Sat Yoga Institute and Ashram

The Sat Yoga Institute is a universalist non-sectarian and non-profit school for advanced studies in the transformation of consciousness, which is the original meaning of Yoga. Our school’s urban campus is located in Escazú, a suburb of San Jose, Costa Rica.

The Sat Yoga Ashram and Spiritual Retreat Center is our rural component. Located on the peaceful, remote, and sacred land of Arunachala, in the mountains of southern Costa Rica, our ashram is still under construction, but is already open and hosting monthly retreats for spiritual seekers from around the world. Click to read more...
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Sat Yoga Ashram: “Paving the Way to Arunachala”

This project, necessary for any future expansion of our multi-dimensional ashram-eco-village-university-retreat-center-recovery-facility-and-Spanish school, needed to be planned with utmost care so dump trucks could deliver materials without getting bogged down in mud...


Sat Yoga News: Nisargananda: Blissing Out in Nature

At end of the week, participants bade goodbye to Nature in the form of the mountains, gardens, river and forests of Arunachala. But having discovered the wild beauty of their inner Nature, they have access to the supreme intelligence, love, and power from which all forms of Nature emerge.


June Retreat: The Tantra of Transcendent Love - June 22-28, 2013

Tantra is the esoteric development of ancient sat yoga, in its Vedic, Buddhist, and Jain versions, re-designed by the great sages to make it appropriate for the lower human purity of intelligence in kali yuga. Now we are transitioning from kali yuga to a new Sat Yuga, and we require a re-engineered Sat Tantra.


This Magic Moment: Sat Yoga's April Satsang for Sorcerers

It seemed like an ordinary April evening, the hot day cooled by the heavy rain coming in as the sun set, signaling the beginning of the rainy season. But magic was in the air...


Paris Meets Premaculture

When Shunyamurti heard that the Sat Yoga Ashram was considered by a French television producer as one of the most innovative “new ideas and well-guarded secrets that can help us renew our alliance with the Earth,” he could not refuse them the opportunity to film at Arunachala.


Sat Yoga News: An Endless Crescendo of Love

“The ecstasy that flowered at the Hridaya retreat is a treasure we shall keep with us. And our Heart-flowers, planted in the rich soil of the Sat Yoga community, watered by the wisdom of Shunyamurti, and nourished constantly by the rays of Self-discovery, continue to blossom...."


Sat Yoga Retreat Center Now Open!

In the pristine mountains of Costa Rica’s Central Pacific coast, the Sat Yoga Ashram awaits your arrival. Our idyllic spiritual retreat center on the sacred land of Arunachala (named for the holy mountain where the great sage Ramana Maharshi lived and taught) is now open to serve you.


Sat Yoga´s Eco-Village
Sat Yoga´s Eco-Village is being developed in Costa Rica as a planned, intentional community of people who wish to live near an ashram—a meditation and spiritual retreat center—and participate in the vibrancy of its spiritual and cultural richness, but not be fully immersed in the absolute simplicity and purity of an ashramite's lifestyle.

Sat Yoga Ashram Retreats

The Sat Yoga Ashram and Retreat Center is a dream that has been ten years in the making. We have been growing our spiritual community here in Costa Rica for all that time. But only now are we ready to make our insights, our meditative practices, our vision, our philosophy, and our shakti-filled energy field available on a larger scale to visitors, spiritual seekers, and potential new community members.


Sat Yoga Teaching Library

The Sat Yoga Institute offers a myriad of free teaching resources available to all who are interested in Sat Yoga and its sacred path towards Absolute Freedom and Delight! These resources include wisdom book publications, teaching essays, spiritual questions & answers, audio podcasts, and video lectures of Shunyamurti. Please feel free to subscribe to our teaching newsletter if you wish to receive updates on new teachings and upcoming sangha events.

Spiritual Quote of the Month

“The solution to a problem is to realize there never was a problem. Tantra is a name for the spiritual approach that solves the problem of the ego by recognizing that there never was an ego, there never was a person, there was never an Other. There is only Absolute Presence, the nature of which is no-thing-ness, emptiness, openness, silence; peaceful, loving, timeless awareness. Universe is the manifestation of Absolute Presence, and Universe solves all apparent problems by Itself. All apparent problems are only the ignorance of the ego, which is a problem to itself caused by its delusional belief in its own reality. The body-mind must act, but it can do so egolessly; while Absolute Presence remains as dispassionate witness. ”

-- Shunyamurti


How to Join Sat Yoga

If you are living in Costa Rica: Call for an orientation and come for a satsang or our free classes.

