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Integral Yoga 60th Anniversary Commemorative Booklet – free!
Integral Yoga Magazine is pleased to present a special Integral Yoga 60th Anniversary Commemorative Booklet available online and for free. The more than 90-page flipbook is the expanded version of the recent anniversary issue eMagazine. This publication celebrates...
Coming Home: Reweaving Integral Yoga and Ayurveda
There are moments along our path when something new enters our lives and, strangely, feels less like a discovery than a remembering. That is how Ayurveda came to me. My formal path into Yoga began at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville in 2009, where I completed my...
The Global Legacy of Integral Yoga
By the time Swami Satchidananda arrived in New York in 1966, he was no newcomer to the work of transformation. He had already spent more than a decade in Sri Lanka, where he transformed the lives of all who came within his orbit — opening Divine Life Society branches...
Meditation Teacher Training in India – January 2027
Join Integral Yoga's Meditation Teacher Training In India with Swami Ramananda, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT and Ram Wiener, E-RYT 500 from January 10 - 24, 2027. Travel to the birthplace of Yoga and earn your certification as an Integral Yoga Meditation Teacher. In the...
How to Navigate Pain and Other Challenges
In this short video teaching from Integral Yoga Teacher, therapist, and center head Nalanie Chellaram, she gives practical strategies for those going through painful times, relationship problems and living in gratitude. She shares inspiration from Yoga and the...
Embarking on a Spiritual Journey, Part 31 – Thirumular: Yoga, Love and the Divine
In the previous installment of the Spiritual Odyssey series, we paused after Ramaswamy’s time at Sri Ramanasramam to explore another voice from the Tamil spiritual world that had helped form him: the beloved poet-sage Avvaiyar. Before following Ramaswamy on his...
The Gateway and the Mountain: How the Yoga Sutras and the Nondual Vision Fit Together in Integral Yoga
The Recipe Swami Satchidananda once explained Raja Yoga with a recipe. In New York in September 1966, in his first conversation with a young student named Sadasivam Greenstone, he asked whether Sadasivam could cook. You get a recipe from a trusted source, Sadasivam...
Swami Sivananda and the Yoga of Synthesis: A Formative Stream of Integral Yoga
As we celebrate sixty years of Integral Yoga, we also look back to the spiritual streams that helped shape the path Swami Satchidananda brought to the West. In 1949, Swami Satchidananda met his Guru, Sri Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, and received Sannyas initiation...
The Spirit of Sat-Chid-Ananda
Looking Back at the First Ten Years In 1976, Integral Yoga marked ten years since its founder, Swami Satchidananda, first came to America and began the work that would take root as Integral Yoga in the West. To commemorate the anniversary, Satchidananda...
When Integral Yoga Was Young in New York
It all started in June 1968. I had just graduated from Columbia University with a degree in math and philosophy. But after all those years of studying Eastern and Western philosophy, much of it still felt theoretical. I wanted a real practice. Then I noticed an ad in...