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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.

02/16/2026

Relax and have a good time with what is, not with what will be or what was." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

You tell yourself you want to relax, but what you often want is relief from feeling.

You reach for TV, scrolling, substances, constant activity, or "just one more task," because staying occupied feels safer than being present.

Those habits may distract you, but they rarely restore you. The body is busy while the nervous system stays on guard.

Relaxation is not distraction. Relaxation is the end of inner resistance. It is the moment you stop arguing with what is here. It is meeting the present without needing it to be different first. When you stop fighting the moment, the moment stops fighting you.

The mind promises, "I will relax when the work is done, when the conflict is resolved, when I finally have time." But "later" keeps moving, because the habit of bracing has become normal. You do not notice how tightly you hold yourself until you try to let go.

Yoga trains your relationship with sensation, thought, and emotion. In Shavasana, you are not making tension disappear.

You are allowing it to be there without pushing against it. You let the floor support you, you let the breath be honest, and you let the body soften from the inside. When you stop trying to "do relaxation," the body receives permission to unbrace.

Try something simple now. Let your exhale lengthen for one breath. Unclench the jaw. Soften the belly. Feel what is supporting you. Notice the part of you that is trying to fix the moment, and release that effort by one degree.

Relaxation is not escaping reality. Relaxation is intimacy with reality. When you meet what is with friendliness, you discover space and a quiet joy that does not depend on perfect conditions.

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02/15/2026

The mystic is one who can live in mystery and tolerate the unknown.

"The mystic is one who can live in mystery and tolerate the unknown." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

The mind demands certainty.

It wants to know what will happen, how things will turn out, whether it will be okay.

But life is mystery.

The future is unknown. The Source is unknowable.

To live as mystic = to rest in not knowing.

Darshan is not about getting answers.

It's about becoming comfortable with the question.

When you sit with Gurudev, you are not seeking explanation.

You are entering the field where mystery is welcomed.

Where not knowing becomes the doorway to deeper knowing.

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02/14/2026

When you release conflict, you also release the mind and enter the rhythm of life.

This week's teachings keep circling the same doorway: you can't change the past, but you can change what happens next. Relaxation is meeting, not escaping. Meditation is now, not "better." Undigested reality waits for release. Peace is beyond understanding.

All of it points to one shift: from fighting what is… to flowing with it.

"When you release conflict, you also release the mind and enter the rhythm of life." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

Conflict is not only an argument with another person. Conflict is an argument with reality. It is the inner "no" you place on what is already happening. It is resistance. And resistance always costs you.

Because the moment you fight reality, you divide yourself. One part of you is here, living what is. Another part of you is elsewhere, demanding something different. That split is the ache you call stress. The friction you call anxiety. The exhaustion you call "life."

The mind is the generator of this conflict. Not because mind is bad, but because mind is designed to compare, judge, predict, and control. It measures the present against an imagined standard. It demands certainty. It demands outcomes. It demands that Life obey your preferences.

So long as mind is trying to dominate the moment, the moment feels like an enemy.

But when you release conflict, you also release the mind, not by suppressing thoughts, but by removing the fuel that keeps them burning: resistance. The inner battle ends. And when the battle ends, something natural appears.

Rhythm.

Rhythm is not a concept. It is the living intelligence of Life itself, the pulse of arising and passing, inhaling and exhaling, tightening and softening, effort and rest. Rhythm does not ask permission. It does not require your agreement. It simply moves.

You do not control rhythm. You enter it.

It is releasing the need to be in control.

02/13/2026

When you reconnect with the Source, you instantly shift from duality into unity. You access the peace that is beyond all understanding.

"When you reconnect with the Source, you instantly shift from duality into unity. You access the peace that is beyond all understanding." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

Peace ≠ something you create.

Not result of arranging life correctly, resolving conflicts, getting everyone to behave right.

Peace = what remains when you stop creating division.

When mind that splits reality into good/bad, right/wrong, acceptable/unacceptable quiets—peace is already here.

The Source ≠ separate from you.

Not something you reach through effort or achievement.

It's what you are beneath layers of identification, conditioning, memory.

Yoga Nidra: not going somewhere. Coming home.

