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Integral Yoga Turns 50: Reflections on Timeless Teachings

The 1960s and 1970s gave birth to a unique counterculture movement that rejected conventional American beliefs and a way of life that was prevalent at that time. Many young people found traditional approaches to spiritual life meaningless and rigid. They questioned the cultural values around drugs, relationships, work, and war.

Integral Yoga Available to Everyone in NYC | Yoga Bridge Blog | Stories from Italy & the U.S.

This studio offers a very large variety of training programs, daily classes and workshops, and kirtan music concerts, featuring either popular or debut artists. Among others performers, you can enjoy celestial live concerts by , who plays at IYI a couple of times per year.

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In New York, Meditation Makes Its Way Back to the Yoga Mat

SEATED cross-legged on a black cushion atop a yoga mat, I struggled to keep my eyes closed and repeat the Sanskrit mantra in my head: ham-sa - I am that. Outside, on Third Avenue, police sirens wailed and cars honked as I tried to sit still in a room with eight other meditation students, keeping my breath slow and steady.

Yoga: Serving Immigrants In Prenatal Classes

This is an interview with Rebecca Bedford, whose first yoga teacher training was at The Integral Yoga Institute NYC in 1995. She now teaches prenatal yoga in Toronto for immigrant newcomer women in a program called Parents For Better Beginnings. Many of the women are Muslim, Chinese, Somalian, and South East Asian, in the diverse neighborhood of Regent Park.

Three Ways to De-Stress in NYC

Raina Seitel and wellness expert Jeannine Morris are on a quest to find their inner zen amongst the hustle and bustle of everyday city life.

Jivana Heyman Is #WhatAYogiLooksLike (Part I)

This is the second individual spotlight in series two of the "This Is What a Yogi Looks Like" (#whatayogilookslike) media series, a collaboration between the Yoga and Body Image Coalition and Yoga International based on the YBIC that launched in 2014 and their continued work in challenging stereotypes, growing community, working collaboratively, and highlighting the diversity of yoga practitioners and yoga practices, as well as their staunch commitment to diversifying yoga media.

It's no stretch to say Integral Yoga Institute, at five decades, was a bridge to yoga craze

BY MICHELE HERMAN | On the occasion of the Integral Yoga Institute's 50th anniversary this year, I was invited to talk with general manager Chandra/Jo Sgammato - cross-legged on the floor in a yoga studio, of course - and then take her morning class.

Leaving The Perfect Life | YogaCity NYC

Excitement is on high because Swami Vidyananda is coming to Integral this April. She will lead a Raja Yoga Teacher Training , as well as a one-day workshop for ...

MN Yoga + Life Magazine | Spring-Summer 2016

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Want To Escape The Modern World? 9 'Utopias' That Really Exist

The idea of the "utopian" community has a long, storied history (and a largely unsuccessful one at that), from the fictional island dreamed up by Sir Thomas More to present-day attempts to build the perfect urban ecosystem. And even though the perfect society has eluded us, that hasn't stopped people from trying.

Living from the Heart

Namaste! I had a bout of writers block but am feeling much better now. It started out as wanting to just have more experiences to share then there was a moment over summer where I felt as though my life went through a lull and there wasn't a whole lot of interesting things happening.