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Breath, Body and Brain Aligned

While Sri Patanjali and other classical Yoga sources have known this for several thousand years, recent medical research highlights the profound connection between breath, body, and mind, emphasizing breathwork as a tool for emotional regulation and stress relief....

Integral Yoga Etsy Shop + Raffle!

  From inspiring art to spiritual gifts, the Integral Yoga Etsy Shop features unique items that embody the inspiration and joy of Yoga. To celebrate our 2025 launch, we’re offering the first 25 customers who make a purchase by January 11th automatic entry into a...

Embarking on a Spiritual Odyssey, Part 12: Sacred Discipline Continues

In our last installment, Ramaswamy (Swami Satchidananda’s birth name) realized that the next step in deepening his spiritual practices would be to travel sixty miles from his birthplace of Chettipalayam to the ashram of the family Guru, Sri Sadhu Swamigal, in Palani....
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Freedom through Hatha Yoga

Freedom through Hatha Yoga

In order for us to experience what we call freedom through Yoga, we must understand time and space and how we can transcend it through the body and mind. Freedom is our ability to transcend time and space. We need to be aware that our body is limited by mobility and...

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Yoga Teachers are Essential Workers

Yoga Teachers are Essential Workers

Yoga teachers and therapists offer vital service to those effected by post-COVID syndrome. Our unique skill set in breath work is an effective and safe complement to western medicine that will improve both physical functioning and well-being

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Underneath the Narrative of Your Life

Underneath the Narrative of Your Life

Underneath the narrative of your life, just below the grand storyline, even beneath the colorful emotional landscape, there exists a rich, mysterious world of sensations – a somatically-organized field of intelligence, creativity, and aliveness. But there is no...

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Recognizing Oneness

Recognizing Oneness

To maintain our peace of mind we must raise ourselves above the duality to experience the nonduality. But what does that mean? It doesn’t mean we need to leave our homes and go somewhere else. And we don’t need to just sit and be quiet doing nothing. If that were the...

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Peyo, the Therapy Horse

Peyo, the Therapy Horse

Peyo is the star in French hospitals and retirement homes where he meets patients and residents from pediatrics and palliative care unit, psychiatry and Alzheimer’s services. He also visits the elderly and end-of-life children at home to bring them joy and serenity....

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A Dialogue with Ram Dass and Eckhart Tolle

A Dialogue with Ram Dass and Eckhart Tolle

Ram Dass and Eckhart Tolle are two remarkable teachers who had never shared a stage prior to this 2011 conversation in Maui, Hawaii. These two luminaries engaged in an open conversation about spiritual awakening and the transformation of consciousness. The program was...

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The World Isn’t Good or Bad

The World Isn’t Good or Bad

We seem to have been running around a lot, doing all kinds of things, just to find a little happiness. When everything failed we looked elsewhere and thought, Maybe I can have a little peace if I move to such and such place. Unfortunately, wherever we go, we carry our...

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Yoga for Personal and Social Resilience

Yoga for Personal and Social Resilience

Yoga became my way of coping and eventually I realized I could serve the world by sharing tools for peace of mind better than I could by stridently objecting to the military-industrial complex. In the process of becoming a whole, happy person, I gradually became a...

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