…class will support Coming Home Hospice, the GLBT Historical Society, the UCSF Alliance Health Project, and the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. The community class is a Hatha level 1…
My Journey “In the World, But Not of the World”
…of a spiritual community. Because I relocated to the Caribbean, not a soul could guess I would be suffering. The truth is that there was no beauty that compared to…
Yama & Niyama: A Psychospiritual Perspective
…commitment to put one’s spirituality at the center of one’s life—a commitment around which everything else in life revolves. Ishvara pranidhana acknowledges the healing power of the spiritual force in…
Yoga and Your Financial Archetype
…it’s not worth even playing a part in it. They just want to complain about it and be victimized by it. If the complaining leads to taking action to do…
Let’s Make Every Day Earth Day
…companies have begun to introduce electric cars. In Europe, already big car companies there are making electric cars. It’s not new. Several decades earlier, they even made sample cars to…
Yoga Music/Producer Wynne Paris Suddenly Passes
…community offer our deepest prayers for the peace of Wynne’s soul and for the comforting of his dear wife, family, friends and the world-wide Yoga community. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti….
Constant Cravings
…Now, I can come bother you!” But, if you really get completely tired from your activities, the minute you go to bed, you will fall asleep. Another point is to…
Connecting with the Divine
…partner will come, everything will come if you put God first. And what that means to you, you have to find out. No one can tell you. IYM: What does…
How To Have a Successful Meditation Practice
…consistent meditation practice. After interviewing several Ashram and community members about their practice, I found some common threads. There seem to be five necessary ingredients in the process of developing…
The Practice of Enlightenment: An Interview with Chip Hartranft
…comes in through your consciousness, it’s taking a very different path than the one that comes in through my consciousness—so, two people never see the same thing. But the world’s…
How I Came to Paramahansa Yogananda
…written to tell them I’d like to come out there and be one of the residential students. It was two days before Christmas when I arrived, unannounced on their doorstep….
Where Raja Yoga Meets the Bible
…Commandment. God just added a zero to the one and gave ten commandments in the form of two pills or two tablets! If you analyze all Ten Commandments, they are…
Kirtan and the Inner Muse
…Nobel Prize acceptance speech, said that compassion is the most important thing for a writer. That makes complete sense to me. Compassion is reaching out beyond ourselves. I have written…
Savasana for the Yogis who Can’t Sit Still
…for 60 minutes. Unless, of course, you can’t get comfortable. Or you can’t quiet your mind. Or you are klutzy like me, so you knock into your reusable stainless steel…
Early Days at Yogaville West: Adventures in “Rubbing & Scrubbing”
…Ranjani and I had a lot to offer the community. As soon as we got to Seigler Springs, it was my strong feeling that we are moving into a very…
Patanjali’s Words: Karma, Duhkha and Viveka
…come is avoidable (Swami Satchidananda translation). The duhkha that has not yet come can be avoided (Rev. Jaganath translation). heyaṃ = avoided; destroyed (See 2.10) from ha = to leave,…
The Orchestra of Life
Sample from the Winter 2006 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with PETA founder, Ingrid E. Newkirk A common tenet of all spiritual traditions is the development of compassion….
How I Came to Paramahansa Yogananda
…I had taken the SRF lessons by mail for a few months and had written to tell them I’d like to come out there and be one of the residential…
Illness vs. Wellness
…Called a “Comprehensive Evaluation,” this idea of complementary and multimodal treatment was cutting edge in the mid-1970s. As Dr. Dean Ornish noted, “This was the first integrative medicine clinic in…
Bringing Integral Yoga to America
…1980s). Swamiji had come to the United States and stayed with me for about a week. It all started in early 1966 when one night I was making a collage…