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A Life in Service: Remembering Fr. Christie A. Joachimpillai, OMI (1931–2025)

On August 30, 2025, the world lost a devoted priest, scholar, and bridge-builder between faiths. Fr. Christie A. Joachimpillai, OMI—affectionately known as Fr. Pillai to many in the Integral Yoga community—passed away peacefully in Toronto, surrounded by loved ones....

Swami Sivananda’s Sampoorna Yoga for Modern Seekers

If you asked Sri Swami Sivananda what a busy person in the West should actually do each day to grow spiritually, he would likely point you to a deceptively simple framework: do a little meditation, a little prayer, a little study, a little service—every day—with...

The Greatest Victory

Gurudev Sivanandaji used to say that we should watch our thoughts because they create habits. Once you develop a habit, it becomes your character. And then your character becomes your destiny. So, it all originates with your thinking. That is why it is so important to...
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The Shrines of Yogaville

The Shrines of Yogaville

Enjoy this beautiful overview of the shrines of Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville. The Ashram will begin a soft-reopen September 8, 2021, the birth anniversary of H. H. Sri Swami Sivananda, the Guru of Sri Swami Satchidananda. The video includes the three main shrines:...

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Purposefully Purposeless

Purposefully Purposeless

In this episode, Avi Gordon speaks with Robert Sankara Moses, who has taught Yoga and Advaita Vedanta for 50 years. Born in South Africa, in 1972 he discovered Yoga in the tradition of Sri Swami Sivananda (Swami Satchidananda's Guru). He served in the International...

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Bringing the Heart into Our Spiritual Life – Online

Bringing the Heart into Our Spiritual Life – Online

"The Path of Devotion: Bringing the Heart into Our Spiritual Life" October 23, 2021, is an online program hosted by Yogaville Online and offered by Swami Asokananda. It will include a kirtan by Nitya and Ninad. Our intelligence, will, and self-effort can only take us...

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Becoming Unlimited

Becoming Unlimited

In this modern age, filled with conflict, chaos and doubt, the youth want to raise above these conflicts and come together as one global family. We have been dividing ourselves and separating ourselves in so many hundreds of ways. These man-made divisions are in the...

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Do You Want to Become Whole?

Do You Want to Become Whole?

In this essay, Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB, reflects on how we make ourselves whole by making each other whole. He explores the classic teaching story “Ten Oxherding Pictures” from the Zen Buddhist tradition. Wholeness has intrigued me ever since we boys built...

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How to Really See

How to Really See

Daniel Dhanapati McCoy was a student of Swami Satchidananda and former director of the Integral Yoga Institute of Detroit. In recent years, Dhanapati was diagnosed with ALS. On the evening of August 24th, 2021, he died peacefully in his home at the age of 71, just 3...

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LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood – Online

LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood – Online

Join Amy Weintraub, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, MFA, YACEP,  for "Manage Your Mood" — evidence-based Yoga practices for managing your mood on October 2 - 3, 2021 hosted by Yogaville Online. LifeForce Yoga® interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific...

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