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Getting Disillusioned with Things That Don’t Last
In this open, honest and inspiring interview, Avi Gordon (director of Integral Yoga Teachers Assoc) and Tom Callahan (IYTA communications administrator) discuss what brought them to Yoga (and to living in Yogaville) and the questions that led to the recognition that...
Yoga, Overcoming Anxiety & Befriending the Moment – IY eMagazine 227
Self-Realization: The Expansion or Contraction of the Ego
The ego should either become nothing or everything. When it comes to the ego, I don’t believe in the proverb that says that something is better than nothing. You should either become nothing or become everything, but not something. Nothing is better than something. We...
If the World is an Illusion, What Am I Doing Here?
We live in challenging times and don't need more confusion in our lives by misunderstanding spiritual precepts and teachings. While it is true that in the time of Sri Patanjali (whose systematization of Yoga provides Yoga with its classical text, The Yoga Sutras of...
Reducing Anxiety through Yoga
If you experience anxiety you are not alone. Statistics show that 18% of Americans report anxiety and it’s predicted that 31% of adults, will experience anxiety at some point in their lives. For many of us, it is our struggles with anxiety that led us to our yogic and...
Yoga, Meditation & The Purpose of Life – IY eMagazine 226
Online: The Roots of Suffering and The Way to Freedom
The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco is offering a 4-week in-depth online study of suffering and its alleviation starting January 12. The root causes of our suffering are usually hidden from view in the subconscious ways we understand ourselves and relate to...
Martin Luther King Jr. Online Event: Non-Violence as an Act of Courage
The Integral Yoga Institute of New York (NYIYI) is hosting a special online event on Saturday, January 16, 2021, from 5:30–7:00 p.m. ET. The IYI has a new entity called The Committee for Racial Diversity and Anti- Discrimniation (RDAD). Members of this committee will...
Ornish Diet Ranked #1
U.S. News & World Report recently ranked 39 diets based on input from a panel of health experts and declared The Ornish Diet #1 in healthy heart diets and #9 for best diet overall! The Ornish Diet was created in 1977 by Dr. Dean Ornish who noted: "Swami...
Spiritual Goals for a New Year
A new year often means making resolutions and setting goals. In this video from an annual New Year's Silent Yoga Retreat at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville (Virginia) several years ago, Swami Karunananda (senior monk and chair of the Integral Yoga Spiritual Life Board)...