Unity Through Yoga

Unity Through Yoga

Yoga does not always look accessible to all. Images of practiced yogis twisting their bodies into difficult asanas can make Hatha Yoga appear downright daunting to the beginning student. Jivana Heyman, founder of Accessible Yoga, is working to change that. Accessible...
Joy Through Relationships

Joy Through Relationships

Valentine’s Day is a special time to celebrate love and to put energy into personal relationships. Bhagavan and Bhavani Metro, longtime devotees of Swami Satchidananda, Integral Yoga Ministers, and a happily married couple with decades of relationship wisdom and...
Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth

With the interest in Yoga and other mindfulness disciplines such as meditation steadily growing among Westerners, many find themselves curious about visiting an ashram but don’t know what to expect. What is an ashram? Traditional to India, ashrams have now spread...
Sow What?

Sow What?

Do you ever lie in bed at night, wondering what the future holds? Swami Satchidananda offers some advice for how to plan your future—excerpted from The Golden Present. Question: Would you please speak about what you foresee in the future, for the next ten or twenty...
What Makes Mindfulness Work?

What Makes Mindfulness Work?

Amy Weintraub wants to understand why Yoga works. For over 20 years, her work has broken ground in the field of mental health—her evidence-based treatments use asana, mudras, mantras, meditations (and more) to alleviate anxiety and depression for a variety of...