Integral Yoga Institute New York City

09/06/2025

Happy recent Birthday to IYINY's very own Swami Chidananda! If you're near the Institute today, come join him as he hosts Community Satsang at 3:00 pm. Details here: https://momence.com/s/116871802

08/10/2025

This week marks the anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival. Do you know that Sri Swami Satchidananda gave the opening invocation?

On August 15, 1969, Swami Satchidananda was asked to give an opening address at the famed Woodstock Music Festival to set a tone of peace and harmony for wha...

07/12/2025

What does School of Rock have to do with yoga? Join us for Community Movie Night next Saturday, July 19, and find out. “While on the surface School of Rock is a comedy about music and misfits,” says Swami Asokananda, who'll be hosting the event, “at its core, this film beautifully echoes yogic themes.” Learn more and register here: https://iyiny.org/event/community-movie-night-the-school-of-rock/

07/04/2025

Wishing everyone a beautiful Fourth of July. The Institute is closed today, and we look forward to seeing you online and in-person tomorrow.

06/29/2025

06/27/2025

TGIFNK--thank God it's Friday Night Kirtan! Come feel the magic and be rejuvenated, restored, and uplifted. See you at 7pm sharp.

Details: https://momence.com/s/118399002

06/24/2025

Last Call for our Yoga Immersion Program. Spots still available in module 1 of our 200-hour yoga teacher training.

Apply by 6/27
https://iyiny.org/event/200-hour-teacher-training-module-1-yoga-immersion-program-summer-2025/

06/19/2025

Still I Rise, a poem by Maya Angelou - 1928-2014

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

06/13/2025

This Saturday at 5PM!
Slow, Still & Deep: a special Hatha class with music guided by Swami Asokananda

https://iyiny.org/event/slow-still-deep-a-gentle-hatha-class-with-music/

06/12/2025

Integral Yoga® Magazine, Issue No. 313:

06/05/2025

The latest from our friends at Yoga Love magazine

06/02/2025

Alice Coltrane, 1995. Courtesy of The John and Alice Coltrane Home