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A profound approach to
Awakening and Liberation
Arrival Day
The Sat Yoga Ashram is a refuge of pristine natural beauty. It is not easy to find on maps. Concealed by its encompassing cloud forest, in the misty mountains of southern Costa Rica. You will feel a different kind of energy as you enter the ashram land.
As you park in front of Mahatma Lodge, smiling yogis will welcome you, and after offering you a fresh homemade juice, you will be guided through the short registration process and then escorted to your Bhavan, your rustic picturesque cabina, that will serve as your comfortable abode.
The schedule is designed so you can take time to relax and unpack before returning to the lodge for an orientation with our spiritual recreation director, Saraswati. Then check out the meditation hall and choose your preferred chair or zafu before the main event, which will be signaled by the sound of soothing music. This means that formal meditation is beginning, and soon Shunyamurti will arrive to lead the opening class.
Accommodations
Nature is your Neighbor
Nestled within our flourishing gardens, a winding path leads to your home as you enter into the transformational journey to your own innermost nature.
Your bhavan, or spiritual abode, offers you two bathrooms, a small kitchen, a living room, two balconies, and a bedroom with a queen size bed.
Your private balconies and large windows overlook the natural beauty of the surrounding forests and gardens, providing the perfect conditions for meditation and relaxation.
A Vegetarian Paradise
Homegrown and made with love
Radiant, tender greens and ripe, nutritious vegetables are picked every morning from our ashram gardens and greenhouses. The roots and tubers are harvested from our food forests. Berries are plentiful on bushes everywhere. We bring you the most energized and irresistible ingredients possible. What we do not yet grow, we acquire fresh from neighboring farmers and on our Thursday trips to the local farmer’s market.
Our vegetarian and vegan meals are prepared in our ashram kitchen, which is named Ruchira (meaning bright, beautiful and tasteful in Sanskrit), by mindful yogi chefs who are careful to include prana and prema (divine love) as core ingredients of every meal.
Connect with the Community
An Extraordinary Gathering of Independent Minds
The people who have chosen to live at the Sat Yoga Ashram—as well as those who come to visit—are a unique selection of original thinkers, artists, activists, and spiritual seekers who have gathered from every part of the world. The magic of Shunyamurti’s presence and teachings, delivered in an energy field of radiant love, sustained by our dedicated community, who live in harmonious simplicity, will move your heart and bring your soul to blossom, as you are filled with feelings too exquisite to describe.
Our community is here to serve you and we know what support you will need as emotions arise and are released—and we are here for you, to stabilize you in your deep process of healing. We accompany you at every step of your journey of divine rebirth, your discovery of who you really are, as the ego falls away.
Sample Day
Every day is a Holy Day
Whether you are here for a weekend retreat, a month-long Immersion Program, or a more extended stay, you will discover that each day is filled with new insights and feelings, augmented by the meditation sittings, individual transformation sessions, the wisdom classes, and the time spent with other yogis in communal service.
- 4:00 – 5:30am – Dawn Meditation & Class
- 5:30 – 8:00am – Personal Time/Asana
- 8:00 – 8:45am – Breakfast
- 8:45 – 9:30am – Clean Up and Chores
- 9:30 – 1:00pm – Meditation and Class
- 1:00 – 1:45pm – Lunch
- 1:45 – 2:30pm – Clean Up and Chores
- 2:30 – 5:30pm – Personal Time
- 5:30 – 7:00pm – Meditation and Class
- 7:00 – 7:30pm – Evening Meal
Meditation
Raja Yoga
Wisdom Classes
Gyana Yoga
Service
Karma Yoga
Working with others at simple tasks, sometimes in the gardens, harvesting fruits and vegetables, sometimes in the ashram kitchen, sometimes sweeping or wiping tables, sometimes pruning fruit trees—every moment will be a meditation, a pristine appreciation of being present, in the miracle of life. Such magical moments of quiet connectivity will arouse the recognition that you are a cell in a living super-organism. You will know the secret joy of merging in the lovestream that flows from the Source through our spiritual tribe.
A Place of Supernatural Intensity
Surrounded by a Tropical Cloud Forest
Be prepared for strolling on slopes, at an elevation of around 1100 meters, with alternating bright sunshine and rolling fogbanks, open vistas becoming a white island floating in the Void. The uncanny shifts of temperature and energy, from small rain to distant lightning, from awesome sunsets to starry nights, from the pink and golden morning clouds and the roars of howler monkeys in the trees, to the endless choruses of birdsong, cicadas, bellowing frogs, and the bursts of fireflies signaling in the darkness—the ancient speech of the natural world will astonish your heart.
Bring clothing appropriate for our weather (shifting quickly from cool and rainy to hot and humid). Mornings arrive slowly over the hills, and become generally sunny and warm, but from around midday to the afternoon the clouds may move in, to bring us cool and sometimes chilly nights and early mornings. Bring a sweater and a meditation blanket, to keep the body warm and cozy. The Fire of Yoga will do the rest.