Ground of being before thought, before story, before separate self.

Threshold state, neither fully awake nor asleep.

Conscious mind's grip loosens. Need to control, understand, make sense dissolves.

Peace revealed. Not as emotion. Not as absence of disturbance.

Peace as fundamental nature of existence itself.

Mind can't understand this peace because mind lives in duality.

But Source peace = non-dual. Doesn't depend on anything being different.

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02/12/2026

"Until it is released, undigested reality remains lodged in the unconscious karma body." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

There are experiences you lived through that you never fully met.

Not because you were weak, but because in that moment your system did what it had to do: stay functional, stay composed, keep going.

You moved on… but the experience did not complete. Something remained unfinished inside.

Undigested reality is not a problem you solve by thinking. It is an impression: an incomplete wave of sensation, emotion, breath, and energy that never had the space to move through.

When you override what you feel, when you push through without pausing, when you tell yourself "later" while your body is saying "now," you don't make it disappear.

You compress it. You store it.

The conscious mind forgets.

The karma body records.

The body becomes the storage room for what consciousness could not digest at the time.

At first it looks harmless: tight shoulders, a clenched jaw, shallow breathing, restless sleep, a heaviness you can't explain. Over time, the storage becomes congestion. Tension becomes your baseline. Fatigue becomes familiar.

You succeed, but you don't feel nourished.

This is why emotional detox through yoga is not about "sweating out" darkness or forcing catharsis. It is a deep metabolic process: allowing what was frozen to thaw, allowing what was interrupted to finish, allowing Life to move again through blocked channels.

In I AM Yoga, you hold the posture and breathe into resistance: not to conquer it, but to include it.

You stop arguing with sensation. You create safety through presence. And in that presence, what has been lodged begins to surface. Sometimes it comes as heat, trembling, tears, waves of feeling.

This is not collapse. It is release. It is the intelligence of the body completing what was once interrupted. Energy that was bound becomes available again.

Release is not dramatic. It is often silent. Cellular. Real.

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02/11/2026

"Meditation is not a future-oriented process of getting better. Meditation is the experience of now." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

The ego doesn't hear meditation as presence. It hears meditation as a project. It sits down with an agenda: "Make me calmer. Make me more focused. Fix what's wrong with me." And the moment you meditate with that orientation, you've already stepped out of meditation and into becoming.

Because "becoming" creates a split: the you who is not peaceful now, and the you who will be peaceful later.

That division becomes a quiet violence. The present self is judged as inadequate, and the future self becomes a promise you keep chasing. In that chase, you miss the only place peace can ever be real: here, now, as this moment.

Meditation through yoga is not the mind learning to behave better. It is the willingness to witness the mind exactly as it is: restless, distracted, reactive, without trying to correct it into a more acceptable version.

Not because you're indifferent, but because you're ending the habit of resisting what is. When resistance stops, something deeper than thought becomes obvious: you are not the thought, you are the awareness that knows the thought is happening.

This is why the body is the doorway.

The mind can endlessly rehearse past and future, but sensation can only exist in immediacy. You cannot feel yesterday's sensation, only remember an idea of it. You cannot feel tomorrow's sensation, only anticipate an image of it.

Sensation is always happening in real time, and when you truly enter it: pressure, warmth, vibration, tightness, you are brought back to now without philosophy.

So meditation is not "getting peaceful." It is meeting what's here without creating war. It is the end of postponing your life until conditions improve.

And as you stay, again and again, without trying to become someone else, you discover peace is not a destination. Peace is what remains when you stop leaving the present moment.

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02/10/2026

"Continuous practice carves character traits deeply into the mind, and these character traits are what mold the personality." — Swami Kripalu

Swami Kripalu is reminding us that personality isn't something you "are." It's something you repeatedly rehearse.

Every day, the mind leans toward what it likes and resists what it dislikes. Those small movements seem harmless, until they become grooves. Over time, the grooves turn into tendencies… and the tendencies turn into a life.

This is why silence matters in yoga.

In noise, we keep performing our patterns.

In silence, we finally see them.

Sit quietly for a few minutes and notice what arises: the pull toward comfort, the push away from discomfort, the urge to control the moment. Swami points out that we naturally "like" the actions we perform through love, and we "dislike" the ones we feel forced to do. Those likes and dislikes don't stay small.

