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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 Swami Premananda At any moment, or stage of your life, take the pathway that feels the easiest and the most enjoyable. At one point, it might be the path of bhakti (devotion and surrender), which is all about sensing and feeling into the heart. At another...
by Krishna Karl Spicer Krishna Karl Spicer The first thing I love is that it’s something you can DO when everything else out there is falling apart. I know this has brought many people to Yoga. It’s a way to assert your own power and control over...
by Anitra (Amrita) Frazier Anitra (Amrita) Frazier At first I resisted Yoga. My friends kept urging me to go IYI when it was at 500 West End Avenue. I’d walk past the tasteful brass plaque everyday but I wouldn’t go in. I was depressed, smoking marijuana, unsatisfied...
Understanding Sound Healing Interviewed by Amy Cho Rev. Laksmi Scalise Sound healing is a complementary therapy to heal mind, body, spirit, but how does it work? I had the opportunity to interview Reverend Laksmi Scalise, a gong master, Reiki master teacher,...
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 Dhāraṇī Diana Díaz In Sutra 1.13, Patanjali tells us that Practice is effort toward steadiness of mind. But before we get into Practice, let’s define effort. Translated by Swami Satchidananda, effort is a continuous practice. He goes on to interpret that...
Interviewed by Sarah McElwain Maria Alfaro What is TRE®? TRE stands for Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises. This simple set of exercises mildly fatigue and stretch the muscles in our legs to activate a natural tremoring response called Neurogenic Tremors. This...