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Amrit Yoga Institute

We are dedicated to embodying and transmitting the authentic wisdom and experience of yoga.
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Since ancient times, there have always been schools dedicated to preserving and teaching the very highest truths and mysteries of life — places where people could go to remove themselves from the distractions of day-to-day life and one-pointedly immerse themselves in a supportive, nurturing environment, emerging enriched and transformed. Today, and especially in the West, this tradition has been largely replaced by schools that almost exclusively emphasize rational learning. We find very few schools that focus on discovering the real nature of the Self. The Amrit Yoga Institute is such a place, dedicated to serving and awakening the very highest within all who come here with trainings, workshops, and spiritual lifestyle opportunities that nurture the soul. The Amrit Institute is situated on a secluded 6-acre property in a lush setting with a towering canopy of large, shady oaks, and formal gardens with Chattahoochee stone decks and walkways. The Main House and Recreation Lodge can accommodate small programs and a number of guests. Our lakefront property and beautiful grounds provide a tranquil, restful, natural setting ideal for restoring your health and reconnecting to the spiritual source

Ongoing Local Community Classes and Programs:
The Amrit Yoga Institute offers classes, satsangs and kirtans throughout the year to the public. Most programs are free to the public, although donations are gratefully accepted.

11/21/2025

This week: One practice, infinite applications.
Witnessing.

Not detachment. Not disconnection.
Full engagement with life while remaining anchored in awareness.

We explored the thread that weaves through every I AM Yoga practice:

- Presence reveals that peace was never dependent on circumstances
- Breath invites you to witness life itself
- Yoga Nidra dissolves the layers hiding who you've always been
- Witnessing creates space between what happens and your conditioned response

Gurudev Shri Amritji teaches that witnessing isn't observing from a distance. It's being fully present with life while recognizing you are not the content of experience, you are the consciousness in which experience happens.

This is true empowerment: the freedom to remain present regardless of what arises.

Join our community and deepen your witnessing practice.

What shifted for you this week? Share your insight below.

11/20/2025

You keep waiting for circumstances to align.
But peace doesn't live in perfect conditions.
It emerges when you stop needing things to be different.

In I AM Yoga, Gurudev Shri Amritji reveals peace is not created by arranging your life perfectly. Peace is the absence of needing your life to be different than it is.

The practice is witnessing.

Thoughts arise like clouds moving through the sky of your awareness. You don't become the clouds. You remain the sky.

Emotions move through like weather patterns, but you are not the weather. You are the space in which weather happens.

During the holidays, this becomes medicine. Witness your reactions without becoming them.

This is true acceptance, the active recognition of what is, as it is.

11/17/2025

Stress builds when we chase perfection outwardly.

Peace emerges when we practice presence inwardly.

The shift begins with one conscious breath.

As we move into the holiday season, many of us feel the weight of stress building. The endless to-do lists, family dynamics, and pressure to create perfect moments can leave us feeling scattered and depleted.

Through the teachings of I AM Yoga, Gurudev Shri Amritji reminds us that stress isn't merely a response to external circumstances; it's a lived pattern stored in the body, reinforced by unconscious reactions.

When we're caught in doing mode, we're often operating from old memory rather than present awareness.

But when you practice presence, something profound happens. The stored stress begins to metabolize. The nervous system finds regulation.

You discover that your true power doesn't come from controlling your circumstances but from meeting each moment with conscious awareness.

This week, we invite you to explore a different approach to holiday stress. Instead of trying to manage or suppress it, practice witnessing it.

Notice when tension arises in your body. Observe your breath. Allow yourself to simply be present with what is, without judgment.

This is the doorway to lasting peace, not through doing more, but through being more fully here.

11/04/2025

We had the most wonderful celebration and can't wait to see you in India! Jai Gurudev!

📷Tina Henle
🎥Trey Ducker

10/16/2025

Today, we are wishing Amritji the happiest of birthdays as he turns 93 years old. We celebrate and honor his dedication to sadhana, service and sharing the message of Swami Kripalu with unwavering devotion. Jai Gurudev!🙏 Next week - October 24-26, we invite you to join us in Ocala, FL for a weekend of darshans, kirtans, yoga and community! The time is NOW, don't miss your opportunity to connect, receive and give back. Register by donation https://amrityoga.org/programs/2003/gurudev-shri-amritjis-93rd-birthday/

10/03/2025

Gurudev is getting ready to turn 93 in a couple of weeks! Just yesterday, he was remarking on what a full life he's lived and how the more time passes, the more it feels like it's been a dream.

October 24-26, 2025: Join us and celebrate his birthday through a weekend of satsang, yoga, music, energetic dance, meditation, energetic transmission and community.

We'll be joined with high vibration Bhakti kirtan by Visvambhar Sheth and Krishna Kishora of the Mayapuris.

This is not an event to be missed...

