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Integral Yoga Institute of New York

Also known as: IYI New York, Integral Yoga NYC, IYI NYC

Founded October 7, 1966 in Manhattan by Sri Swami Satchidananda — the same swami who opened Woodstock with the *Aum* invocation in 1969. The studio has occupied its dedicated brownstone at 227 W 13th Street in Greenwich Village since October 1970, making it one of the longest continuously-operating yoga institutions in the United States. Lineage: Satchidananda's guru was Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati of the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, placing the studio directly in the Sivananda transmission line.

What they do

Daily Integral Yoga classes (the synthesis Satchidananda formulated from his [[swami-sivananda|Sivananda]] training, the [[yoga-sutras|Yoga Sutras]], the Bhagavad Gita, and Tamil Vedantic and Saiva Yoga traditions), pranayama, meditation, chanting, philosophy, and a complete teacher-training pipeline. The Greenwich Village brownstone has held the institute since October 1970.

Why it’s listed

Three things make IYI NYC directory-foundational, not just directory-worthy:

  1. Continuity at depth. Sixty years (1966–) in the same city; fifty-five (1970–) at the same address. Almost no other yoga institution in North America matches that.

  2. Direct [[swami-sivananda|Sivananda]] transmission. Satchidananda received initiation into monkhood from Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati in 1949 at Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh — placing IYI in the [[sivananda-lineage]] transmission line. Most U.S. studios in this lineage were founded a generation later by Sivananda’s other disciples (Vishnudevananda, etc.); IYI NYC is the U.S. anchor of the Satchidananda branch.

  3. Public-facing stewardship of the lineage. The institute publishes the Integral Yoga magazine, runs a community kitchen and bookstore, and hosts public events — operating as a neighborhood institution, not only a class venue.

Bioregional fit

Anchors the [[new-york-city]] bioregion’s Sivananda-lineage presence. Pairs with [[the-shala-yoga]] (Pattabhi Jois lineage in Union Square + Fort Greene) — the two studios cover the bioregion’s two principal Krishnamacharya/Sivananda transmission lines.

See also

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  • Instance of: [[hatha-yoga]] · [[yoga-philosophy]]
  • Member of: [[business]]
  • Contained by: [[greenwich-village]] · [[manhattan]] · [[new-york-city]]
  • Founded on: [[swami-sivananda]]

Sources

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[new-york-city]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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  • Swami Sivananda Saraswati Sivananda was Satchidananda's guru; initiated him into monkhood at Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, in 1949 — making IYI NYC a direct Sivananda-lineage institution

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