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How Yogis Succeed in Relationships
By Catherine Ghosh When we allow love to transform us through Yoga, the first thing it begins to affect is our vision and thus our relationships. In this article, Catherine Ghosh reflects on the ingredients needed for success in relationships. Essentially, Yoga is a...
Success: Failure is the Stepping Stone
By Swami Asokananda Swami Asokananda, a monk since 1973, is one of Integral Yoga’s foremost teachers, known for his warmth, intelligence, and good humor. His teaching comes out of his own practice and experience, having absorbed, from a young age, the wisdom of his...
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,...
The Yoga Mind: The Yoga Sutras According to A Course in Miracles
An Interview with Jeff Bailey What do The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and A Course in Miracles have in common? According to Jeff Bailey and Gene Langlois everything! Their new book, The Yoga Mind, interprets the Yoga Sutras utilizing the principles found in A...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Weaving Niyamic Wisdom Into Your Life and Faith
By Monette Chilson In her inspiring new book, Sophia Rising, Monette Chilson, uses Sophia (Greek for wisdom)—the iconic face of the feminine divine found in both Jewish and Christian traditions—as a guide. The book explores the spiritual foundations of Yoga in a way...
The Front Line of Yoga Therapy and Research
An Interview with John Kepner, M.A., M.B.A. The fifth Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR) will be held June 13-16, 2013 in Boston—the first time it’s been held on the East coast. The third Symposium on Yoga Research (SYR) will be held immediately before, on...
The Five Agreements and the Five Yamas
An Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz For many years, Don Miguel witnessed people struggling to quiet their minds and sought to create tools to assist them. Through his book, The Four Agreements, as well as the follow-up book, The Fifth Agreement, he has transformed the...
Yoga Ethics: Why They Matter
By Deborah Adele, M.A., ERYT500 Deborah Adele’s bestselling book, The Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice, is an in-depth journey inside Yoga’s first two limbs. In our first interview (Spring 2010) with her about this book, she reflected on how...
Unlocking the Secret Power of Yoga
An Interview with Nischala Devi Nischala Devi’s book, The Secret Power of Yoga, reinterprets Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras for our modern times and from a woman’s perspective. She views the path of Raja Yoga as a path with eight facets that are interconnected and...
An Ayurvedic Approach to Asana Practice
An Interview with Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Ayurveda and Yoga are sister sciences. In this interview, Dr. Frawley addresses their complementarity and where asana fits into both of these ancient systems from a holistic perspective. He also clarifies...
The Sattvic Practice of Asana
An Interview with Mukunda Stiles As the author of Structural Yoga Therapy, a classic in the field, Mukunda Stiles is considered an expert in the anatomy and physiology of asana. In this interview, he shares his insights from his study of the traditions of classical...
Asana as a Tool: A Viniyoga Approach
An Interview with Gary Kraftsow Gary Kraftsow is one of the most highly respected teachers of the Krishnamacharya/Desikachar tradition of Viniyoga. Gary believes that asana practice is a tool and it has to be integrated with deeper aspects of Yoga practice to make a...
Deepening Your Hatha Yoga Practice
By Swami Asokananda With his unique humor and enormous depth of wisdom, Swami Asokananda is a master in presenting the great teachings of Yoga in ways that are deeply relevant to key issues in modern life. In this article, he shares the benefit of his experience from...
Inside an Asana: Vrikshasana (The Tree Pose)
By Catherine Ghosh (Krishna Kanta Dasi) In this column, Catherine Ghosh delves deeply inside an asana to explore the inner symbolism and rich depth of vrikshasana, the tree pose For many sacred traditions, enlightenment occurs under the shelter of a grand tree. Entire...
The Prana of Immortality
An Interview with Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) During the Yoga and Ayurveda training program that Dr. Frawley conducted in Yogaville this past summer, he gave an in-depth talk on the sacred nature of prana. Here, he shares these insights and emphasizes...
Who is the Breather?
An Interview with Richard Rosen In this interview, Richard Rosen shares his expertise on pranayama from the perspective of a practitioner and a master teacher. He explains the importance of connecting with one’s authentic breath and promises that developing a practice...