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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...

How to Practice Viveka

Viveka is the spiritual practice of discrimination—distinguishing between the real and unreal, the eternal and temporary, the Spiritual Presence and ego-identity. Here are some ways to put viveka into practice. See which of these resonates with you and supports you to...
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Manifesting Divine Consciousness in Daily Life

Manifesting Divine Consciousness in Daily Life

An Interview with Brother Chidananda Manifesting Divine Consciousness in Daily Life is a new book by Sri Mrinalini Mata, president of the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). In this interview, Brother Chidananda, a long time SRF monk who works alongside Mataji,...

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From Rebel to Woodstock Yogi

From Rebel to Woodstock Yogi

VividLife Radio's Ed and Deb Shapiro welcomed Chandra/Jo Sgammato Yogi, Manager of Integral Yoga Institute and initiator of Yoga at Work and School Programs for a conversation on going from Rebel to Woodstock Yogi. Listen to the interview here. Chandra/Jo Sgammato...

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The Psychology of Yoga in Practice

The Psychology of Yoga in Practice

By Graham M. Schweig, Ph.D. Several millennia before Sigmund Freud, in the most important classical texts of Yoga—the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita, we find the world’s first serious presentation of psychology in all history: Yoga psychology. It...

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Yoga for Women’s Health

Yoga for Women’s Health

An Interview with Robin Saraswati Markus, DAOM, LAc, ERYT200 Dr. Saraswati’s Dao Flow Yoga brings together Chinese Medicine energetics, the Dao, western medicine, and Yoga. She’s opened a studio clinic where she weaves this all together into one healing cord. She’s...

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New Currents: Participatory Medicine

New Currents: Participatory Medicine

An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through both science and personal practice, about mindfulness as a way of life. He developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a groundbreaking behavioral medicine program. Thanks in large part to...

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Yoga Therapy: A Holistic Approach

Yoga Therapy: A Holistic Approach

An Interview with Timothy McCall, M.D. What yogis realized thousands of years ago—and what the western medical community and researchers are just now catching on to—is that practicing Yoga can make a critical difference in one’s health and wellbeing. In this...

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Enough Already, The Pleasure of Simplicity

Enough Already, The Pleasure of Simplicity

By Swami Divyananda After years of dedicated service in Integral Yoga ashrams and centers in California, New York, Virginia, India and other places, Swami Divyananda now travels more than ever, calling the entire world her home. Along the journey, she has learned some...

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The Sacred Circle of Yoga

The Sacred Circle of Yoga

By Catherine Ghosh In this article, Catherine Ghosh explores the depth of meaning behind each of the niyamas. She reveals a sacred and secret formula given by Sri Patanjali, which is also echoed by Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, so that sincere Yoga practitioners...

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Remade By Fire

Remade By Fire

An Interview with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. In 1961, Irina Tweedie, arrived in India, where she met a Sufi master, Bhai Sahib. She became the first Western woman to be trained in the ancient Sufi lineage of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujadidiyya. She carried this...

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