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Yoga & How to Make the World Better – IY eMagazine 115
Yoga for the Special Child: Taiwan
Sonia Sivakami Sumar — Integral Yoga teacher and founder of Yoga for the Special Child® (multi-level comprehensive program of Yoga techniques designed to enhance the natural development of children and adults with special needs) is just finishing a training program in...
World Peace Affirmations and Prayers
In 1969, while the Vietnam war was still underway, the youth that were coming to hear Swami Satchidananda's weekly talks at the Universalist Church in New York, were desperate for the war to end and for peace to prevail. Instead of "fighting" for peace, Sri Swamiji...
Patanjali’s Words: Nirodaḥ — Part 2
Nirodha’s Adversary: Vyutthana Vyutthana, externalization of the mind, is the predominant characteristic of ordinary consciousness. The temptation might be to characterize nirodha as a mind in meditation and vyutthana as a mind tempted by distractions of the outside...
Questions and Answers with Swami Satchidananda: Must One’s Spiritual Path Be Prescribed?
Question: If, as you say, “Truth is one and paths are many, must the paths be prescribed, or can one gain the truth through independent Self-realization? Swami Satchidananda: Well, if you know the way, you don’t have to ask anybody. Nobody has to prescribe to you. If...
Patanjali and the Yoga Sutras – IY eMagazine 114
Lotus Center for All Faiths Team Attends 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Yogaville's Lotus Center for All Faiths (LCAF) team returned this week from Toronto where they took part in the Parliament of the World's Religions. For its 2018 theme, the Parliament drew from movements of goodwill and cross-cultural respect that are embodied in the...
Families for Children: Falling in Love with Children in Need
Bhakti Foster-Purvine, an Integral Yoga teacher who lives in Portland, Oregon, was introduced to Families for Children (FFC) by Swami Divyananda 15 years ago. Located in Coimbatore, South India, FFC is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that exists to fulfill...
Patanjali’s Words: Nirodaḥ — Part 1
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. In Patanjali's Words, his latest work-in-progress, Rev. Jaganath explores the Sutras word...
How to Be Happy Always
Yoga theory sometimes leaves us nowhere; it’s mostly intellectual. What the mind can understand is very little. So in the name of Yoga practice, we do something that can expand the mind and then, little by little, we understand things in a better way. We don’t want to...