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Liberation, Why We Practice & Yoga Therapy – IY eMagazine 103
Pontiff of Perur Adeenam & Temple Attains Mahasamadhi
Thavathiru Santhalinga Ramasamy Adigalar, the 97-year-old Pontiff of Perur Adheenam (Coimbatore, India) entered Mahasamadhi on Friday, August 31st. Affectionately and respectfully known as “Periyaswamiji,” Thavathiru Santhalinga Ramasamy Adigalar was a close and...
Understanding Yogic Concepts of Health and Disease
Introduction Yoga is a spiritual science for the integrated and holistic development of our physical, mental and moral-spiritual aspects of being. The philosophy of Yoga is practical and applicable in our day-to-day living. Yoga has been documented to normalise...
Non-Action in the Midst of Action
Our spiritual dilemmas often revolve around deciding how to act in a difficult situation, when none of the choices feel quite right. A variation of this occurs when we struggle to distinguish between a higher, or divine, will and the will of our ego-mind. This can be...
Yoga, Wellbeing & A Love Supreme – IY eMagazine 102
What Do You Care About?
Heike Amma Farkas, Integral Yoga Germany director, reflects on what her years of teaching and training Yoga teachers has taught her to care about. I don’t care, how long you have been practicing Yoga I want to know, how calm is your mind When your child cries, your...
Divine Music: The Spiritual Journey of Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane (Swamini Turiyasangitananda) is the widow of jazz legend John Coltrane. After her husband’s passing she continued their shared exploration of Eastern music and spirituality. In 1970 she recorded Journey in Satchidananda and explained: “Direct...
How to Really Enjoy This World
When you are healthy and happy, you are at ease. But, you don’t remain that way always; you disturb it and then you call that dis-eased. There is meaning in your words, in your beautiful language. Diseased means you have disturbed your ease. That means you were...
Esoterics, Specialized Yoga & Zen – IY eMagazine 101
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...