In honor of the 135th Jayanthi (birth anniversary) of H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji (the Guru of Sri Swami Satchidananda), we hope you will enjoy this wonderful video, “You are the Master of Your Destiny.” It features the actual voice of Sri Swami Sivanandaji, as well as...
Integral Yoga Distribution announced its closing after 37 years in its Yogaville location. It closed on August 2, 2022. It first opened in the original brick house (now Lotus Conference Center) on the property. Then, it moved to the Yogaville Office Building for some...
Dean Ornish, MD was invited to give a talk at the "Life Itself" conference in June 2022. The conference was organized by CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Deepak Chopra. To introduce his talk, Dr. Ornish said he was going to talk less about his lifestyle medicine...
Sri Gurudev Swami Satchidananda came to the West in 1966. His presence was magnetic. He attracted people from all walks of life, from diverse backgrounds and faiths, with different temperaments, interests and capacities. The unifying factor amidst all the diversity...
Swami Lalitananda, senior monastic disciple of Swami Satchidananda, who holds a Master's Degree in Special Education, was invited to give a TEDx talk recently (June 2022). Swami Lalitananda re-established the Integral Yoga Institute of Coimbatore in 1989 and helped...
Paul Barton is a pianist from Yorkshire, England who traded the dales and concert halls for the jungles of Thailand, where he performs for elephants rescued from captivity, some blind and handicapped, at a sanctuary in Thailand. This story and short video is so...
It was in 1991 that Yoga teacher Sylta Divyajyoti Kalmbach invited Swami Satchidananda to southern Portugal in 1991 to conduct an Integral Yoga retreat at her center, Quinta de Calma. This was the beginning of what would become a beautiful relationship between...
Sandee N. Harilela Premchand (1948-2022), the managing editor of BR International magazine and a lifelong beloved devotee of Sri Gurudev Swami Satchidananda, passed away after a valiant battle with cancer. Sri Gurudev is the Guru of the Harilela family and he...
The path was obscured with pine trees that bowed under heavy snow and ice. We could push forward and risk damaging them, or we could turn back. For the past two days a blizzard had clenched Three Dog Farm in an icy fist. My dog, Ranger, and I had headed out to take...
The revered Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh, lovingly known as "Thay" to his students) passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95.The Integral Yoga global community offers our...
Woodstock co-creator, the legendary Michael Lang passed away on Saturday, Jan. 8th. At 24 years-old, Lang and good friend Artie Lang, a music industry promoter, met with businessmen John Roberts and Joel Rosenman to come up with a plan for a music and art festival in...
Be Here Now remains a spiritual classic for the millions who have read it and will continue to read it. Published in 1971, Be Here Now was written by Ram Dass and the 50th anniversary of the book is being celebrated in 2021. In this article, writer/editor Doug Toft...
In this episode of the Integral Yoga Podcast, Avi Gordon (director of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association) is in conversation with Pamela Seelig. Pamela began practicing Yoga more than 25 years ago when an illness interrupted her Wall Street career. She started...
This excerpt, from the full-length documentary film "Call Off the Search," was shot and produced in Lucknow, India. It includes interviews with Papaji (H.W.L. Poonja) along with rare footage of Sri Ramana Maharshi. There are also testimonials from some of the many...
Robert Mark Altman, best known for his work as an early staff photographer for the music magazine Rolling Stone, died at his home in San Francisco on September 21, 2021, a month shy of his seventy-seventh birthday. He had been in ill health for some time. Altman...
A tender and beautiful animated video classic illustrates the healing and joy that can come from caring for others. This video sublimely illustrates the guiding principles of grateful living: Appreciation is generative. Love is transformative. Everything is surprise…