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The Best of Both Worlds

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Be empowered to give people the gift of their own Divine Essence. Our new MTT format gives you the best of both worlds — Online as well as On-Site.

Now learning to teach meditation is easier and more accessible than ever.

Meditation Teacher Training

Begins April 7

On-Site & Online

In your On-Site immersion, you’ll experience the tools that unravel the knots in your mind. You will discover the deeper dimensions of your own Self and delve into that Beingness.

Experiencing your own Divine Essence is the key part of the process. This is why a Shaktipat Day is included!

Your Online classes begin after you return home. You will lengthen and deepen your meditations in your daily group meditations. Weekly satsangs (meditation programs) with Gurudevi ensure that you continue to marinate in Consciousness.

The two-day retreat that culminates your training is also Online. You will be prepared to teach your first series of meditation classes, supported by a Mentor all the way through.

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Don’t Slacken Now

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By Swami Shrutananda

A yoga therapy client told me:

I no longer get headaches. My skull is still tight. Mostly I don’t notice this tightness.

I no longer get the mild dizziness while doing a pose. My neck and upper back are tight, but not as tight as when we first started.

My chest tightness is mild. Walking around Lokananda or out for a stroll with fellow yogis, I didn’t notice the tightness.

This is a trap!  You might be trapped into thinking that how you feel now is probably as good as it gets.

You feel underlying tensions, some aches, maybe areas of your body that trouble you. So you do some yoga, and you feel better after doing yoga.

Yet you cannot address those deep underlying tensions on your own. You settle into the trap of assuming “this is good enough.”

You only get one body in this lifetime. That tightness and underlying tension, whether noticed or not, will surface in your future. If unaddressed, it will become a condition that doctors will later give a name to. Some conditions are life threating.

Don’t slacken now!

Svaroopa® Yoga Therapists specialize in releasing deeply held tensions along your whole spine from tail-to-top. Regular sessions, once a week minimum, are essential. A series of sessions will propel your healing process.

Most effective are ten sessions in a row, ten every other day and ten every third day. Repeat this 10-10-10 series as needed. Your body is the home you live in 24/7. Take care of it.

Svaroopa® Yoga Therapy addresses the deeper underlying tensions you have. Regular, consistent sessions enable you to live a comfortable life, a healthy life, a happy life. Don’t settle for less.

Let 2026 be the year you do more yoga therapy sessions. I dare you to feel better than you can even imagine!

Yoga Therapy

New Storefront

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Look at our big new windows and doors! Bright, shiny and new for the new year – let the light shine in.

This is the first stage of our storefront upgrade, with new colors and front steps coming soon. With a big thank you to the generosity of a donor and a number of sevites who have been working on the project for months.

This will make it easier to see us – and to come in for more yoga…

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Support Equals Release

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By Swami Samvidaananda

In almost every yoga class, I say, “Support equals release.” It is a key principle of Svaroopa® yoga. 

The support you receive in class takes many forms. The plaid blankets are the most obvious, and colorful!

We fold and roll and stack and tuck blankets in wherever you need them most.  We give you blocks, a strap, or a chair. Your teacher excels at knowing how and when and why to provide you with a prop. 

The props meet your body where tension is holding it back. When you lean into that support, your deep internal tensions let go. Support = release.

You’ve been carrying those tensions for so long.  Sometimes you are so used to holding them, you don’t even know you have them. Then you do a supported spinal-opening pose, and the tensions let go. It feels so freeing!

In my very first Svaroopa® yoga class, I didn’t understand the purpose of the props. I had done other styles of yoga, where your only prop was a sticky mat. I didn’t think I needed any.  Begrudgingly, I let the teacher give me one blanket roll for Shavasana, yoga’s relaxation pose.

The more poses we did, the more I warmed up to using the props — blocks under my hands in Lunge, blankets under my belly in Half Frog.  I was open to using them because I felt better and better. 

By the end, I felt so amazing that I was on board with whatever props the teacher wanted to give me! I hadn’t actually ever felt that way at the end of a yoga class. It wasn’t just relaxation.  It was bliss.

With Svaroopa® yoga’s core-opening poses, you can experience not merely relaxation, well-being and renewal, but bliss. It’s the bliss of your own Beingness, which yoga calls your own Self.

Your spine is a doorway to the inner depths of your Beingness. When you release the deep tensions in your spine with these precise, supported and deceptively simple poses, you open that doorway inside.  And the experience of your own Self is inherently blissful.

I taught Seated Side Stretch the other day. After one side of the pose, I asked the students to describe the differences between their two sides. One student had a look of utter surprise and joy on her face. All she could say was, “Wow!” Though she didn’t have the words for it yet, she was experiencing her own Self. 

This is the gift of Svaroopa® yoga. And it begins for you by accepting the support of those ubiquitous plaid blankets.

Yoga Therapy