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Befriending Your Nervous System: October 23-26, 2025
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville is hosting "Befriending Your Nervous System" with Rachel Raji Jensen, RYT-500 from October 23 - 26, 2025. The workshop aims to help participants build a practical toolbox for navigating their nervous systems. We will combine nervous...
Gentle Somatic Yoga® Level 1 Training October 10 – 15, 2025
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville will host a Gentle Somatic Yoga® Level 1 Training with James Knight, E-RYT 200, CHSE from October 10 - 15, 2025. Gentle Somatic Yoga® (GSY) is a simple, practical, and effective form of brain-to-muscle re-education that goes to the root...
Finding Balance: Taoist Wisdom for Holistic Healing
In this enlightening episode of the Integral Yoga podcast, Paul Olko, a practitioner of Taoism and Chinese medicine, shares his passion with Avi Gordon (director of Integral Yoga Teachers Association) for introspective personal healing. He explores health through the...
A Life of Grace and Service: Remembering Narayana Kiekens
“If you ask me ‘What is Yoga?’ the only reply I can think of is: Yoga is a state of grace.” These words by Narayana Kiekens distill a life wholly devoted to the spirit of Yoga and the teachings of his Gurus. For more than six decades, Narayana—alongside his wife...
The Surprising Nearness of Guidance
It's hard to trust that any words of wisdom are dependable until you experience their truth in your own life. So, when as a child I first came upon Jesus' words, “Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you; ask and it will be given to you,” I...
Be Unshakeable
When you make a spiritual commitment—what kind of commitment is it? And why do you make it? A spiritual commitment doesn’t have to be to become a swami, a minister. Particularly in the spiritual field, what are you committed to? Not to an organization or an ashram,...
To Have or Have Not? Aparigraha: Non-Possessiveness
“Possession are okay, as long as you possess them, and you don’t allow them to possess you.” ~Sri Swami Satchidananda It’s ironic how as youngsters all we want to do is play with our toys. As children, we must learn to share at home with our siblings and at school...
Embarking on a Spiritual Odyssey, Part 18: The Blind Siddha Who Saw Clearly
After spending several years immersed in sadhana under the guidance of Sadhu Swamigal at his ashram in Palani, Ramaswamy—who would one day be known to the world as Swami Satchidananda—felt a stirring once again in his soul. His heart was restless, not from...
Yoga Therapy Study Trip to India – December 2025
Deepen your study and practice in the birthplace of Yoga, guided by skilled scholars and practitioners on this Yoga Therapy Study Trip hosted by Loyola Marymount University Yoga Studies Division December 7-21, 2025. Travel to India to explore and study Yoga therapy....
200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Training – October 2025
Join the 200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Training starting October 5, 2025 at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville with Saci Murphy, E-RYT 500, Amy Daya Eberhardt, Narada Williams and Swami Priyaananda, E-RYT 500. This training runs from October 5 - November 2, 2025. The...