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Swami Satchidananda Chanting: Now Streaming
Integral Yoga Media is happy to announce that many of the albums and singles of Swami Satchidananda chanting and leading Yoga practices are now widely streaming. These include: Swami Satchidananda (the original double album), Songs of Grace, the Sacred Mantra Series,...
The Joy of Authenticity
In this Integral Yoga podcast, Avi Gordon (director of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association) and Lucy Luckshmi Cannon discuss the balance between service and self-care, overcoming the need for approval, rigidity and growing in authenticity. Following her school...
Ramakrishna Mission Celebrates 125th Anniversary
The Ramakrishna Mission is celebrating its 125th anniversary. In honor of this milestone, the documentary "Blooming Lotus of Humanity" tells the Mission's story. The Mission is named after Sri Ramakrishna and was founded by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda. Swami...
Remembrances of My Guru on His 108th Birth Anniversary
For thirty-two years, I had the great good fortune to sit at the feet of Sri Swami Satchidananda (Gurudev). There were happy times and sad times, countless comings and goings, many ups and downs, but through it all, he remained the same: peaceful, patient, balanced,...
Let the Holidays Become Your Light-filled Holydays
If we want to make all our days holy days we should think of the inspiring thoughts of the great sages and saints. Otherwise, when we celebrate this holiday season, it will be just once a year fun. Instead, let us utilize the season to reaffirm that we wish to lead...
Lessons from the Leaves: the Power of Letting Go
I crunched through the leaves toward the trailhead. A chill wind chased the clouds from the turquoise face of the sky. I paused under the maple tree to chant Om before my morning walk. In the branches overhead, yellow leaves fluttered like prayer flags. One released...
Putting Our Ahimsa Where Our Mouth Is
In the early 1970s, I was in the dance department at the University of California, Berkeley, and right when I passed from my apartment to the campus, there was the Integral Yoga Institute. I went in there, long story short, to take a Yoga class. The postures were...
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Yoga Gives Back: Annual Fundraiser, Nov. 12, 2022
Join Yoga Gives Back for their 15th Anniversary Gala online on Nov. 12, 2022. Let's unite for inspiration, mindfulness, and Yoga to raise funds to support more than 2400 women and children with YGB programs of empowerment in India. YGB is honored to present their...
A Vegan Journey: Ahimsa in Action
November is World Vegan Month and also the time when many friends and families enjoy turkey dinners, so it seems most fitting to share the wisdom of ahimsa (non-injury) through the life and teachings of Meenakshi Angel Honig. Meenakshi, a senior Integral Yoga teacher...