Loving Your Duties, by Swami Rama

All your actions should be prayers. It is amazing to observe that most of the people enveloped in sloth and lethargy are not aware that life on this earth is but a brief moment, and that moment should be utilized to purify the way of the soul. Those who live in such a...

Featured Audio of the Month: Love, Sex, and Relationships

Love, Sex & Relationships audio lecture by Swami Rama In this lecture recorded live from 1973, Swami Rama discusses the role of sex in relationships, the need for love, communication and selflessness. The lecture is interspersed with anecdotes from the monastery...

Yoga and Alternate Therapies @ RDI : A Brief History

The Shat-Kona is known as the Shiva-Shakti triangle. The downward triangle is shakti and upward triangle is shiva. Shakti has grace flowing down, concentration and sadhana flowing upwards. It is also the sign of the heart chakra where the upward and downward forces...

Guru Purnima by Swami Rama

(Guru Purnima was July 10, 2025) In all spiritual traditions this day is considered to be very holy. For on this day students become aware that life is not to be believed only in the external world—that there is something higher, deeper, than what they have been...