Several years ago, Sandra Amrita McLanahan, MD (founder of Integral Health Services and pioneer of Yoga therapy) was asked the question: “What did you learn from Swami Satchidananda?” Her reply became this article… It’s very difficult to summarize almost 50 years of...
Healing from the Pain that Binds
Born and raised in West Africa, Oyámie Kali Ma’at spent most of her childhood in community gatherings of musicians, drummers, and dancers. Listening and dancing to music became a foundation for her life. In addition to living and serving in Yogaville, Oyámie is also a...
Elevating Your Vibration: Pranayama & Other Practices to Support the Immune System
In this Integral Yoga podcast, Avi Gordon (Integral Yoga Teachers Association director) speaks with Margabandhu Martarano, Integral Yoga's longest serving center (Integral Yoga Institute of New Jersey) director. In addition to teaching Yoga, Margabandhu is a Certified...
Sending Prayers
As some of us were discussing the strange feel of this life with social distancing, we expressed both a sense of gratitude for being safe and healthy, and a deep pang of sorrow for those many souls who are suffering. Those in my immediate circle of friends are...
Kris Carr: My Yoga & Wellness Journey
In 2003, actress and photographer Kris Carr was diagnosed with a rare and incurable stage four cancer. When the doctors told her that there was no medical treatment options, Kris began filming her story. Her healing path included Yoga, meditation, detox regimens and...
The Spirit of Yoga Therapy
Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) founder Joseph Le Page is a pioneer and leader in training Yoga professionals who can bring the ancient insights of Yoga into mainstream wellness programs. His work is based on a vision of health as a unity of body, mind, and spirit. In...
Yoga Therapy: A Holistic Approach
An Interview with Timothy McCall, M.D. What yogis realized thousands of years ago—and what the western medical community and researchers are just now catching on to—is that practicing Yoga can make a critical difference in one’s health and wellbeing. In this...
Healing Our Environments, Healing Ourselves
Sample from the Summer 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Healing Our Environments, Healing Ourselves An Interview with Bhaskar Alan Deva Bhaskar Alan Deva is a Feng Shui and Vastu Shastra consultant and trainer. He enjoyed a lengthy and close "apprenticeship" with...
Yoga, Creativity, and Healing
Sample from the Summer 2004 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine Excerpt from the interview with Shanti Norris Shanti Norris served as Sri Gurudev's secretary during the 1970s and went on to become one of the cofounders of the nonprofit Smith Farm Center for the Healing...
Music of the Soul: Chanting for Healing, Devotion, Evolution
Sample from the Spring 2005 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Wah! by Laura Sevika Douglass Wah! has been immersed in the healing tradition of music since her teens. Her travels throughout the US, India and Africa have lead to a weaving of devotion in...
The Eight Limbs of Yoga in Ayurvedic and Yogic Therapy
Sample from the Winter 2007 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine By Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Dr. David Frawley is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedic Studies. This article offers a preview of an exciting new...
“Crazy Sexy Cancer” Survivor
Sample from the Summer 2008 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine “Crazy Sexy Cancer” Survivor An Interview with Kris Carr In 2003, 31-year-old actress and photographer Kris Carr was diagnosed with a rare and incurable stage four cancer. When the doctors told her that there...
Healing Through Inner Medicine
Sample from the Fall 2008 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine. An Interview with Swamini Mayatitananda Through her relationship with cancer, Swamini Mayatitanandaji (formerly known as Maya Tiwari) discovered that profound results could be achieved from intensive inner...
Healing is Divine
Sample from the Fall 2008 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine By Swami Karunananda Sri Gurudev used to say that God laughs on two occasions. The first is when two neighbors erect a fence and declare, “This is mine, and that is yours.” The second time is when a patient...
Kirtan: Singing to the Inner Vastness of the Heart
Sample from the Winter 2009 issue of Integral Yoga Magazine An Interview with Jai Uttal Jai Uttal is a pioneer in the world music community. His eclectic east meets west sound has put his music at the forefront of the world fusion movement. Jai’s musical roots embrace...