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Pranayama Teacher Training – November 2026

Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville will host a Pranayama Teacher Training with Integral Yoga Master Teacher Swami Karunananda, E-RYT 500 and Krishna Howeth, E-RYT 500 from November 9 - 13, 2026. Pranayama enables us to unlock the great power and mystery that lie hidden in...

Spiritual Luminary Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson

More than a century before Vedanta and Yoga became familiar parts of the American spiritual landscape, Ralph Waldo Emerson discovered in the wisdom of India a profound resonance with his own deepest intuition: that beneath the apparent separateness of life is an...

This Will Change How You See Your Life

In this short video, Doreen Gail Hemp shares her journey of loss and learning how to find gratitude amid the loss. Even in life’s most challenging moments, beauty quietly waits to offer us comfort. In times of pain or loss, noticing the small things around us — the...
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Thanksgiving Yoga Class to Benefit The Mission Food Hub

The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco is offering a morning in-person & online Yoga class this Thanksgiving (Nov. 24, 2022) from 9 – 10:30 am PST. As we move through a yoga practice, we will focus on gratitude and on the profound effects that the...

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Meditation Teacher Training Online: Begins Dec. 2022

The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco is offering a Meditation Teacher Training Online program starting Dec. 1, 2022 and resuming from January 5 – Feb 12, 2023. The training will enable trainees to go deeper in their own practice and guide their students...

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Cultivating Gratitude: A Month of Practice Ideas

This offering of 30 daily gratitude practice ideas from Gratefulness.org ranges from simple actions to reflective meditations to weeklong commitments – all designed to inspire and support your grateful living journey. Experiment with repeating one practice every day...

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Vegetarian Crocodile Offered Last Rites at Hindu Temple

Indian Express: In a rare gesture, a Kerala temple accorded “bhu samadhi” to a crocodile, named Babiya, that died in the shrine’s pond on Sunday night and a post-mortem cited the death due to old age. Since the crocodile has been part of the lore of Sree...

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The Meat & Dairy Farmers Going Vegan

Recently, BBC News reported that after one UK dairy farmer lost most of his dairy herd to bovine tuberculosis that he decided he would no longer send animals to the slaughterhouse. "It made me wonder if we can justify the industrial slaughter of sentient beings," says...

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Be the Centerpoint

We all look for excitement, thinking that it is a plus. But what is a plus? A minus crossed. A pendulum won’t swing to the plus side and remain there. When it swings to one side, it automatically has to come back to the other. When you want excitement, and swing to...

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