New Book Honors Brother David Steindl-Rast’s 100th Birthday
The Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast is one of the most influential spiritual figures of our time. As a seeker of truth, a bridge-builder, and a mentor of gratefulness, he has inspired people across religious and cultural boundaries for decades. After many years in...
Maha Mrityunjaya: A Mantra for Life, Healing, and Liberation
In the Integral Yoga Tradition, certain sacred sounds become woven into the rhythm of daily life. They are not reserved only for formal worship or special ceremonies; they accompany us through the ordinary and extraordinary passages of human experience. Among the most...