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What Do You Care About?
Heike Amma Farkas, Integral Yoga Germany director, reflects on what her years of teaching and training Yoga teachers has taught her to care about. I don’t care, how long you have been practicing Yoga I want to know, how calm is your mind When your child cries, your...
Divine Music: The Spiritual Journey of Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane (Swamini Turiyasangitananda) is the widow of jazz legend John Coltrane. After her husband’s passing she continued their shared exploration of Eastern music and spirituality. In 1970 she recorded Journey in Satchidananda and explained: “Direct...
How to Really Enjoy This World
When you are healthy and happy, you are at ease. But, you don’t remain that way always; you disturb it and then you call that dis-eased. There is meaning in your words, in your beautiful language. Diseased means you have disturbed your ease. That means you were...
Esoterics, Specialized Yoga & Zen – IY eMagazine 101
Prison Yoga: We’re All Doing Time
Bo and Sita Lozoff founded, with Ram Dass, the largest prison interfaith ministry in the world. It is now in 60 countries with 50,000 prisoners on the mailing list. Bo’s book, We’re All Doing Time, now in its 17th printing, with half a million copies distributed, is...
Silence, Seeking & Healing – IY eMagazine 100
Integral Yoga Goes Even More Global!
In a new collaboration between Integral Yoga Media & Publications and the Integral Yoga Global Network, more of Swami Satchidananda's books and talks are being translated into different languages. The latest offerings include the small book, Gems of Wisdom, which...
The Benefits of Silence
Those who are interested in making gold should be silent. There is even a saying, “Silence is golden.” In Sanskrit there is a proverb. Silence in Sanskrit is “mouna.” And the proverb goes, “Mouna kalakanasti.” Kalakam means: problems or quarrels. Nasti means: don’t...
Connection, Joy & Living Yoga – IY eMagazine 99
Music and Spirituality: A Real Connection
In this interview, Rivers Cuomo, the popular frontman for the wildly successful band Weezer, talks about growing up and going to school at Yogaville East, discovering that there can be creativity without angst, and shares the meditation technique that has enriched his...