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Heaven on Earth: My Vision of Yogaville
Swami Satchidananda, the revered founder of Yogaville and a world-renowned spiritual teacher, presents a transformative vision in his book, Heaven on Earth: My Vision of Yogaville. This compelling vision encapsulates his dream of creating a haven of peace, love, and...
Harvest Full Moon Retreat: Purnima Sadhana October 17-20, 2024
Harvest Full Moon Retreat: Purnima Sadhana October 17 - 20, 2024 with Satya Greenstone, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT. Join us at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville to experience a Harvest Full Moon Retreat under the guidance of Satya Greenstone, senior disciple of Sri Swami...
Integral Yoga San Francisco Announces Ongoing Personal Retreat Offerings
Experience a profound rejuvenation of body, mind and spirit by immersing yourself in a personal retreat at Integral Yoga Institute. Relax and unwind at our urban Ashram, where you will find space for self-reflection and intentional self-care, in the heart of San...
Practice
Deepening Your Hatha Yoga Practice
With his unique humor and enormous depth of wisdom, Swami Asokananda is a master in presenting the great teachings of Yoga in ways that are deeply relevant to key issues in modern life. In this article, he shares the benefit of his experience from his personal journey...
The Secret of Spiritual Practice
The secret of spiritual practice is not what you do but how you do—that is more important. Sometimes a newcomer who gets into spiritual practice will make a big list of resolutions, “I will practice half an hour every day in the morning, pranayama, three malas every...
The Glory of Santosha – Contentment
“Contentment is golden. A contented mind is a golden mind.” –Swami Satchidananda It’s funny how children enjoy the simplest of toys and teenagers relish in their relationships with their best friends, while a quiet transition commences during adulthood and suddenly...
Lifestyle
Healing the Dis-ease of Busyness
I know so many people, that when I ask how they are doing, respond with something about how busy they are. It has become the status quo for our lives to be filled to the maximum and beyond so that we’re not really aware of how driven we are, how stressed our lives...
Breathing Spiritual Life into Each Day
The beginning of a new year is a natural time to reflect on and re-envision our lives. The tradition of New Year’s resolutions can be life-changing or it can be a temporary way of fooling ourselves with lofty ideas that fade when reality hits. Clarifying our...
How to Face Feelings of Being Overwhelmed and Win
In today’s world we seem to be moving faster and faster, while taking on more and more. There are only so many hours in the day, and we’re expected to do a lot in those hours. Errands Work a job Care for kids Attend to relationships Clean the house Socialize Self-care...
Philosophy
Pure Divinity
The goal of Yoga is to realize the Divinity within. This can be explained in different ways. A devotee will say, “I want to know God. I want to commune with God.” The jnani will say, “Tat Tvam Asi. I am That. I want to know this Truth—this Self or Cosmic...
Spiritual Longing
To learn from a spiritual teacher, more than anything else, you need faith in God: “God, I really want to experience the Truth. Put me in good hands. Present a good teacher to me.“ Then, when you meet them, feel—not through the head, but through the heart. And if you...
The Paradox of the Journey
All major mystical traditions have recognized that there is a paradox at the heart of the journey of return to Origin. Put simply, this is that we are already what we seek, and that what we are looking for on the Path with such an intensity of striving and passion and...
Education
Adaptive Hatha Yoga Teacher Training August 2023
Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville is offering this in person Adaptive Hatha Yoga Teacher Training with Satya Greenstone, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT from August 18 - 27, 2023.Yoga is for every body, regardless of shape, size, or ability level. Join Satya Greenstone to learn how to...
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training – Part 2
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training, taught by Satya Greenstone, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT (Integral Yoga Master Teacher & Trainer), is for Yoga teachers and health professionals. In Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Part 2, you will explore the therapeutic applications of...
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training – October 2023
This Advanced Yoga Teacher Training led by Integral Yoga senior trainers will be held from Oct. 4, 2023–Mar. 17, 2024. This hybrid training will consist of both in-person and online components. Swami Asokananda, E-RYT 500 and Swami Ramananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500 Snehan...
Health
Living Medicine
Affectionately known around the world as the “Mother of Holistic Medicine,” Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey is a medical pioneer and visionary. Born to medical missionary parents in the jungles of India a century ago, in a place and time that filled her childhood...
Yoga to Support Immunity
Melanie Salvatore-August’s new book, Yoga to Support Immunity, is a clear, step-by-step whole-being Yoga at home program to help boost immune function and bring vitality to the mind and spirit. She includes in-depth instructions for specific Yoga poses and teaches you...
How Yoga Empowers Women to Take Control of Their Bladder Health
It’s been proven time and again that Yoga practice can have incredible effects on all aspects of your being. Stretching your physical body and giving space to your heart and mind to let go of the negativity first come to mind, but Yoga goes deeper than that. More than...