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News
Immersive Yoga Sutras Workshop: March 27-29, 2026
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville will host an Immersive Yoga Sutras Workshop with Prashanti Carroll Ann Friedmann, E-RYT 500 from March 27 - 29, 2026. Discover the transformative power of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras in this intensive weekend immersion led by the author of...
Return to Yourself: An Integral Yoga Renewal Retreat
Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville just announced "Return to Yourself : An Integral Yoga Renewal Retreat" with Saci Murphy, E-RYT 500 and senior staff from January 29 - February 1, 2026. Discover the perfect opportunity to refresh your spirit and deepen your practice at...
New Research Reveals How Deep Breathing Can Shift the Brain Into Bliss
In recent years, breathwork has experienced a renaissance within both wellness communities and mainstream science. Now, a new study sheds remarkable light on why these practices can feel profoundly transformative. Research highlighted in a 2025 report shows that...
Practice
Gratitude and Compassion in Action
Thanksgiving, a special time when we give thanks. It's the perfect time to reflect on how we can put gratitude and compassion into action. As we make our way through the month of November, we can return to the following practice as a tool to deepen your capacity for...
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...
Lifestyle
Stephen Ishwara Futral: Don’t Die Wondering
Stephen Ishwara Futral belonged to that rare first generation of Western seekers who encountered Sri Swami Satchidananda not as an established global teacher, but as a living mystery—one whose presence quietly rearranged the inner lives of those who crossed his path....
Living Gratefully: A Passage to a Radically Inclusive World
We are told we are divided and we may also feel divided. I feel it when I watch the news or spend time on social media, but I seldom experience the divide in routine human-to-human interactions in which we are all busy simply going about our daily lives. Even if the...
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:...
Philosophy
The Timeless Wisdom of the Thirukkural
For more than 2,000 years, the Thirukkural has stood as one of the crown jewels of Tamil literature—a concise yet profound spiritual guide composed of 1,330 couplets, each offering deep insight into virtue, ethical living, love, and the art of creating a harmonious...
Jnana Yoga’s Fourfold Sadhana
The Fourfold Sadhana of Jnana Yoga consists of viveka, vairagya, shadshampat or sixfold virtues and mumukshutva or strong yearning for liberation. Viveka dawns in one who, through the grace of God, has done virtuous actions in their previous births as offerings unto...
Be As You Are—The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
David Godman (his family’s actual surname!) read a book in 1974 about the great sage and jnani, Sri Ramana Maharshi, and two years later traveled to his ashram in India. Since then, he has lived almost continuously in Tiruvannamalai, the town where Sri Ramana spent...
Education
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training – Part 2
Part 2 of the Restorative Yoga Teacher Training led by Satya Greenstone, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT will take place September 24 - 28, 2025 at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville in Virginia. Completion of Integral Yoga Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Part 1 or equivalent is a...
Raja Yoga II: A Deeper Dive into the Sutras, Online July 2025
Join the San Francisco Integral Yoga Institute for this online 5 week advanced study of Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali from July 1 - August 5, 2025. We will explore key sutras from each chapter, examine how they are grouped together, and learn how to both integrate these...
200-Hour Teacher Training, Module 1 – July 2025
Integral Yoga Institute of New York is offering a 200-hour Teacher Training program this summer. Module 1 begins July 7, 2025. Join our internationally respected training program and learn essential skills for teaching Yoga. This training is also suitable for those...
Health
Is There An Enlightenment Drug?
Timothy Leary was more or less the originator of the psychedelic drug movement. When he met me in the late 1960s, he asked if I’d like to try some LSD. So I asked him, “Since you think that your LSD can create yogis, why don’t you create some other drugs that can...
The Psychology of the Yoga Sutras
The late Michael Stone understood that we all crave to forget about ourselves and to connect with something larger than the way we represent ourselves, yet, we constantly put obstacles in our own way. That’s why we need Yoga, and it’s also why we need to approach Yoga...
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...