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You are Not Broken: The Yoga of Anxiety
A few times a year anxiety sends my mind into a death spiral. I wake in the middle of the night with my stomach clenched like an angry fist. Thoughts race from zero to catastrophe and I am convinced that social interactions will only result in total alienation. By the...
Swami Lalitananda Gives TEDx Talk in India
Swami Lalitananda, senior monastic disciple of Swami Satchidananda, who holds a Master's Degree in Special Education, was invited to give a TEDx talk recently (June 2022). Swami Lalitananda re-established the Integral Yoga Institute of Coimbatore in 1989 and helped...
Integral Yoga Commemorates International Day of Yoga 2022
The Integral Yoga centers around the globe celebrated the annual International Day of Yoga with programs on and off the mat. This year's theme was: "Yoga for Humanity" and the Integral Yoga Institute of Coimbatore (India) held a special program offering Hatha Yoga,...
Swami Asokananda’s Programs in Italy July 2022
Swami Asokananda (Integral Yoga Master Teacher, senior Swami, and President of the Integral Yoga Institute of New York) will visit Milan, Italy in July, 2022. Integral Yoga Shanti Milano is hosting these events, which will take place in person and online. The...
Dean & Anne Ornish Offer Keynote at “Food on Prescription” conference
Dr. Dean Ornish and his wife Anne were keynote speakers in June 2022, at London's largest conference ever held on food and health, at the UK College of Medicine. They both are thought-leaders in the field of Yoga therapy and Lifestyle Medicine, with Dr. Ornish's...
Bhakti Yoga Sadhana Retreat: July 2022
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville will be holding a Bhakti Yoga Sadhana Retreat from July 1 - 4, 2022. This retreat is in-person (and hopefully will become a hybrid program in the next offering). Bhakti Yoga is the Yoga of love and devotion. It is a spiritual path within...
Guru Poornima July 2022
The annual Guru Poornima celebration is being hosted by Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville on July 9 – 10, 2022. The program will be both in-person (limited space, health protocols and registration required) and it will also be streamed. For in-person details and the...
The Science of Sound and the Fruit of Practice – IY eMagazine 277
Pianist Serenades Rescued Elephants
Paul Barton is a pianist from Yorkshire, England who traded the dales and concert halls for the jungles of Thailand, where he performs for elephants rescued from captivity, some blind and handicapped, at a sanctuary in Thailand. This story and short video is so...
Nothing is Everything: A Conversation with Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
A Benedictine monk for the last 66 years, Brother David Steindl-Rast and Swami Satchidananda were close spiritual friends and brothers as interfaith activists and pioneers. An internationally-recognized practitioner of gratitude and founder of gratefulness.org,...