SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies in London has invited Professor Mark McLaughin to present his lecture, "Samadhi Burial and the Continued Presence of the Realized Yogin," on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019. A ...

Samadhi is the last limb of the eight-limbed (astanga) path of Yoga described by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra, and is also the third division of the Eightfold Noble Path taught by Shakyamuni Buddha ...

A mind that is in a state of samadhi can happen any time. Some are born with it. Even in the mother’s womb they are aware of their real identity. There are those little yogis who are capable of ...

Cambridge, MA. This is the last of my Lenten reflections on the second Chapter of the Yoga Sutras, the Yoga of Action, yoga in action. (You can find the preceding entries here.) The last of the limbs ...

Baba Ashutosh Maharaj, a saint with a large number of followers, has reportedly gone into Samadhi and his followers had kept his body on ice for nearly a year in order to preserve the higher state of ...