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An interview with Liz Sostre What skills do you bring to your job at the front desk at Integral Yoga? The skills I bring to my workplace at the front desk are warmth, loving-kindness, and ahimsa (nonviolence), the first limb of Patanjali’s eightfold path, commencing...
On May 11th, 2023, Shelly Lucky Stein, died at age 81. A quintessential Brooklyn boy, he was a devoted husband of 55 years, a salesman, spoken word poet, health food store owner, NYC tour guide, and beloved yoga teacher. In 1993, he opened "Lucky's Juice Joint" in...
And interview with Swami Chidananda, a monastic and longtime disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda, who leads study groups at the Integral Yoga Institute on the Upanishads. By Sarah McElwain You’ve devoted many years of study to these sacred texts. Why do...
Radha Metro-Midkiff, Executive Director of Integral Yoga NYC, is featured in two videos. A look inside the second oldest yoga studio in Manhattan - Integral Yoga https://parkbench.com/blog/integral-yoga-yoga-west-village-new-york-city-radha-metro-midkiff Celebrating...
By Laurie Stark A quarter of a billion people, globally, are classified as refugees or “forcibly displaced persons,” the highest level of displacement in history, forced from their homes and/or homelands due to war, natural disaster, persecution, violence,...
Interviewed by Sarah McElwain Francesca Biryukov How did you become an acupuncture practitioner? I started as a bodyworker and went to the Swedish Institute to learn massage. While I was there, I was exposed to various teachers and more Eastern studies. And then...
By Sarah McElwain Chuck Fishman, Photo Credit: Aleksander Prugar You recently visited Poland to photograph the Jewish community’s response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis occurring there now. My last trip was at the end of June and beginning of July. It was a...
by Ambā (Ann-Marie Everitt) Amba Do you remember the car game that begins with the question Who am I? The opponents always obliged with the follow-up, Am I an animal, vegetable, or mineral? Then the game took flight. Do I have four legs? Can I swim, can I see at...
By Sarah McElwain Rev. Shankar Fern What is the Integral Yoga Ministry and how is it connected to Interfaith? Interfaith has always been a very important part of Integral Yoga. Our Interfaith work was introduced to us by Swami Satchidananda. He saw a demand and...
By Karuna Kreps & Chandra/Jo SgammatoDuring the dormancy of the pandemic a new branch of Integral Yoga was planted, has taken root, and is sprouting out with great promise. It is the Integral Yoga End-of-Life Project. Its purpose is to create a new Integral Yoga...
By Laurie Stark According to Swami Satchidananda, a real spiritual experience means to see the unity in diversity. The practice of yoga teaches us to accept ourselves where we are, how we are and it’s then that we meet the truth of who we are. We say “yes” to all our...
Swami Ramanada, the past president of Integral Yoga New York, initiated the Spiritual Activism program on a visit to New York from San Francisco Integral Yoga. Inspired by his continued commitment, (Read Our Responsibility to a World in Crisis) it’s time to restart...
By Chandra/Jo Sgammato "Death Prep"-- Harsh Words Maybe, But Something We All Must Do I am a planner. I like to have things in order, to sweat the details of any event in advance, to be a person who makes sure, takes care, and gets things done. But for planning the...