Sample from the Summer 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Healing Our Environments, Healing Ourselves An Interview with Bhaskar Alan Deva Bhaskar Alan Deva is a Feng Shui and Vastu Shastra consultant and trainer. He enjoyed a lengthy and close "apprenticeship" with...
Yoga, Creativity, and Healing
Sample from the Summer 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Excerpt from the interview with Shanti Norris Shanti Norris served as Sri Gurudev's secretary during the 1970s and went on to become one of the cofounders of the nonprofit Smith Farm Center for the Healing...
Yoga Therapy Research: West Meets East
Sample from the Summer 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Excerpt from the article by Dr. Timothy McCall Timothy McCall, M.D. is the medical editor for Yoga Journal. Last year he reported on his 2-month trip to South India where he explored the state of research on...
The Cost-Effectiveness of Yoga Therapy:
Sample from the Summer 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Excerpt from the interview with Dr. Dean Ornish For the past 27 years, Dr. Dean Ornish has been directing a series of clinical trials proving that a Yoga-based program of comprehensive lifestyle...
Yoga and Health – The Yoga Therapy Boom
Sample from the Summer 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine In this special section we examine the therapeutic benefits of Yoga, paradigms of "healing vs. curing," groundbreaking research in the Yoga therapy field, and the cutting edge training programs now available...
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....