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Integral Yoga InternationAL®
Dive into a rich tapestry of content thoughtfully curated by one of the oldest and most respected Yoga organizations in America, ensuring authenticity, depth, and a commitment to the true essence of Yoga. With over 2,000 articles and a powerful search engine, Integral Yoga Magazine offers a comprehensive resource to deepen your practice, enrich your understanding, and nurture your journey to discovering inner peace.
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News
Deepening Your Meditation Weekend
Meditation is a transformative practice that empowers individuals to cultivate a calm and focused mind. Supported by contemporary scientific research, this ancient practice offers profound simplicity and rewarding outcomes. Whether you are a beginner, face challenges...
Integral Yoga Publications –New eBook Releases!
Integral Yoga Publications is pleased to announce the release of a series of books by Swami Satchidananda that are part of the beloved Peter Max Art Cover Series of Pocket Books! Among these new eBook titles: The Secret to Prosperity, The Be-Attitudes, The Guru...
New Year’s 2025 Silent Yoga Retreat
In silent awareness, Truth is revealed. Our annual 5-day New Year's Silent Retreat Dec. 27, 2024 - Jan. 1, 2025, with Integral Yoga Senior Staff, provides a ideal environment in which to quiet the mind and tune in to the profound peace which abides within each of us....
Practice
Sadhana: What I learned from Doing it the “Wrong” Way
In this article, Laura Sevika Douglass shares the insights she’s gained from her own sadhana practice in the hope that readers can benefit from her experience and avoid some of the many challenges everyone encounters when trying to establish a regular practice Since...
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...
Lifestyle
The Yoga of Gardening
I dropped the corn seeds in the furrow and wondered if they would grow. In the dark earth they glowed like citrine quartz; it seemed improbable that in two months the tiny dry seeds would grow into plants that would stand above my head. Many gardeners told me growing...
Frozen Meltdown: Showing Up On the Path of Yoga
Huddled inside my heaviest winter coat at the edge of a pond, I watched as my coffee steam merged with misty clouds of my breath. At dawn the cranberry bog in coastal Massachusetts was an expanse of frozen sand and wiry tangles of russet vines; old snow scudded across...
Here’s a Secret: You Already Know How to Meditate
When people think about meditation, often an image of a blissed-out figure sitting cross-legged on a soft pillow comes to mind... Ahh, total peace, quiet, and comfort. Wouldn’t that be nice! While meditating in a quiet place without distraction is an amazing...
Philosophy
A Deep Dive into Fullness
This shloka is a Shanti mantra from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and Ishavasya Upanishad. This is an innocuous looking verse: one noun, two pronouns, three verbs and a participle for emphasis. Yet, someone once said: “Let all the Upanishads disappear from the face of the...
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...
Education
Yoga for Arthritis, Level 1 Teacher Training Online: June 8–25, 2023
As more and more people of all ages turn to Yoga for medical conditions such as arthritis and chronic pain, Yoga teachers want to equip themselves with the knowledge and experience to teach safely. With our training now completely virtual, it is more accessible than...
Yoga Psychology and Mental Health: Jun. 17–Jul. 16, 2023, Phase 2 Module
Join Sampada Desai, MA, LPC, RYT 500 for this online Integral Yoga Therapy training, which is a core requirement of the 800-hour Integral Yoga Therapist Certification program and will run on five weekends from June 17 – July 16, 2023. It will examine the connection...
Advanced Integral Yoga Hatha Teacher Training – October 2023
Take your Yoga practice and teaching skills to the next level with the Advanced Integral Yoga Hatha Teacher Training. This training enables you to expand your teaching skills by learning how to instruct advanced classes and finding ways to take simple, basic asanas to...
Health
The Vegan Athlete’s Nutrition Handbook: The Essential Guide for Plant-Based Performance
Using the latest research in sports nutrition, The Vegan Athlete’s Nutrition Handbook: The Essential Guide for Plant-Based Performance by Nichole Dandrea-Russert, MS, RDN, helps athletes maximize their performance, expedite recovery, and optimize their health through...
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...
