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Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Common Boundaries—Yoga and Addiction
Sample from the Winter 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Leslie Vani Kalechman, LCSW, CYT Leslie Vani Kalechman is a licensed clinical social worker and student of Yoga for over 30 years. She successfully integrates Yoga into her work with addicts...
Transformation – The Sacred Community: Heaven on Earth, Yogaville
Sample from the Fall 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Sri Swami Satchidananda's Vision of Yogaville Shortly after Sri Gurudev arrived in the United States, he began talking about his vision of a Yoga community -- a village of Yogis. This would be an prototype, a...
Strategies for Transformation
Sample from the Fall 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine By Swami Karunananda Everywhere in nature, we see change. Day gives way to night. The hot and humid days of summer yield to the brisk, cool winds of fall. The garden is in bloom, then goes to seed. Similarly,...
Yoga and Kabbalah
Sample from the Fall 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine By Prahaladan Mandelkorn Recently, Prahaladan Mandelkorn and Rabbi David Shneyer offered at Yogaville what may have been the first Yoga and Kabbalah workshop. Here are some themes from these overlapping...
Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Common Boundaries–Interview with Michael Lee Phoenix Rising: An Interview with Michael Lee
Sample from the Winter 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Common Boundaries Phoenix Rising: An Interview with Michael Lee By Laura Sevika Douglass Michael Lee is the founder and director of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (PRYT). PRYT...
Dr. Yoga: Yoga for Health
Sample from the Winter 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Nirmala Heriza by Laura Sevika Douglass Nirmala Heriza, director of the Integral Yoga Center in Los Angeles, continuously works to spread the word on the transformational power inherent in...
“Yoga Unveiled”: Meet the Filmmaker
Sample from the Winter 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine "Yoga Unveiled": Meet the Filmmaker An Interview with Gita Desai Gita Desai, the film's creator, whose parents are East Indian, was born in East Africa, Uganda. She immigrated to the USA in 1981 with her...
The Branches and Limbs of Yoga: A Dialogue with the Experts
Sample from the Winter 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine A Dialogue with the Experts One of the most dynamic portions of the film, "Yoga Unveiled," is the discussion on the limbs of Yoga. We excerpt those comments we found particularly clarifying and powerful....
Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Common Boundaries Therapy and The Road to Compassion
Sample from the Spring 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Dr. Phyllis Koch-Sheras By Ratna Stone Ratna Stone: Spiritual seekers often feel that psychotherapy is not really useful or necessary for them. They feel that if their faith in God is...
Inside the Yoga Sutras—Vritti: The Mind’s Incessant Whirling
Sample from the Fall 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Inside the Yoga Sutras With Rev. Jaganath Carrera Vritti: The Mind's Incessant Whirling Rev. Jaganath Carrera author of the forthcoming book, Inside the Yoga Sutras, shares his reflections on specific sutras...
Spreading Gratefulness One Light at a Time
Sample from the Spring 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Spreading Gratefulness One Light at a Time An Interview with Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB Br. David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk, has long been a close friend of Sri Gurudev and the Integral Yoga community....
Music of the Soul: Chanting for Healing, Devotion, Evolution
Sample from the Spring 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Wah! by Laura Sevika Douglass Wah! has been immersed in the healing tradition of music since her teens. Her travels throughout the US, India and Africa have lead to a weaving of devotion in...
Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Ayurvedic Psychological Yoga Therapy
Sample from the Summer 2005 Issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Dr. David Frawley by Sivani Marlene Alderman Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) is regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedic Studies. He has...
Meditative Intimacy
Sample from the Summer 2005 Issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Gregory Kramer, Ph.D. Dr. Kramer offers participants in his Insight Dialogue workshops the opportunity to experience meditative awareness of what happens when we retreat into our habitually...
Starting Over, Transformative TV
Sample from the Summer 2005 Issue of Integral Yoga Magazine By Rev. Prem Anjali, Ph.D. A Sneak Peak into a Revolutionary, Groundbreaking and Transformational Network TV Show What if we could step into beginners mind by starting anew? This is the concept behind...
Living From the Inside Out
Sample from the Fall 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Iyanla Vanzant A frequent guest on “Oprah,” a former host of “The Iyanla Vanzant Show,” and most recently a life coach on the Emmy-winning daytime show, Starting Over, Iyanla is a renowned...
Spiritual Wealth
Sample from the Fall 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Alice Coltrane Alice Coltrane (Swami Turiyasangitananda) is the widow of jazz legend John Coltrane. After her husband’s passing she continued their shared exploration of Eastern music and...
Music of the Soul: The Lover and the Beloved
Sample from the Fall 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Donna De Lory Donna De Lory is known for her pop music and beautiful backup vocals for artists like Jewel and Enrique Iglesias. She is probably most well-known for touring with Madonna as one...
My Experiences with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Sample from the Fall 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine My Experiences with His Holiness the Dalai Lama An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Hopkins by Ramanan Schultz After 31 years as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where he has taught...
Creating a Culture of Nonviolence
Sample from the Winter 2006 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Arun Gandhi Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said of Mahatma Gandhi: “Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision...
Compassion is Good for Body and Soul
Sample from the Winter 2006 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Dr. Neal Barnard Clinical researcher and author Neal Barnard, M.D., is one of America’s leading advocates for health, nutrition and higher standards in medical research. In 1985 Dr. Barnard...
The Orchestra of Life
Sample from the Winter 2006 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with PETA founder, Ingrid E. Newkirk A common tenet of all spiritual traditions is the development of compassion. Yet we often miss opportunities to express that compassion in ways that can make...
Music of the Soul: The Next Generation
Sample from the Winter 2006 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Ravi Coltrane In the Fall issue of Integral Yoga Magazine we had an interview with Swami Turiyasangitananda (Alice Coltrane) and in this issue we’re delighted to include an interview with...
Spirituality and Psychotherapy: The Positive Psychology of Buddhism and Yoga
Sample from the Spring 2006 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Spirituality and Psychotherapy: The Positive Psychology of Buddhism and Yoga An Interview with Marvin Levine, Ph.D. For more than 40 years, Dr. Marvin Levine has been exploring the common boundaries between...
The Natural Great Perfection
Sample from the Spring 2006 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine The Natural Great Perfection An Interview with Lama Surya Das Lama Surya Das has spent thirty five years studying Zen, Vipassana, Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia. His adaptation for...