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There is No Countdown, There is Only the Present

There Is No Countdown, There Is Only the Present By Michelle Brandt In the last days of 2018 and the first few of 2019, I had the…

Warning: Laughter Can Be Hazardous to Your Illness

By Bharata Wingham, Laugha Yoga® Leader and Teacher A cheerful heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit makes one sick.—Proverbs 17:22 Laugh for the…

Smart Glute, Dumb Glute: How Properly Functioning Glutes Stabilize the Body

Excerpted from Pelvic Liberation: Using Yoga, Self-Inquiry, and Breath Awareness for Pelvic Health, by Leslie Howard Vertical structures like skyscrapers need to move; they need to be…

Yoga Detox for Body and Mind

An Interview with Satya Greenstone, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT Have you ever wondered how Yoga helps with detox? We sat down with Satya Greenstone, a primary teacher trainer…

The Power of Prayer

Excerpted from To Know Your Self, by Sri Swami Satchidananda Prayers transform themselves into actions. Actions offered up are prayers. In time every action is a prayer,…

Making Yoga Accessible to Those with Cancer and Chronic Illness

By Sandra Susheela Gilbert, director and senior faculty of YCat In the documentary The Emperor of All Maladies, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee says, “There is no archetypical response…

The Search for Happiness

The Search for HappinessAn excerpt from To Know Yourself, by Sri Swami Satchidananda The universe is full of life. You can see the life force constantly. Everything…

Treating Trauma with Yoga

An Interview with Joann Lutz Can you imagine a future in which someone’s first introduction to Yoga is not in a gym or classroom, but in a…

Talking About Tantra: An Interview with Raama Das

An Interview with Raama Das Often misunderstood, Tantra is a branch of Yoga that encompasses many schools and lineages and includes various practices and philosophical threads, much…

Celebrating Integral Yoga Day

An Interview with Rev. Prem Anjali, Ph.D. Each year on October 7th, Integral Yoga International celebrates “Integral Yoga Day”—the day that the first Integral Yoga center was…