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Sri Ramana MaharshiSri Ramana Maharshi says:
"Sat is aham pratyaya saram, the Self of selves. . . . Sat-sanga means association with sat or reality. One who knows or has realized sat is also regarded as sat. Such association with sat or with one who knows sat is absolutely necessary for all."


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Sat Yoga Ashram Blog "You have chosen to be the founders of a new age, a new world, to reach a new summit of human achievement. May you be blessed with the courage to carry through your true heart’s desire, and attain the One Self. May the Sat Yoga Ashram become the temple in which your joyous enlightenment is eternally consecrated." - Shunyamurti. Don´t miss the ongoing unfoldments of the birth of Heaven on Earth. View our ashram blog...
Sat Yoga: Union with the Truth of our Being Welcome to the Sat Yoga Institute. If you are looking for a refuge from the chaos and negativity, both internal and external; if you are seeking a place of peace and hope, of spiritual fellowship and love; if you wish to study in a wisdom school that integrates the highest Eastern and Western traditions; then you may have just discovered your spiritual home....
The Creation of An Ashram To participate in the creation of an ashram is the ultimate adventure. It is the greatest honor and privilege a human being can attain. This is because an ashram is the most sacred archetypal form of community. An ashram is a chrysalis in which humans can transform into gods. An ashram is the intentional creation of a sacred space in which the ego is transcended.
The Transformational Imperative Like alcoholics at a twelve-step meeting, we must admit the truth: existence has become unmanageable for the human species. At every level, from individual emotional stability to couple and family relationships to global politics, life is in deadlock. There is no solution to our problems—or even the possibility to will a solution—so long as human consciousness remains at its current level of incomplete development.

Satsangs: Community Gatherings

A satsang is a traditional gathering for the purpose of meditating in a positive group energy field. Satsangs are open events for individual's who are interested in learning more about the Sat Yoga Institute. Our Satsangs offer teachings and guided meditations led by Shunyamurti, the director and founder of the Sat Yoga Institute.

Orientations

Three individual meetings grant you access to all of the Sat Yoga Institute's classes & activities.

You are invited to participate in our free orientation classes, where you will learn our philosophy, spiritual practices, ethical guidelines, class schedule, and if you are interested, you can apply to become a Student.

Sat Yoga Teaching Newsletter

To save you the trouble of checking the website to find out our schedule of events or if a new essay or audio clip has been added yet, we will send the links to the latest Sat Yoga teachings of Shunyamurti directly to your in-box...

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Sattvic Classes & Activities

film_series_smallIn this special fundraiser event, we plan to show a wide variety of high-quality documentaries and feature films relating to the issues of greatest interest to those on the path of healing, psycho-spiritual development, and global understanding. As always, there will be a discussion period after the films are screened, so we may recapitulate what has been learned and share insights from our own experience. Read more...

Schedule: Every Friday night at 7:00pm.

Requisite: If you are new to Sat Yoga Institute, please set up an orientation before attending our Film Series.

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psycho-spiritual-study-groupIn this hour of open discussion and study, students delve deeply into the psycho-spiritual teachings of Sat Yoga. Often we revisit recent teachings given by Shunyamurti in classes or weekend seminars. The basic study group, taught by Radha, focuses on specific modules of information that are at the core of Sat Yoga philosophy, including the chakra map; the ‘soular’ system and our circuits of desire; ego mind vs. Sat mind; the seven bodies; and many, many others. Read more… 

Schedule: Thursday evening at 5:30pm.

Requisite: If you are new to the Sat Yoga Institute, please sign up for an Orientation before attending our Study Group.

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Sat Yoga Asanas Hatha Yoga ClassThe Sat Asana class focuses on deep relaxation, flexibility, and concentration through slow, mindful movements. Our asana class emphasizes Sat Yoga teachings on meditative presence and unity of body, mind, and Atman. The practice offers variations that cultivate supportive alignment, meditative breathing, and gradual approaches to more challenging poses. Read more...

Schedule: Wednesdays at 5:45pm and every Friday at 5:15pm.

Requisite: If you are new to Sat Yoga Institute, please set up an Orientation before applying to participate in our Sat Asana Class.

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Sat Yoga Intermediate Book GroupOur book group gatherings are an opportunity to share and discuss insights into many different psycho-spiritual topics. In the Intermediate Book Group, we cover all of the world's religious and spiritual traditions as well as books on new scientific paradigms, including in such fields as psychology, quantum physics, and biosemiotics, as well as a variety of other mind-expanding subjects. Read more...

Schedule: Monthly.

Requisite: If you are new to Sat Yoga Institute, please set up an Orientation before applying to participate in our Intermediate Level Training.

