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Reflections on Aging and Yoga
It was 1968 and I was in my 20s in New York City. I started practicing Yoga at the Integral Yoga Institute. I am now in my 70s, it is 2020, and I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I am still practicing Yoga. I’m sure you can do the math. Since my 20s, I have been...
Why Practice Hatha Yoga?
Many people think that anything involving poses and stretches is Yoga, but Hatha Yoga is a far deeper practice with very specific goals. These goals include bringing health, wellbeing, ease and steadiness to the body so that we can function happily in the world and...
The Knower, Faith, Wisdom of Death & Dying – IY eMagazine 206
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville Extends Temporary Closure to 2021
Rev. Siva Moore, Executive Director of Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville, announced on August 18, 2020, that a decision had been made by the administration to continue the temporary closure of the Ashram until 2021. Meanwhile, the Ashram will continue to focus its...
Mahasamadhi: Faith and Transition
Swami Karunananda (senior Integral Yoga monk and master teacher) writes about the Guru-disciple relationship and shares some of the inspiring experiences she had with her Guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda. This talk was recently given on the 18th anniversary of the...
This Is What We Call Integral Yoga
In order to be attuned to the Cosmic Consciousness, you have to be tuned in. If you haven’t tuned yourself in, then nothing will come. And if you tune to a wrong station, horrible things will come. But when you are tuned well, when you are at ease, everything comes to...
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...
Shakuhachi: The Spirit of Zen
Rodrigo Rodríguez is a Shakuhachi composer, musician and teacher. The Shakuhachi is a Japanese wind instrument with some 500 years of history, from its origins the role of the instrument was linked to different genres of Japan to contemporary times as a fundamental...
Why Study About Death and Dying?
Prior to a Yogaville online program (Graceful Exit: Death and Dying from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition) that Andrew Holecek offered via Yogaville, he shared his reflections on what the benefits are in not avoiding the subject of death and dying, but rather delving...