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Aspiration
Fall/Winter 2026/2027
Something drives us onward, inward, upward.
Some obscure yearning, reaching, seeking, eventually emerges, flames up within. Some selfless inner breath and spark leap—or slowly build—into an arrow, a flaming call, a need for Truth, Light, Peace, and Love.
“There is a special power, a special joy, a special vibration in the world’s intensity of aspiration to become again what it is,” the Mother wrote.
The Collaboration team invites you to submit your thoughts, insights, practices, experiences, and stories from the deep heart on the universal theme of Aspiration for the Fall/Winter 2026 issue.
Feel free to discover your own questions, experiences, and creative expression about this important aspect of yoga.
If you’d like some help to catalyze reflection and action, here are some questions:
Is this quality, this need, a dimension of your own inner practice?
Is it something you can describe or follow its trail of development? Does it happen on more than one level of the being?
How have you found your truest, highest aspiration so far?
Can a group of people develop a sincere and effective aspiration—a force that leads to or calls down the needed response?
Have you sensed human aspiration being an evolutionary driver in times of crisis?
Does humanity as a whole have an aspiration for a higher, nobler state of being?
Do you find smaller, humbler movements in daily life that carry the flame and contribute indirectly to larger goals?
Do you intuit anything like an aspiration of Earth herself for a higher, more evolved state of consciousness and being?
What stories, drama, music, ceremonies, and other activities evoke and strengthen the inner flame for you or for others?
Due by July 1, 2026
Note to Readers Regarding Future Themes
There is no specific theme for the Spring 2027 issue. Beginning with the Summer 2026 issue, Collaboration editors will announce several themes simultaneously. This will allow prospective authors to have ample time to reflect and submit articles for one or more themes. When a sufficient number of articles are accepted for a specific theme, we will schedule that issue for publication. In addition, we may occasionally include an article or poem that is not connected to a specific theme.
Please revisit this page for updated information on our mission, audience, content, and guidelines.
About Collaboration
Mission
Collaboration is the journal of Integral Yoga published in the United States. Our mission is to share articles, conversations, poetry, and art that deeply engage our transitional times with the beauty, joy, and hope of the vast wisdom and practice of this evolutionary tradition and its founders, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. We explore and celebrate particularly the individual practice of yoga in this country as well as currents and expressions of the collective yoga of the American soul in our times.
Audience
Collaboration is a means of reflection, encouragement, and inspiration for the Integral Yoga community here at home. We also want to highlight friends and allies in related areas of personal and social transformation. Including these fellow travelers requires sensitivity from our contributors, whom we ask to refrain from using references and terms of Integral Yoga and the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother without explaining or clarifying them.
Content
We welcome many kinds of contributions, especially those that share, in ways both personal and universal, the surprises of grace, intuition, and delight in the widening—or stuck—moments of our lives. We also love to publish submissions that challenge the increasing polarization of our personal and social lives or embrace that fragmentation and find its deeper meaning and healing in the integrative and inclusive currents emerging in our time.
Guidelines
Please contact our editorial team at editor@collaboration.org for the word count suitable for your contribution before submitting. This allows us to provide you with writer’s guidelines that reflect our e