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Sat Yoga Publications

Sounds of Nature Cd´s - From the Sat Yoga Ashram Costa Rica - Vol. 1 & 2

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Video Teachings

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"All the sages of every tradition of spiritual realization agree that our true nature is luminous, loveful, joyous, blissful, eternal, non-local...
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"All the sages of every tradition of spiritual realization agree that our true nature is luminous, loveful, joyous, blissful, eternal, non-local...
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"Many people have the misunderstanding that liberated beings become very boring," provides Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in...
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Sat Yoga Premaculture Endeavor:On the week of June 7th, when the moon and the constellations came together to bless the Earth with biodynamically...
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"Recently, an online student asked . . . 'What is really meant by surrender to God?' And to answer that question we have to really see the three...
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"Recently, an online student asked . . . 'What is really meant by surrender to God?' And to answer that question we have to really see the three...
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The Indian sage "Sri Aurobindo says that the primary act, central act, that a meditator is performing is an act of aspiration," explains ...
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The Indian sage "Sri Aurobindo says that the primary act, central act, that a meditator is performing is an act of aspiration," explains ...

Audio & Podcast

Weekly audio recordings of priceless spiritual Sat Yoga teachings of Shunyamurti, the founder and research director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica.
  • Atma-vichara - 07.22.10
    “We have come together to meditate. But why? What do we wish to achieve through meditation,” asks Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. We wish to achieve liberation from the ego—and specifically from the lowest, imaginary part of the ego—for whom life is a constant oscillation between desire and suffering. [...]
  • The Road to Disidentification: From UFO to UFS - 07.15.10
    “Each of us must be responsible for our own liberation. It’s not something that an other can do for you,” reminds Shunyamurti, the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. But, paradoxically, “Liberation is not an attainment. . . . The reason that it’s not an attainment, is that Liberation actually requires [...]
  • The Entity Know as “Language” - 07.08.10
    Student Comment: I’ve heard you say before that “language has colonized our minds,” which really helps me clear my head during meditation. I would like to know, however, if language really is a non-corporeal entity, or if I am simply literalizing the metaphor. “It’s an entity in the sense that it is used by the collective [...]
  • Means & Ends - 07.08.10
    Student Comment: In the study group, we were discussing “The Seven Structures of Duality,” and I found myself thinking the phrase, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” And it seemed to me that if one had a good intention, that the end would justify the means. But if one’s good intentions are [...]
  • “Be Still and Know that I am God” - 07.08.10
    “I hope all of you feel at peace in your body and in your mind. That’s the starting point for the spiritual journey,” maintains Shunyamurti, the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Indeed, the first mantra, “Om Shanti,” reminds us of this starting point. “This is why Sri Ramana was very [...]
  • Living an Authentic Existence - 07.01.10
    Student Comment: My whole life I’ve felt the need to live an authentic life. So what you said tonight was very poetic for me. “This is what all of human culture is about,” reminds Shunyamurti, the authentic director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And through time, the different philosophers have given their own [...]

Recent Spiritual Essays

  • From Tragic Love to Blissful Love: The Path of Sat Yoga
    So life is about love, right? The problem is that, for the ego, love is always tragic. Romantic love is a form of bhakti, devotion. In fact, you could say that every form of suffering is a form of bhakti. Our neurotic suffering is always a result of mis-directed devotion that leads to devastation.

    One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century who has explored the unconscious mind of human beings, perhaps more profoundly than anyone in history, is a French theorist named Jacques Lacan. Toward the end of his life, he made a very important pun in French on the word symptom, referring to it as Saint Thom, which in French is pronounced the same as symptome. He was alluding to Saint Thomas Aquinas, the great Catholic philosopher. Lacan implied that every symptom is our attempt at sainthood. Every love object becomes our cross to bear, and the site of our crucifixion.




    Written on Saturday, 03 July 2010 02:32 in Essays

  • The Meaning of Self-Realization

    The difficulty in explaining the meaning of Self-realization is that the mind tends to understand everything from within the paradigm of subject-object duality, and that is the very obstacle to the Self-realization we wish to achieve.

    That dualistic paradigm, which is illusory, structures language itself, so the very categories of thought by which we attempt to understand ourselves, prevent understanding from occurring. This is the double bind on the symbolic level.

    The more intelligent we become in terms of being able to manipulate symbolic forms, the more alienated we become from the Real that lies beyond the realm of symbols. And so we can say that Self-realization is a matter of surrender of the power of symbolic manipulation, investigation, and articulation to the higher power of Presence.





    Written on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 16:47 in Essays

  • Please Join the KGB

    True Sat Yogis must be members of the KGB. In this case, of course, KGB does not refer to the defunct Soviet intelligence agency. Rather, it means to be those who vow to always act with KGB—Kindness, Generosity, and Benevolence—toward everyone we meet, but especially toward our spiritual community.

    We need to act with KGB-consciousness because we know that in these final days of Kali Yuga everyone who is not a true Sat Yogi is in a state of hyper-sensitivity, emotional fragility, paranoia, lost-ness and confusion. So we must offer KGB—here, it also means Kali Good-bye Blessings—to help people recognize that it is time to return to the Light, to leave behind this plane of illusion and merge once more into the Supreme Reality. We can only give that message, non-verbally of course, if our consciousness is already united with the Supreme One.





    Written on Monday, 12 April 2010 22:19 in Essays

Testimonials

  • Sat Yoga will challenge your sense of Self, your belief structures and perceptions.  Engaging in such an experience holds potential for disruptive change and resulting  temporary discomfort.  What becomes critical then, is one’s openness to new information and enhanced self-awareness; and, the manner in which such growth is nurtured.




    Written on Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:49 in Testimonials

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