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News
Yoga Gives Back: Celebrates Empowering 3,000+ People
Now in its 18th year, Yoga Gives Back will hold it's annual gala weekend from November 15-16, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. This is a weekend of inspiration, mindfulness, and celebration to come together and raise funds to support more than 3,000 women and children...
Transform Yourself, Transform the World: Integral Yoga New Year’s Yoga Retreat
Join Integral Yoga International® for our annual New Year’s Silent Retreat: "Transform Yourself, Transform the World" from December 29, 2025 - January 2, 2026. The retreat will be led by Integral Yoga master teachers Swami Karunananda, E-RYT 500, Swami Priyaananda,...
Little Lights of Yoga: Where Playfulness Meets Purpose
Nurture the next generation of yogis with heart, color, and consciousness. Our Integral Yoga Baby & Kids Collection brings timeless teachings to life through joyful designs and inspiring messages — perfect for tiny souls and growing hearts. Each piece celebrates...
Practice
From Clouds to Clear Sky: Transformation Through Yoga
If you deny thoughts and emotions or try to get rid of them by suppressing them they will just reemerge. When negative thoughts come there are three things you can do. You can ignore them the same way that the blue sky ignores the gray clouds that appear in it. The...
Swami Sivananda’s Sampoorna Yoga for Modern Seekers
If you asked Sri Swami Sivananda what a busy person in the West should actually do each day to grow spiritually, he would likely point you to a deceptively simple framework: do a little meditation, a little prayer, a little study, a little service—every day—with...
How to Control Thoughts and Stop Vasanas?
In this short video, Swami Ramanacharana Tirtha answers this question. Sri Swamiji is an Acharya of Vedānta sampradāya. His discourses and writings are filled with the power of Atmajñāna and the fragrance of bhakti and one gets an intimation of one’s spiritual essence...
Lifestyle
An Affirmation: Caring, Useful, and Supportive
At the close of our morning meditation, the residents of the San Francisco Integral Yoga Institute reaffirm the intention we hold for our spiritual growth while living together in community. Last month, we chose a phrase from this affirmation as our focal practice:...
Living On Purpose
As we enter a new year, we can make good use of this landmark in time to reflect on the way we make decisions and choices in our lives. Is there an overarching purpose behind the way we use our time and energy, or are we “going with the flow?” Are we acting on the...
Opening the Heart: Recognizing and Releasing Subtle Prejudices
Prejudice exists not only in the world around us but also, often unconsciously, within us. Whether we see it or not, it shapes how open—or closed—our hearts are to others. Recognizing the subtle ways prejudice arises in us can be a powerful step toward living with...
Philosophy
Mahabharata: Designs of Dharma – A New Vision for an Ancient Epic
When an epic spans more than 100,000 verses, outdistancing Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey tenfold, its retelling is no small task. The Mahabharata, composed over 5,000 years ago and attributed to the sage Vyasa, is the longest poem in recorded history. It is at once...
The Recognition Sutras
The Pratyabhijñā-hṛdayam is one of the most profound sacred texts that illuminates a tradition that teaches that every human being is lacking nothing but the recognition of their Divine essence-nature. Christopher Hareesh Wallis, PhD, one of the foremost...
Dharma Across Traditions
For the first time, high-profile teachers of three great non-dual traditions—Ācārya Sthaneshwar Timalsina (Trika Śaivism), Khentrul Rinpoche (Vajrayāna Buddhism), and Swami Sarvapriyananda (Advaita Vedānta)—came together for a public dialogue. In this wide-ranging...
Education
Pranayama: Harnessing the Dynamic Power of Breath
Pranayama: Harnessing the Dynamic Power of Breath with Swami Karunananda, E-RYT 500 will be held at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville from October 31 - November 2, 2025. Often in life, we overlook the value of the simple and familiar. The breath is our constant...
Interested in Becoming a Yoga Teacher?
The Integral Yoga® Institute of New York is hosting a virtual info session on December 17, 2025 to help you learn more about the upcoming Integral Yoga Hatha Teacher Training Certification Programs. Choosing the right 200-hour Teacher Training is important, it is a...
Befriending Your Nervous System: October 23-26, 2025
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville is hosting "Befriending Your Nervous System" with Rachel Raji Jensen, RYT-500 from October 23 - 26, 2025. The workshop aims to help participants build a practical toolbox for navigating their nervous systems. We will combine nervous...
Health
Neuroscience, Yoga, and Psychology: Vagus Nerve Regulation for Healing and Peak Performance
Dr. Mala Cunningham's trailblazing book, Neuroscience, Yoga, and Psychology: Vagus Nerve Regulation for Healing and Peak Performance will be an incredibly valuable contribution to the Yoga Therapy/Medical Yoga field when it's published in Spring 2026. Stay tuned here...
The Privilege of Aging
Presenting “A clarion call to the aging to awaken before they die,” author Kamla K. Kapur explores how we can become warriors on the spiritual path in order to embrace and prepare for the truth of our mortality and the ultimate triumph of conscious living and dying....
Anger Management Through Yoga Therapy
On November 1, 2025 from 1-4pm (Pacific - USA), the Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco will host a hybrid workshop (online or in person) "Anger Management Through Yoga Therapy" with Anthony Sausys, MA, IGT, CMT, C-IAYT. Anger is a completely normal—and often...
