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Your Being
None of what you experience – thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions – is what you essentially are. You are the silent, aware presence that knows them. In this brief exploration, you are invited to investigate the one element of experience that is completely...
Immersive Yoga Sutras Workshop: March 27-29, 2026
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville will host an Immersive Yoga Sutras Workshop with Prashanti Carroll Ann Friedmann, E-RYT 500 from March 27 - 29, 2026. Discover the transformative power of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras in this intensive weekend immersion led by the author of...
Taoist No-Chicken Soup
Here’s a gentle and effective way to support your whole family during winter with a recipe from Integral Yoga teacher and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner Paul Brahma Olko, Green Lake Healing. This soup is appropriate for anyone looking to strengthen...
Valentine’s Day from the Heart of Integral Yoga!
A gift from the Integral Yoga Etsy Shop is an expression of love rooted in peace. Each item is chosen to inspire inner harmony, support daily practice, and gently remind your loved one of what truly nourishes the heart. Whether you’re honoring a partner, a dear...
Integral Yoga European Conference: Italy May 2026
Integral Yoga trainers, teachers, and sangha from Europe and around the world will gather together at a meditation center on the shores of Italy's beautiful Lake Maggiore for this Integral Yoga European Conference where Integral Yogis share practices, kirtan, meals,...
The Power of Spiritual Practice
In this episode of the Integral Yoga Podcast, with host Avi Gordon, Nina Rao, acclaimed kirtan artist and devotee in the Neem Karoli Baba lineage, shares her journey from cultural rituals in India to discovering the depth of sadhana (spiritual practice) in New York...
Practicing Meditation When the Mind Won’t Settle
Many people come to meditation believing that a settled mind is the sign of a “good” practice. When restlessness appears instead—wandering thoughts, resistance, agitation—it can feel like failure. Over time, I’ve come to see this differently. A restless mind is not a...
Embarking on a Spiritual Odyssey, Part 24: Swami Chidbhavananda—The Sage Who Bridged Bhakti and Jnana
In the spiritual history of South India, there are teachers who preserve tradition, and others who reinterpret it for a new age. More rarely, there are those who do something subtler still: they translate inner realization across languages, cultures, and temperaments,...
Holding Light in an Age of Illusion
We are witnessing one of those moments seen in all the epic stories, a time when Maya reigns and the dark energies rise up to veil the hearts of men and women. Those in power are blinded by fear and greed, offering empty promises. People of the light must wait...
Turning All of Life into Yoga
In this talk, Swami Satchidananda uses practical, experiential language to describe the different dimensions of human life, emphasizing the importance of developing all aspects of our being in an integrated way—Integral Yoga, a complete Yoga. Each person is a mixture...