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News
In Loving Memory of David Newman (Durga Das), the Soulful Kirtan Maestro
With heavy hearts and profound sorrow, we bid farewell to a luminary of spiritual music, David Newman, known fondly as Durga Das, who transitioned from this world into the eternal realm on April 18, 2024. He was diagnosed five weeks prior with Glioblastoma (brain...
Hoodies & Tshirt Collector’s Items: 1971 Alice Coltrane Benefit Concert for Integral Yoga
In March 2024, Impulse! Records (whose parent company is Universal Music Group), released the live recording of Alice Coltrane (Swamini A.C. Turiyasangitananda) that was part a benefit concert held in 1971 for the Integral Yoga Institute of New York. This new album...
Ask Undoism – A New Interactive Website
Have a spiritual question? Get clear answers to life's big questions via the new website: Undoism.com. SISProject.org is pleased to announce the launch of Undoism.com, featuring "Ask Undoism" – a real-time question-and-answer option. "Undoism" (trademark pending) is a...
Practice
Seeing Through the Illusion of “Normal”
Do we still believe that the sun travels across the sky while we stand stationary on a flat piece of earth? No, these once held beliefs were dispelled long ago. But how many other things do we accept as true simply because our limited senses tell us so, or that is...
How to Make Your Formal Meditation Practice More Effective
Meditation is something we should learn to practice, not just in formal meditation, but all the time. But, for our formal, sitting meditation practice, preparation is most important. Is there not a saying, “Well begun is half done?” We often don’t begin well. We don’t...
The True Spiritual Experience
People sometimes ask me, “What has been accomplished by my practice of Yoga all these years? I haven’t realized God. I haven’t had any noticeable spiritual experience.” I don’t know what experience they want. They haven’t levitated up from the floor at least a few...
Lifestyle
Living Their Yoga: Devātman Daniel Givens
In this interview by Dhāraṇī Diana Díaz, Integral Yoga teacher and sound healer Devātman Daniel Givens shares an overview of his Yoga journey and passions. Your journey is an interesting path. When and how did you discover Yoga? What brought you to Integral Yoga? I...
The Connection Between Yoga and the Transitional Changes Between Seasons
Yoga blesses you with a more intimate understanding of your body and how it works in conjunction with your mind to create this experience called life. However, life is much more than your individual experience. Through practice, you can remind yourself of your...
Connecting with the Divine
Bhagavan Das is an American yogi who lived for six years in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka in the 1960s and became a trailblazer in the early kirtan movement in America. He introduced Richard Alpert (who later became Ram Dass) to his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba and the rest...
Philosophy
You are Light!
Let us know that in Truth you are the Divine Image, the image of God. Somehow the veil of the ego prevents you from realizing this. Just remove that veil. It is that veil that is the basis for all these mental dramas. It creates all kinds of problems, troubles,...
The Freedom of Being Nobody
In this inspiring video, Ram Dass speaks about "The Freedom of Being Nobody." After Skool is a YouTube channel with the goal of empowering the individual and delivering profound ideas through art. In this video, After Skool animates the words and wisdom as Ram Dass...
The Real Yoga
The essential teaching and goal of Yoga is to make the mind calm. “Yoga chitta vritti nirodha,” says the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. That means that Yoga is the calming of the waves created in the chitta, the mind by keeping the mind balanced under all conditions. In...
Education
She Recovers® Foundation’s Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training
SHE RECOVERS ® Yoga will offer their Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Designation Program taught by Taryn Strong in 2023. You can join the waitlist for an upcoming training here. During the training, you will gain the tools and knowledge to confidently hold space for...
Integral Yoga Stress Management Teacher Training March 2023
Join Swamis Ramananda and Vidyananda for this online Integral Yoga Stress Management Teacher Training from March 12 – May 7, 2023. You will gain the essential skills and confidence to teach Yoga as stress management in a wide variety of environments, including the...
YCat Yoga in Cancer & Chronic Illness – Level One Training Jan. 2023
YCat Yoga Therapy is now accepting applications for the upcoming Level One Training from January 19-March 11, 2023. This will be a live Virtual Level One Training with Sandra Susheela Gilbert, BA, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, director of YCat. YCat: Yoga Therapy in Cancer and...
Health
Ayurveda’s Spiritual Science Makes Inroads with Foodies & Healers
Religious News Service: Over the course of two centuries, Ayurveda — the ancient philosophy of the Indian subcontinent — has spread West, informing ideas about healthy lifestyles with holistic skin care, diet and exercise. The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have propelled...
Yoga for Your Mood: Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety
Join Amy Weintraub, the leader in Yoga therapy for depression, for this online workshop hosted by Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville from October 1 – 2, 2022. Don’t stay stuck in a bad mood or thinking that limits you. Not only will these practices shift your mood, but...
This is Your Brain on Enlightenment
Sara Novak's article on Discover magazine's website was clearly written pre-pandemic. It turns out she (a writer for Discover, Discovery Health, Popular Science, among others) was writing about a visit to Satchidananda Ashram, what drew her there, and about the field...
