Join us in observing the 11th annual International Day of Yoga today, June 21.  Celebrate by taking a class or doing more yoga at home. 

Svaroopa^® yoga teachers around the country are teaching classes, including Kelly (Kushala) Sharp in Rehoboth Beach DE. She is offering a free class in honor of the day.

Here at the Ashram, Swami Satrupananda is teaching a FREE Yoga For Pain Relief Class.  And Swami Shrutananda and Swami Prajñananda are teaching in Madison WI and Fairhope AL respectively.

Around the world, 300 million people do yoga.  What if your co-workers, your family members, everyone on the road did yoga? The world would be a much better place!

This year’s theme is “Yoga for One Earth, One Health.”  You already know that yoga improves your health in so many ways. 

It increases your flexibility, strength, cardiovascular health, posture, balance, and bone health.  It improves your breathing, reduces your stress and anxiety, and increases your ability to focus.  It is wonderful that these benefits are so very well known. 

Yet the purpose of yoga has always been to give you even more:

“Yoga’s practices show the way to your inherent wholeness and holiness.” 

– Gurudevi Nirmalananda, in Beyond Confusion

Yoga gives you your own Self. Self is your inherent Divinity. It is the source of your joy, your happiness, your ability to love and your impulse to give. 

Svaroopa^® yoga specializes in giving you experiences of your own Self, until you always know that’s who you are. And you recognize everyone else as another form of that same Divinity.  Whether or not they do yoga. But wouldn’t it be great if they did?