Category: Integral Yoga Teachings

Spiritual Understanding for a Better World by Swami Satchidananda

My sincere wish and prayer is that one day we will all realize our essential oneness, enjoy our differences and live together as one universal family.

Reflections on Santosha and Gratitude

Santosha, translated simply as contentment, is not so easy to master because the habit of wanting and achieving is so deeply ingrained in us.

The Power of Intention & Thought by Swami Satchidananda & Swami Sivananda

Everything is created through the mind. It is absolutely free in creating a world for itself.

Physically Adjusting Asanas

Physically adjusting our students can either disturb or enhance their experience, depending on how it is done and how it is received.

What is Satchidananda? by Sri Swami Satchidananda

God is unlimited, infinite. Spirit has no name or form. But we are limited; our thinking is finite.

Royal Intentions

In the universe of Yoga, practitioners’ intentions can be grouped under one, all-encompassing umbrella: to experience the unbounded, unchanging peace and joy that is our own True Self.

Purifying Spiritual Gold by Sri Swami Satchidananda

Tapas also refers to self-discipline. Normally the mind is like a wild horse tied to a chariot.

How to be Happy by Sri Swami Satchidananda

When we finally tire of searching for happiness outside, we sit quietly and analyze and realize that true and lasting happiness can never come from outside.

How Yoga Enlightens

it originally evolved as part of an eight-limbed path to experience enlightenment, the realization of our true nature.

God Wanted Fun by Sri Swami Satchidananda

We should know how to take things easy and see in this light that it’s all a great, Divine play, and we are being made to play our roles.