There are moments along our path when something new enters our lives and, strangely, feels less like a discovery than a remembering. That is how Ayurveda came to me. My formal path into Yoga began at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville in 2009, where I completed my...
By the time Swami Satchidananda arrived in New York in 1966, he was no newcomer to the work of transformation. He had already spent more than a decade in Sri Lanka, where he transformed the lives of all who came within his orbit — opening Divine Life Society branches...
In this short video teaching from Integral Yoga Teacher, therapist, and center head Nalanie Chellaram, she gives practical strategies for those going through painful times, relationship problems and living in gratitude. She shares inspiration from Yoga and the...
The Recipe Swami Satchidananda once explained Raja Yoga with a recipe. In New York in September 1966, in his first conversation with a young student named Sadasivam Greenstone, he asked whether Sadasivam could cook. You get a recipe from a trusted source, Sadasivam...
It was 1966. The Beatles had stopped touring. A generation of young Americans was searching for meaning, for peace, for something the world around them could not seem to provide. From that searching rose the counterculture: restless, idealistic, and beneath all its...
In a handwritten aerogramme from Swami Satchidananda to Sohini Mehta – his first Indian disciple living in Bombay – he wrote, "I am now in New York, America. I just came for 2 days here, but many devotees have gathered round and insisted that I must stay longer. They...
During October 2026, we celebrate the founding of Integral Yoga by Swami Satchidananda in 1966 in New York. We look back at how Integral Yoga came to the West, the memories of some who were there in those early years, explore some of the spiritual roots from which it...
The Integral Yoga community celebrates the extraordinary life and legacy of Peter Max (1937–2026), known to us by the name Atman, given to him by Swami Satchidananda. One of the most celebrated artists of the modern era, Peter helped define the visual language of a...
In this short video, Doreen Gail Hemp shares her journey of loss and learning how to find gratitude amid the loss. Even in life’s most challenging moments, beauty quietly waits to offer us comfort. In times of pain or loss, noticing the small things around us — the...
In this episode of the Integral Yoga Podcast, host Avi Gordon is in conversation with with Yoga therapist Steffany Moonaz. The topic of the podcast is "Yoga, Meditation, Arthritis & Chronic Pain Relief" and a central question posed is: What if changing your...
There is an image of spiritual realization that can exert a powerful attraction: one rises beyond the noise and demands of ordinary life into a peace so complete that the world, with all its complications, seems finally left behind. The great Yoga and Vedanta...
From Brave New World to the Wisdom of Vedanta To millions of readers, Aldous Huxley remains the author of Brave New World, the chilling 1932 vision of a society pacified by conditioning, consumption, entertainment, and chemically induced contentment. Yet the man who...
The Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville ground is charged. Once someone tells you to notice it, you cannot stop noticing it, and I mean this in more than a figurative sense. A practitioner who arrives with a settled enough mind can feel the field the way you feel a...
Sambasivam Chaitanya’s journey now brings him to Tiruvannamalai, to the holy presence of Arunachala, and to Ramanashram, where one of modern India’s greatest sages sat in the stillness of Self-realization. At Ramanashram, Advaita was no longer only a subject of...
Deepening your meditation practice requires more than simply sitting for longer periods of time. A truly effective practice depends on cultivating a sufficient level of refined energy. This energy expresses itself as alertness, mental clarity, willpower, conviction,...
On the blessed morning that marked the beginning of the Guru Poornima celebration at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville, July 25th, 2026, our beloved brother and senior monastic, Swami Daasyanandaji, peacefully left the body. The timing of his departure seemed deeply...