”Carry the peace you experience during your meditation all through the day, all through the week, all through your life. Even in the midst of a busy life you can retain the peace. Learn to do that and to realize your essential nature is peace, always.“
–Swami Satchidananda
Spiritual longing is not something that we build up. We are prepared by nature itself. How? By going out in the world, doing things, getting burnt, and then leaving the world, forgetting how it burnt us, going back and getting burnt again. Then we understand the world. Then we say, “Whatever I start to do, it seems to affect me. It’s not the world that is the cause—it’s my wrong approach to the world, my wrong interest. I don’t want that kind of selfish approach to the world. What else can I do? MORE
It’s funny how children enjoy the simplest of toys and teenagers relish in their relationships with their best friends, while a quiet transition commences during adulthood and suddenly one may lose their sense of self when their attention becomes trapped in what others have — a partner, car, house, designer clothes, and for decades cosmetic surgery. Many people seem to experience a great discomfort seeing themselves through the stages of maturation... MORE
Hosted by the Integral Yoga Ministry and inspired by the annual "Swami & Rabbi" programs with Swami Satchidananda and Rabbi Joseph Gelberman, now Swami Ramananda, a senior monastic student of Swami Satchidananda, and Rabbi David Igber, a senior student of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi explore how the teachings and practices of the Kabbalah overlap and are synergistic with Integral Yoga Teachings, as well as areas where they may differ.
Integral Yoga Media is please to offer two online playlists with the newly mastered audio recordings of Swami Satchidananda teaching the morning and evening meditation slokas.” These slokas are part of the daily meditation sessions at Satchidananda Ashram Yogaville and Integral Yoga centers around the world. Word-by-word pronunciation of the Integral Yoga meditation ślokas and a booklet that contains the text and translation of the morning and evening slokas. MORE
Sri Swamiji’s maternal uncle recalled the following: “When Ramu was about ten years old an incident occurred that has always remained fresh in my mind. Often the men of our village would go to a particular fresh water well to bathe. One day a great Siddhar came to our village. His name was Cuddapah Sri Paramahamsa Satchidananda Yogeswarar, and at the time he was 59 years old. He was the author of the Tamil book Jiva Brahma Aikya Vedanta Rahasyam (“The Oneness of Jiva and Brahma...) MORE
After college, I moved back to my native Hawai'i. One day I saw a group of girls looking at this announcement for a Yoga class, and I went to that Yoga class expecting to see them again. And this was like an outdoor class, and the instructor was this young gal. And I remember just watching her move, going, wow, look at how smooth and fluid that is. By the end of the class, I was convinced that Yoga was going to make my surfing better. Right from the start, I dove into it. I embraced it in a bear hug. MORE
Gerry Lopez is one of the most influential surfers and surfboard shapers of all time. Known as "Mr. Pipeline"—for his mastery of the huge waves that form large, hollow, thick curls of water that surfers can tube ride—Lopez is an entrepreneur, a family man, a movie star, and a lifelong yogi who brought surfing to new frontiers. This documentary is a film about his life in surfing and Yoga.
