YOGAVILLE IN VIRGINIA .....when artist Peter Max brought integral yoga teacher and spiritual guide Sri Swami Satchidananda here in 1979, hoping to lure him to America, the monk fell in love with the views of the mountains and decided to stay. Within a year he had founded a community dedicated to the teachings of Integral Yoga, based on unity and harmony among all living creatures, and called it simply Yogaville. Today, Yogaville provides workshops in yoga, meditation, interfaith spiritual teachings, or just a day of retreat. Spiritual teachings at the ashram are relatively pan-faith and soft-pedaled but omnipresent, as in a reading from Satchidananda’s work given during lunch. (Sample teaching: Love and service to others are the only two precepts that need be followed in life.) Also omnipresent are large, framed photos of the late swami, who died in 2002; his enormous eyes seem to follow you around the room like those of a kindly, white-bearded Mona Lisa.=== washingtonpost/lifestyle/travel/finding-nirvana-was-tucked-away-in-virginias-back-roads/2014/11/26/d20db684-7007-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:54:57 +0000