In this short video, Poet Naomi Shihab Nye reads her inspiring poem "Gate A-4." She wrote this about an experience she had while traveling. "And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This is the world I want to live in. The shared world."...
Transforming Our Own Hearts is a Tremendous Contribution
In this episode of the Integral Yoga Podcast, Swami Ramananda (director, Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco) talks with Avi Gordon (director, Integral Yoga Teachers Association) about adapting to challenges, how compassion follows naturally from meditation, and...
Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Common Boundaries Therapy and The Road to Compassion
Sample from the Spring 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Dr. Phyllis Koch-Sheras By Ratna Stone Ratna Stone: Spiritual seekers often feel that psychotherapy is not really useful or necessary for them. They feel that if their faith in God is...
Compassion is Good for Body and Soul
Sample from the Winter 2006 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Dr. Neal Barnard Clinical researcher and author Neal Barnard, M.D., is one of America’s leading advocates for health, nutrition and higher standards in medical research. In 1985 Dr. Barnard...
Vegetarianism and the Yoga Sutras
Sample from the Spring 2009 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine. By Sharon Gannon In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali lays out an eight-limbed plan for liberation called Raja Yoga. The first limb is called yama, which means restraint and includes five ethical restrictions:...
Educating the Whole Child through Yoga
An Interview with Marsha Wenig Marsha Wenig is the founder and President of YogaKids®, an international organization dedicated to bringing Yoga to children. She has been a pioneer in the field of Yoga for children and draws on her roles as mother, teacher, poet and...