Sat Yoga's Mission |
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First and foremost, the Sat Yoga Institute is dedicated to helping all beings who seek knowledge of the higher Truth that alone can redeem our Essence. We provide a place to meditate, to study, to grow and transform in a vibrant spiritual community, one that protects your individual freedom to approach your inner journey in your own way, to move at your own pace in your own direction as you feel called from within. The transfinite truth of Being can accommodate every path within itself, every permutation and transfiguration of the unlimited potentiality that we are. |
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We are dedicated to truthful exploration, to unmasking the lies and false assumptions that hold our consciousness in limited and unfruitful forms and patterns. But we do not seek to control or influence the form of expression or the existential goals and affiliations that one is drawn to explore. One can think of oneself as a Christian, a Buddhist, a Vedantist, an atheist, or not as a person at all, as simply the emptiness of pure awareness—and one can feel at home in our spiritual community. Our aim is to become fully at one with our real Self—and able to live and relate with an open mind and an open heart. |
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Sat Yoga: Union with our True Being |
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The path of Sat Yoga comprises the full flowering of the “perennial philosophy,” integrating all the forms of nondual discourse and training, including Advaita, Zen and other forms of Buddhism, Taoism, and the mystical forms of the monotheistic religions, with insights from Alchemy, Ayurveda, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Western philosophy, and the most avant-garde contemporary schools of depth psychology and post-Lacanian psychoanalysis. |
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The ancient science of Sat Yoga comprises a form of Self-enquiry, of meditation, and the practice of inner deconstruction of the many layers of the false self in order to achieve Liberation in life. As part of this work, we encourage the sustenance of a healthy lifestyle in accord with strict ethical parameters, in order to strengthen and protect our practice. And we teach a variety of different preliminary techniques in order to prepare the body and mind to be able to receive and contain the higher energies that we learn to attune to in our meditative practice. These techniques have been part of the Yogic path for many centuries and are of proven value. The ultimate aim of Sat Yoga practice is the falling away of the ego and the complete realization of the One Self. This attainment is actually the beginning of the spiritual life, not its end point. Since we are already That, no techniques are necessary for this achievement. It is simply matter of removing the blinders, the veils of ignorance that occlude the pristine sublime nature of our timeless reality. By learning to silence the chattering mind, to be fully present with an open heart, willing to accept the Great Mystery that is our Being, to live in boundless openness and playfulness, the grace of the Supreme Loving Presence comes to permeate our field of energy and consciousness. We become the natural embodiments of the supernatural Essence that all along we had been seeking. We are That. Live the highest truth now, surrender the ego to the Presence that encompasses you, unite with the infinite loving power, and all blessings shall be delivered unto you. This is the true practice of Sat Yoga. |
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Professional Training | ||
Our advanced training program is designed to enable students to become adept professional healers, spiritual guides, and teachers. Our advanced training in clinical Atmanology functions at a very high level of sophistication, and is the equivalent of a graduate school curriculum. This part of the institute’s functioning is not for everyone, but we encourage those who are drawn toward scholarship, conceptual understanding, and higher intellectual stimulation to participate in our study groups—it will stretch your mind and enable you to grasp the most subtle aspects of Reality, thus enabling you to function as a transformational catalyst in life situations that appear deadlocked or hopeless. When higher wisdom is united with genuine love, enabling the flow of
sufficient pranic and kundalini energies, there is no suffering that cannot be healed. |
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