Assistance for Yoga Professionals!

The Yoga Alliance Foundation Emergency Relief Fund provides financial support to those within the Yoga community who are experiencing extreme economic hardship due to COVID-19. The Fund is a global resource available to Yoga professionals worldwide. To initiate this...

Tao Porchon-Lynch, The Grande Dame of Hatha Yoga: A Tribute

On February 21, 2020, the Yoga world lost one of its icons: Tao Porchon-Lynch who was 101 years old. Tao was beloved by young and old, and in addition to  being the oldest living Yoga teacher (named as such by the Guinness World Book of Records) she was also an...

Baba Ram Dass: He Awakened a Generation

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...

Five Essential Albums of 1971: Journey in Satchidananda

By 1971, Alice Coltrane had gained a reputation as a major music innovator and was developing her own musical language. On Journey in Satchidananda, she still made use of the compositional structures of her previous acclaimed Impulse! albums. However, this LP was also...

Accessible Yoga in Hong Kong

Hersha Chellaram, director of Integral Yoga Hong Kong, is a pioneering Yoga instructor and therapist who has been working to make the Yoga accessible to some of Hong Kong’s most disadvantaged people. In a recent interview, she spoke with the South China Morning...

“The Woodstock Guru” — New Film Release!

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...