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Patanjali and the Yoga Sutras – IY eMagazine 114
Lotus Center for All Faiths Team Attends 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Yogaville's Lotus Center for All Faiths (LCAF) team returned this week from Toronto where they took part in the Parliament of the World's Religions. For its 2018 theme, the Parliament drew from movements of goodwill and cross-cultural respect that are embodied in the...
Families for Children: Falling in Love with Children in Need
Bhakti Foster-Purvine, an Integral Yoga teacher who lives in Portland, Oregon, was introduced to Families for Children (FFC) by Swami Divyananda 15 years ago. Located in Coimbatore, South India, FFC is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that exists to fulfill...
Patanjali’s Words: Nirodaḥ — Part 1
Rev. Jaganath, Integral Yoga Minister and Raja Yoga master teacher, has spent a lifetime delving into the deepest layers of meaning in Patanjali's words within the Yoga Sutras. In Patanjali's Words, his latest work-in-progress, Rev. Jaganath explores the Sutras word...
How to Be Happy Always
Yoga theory sometimes leaves us nowhere; it’s mostly intellectual. What the mind can understand is very little. So in the name of Yoga practice, we do something that can expand the mind and then, little by little, we understand things in a better way. We don’t want to...
Prepping for the Holidays with Yoga – IY eMagazine 113
Carole King’s Message of Oneness
In 1977, Integral Yogi and music icon Carole Karuna King released a song titled “One”. Taken from her Simple Things album, the track encouraged people to unify and band together to fight social injustice. With the fate of the US government now again on the line, King...
In Memoriam: Bernie Glassman, Roshi
On November 4th, Zen master Bernie Glassman, Roshi, a great interfaith pioneer and humanitarian, passed away. Roshi Bernie was a longtime LOTUS Honorary Advisory Council member and one of Swami Satchidananda's close interfaith collaborators—together they shared many...
Why Eating Is Not About Morality: Calling on Yoga to Embrace Your Innate Goodness
To eat it or not to eat it? How many times a day do you bump up against this question (or one like it) in your mind as you navigate what, how, and when to eat? You are not alone if you experience moments of confusion or turmoil about nutrition, for we find ourselves...