Karma Christmas

In their drawing board versions, the winter holidays were designed to focus attention on our deepest emotions and spiritual feelings. But in the current swirl of commercial and social pressures, it’s easy to forget all that meaningfulness and just bull through the season, head down and teeth gritted, until it’s done. That is, unless you […]

The Essence of Gratitude

by Swami Kriyananda First published in Clarity Magazine on December 1, 2005 Used with Permission     In observing people I’ve noticed that the capacity to be grateful is a mark of spiritual refinement. I don’t mean the capacity to express gratitude but to feel it. Many people express gratitude outwardly, but the real expression […]

Alice Coltrane: Musician Turned Swamini

Alice McLeod, commonly known as Alice Coltrane, was born August 27, 1937. She was raised in Detroit’s east side in a home where prayers and hymns extolled the Lord. Her interest in music blossomed in early childhood. By the age of nine, she played organ during services at Mount Olive Baptist church in Detroit, Michigan. Alice’s […]

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois - Father of Ashtanga Yoga

Honoring the Father of Ashtanga Yoga

“Yoga is 99 percent practice, one percent theory.” —Sri K. Pattabhi Jois The month of July celebrates the father of Ashtanga Yoga, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois’ birthday. All of us from Inner Path would like to honor his teachings, which were instrumental in bringing yoga to the West in 1975. Jois developed a set of 240 […]

Reaching your center

Welcome to the Inner Path Lifestyle!

The purpose of Inner Path Lifestyle is to provide you with a number of services to enhance your understanding and ability to use yoga in your daily life. That’s actually a big job considering the many facets of our life – health, travel, relationships, meditation, the numerous decisions we make each day – they are each influenced by our level of consciousness and basic life-skill understanding.