Register by love donation: https://amrityoga.org/programs/2003/gurudev-shri-amritjis-93rd-birthday/

1. On-Site: Stay directly at the Ocala Hilton
3600 SW 36th Ave, Ocala, FL
(352) 854-1400

2. Budget Friendly, Next Door: Stay at the La Quinta, just a two minute walk to the Ocala Hilton
3530 SW 36th Ave, Ocala, FL
(352) 441-9027

📷Ryan Lane

09/18/2025

We're going to India! Who's coming with us? Gurudev Shri Amritji, Kamini Desai, PhD, Malay, Nirali and Hasu will be your guides as you immerse in the powerful energy vortex of the sacred Kripalu Samadhi Mandir. To register: https://amrityoga.org/india/ For questions: https://calendly.com/nirali-yoga/15min

09/10/2025

Gurudev Shri Amritji, Kamini Desai, PhD, Malay Desai, Nirali Lauren McCrea, and Hasu Marney Coulter will lead a rare pilgrimage into the heart of a living lineage, where mystical teachings become direct experience.

https://amrityoga.org/programs/2028/india-2026/

To enter the Kripalu Samadhi Mandir is to enter the living heart of a sacred tradition. Beneath this temple rests the body of Swami Kripalu, whose life was dedicated entirely to unbroken sadhana. The atmosphere is permeated with his presence, and the silence vibrates with devotion. Every stone carries the imprint of tapasya, and as you sit within this energy vortex you are drawn into a continuity of practice and realization that transcends time.

Morning and evening puja and aarti open the heart and connect you directly to the masters of the lineage, allowing their presence to be felt as a living force within you. Chanting and meditation within the Samadhi Mandir deepen this connection until you recognize yourself as part of the same stream of devotion that carried Bapuji into timeless awareness.

Through satsang with Gurudev, the clarity of Kamini’s teachings, and classes with Nirali and Hasu, the practices of I AM Yoga® and I AM Yoga Nidra™ become doorways into transformation. What begins in the stillness of practice extends into every part of daily life, so that the mystical becomes tangible, and the tangible becomes a pathway to the mystical.

Life at the ashram sustains this awakening through the rhythms of community: meals, chanting, kirtan, afternoon tea, and reflection in the natural beauty of the countryside. Visits to sacred sites, including the Kayavarohan Temple, the Krishna Cow Sanctuary where Gurudev first met Bapuji, and the childhood village of Pratappura, extend this immersion into the living story of the lineage.

This pilgrimage is more than travel to holy places, it is an initiation into a field of energy that shifts the trajectory of your spiritual life. Within the presence of the temples, teachers, and traditions of this lineage, you will discover the possibility of healing, transformation, and renewal at the deepest level of your being.

08/22/2025

We are hosting Gurudev's 93rd Birthday Celebration at the Ocala Hilton October 24-26, 2025. This event is by donation and we really want to see you there! https://amrityoga.org/programs/2003/gurudev-shri-amritjis-93rd-birthday/

As Gurudev turns 93 this year, his spirit is bright and his teachings are more refined than ever. Life is so precious and it's not lost on any of us how special these years are.

If you've been feeling the call to reconnect, October 24-26 is a great time to replenish, offer your thanks and be with your yoga family.

We will have a celebration of music, ecstatic dance, energetic transmission, sadhana and darshan. Vish of the Mayapuris is coming as well!

Event Features...
Daily Darshan & Energetic Transmission with Gurudev
Daily Sadhana with Chandrakant and Nirali
Kirtan with Jagdish, Malay and Chandrakant
Ecstatic Chanting with world-renowned Visvambhar Sheth of the Mayapuris

05/13/2025

Gurudev Shri Amritji Elected to the World Yoga Congress Board
Yoga Vidya, Germany | April 25–28, 2025

We are pleased to share that Gurudev Shri Amritji was recently invited to the World Yoga Conference held at Yoga Vidya in Germany from April 25–28, 2025. He was joined by Kamini Desai, PhD, and Nirali Lauren McCrea, who were also invited to present at the Congress.

During the gathering, and in recognition of his global contributions to yoga, Gurudev was elected as a Board Member of the World Yoga Congress, where he will serve as a representative of the United States. Kamini Desai was also invited to join, representing Iceland.

This historic event brought together respected teachers, leaders, and practitioners from around the world to honor the diverse and living traditions of yoga. It was a profound moment for our lineage, as three generations came together to share and embody these teachings on an international platform.

We are grateful for the opportunity to witness and support this evolving legacy.

01/10/2025

Reaction in the mind squanders the body's healing energy. Free Live Meditations every Friday @ 11:00am EST via YouTube Live

12/16/2024

What is self-deception?

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Since ancient times, there have always been schools dedicated to preserving and teaching the very highest truths and mysteries of life — places where people could go to remove themselves from the distractions of day-to-day life and one-pointedly immerse themselves in a supportive, nurturing environment, emerging enriched and transformed. Today, and especially in the West, this tradition has been largely replaced by schools that almost exclusively emphasize rational learning. We find very few schools that focus on discovering the real nature of the Self. The Amrit Yoga Institute is such a place, dedicated to serving and awakening the very highest within all who come here with trainings, workshops, and spiritual lifestyle opportunities that nurture the soul. The Amrit Institute is situated on a secluded 6-acre property in a lush setting with a towering canopy of large, shady oaks, and formal gardens with Chattahoochee stone decks and walkways. The Main House and Recreation Lodge can accommodate small programs and a number of guests. Our lakefront property and beautiful grounds provide a tranquil, restful, natural setting ideal for restoring your health and reconnecting to the spiritual source within. Ongoing Local Community Classes and Programs: The Amrit Yoga Institute offers classes, satsangs and kirtans throughout the year to the public. Most comminity offerings are free to the public, although donations are gratefully accepted.