Nalanie Chellaram, Integral Yoga master teacher and Integral Yoga Centre head, was recently honored with the "Mayor's Award" in Gibraltar. The Mayor’s Awards scheme is given to members of the public, either individuals or groups, who had served Gibraltar in...
Yoga Gives Back Online Gala 2021: Nov. 13th
On Saturday, Nov. 13th, the Yoga Gives Back Annual Gala will take place. The schedule includes classes, inspiring talks and culminates in the "Namaste Award" presentation to Dr. Muhammad Yunus, father of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions...
AIDS Activist and Yoga Teacher Prema Pleva Celebrated for a “Lifetime of Service”
In the 1980s, when the gay community in New York City was under siege, suffering and dying from a vicious plague yet to be named HIV, Prema Pleva was an inspiring force for Integral Yoga in New York as she welcomed and served those suffering most. In 1985, she...
Seva – Dedication and Devotion in Action
The saints and sages of many faiths are dynamic examples of how spiritual awakening is accompanied by a natural impulse to serve humanity. After experiencing the interconnection of all of life, many of these great beings were moved by a profound compassion to dedicate...
Everything Can Be Karma Yoga
Whatever is due to you will come and nobody can stop that or cheat you. If ever anybody does seem to cheat you, know that it is an aftereffect of what you have done to someone at some time in the past. You must have cheated somebody earlier, so now another person is...
Integral Yoga Teacher Heads Initiative to Support Local San Francisco Charities
A San Francisco Yoga studio is now offering a donation-based class to support local Castro charities. All teachers are donating their time. "Karma Yoga, the path of selfless service, is one of the significant paths in Yoga that brings benefit to all," Marc (Mukunda)...
The “Satchidananda Classroom” in Gambia (West Africa)
It was in 2005, that Mini Shakti first took Integral Teacher Training with Integral Yoga Barcelona center head, Kirana Stover. Mini Shakti and her husband Kalilu (originally from Gambia who came to Spain after a long arduous journey as a refugee) were inspired by...
Prison Yoga: We’re All Doing Time
Bo and Sita Lozoff founded, with Ram Dass, the largest prison interfaith ministry in the world. It is now in 60 countries with 50,000 prisoners on the mailing list. Bo’s book, We’re All Doing Time, now in its 17th printing, with half a million copies distributed, is...
Women of Hope
The incredible seva (social service) of three Integral Yogis in Hong Kong made headlines because of their extraordinary humanitarian and charitable service. Hersha Chellaram: Devoted to making Yoga more accessible in Hong Kong,...
Feathered Pipe Foundation Seva Yoga
Feathered Pipe “Good Works” – Seva Yoga Since its inception, the Feathered Pipe Foundation, a registered US non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, has been focused on the elevation of human consciousness. Thus, we recognize both the privilege and responsibility to...
Seva Foundation
Seva Foundation started in 1978 as a small group with a big idea. Using their personal Rolodex of health professionals and cultural activists, Larry & Girija Brilliant invited an eclectic group that included the World Health Organization’s Dr. Nicole Grasset,...
Service in Satchidananda
Service in Satchidananda (SIS) is a non-profit international network of charities established in honor of Sri Swami Satchidananda and based on his core teaching of seva, or selfless service. SIS funds global projects that are working in a sustainable way and giving...
Bent On Learning
We bring Yoga to as many students as possible. Not after school, but right there in the classroom, where the learning happens. About Us Bent On Learning is a nonprofit organization committed to teaching yoga to New York City public school children. We bring yoga to as...
Give Back Yoga Foundation
The Give Back Yoga Foundation supports and funds research-based, clinically tested Yoga programs for marginalized populations. We also provide supplies to help kickstart Yoga programs, inspiring grassroots social change and community cooperation in under-resourced...
Prison Yoga Project
The mission of the Prison Yoga Project —reducing it to simplest terms — is to help people shift unconscious behavioral patterns of reacting into conscious ways of responding by teaching individuals the skill of clearly witnessing their moment-to-moment experience....
Yoga Gives Back
For the cost of one Yoga class, you can change a life! Yoga Gives Back is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and funds in order to alleviate poverty in India. We started in Los Angeles in 2007, determined to find a way for the global Yoga...