Category: Wisdom

IY Teacher Feature: Rev. Manjula Spears

The Integral Yoga Teacher Feature is an exciting new blog series featuring monthly stories from graduates of Integral Yoga teacher trainings. This month’s installment features Rev. Manjula…

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,…

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…

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…

Embodying the Dharma: Yoga Practice for Buddhist Teachings

By Michael Lee, founder of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Yoga and Buddhism have much in common; although they are two distinct paths, there are many places of…

Laugha Sutras

“The best remedy for any illness is laughter.” —Sri Swami Satchidananda “Friends find each other through laughter.” –Bharata Wingham “Levity relieves stress and ends the fear of death.”…

The Benefits of Obedience

Learning Obedience By Swami Vidyananda In most monastic traditions, the monks take vows of obedience (along with poverty and celibacy). You obey the rule of your monastic…

Racing Against Time: Preservation and Digitization of the Integral Yoga Archives

Rev. Prem Anjali, Ph.D. has dedicated her life to the service of Sri Swami Satchidananda. Not surprisingly, she has made it her mission to preserve the history…

The Four Glorious Goals of Life: The Purusharthas of Ayurveda

The Four Glorious Goals of Life By Katie Silcox When our digestion is good, our sleep is deep, and our emotions and sexuality are being channeled properly,…

Yoga as a Peace Practice: A Curriculum for Our Times

Yoga as a Peace Practice: A Curriculum for Our Times By Jana Long, E-RYT, C-IAYT, Executive Director & Co-founder of Black Yoga Teachers Alliance, Inc. Yoga as…