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Living Yoga Training 2023
The Living Yoga Training (LYT) program will re-open in early 2023 at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville. The goal of the LYT program is to help participants establish or deepen their practice in the supportive Ashram environment. You will be guided by instructors who have...
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville Fall 2022 Update
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville continues to work toward full re-opening in 2023. It is currently open for pre-registered program and training participants. This short video offers an overview of some of the re-opening process and the renovations that were undertaken...
The Spiritual Wisdom of George Harrison
For many, George Harrison was just one of the Beatles and a musician, but there was so much more. This short video captures some of the spiritual wisdom that inspired his inner life and his spiritual journey. He explains how being anchored in the Yoga teachings and...
Yogaville Environmental Activist Honored by Sierra Club
Yogaville community resident and environmental activist Heidi Dhivya Berthoud was honored with the 2023 Sierra Club's Earth Flag, in recognition of the extraordinary work she has been doing to protect Yogaville and other communities from fracked gas pipelines and...
Integral Yoga Stress Management Teacher Training March 2023
Join Swamis Ramananda and Vidyananda for this online Integral Yoga Stress Management Teacher Training from March 12 – May 7, 2023. You will gain the essential skills and confidence to teach Yoga as stress management in a wide variety of environments, including the...
Questions and Answers on the Yamas
Q: In the Ramayana and Mahabharata, it’s clear that there was killing. The Gita itself takes place on a battlefield. How is this explained and justified in terms of ahimsa (non-violence)? Swami Satchidananda: In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna talks about non‑violence to...
Living On Purpose
As we enter a new year, we can make good use of this landmark in time to reflect on the way we make decisions and choices in our lives. Is there an overarching purpose behind the way we use our time and energy, or are we “going with the flow?” Are we acting on the...
The Interconnectedness of Yoga and Plant-Based Diets
If you immerse yourself in your Yoga practice, you’ll undoubtedly notice many of your fellow yogis consume a plant-based diet. You may see your relationship with food changing, too. Why do so many yogis give up eating animals? While the practice deeply connects to...
The Magic Mat
As someone who enjoys crafting, the advertisement for the “Original Magic Mat” (a die-cutting crafting aid), suddenly took on an entirely new meaning after experiencing Yoga teacher training. I’ve seen this ad before, but I’ve never thought about anything more than...
Appreciation: In a Spiritual Sense
Appreciation, in a spiritual sense, is often talked about as a practice of cultivating happiness and joy in the good qualities of something, or of someone, or of taking joy in the happiness of others, of cherishing the wholesome. Appreciation is a lovely quality on...
My Journey “In the World, But Not of the World”
From 2008 to 2009 I lived at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville, in Buckingham County, Virginia. I returned to “the world” in 2009 to take a job in the West Indies, where I spent four clumsy years stumbling all over myself in an effort to integrate the experience and...
Holidays & Holydays – IY eMagazine 283
She Recovers® Foundation’s Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training
SHE RECOVERS ® Yoga will offer their Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Designation Program taught by Taryn Strong in 2023. You can join the waitlist for an upcoming training here. During the training, you will gain the tools and knowledge to confidently hold space for...
New Year’s Silent Retreat
Join Integral Yoga for an inspirational and renewing start to the New Year with a hybrid silent retreat from Dec. 28, 2022 – January 1, 2023. The retreat will be held in person at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville AND Online. Take time to step back from the demands of...
YCat Yoga in Cancer & Chronic Illness – Level One Training Jan. 2023
YCat Yoga Therapy is now accepting applications for the upcoming Level One Training from January 19-March 11, 2023. This will be a live Virtual Level One Training with Sandra Susheela Gilbert, BA, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, director of YCat. YCat: Yoga Therapy in Cancer and...
Yoga Nidra Training and Certification LEVEL 1 – Online Jan. 2023
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville will offer a Yoga Nidra Training and Certification LEVEL 1 Online with Julie Lusk, E-RYT 500, M.Ed. from January 5 - 28, 2023, for everyone, especially Yoga teachers and health professionals. Thursdays: Jan. 5, 12, 19, and 26 Saturdays:...
Swami Satchidananda Chanting: Now Streaming
Integral Yoga Media is happy to announce that many of the albums and singles of Swami Satchidananda chanting and leading Yoga practices are now widely streaming. These include: Swami Satchidananda (the original double album), Songs of Grace, the Sacred Mantra Series,...
The Joy of Authenticity
In this Integral Yoga podcast, Avi Gordon (director of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association) and Lucy Luckshmi Cannon discuss the balance between service and self-care, overcoming the need for approval, rigidity and growing in authenticity. Following her school...
Ramakrishna Mission Celebrates 125th Anniversary
The Ramakrishna Mission is celebrating its 125th anniversary. In honor of this milestone, the documentary "Blooming Lotus of Humanity" tells the Mission's story. The Mission is named after Sri Ramakrishna and was founded by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda. Swami...
Remembrances of My Guru on His 108th Birth Anniversary
For thirty-two years, I had the great good fortune to sit at the feet of Sri Swami Satchidananda (Gurudev). There were happy times and sad times, countless comings and goings, many ups and downs, but through it all, he remained the same: peaceful, patient, balanced,...
Let the Holidays Become Your Light-filled Holydays
If we want to make all our days holy days we should think of the inspiring thoughts of the great sages and saints. Otherwise, when we celebrate this holiday season, it will be just once a year fun. Instead, let us utilize the season to reaffirm that we wish to lead...
Lessons from the Leaves: the Power of Letting Go
I crunched through the leaves toward the trailhead. A chill wind chased the clouds from the turquoise face of the sky. I paused under the maple tree to chant Om before my morning walk. In the branches overhead, yellow leaves fluttered like prayer flags. One released...
Putting Our Ahimsa Where Our Mouth Is
In the early 1970s, I was in the dance department at the University of California, Berkeley, and right when I passed from my apartment to the campus, there was the Integral Yoga Institute. I went in there, long story short, to take a Yoga class. The postures were...
Gratitude & the Yogic Lifestyle – IY eMagazine 282
Yoga Gives Back: Annual Fundraiser, Nov. 12, 2022
Join Yoga Gives Back for their 15th Anniversary Gala online on Nov. 12, 2022. Let's unite for inspiration, mindfulness, and Yoga to raise funds to support more than 2400 women and children with YGB programs of empowerment in India. YGB is honored to present their...