Integral Yoga Media is pleased to announce the relaunch of the website dedicated to the life, teachings, and service of Sri Swami Satchidananda, founder of Integral Yoga. The new website features a special tribute in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock...
New Book Release! The Woodstock Guru
Integral Yoga Publications is pleased to announce the release of The Woodstock Guru. This new book was published in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival, which was opened by Swami Satchidananda in August 1969. When he first arrived in the West...
Patanjali’s Words: Eight Limbs of Yoga
Rev. Jaganath, Integral Yoga Minister and Raja Yoga master teacher, has spent a lifetime delving into the deepest layers of meaning in Patanjali’s words within the Yoga Sutras. Our series continues with sutra 2.29. In several prior sutras, Patanjali explained how...
Stop Running After Things and You Will Find Everything
The most cherished treasure in life is peace. You can go anywhere in the world, but you can be always happy only if you can keep your peace. On the other hand, you may have everything in the world, and I mean everything, but if you don’t have peace you have nothing....
Patanjali’s Words: Viveka (Discriminative Discernment)
Rev. Jaganath, Integral Yoga Minister and Raja Yoga master teacher, has spent a lifetime delving into the deepest layers of meaning in Patanjali’s words within the Yoga Sutras. Our series continues with sutras: 2.26 – 2.27, in which Patanjali explains how viveka,...
The Key to Staying Balanced in a World of Change
The world constantly changes. Nothing stays permanent for even a second. So, find the middle path, the center—neither this way nor that way. In the midst of the changing world, you have to find the one the essential part that never changes. So, what is it that...
Books by Swami Satchidananda in Tamil — Now Online!
Thanks to the devoted service of Sri K. Ramasamy, Sri O. A. Balasubramaniam and the Integral Yoga Institute of Coimbatore, several of Swami Satchidananda's books in English that were translated into his native language of Tamil are now available online as ebooks....
Raja Yoga Teaching of the Month: Brahmacharya
In this monthly series on the Yamas and Niyamas, Swami Karunananda offers wisdom and reflections on applying these foundational principles of Yoga in daily life. This month's focus is on Brahmacharya, moderation. Sutra 2.38: By one established in continence, vigor is...
Raja Yoga Teaching of the Month: Asteya
In this monthly series on the Yamas and Niyamas, Swami Karunananda offers wisdom and reflections on applying these foundational principles of Yoga in daily life. This month's focus is on Asteya, non-stealing. Sutra 2.37: To one established in non-stealing, all wealth...
Raja Yoga Teaching of the Month: Satya
In this monthly series on the Yamas and Niyamas, Swami Karunananda offers wisdom and reflections on applying these foundational principles of Yoga in daily life. This month's teaching is on Satya, truthfulness. Sutra 2.36: To one established in truthfulness, actions...
Raja Yoga Teaching of the Month: Ahimsa
In this monthly series on the Yamas and Niyamas, Swami Karunananda offers wisdom and reflections on applying these foundational principles of Yoga in daily life. Sutra 2.35: In the presence of one firmly established in non-violence, all hostilities cease. —from The...
You Bind Yourself and You Can Liberate Yourself
It’s alright to have a nice body, nice ideas, nice learning, and a lot of money. As long as you have a lot of money in the bank you call yourself rich. When the money goes away, immediately you change your label: I am poor now. You identify yourself with the money in...
Patanjali’s Words: Kaivalya
Rev. Jaganath, Integral Yoga Minister and Raja Yoga master teacher, has spent a lifetime delving into the deepest layers of meaning in Patanjali’s words within the Yoga Sutras. Our series continues with sutras: 2.24 – 2.25, in which Patanjali continues his teachings...
Re-enchantment: Gaining the Wonder of our Practice Again—2019 Integral Yoga European Reunion
The 7th Integral Yoga European Reunion was held in Montpellier, France from April 20-24, 2019, at L’Hameau de les étoiles. The theme of the reunion was: Re-enchantment: Gaining the Wonder of our Practice Again. Each year Integral Yogis—teachers and students—gather for...
What is the One Thing We All Want?
Some people love to travel. If you ask, “Why do you want to travel?" they may say, “To see a lot of places.” “So if you see a lot of places, what will happen?” “Well, I’ll be happy.” “If you ask the travel agent, why are you making all those arrangements for them to...
Swami Satchidananda and Integral Yoga Featured in UK’s “Yoga Magazine”
Yoga Magazine, the leading Yoga monthly published in the UK, featured a 10-page spread in their May 2019 issue on the "Timeless wisdom and legacy of Swami Satchidananda." The feature in the magazine, which is also published in the USA, included a beautifully...