If you are living anywhere else, we suggest you do the following:

Read The Transformational Imperative, by Shunyamurti;
Watch the videos, listen to the audio teachings, and read the posted essays;
Come to visit our urban center and stay for a spiritual retreat at the Sat Yoga Ashram. 
You may decide to move here and join our community!

Latest Quote

"Sat Yoga is the art of living in the state of love. Love is our natural state. But we have become denaturalized by accepting the programming and the conditioning of the ego mind. . . . We can change our world by changing our perception of who we are and what this reality is..."

- Shunyamurti

Most Recent Essays of Shunyamurti

  • Emergence of the Entheopolitan
    A mass transmutation is occurring on our planet, leading to the emergence of a new kind of transhuman being: the Entheopolitan. Consider this essay an outline of both the complex dissipative environment in which this rhizomatic interconnective supercharging shamanic shape shift is happening and some of the early, unintended consequences of this unpredictable event-in-process.


    Written on Monday, 03 June 2013 12:02

  • Ashtanga Gyana Yoga
    In the first written teaching bequeathed to us by Sri Ramana Maharishi, the great sage explained the lineaments of the eight-fold path of knowledge that leads to the Supreme Liberation.

    This eternal path is the core practice of Sat Yoga. To be most effective, Gyana Yoga must be integrated with the other six essential yogas that comprise the heart of the Sat Yoga approach. But those with clarity, determination, and devotion—those who have had what in Zen is called kensho, the living recognition of the presence and true nature of the Absolute, can reach jivan mukti solely on the basis of this practice of Ashtanga Gyana Yoga.


    Written on Monday, 03 June 2013 11:05

  • How to Build an Inter-Continent Bliss-tech Missal
    The most difficult part of building a sustainable yogic prema-culture community is to assure that relations between men and women remain pure, harmonious, friendly, and free of the defilement of lust, attachment, and possessiveness, or the counter-nemeses of anger, hatred, envy, and the whole panoply of venomous manifestations of power struggles.

    The ancient yogis, in order to defend themselves and their ashram communities against such demonic forces, developed the most powerful weapon ever conceived. This weapon is still far in advance of any known to the human mind. The special warhead, and its guided delivery system that flies far above the stratosphere, and even beyond the noosphere, is irrestible in its transformative potential.


    Written on Monday, 14 January 2013 12:01

Audio Podcasts

Weekly audio recordings of priceless spiritual Sat Yoga teachings of Shunyamurti, the founder and research director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica.
  • Freedom is Your True Nature – 13.06.13
    Excerpt: “. . . But in the spiritual field in India they do talk about four powers that are latent within you that must be remembered in order to realize the freedom that is your true nature. And they talk about this in mythological terms. And...
  • Focus Without a Brake – 06.06.13
    Excerpt: “. . . And so to know the Unknowable Self means to allow yourself to be – without moving, without distraction, without shifting your attention from the Self to any object or any thought, idea, image, emotion – anything that would take you away from...
  • Don’t Buy the Program 05.30.13
    Excerpt: “… But there is a command, within the ego itself, never to silence the mind, never stop thinking, always got to produce thoughts; if you don’t produce you’re a failure. And so you got to be willing not to produce anything, but to be. Without...

Video Teachings

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Excerpt: "Tonight's gathering is about meditation, which is the core activity of this community. The goal of meditation is a simple one -- it's to...
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Spiritual Questions & Answers

If you would like to ask Shunyamurti a question related to your spiritual path or tranformational process, and give us permission to share it with other online readers, we invite you to send your question to info@satyogainstitute.org.

  • What is Prayer?
    Questioner: What is prayer? What is the meaning of it, and how to pray?


    Written on Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:10

  • Letting Go of Fantasy
    Questioner: When there’s a fantasy and there’s a struggle with it—because you know it’s unreal—but all of the affects that come along with it, all of the narratives, are very persistent. And there’s a point where you just get fed up with it, “I don’t want to be dragged into this anymore. I’m tired of it. I don’t want to be suffering,” but it keeps coming back. Is there any way to—I know it’s a process—but is there any way to accelerate…


    Written on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 15:19

  • Sanskrit Terms?

    Questioner: Hello brothers and sisters. I wish to know more about Brahmanism and Advaita. In my study of Zen and Buddhism, I have come across many words in sanskrit. Shunyamurti also uses sankrit words in his teachings. I wish to find the origins of these words and concepts. Can anyone direct me in my search? Are the Vedas and Upanishads my best options? Thanks you. Namaste.



    Written on Wednesday, 24 October 2012 14:51

Testimonials

  • There are many gifts from God in this Life, whether we are able to see them or not in our state of mind. I believe they are all known in our true state of Being; in fact, I believe that when one is able to Be in Truth, one can come to see absolutely ALL as a blessing.




    Written on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 13:49 in Testimonials

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