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How to Cultivate Healthy Ambitions
Proper motivation—having the proper aim behind our ambitions—is very important. All our actions have a motive behind them, and that motive should be a selfless one. Without a motive, there is no action. When you want to do something, ask yourself why you want to do...
August 2019: Finland Integral Yoga Teacher Training Graduates Eight New Teachers
Congratulations to the eight new Integral Yoga teachers who graduated earlier this month in Nummela, Finland. The Raja Yoga portion of the course was taught by Nalanie Chellaram and staffed by Les Anand Roberts. The rest of the teacher training syllabus was covered by...
COLORING BOOK: The Complete Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book
This brand new practical and engaging coloring book helps Yoga teachers and students develop their knowledge of the human body. Enhancing your Yoga anatomy knowledge beyond basic training can improve your understanding of the biomechanics of the human body as well as...
A Woodstock Photographer Remembers
Woodstock 50 may be over, but Elliott Landy—the only official Festival photographer permitted on the stage—has a treasure trove of memories from 1969 that he recently shared with the TODAY show. In this delightful stroll down memory lane, Landy shares some stories...
The Golden Present: Audio
A new feature has just been added to thegoldenpresent.org. On the first day of each month, you can now hear Sri Swami Satchidananda read that day's words of inspiration. Thegoldenpresent.org features the daily readings from Sri Swamiji's classic book of the same name:...
Raja Yoga Teaching of the Month: Santosha
In this monthly series on the Yamas and Niyamas, senior Integral Yoga teachers offer wisdom and reflections on applying these foundational principles of Yoga in daily life from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. This month’s focus is on Santosha, contentment. FROM THE YOGA...
Meditation Tips, Kid’s Questions, Forgiveness – IY eMagazine 155
How to Make Your Formal Meditation Practice More Effective
Meditation is something we should learn to practice, not just in formal meditation, but all the time. But, for our formal, sitting meditation practice, preparation is most important. Is there not a saying, “Well begun is half done?” We often don’t begin well. We don’t...
Remembering Woodstock: An Early New York Disciple’s Woodstock Story
In the summer of 1969, I had just turned 24. My ex-husband, Chris (Yoga name, Mahesh) and I had been married for just over a year and we were living at Ananda Ashram in Monroe, NY. The guru in residence, at the time, was our yoga instructor, Swami Satchidananda. We...
“The Road to Woodstock & Beyond”
In honor of #Woodstock50, this is the extended version of the short film "The Woodstock Guru," that aired earlier this year. On August 15, 1969, Swami Satchidananda was asked to give an opening address at the famed Woodstock Music Festival to set a tone of peace and...