Integral Yoga Magazine pays tribute to one of the great spiritual luminaries of our time: Baba Ram Dass. Ram Dass left the body on Dec. 22, 2019 (which is also the day of our founder Swami Satchidananda's 105th birth anniversary). Swami Satchidananda and Ram Dass...
It was the Spring of 1969 when Swami Satchidananda gathered together a group of the very people who first hosted him when he arrived in America in 1966: Peter Max, Victor Zurbel, Peter Petronio, and several others. These were mostly artists and designers, who were...
A new feature has just been added to thegoldenpresent.org. On the first day of each month, you can now hear Sri Swami Satchidananda read that day's words of inspiration. Thegoldenpresent.org features the daily readings from Sri Swamiji's classic book of the same name:...
The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco will kick off its 50th anniversary with a series of programs, including an inaugural event on October 5th, 2019. It was in October of 1969 that the first Integral Yoga classes were started in San Francisco, and then in...
Woodstock 50 may be over, but Elliott Landy—the only official Festival photographer permitted on the stage—has a treasure trove of memories from 1969 that he recently shared with the TODAY show. In this delightful stroll down memory lane, Landy shares some stories...
Each year, since Integral Yoga International's 50th anniversary in 2016, we celebrate annual Integral Yoga Day on October 7th. This is the date the first Integral Yoga Institute was founded (New York, 1966). While we celebrate Integral Yoga Day worldwide, 2019 also...
In case it somehow escaped you, we’re in the midst of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the event that came to define the 1960s counterculture, the Woodstock Festival. Watch for aging hippies waxing nostalgic about those three magical days, whether they were there...
Integral Yoga Media is pleased to announce the relaunch of the website dedicated to the life, teachings, and service of Sri Swami Satchidananda, founder of Integral Yoga. The new website features a special tribute in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock...
Yoga Magazine, the leading Yoga monthly published in the UK, featured a 10-page spread in their May 2019 issue on the "Timeless wisdom and legacy of Swami Satchidananda." The feature in the magazine, which is also published in the USA, included a beautifully...
On August 15, 1969, Swami Satchidananda was asked to give an opening address at the famed Woodstock Music Festival to set a tone of peace and harmony for what became one of the largest gatherings in festival history. This new short film is the story of his arrival and...
"As the cliché goes: 'If you can remember the 1960s, you weren't there.' BACK TO THE GARDEN provides a way for people who weren't there to remember them. And for anyone who was there, perhaps this will jog their memory," according to Rhino Entertainment, who just...
2019 is heralding in several important 50-year anniversaries and milestones in Integral Yoga history including: Swami Satchidananda's sold-out Carnegie Hall "concert," (January 1969, which featured his talk, a Yoga demo, and music), his opening of the famed Woodstock...
A journey to humility: That turns out to be a fair description of documentary filmmaking in Yogaville, according to Jeff Ananda Kamen, who just premiered his latest documentary, "Mataji: The Devoted Life of Swami Gurucharanananda." Mataji is the seniormost Integral...
Swami Satchidananda's book, The Golden Present, has been one of Integral Yoga's most read publications. It contains inspiration and guidance from Swami Satchidananda in the form of a reading a day for a year. The website (thegoldenpresent.org) devoted to this book has...
Recently, His Holiness the Dalaia Lama wrote an opinion editorial in The Washington Post, in collaboration with Arthur C. Brooks, Post columnist and president of the American Enterprise Institute. Here is an excerpt of this article on breaking the cycle of hatred in...
Police officers and firefighters across America are coping with the stress of life on the front lines by slipping into a downward dog. The nonprofit group Yoga For First Responders is teaching these emergency workers a better way to handle the demands of their...