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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...