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Integral Yoga® Magazine, Issue No. 264  “Moderation in Eating”
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Moderation in Eating

“If you eat well and digest well, you won’t have that false hunger which now and then arises between meals. If hunger is real, you don’t have to curb your appetite. Beyond limitation even nectar becomes poison. We grow healthier with moderate eating.”  –Swami Satchidananda

The Secret of Karma Revealed
By Sri Swami Satchidananda

As long as you feel that you are doing something, then you are responsible. But when you don’t feel that you are doing anything, and you feel that you have completely surrendered into the hands of a Higher Power that does everything, where is the karma for you? When there is no action for you, then there is no reaction for you. As long as the doership is there, as long as you feel that you have done something, you have to face the result.  MORE
 

Forgiveness can be a very difficult process, but it can also be very healing.  If we have been deeply hurt, we may have no interest in forgiving or it may seem impossible. But an inability to forgive usually means carrying inside a psychic knot of anger and ill-will that darkens the heart and keeps us connected to the very person from whom we may wish to be free. Correctly understood, forgiveness is a conscious process of releasing resentful feelings.  MORE

Robert Mark Altman, best known for his work as an early staff photographer for the music magazine Rolling Stone, died at his home in San Francisco on September 21, 2021, a month shy of his seventy-seventh birthday. He had been in ill health for some time. Altman became a student of  Swami Satchidananda in the late 1960s and received the “Sanskrit Yoga” name, Arjava. He often photographed Sri Swamiji in those early days and for some years after.  MORE

Annually, we celebrate the day the first Integral Yoga Institute was opened (1966) in the United States. This year marks the 55th anniversary of that first IYI! The Integral Yoga Institute of New York will be holding an opening ceremony on Oct. 7th to kick off special programming throughout the month. The ceremony will be a hybrid (both online and on site at the IYI) program with a panel discussion and puja (ceremony) as they explore how Yoga can impact the person, the community, and the world.

Joseph Campbell was an American author and editor whose works on comparative mythology examined the universal functions of myth in various human cultures. During the final years of his life, Campbell embarked on a speaking tour in which he drew together all that he had learned about what he called the “one great story” of humanity. This video is from one of the lectures in which he explores the meaning of the pranava, OM.

I teach a “Yoga for Zen Meditation” class because when we practice Hatha Yoga prior to sitting in meditation, we prepare the body and mind for stillness so that we can concentrate more deeply on the object of our meditation—be it a mantra, the breath, a koan, or simply being in the present moment. In my Yoga classes I start by reading a sloka or two from the Bhagavad Gita, or “The Song of the Lord.” That is our object of focus for the class, which we return to throughout the hour...  MORE

Wednesdays beginning October 6th! These online Zoom sessions are offered by donation and benefit Service in Satchidananda. More details here.

This is a special time of the year when we offer pujas to the Divine Mother in three forms, with three nights for each Goddess. Many of our Integral Yoga centers will be offering special programming. At Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville the first night of each Goddess will be live-streamed October 6, 9 and 12, so you can worship with us online at Livestream.com/Yogaville.

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