They begin to dominate the personality, quietly shaping your choices, relationships, and even the way you perceive yourself.

Swami called this swabhava: the stored inclinations that steer the mind in its preferred direction. If we only try to change behaviour through force, we snap back, like a spring released. But when practice is steady, gentle, and continuous, the mind itself is re-educated.

One moment of witnessing a like or dislike, without obeying it.

Don't aim to become "perfect." Aim to become present.

Continuous practice doesn't just improve your habits, it carves new character.

And new character quietly reshapes the whole personality.

What pattern keeps "snapping back" in your life, and what would continuous practice look like there?

02/09/2026

"To be in reality, you must let go of interpretation and immerse yourself in the direct experience of spirit, guided by its innate intelligence." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

The mind is always looking for nourishment, but it often reaches for the wrong source.

It searches for validation, meaning through accomplishments, and relief through information, entertainment, and distraction. It feels full for a moment, then it depletes again. Empty calories. A temporary hit that leaves you hungrier than before.

True nourishment is not what you consume. It is what you become present to.

In I AM Yoga, you are not performing postures. You are inhabiting them. You are letting awareness enter the body so fully that the thinking mind loses its grip. And in that space, something deeper begins to feed you, something thought cannot grasp.

When effort ceases, prana moves. When control relaxes, an innate intelligence emerges.

It knows how to restore balance without being instructed. It knows how to heal without being forced. Stillness becomes nourishment, not as an idea, but as a direct experience of reality.

This is how the mind is nourished through yoga: you stop feeding it content, and you create conditions for it to rest in the source.

You witness thought without following it, and you withdraw energy from the mental machinery. The ego believes it will starve without constant input. The opposite is true. The more you feed it, the hungrier it becomes.

Real nourishment is a kind of fasting.

You fast from the compulsion to process, interpret, analyse, and improve. You return to direct experience. You let spirit's intelligence guide you back into reality.

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02/08/2026

"Life is a journey without destination. It is an infinite unfolding process." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

This week we moved through one teaching wearing many faces: self-observation as spiritual, a breath beneath your breath, nourishment through presence, release as surrender, and healing in the threshold.

All of it pointing to the same recognition: you are not becoming healed. You are remembering what was never wounded.

Healing has no endpoint. There is no final moment where you "arrive," complete and finished, needing nothing more.

Each layer that releases reveals another layer ready to be met. This is not failure. This is how consciousness unfolds: quietly, honestly, infinitely.

Integration is allowing the process without demanding a destination. It is meeting yourself exactly where you are, not where you think you should be. The wound is the doorway, not the destination. And the doorway keeps opening.

Sunday Darshan is temporarily off-air while the community is on pilgrimage in India.

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02/07/2026

"To experience the presence, you must be present." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

Healing is not an achievement. It is not the reward for doing enough therapy, enough yoga, enough "work on yourself." Healing reveals itself when you stop trying to fix yourself and simply meet what is here.

Yoga Nidra teaches this directly. It heals through allowing, not effort. You rest in the threshold between waking and sleeping, between conscious and unconscious, between the self that tries and the Self that simply is. As the thinking mind quiets, the stories loosen their grip.

What remains is presence: pure, undivided, and untouched by the past. This is where healing lives. Not in the narrative of wounds. Not in the analysis of suffering. In the space beneath it all, the ground of being where nothing is wrong and nothing needs to be different for you to be whole.

The body knows how to heal. It always has. But the controlling mind often suppresses that natural intelligence by interfering, directing, and bracing. Yoga Nidra removes the suppression. As the grip releases, the body returns to its design. Restoration happens because you stop getting in the way.

Presence is not something you manufacture. It is what you are when you stop being what you are not.

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02/06/2026

"What is God's will? It is the surrender of your own will, the release of individual, ego-based desires." — Gurudev Shri Amritji

You say you want to release the pain, the fear, the past. But most people don't actually understand what release means. They think it means getting rid of something. Pushing it away. Deleting it. Becoming "over it."

Release is not rejection. Release is the cessation of holding.

When the grip loosens, what was compressed can expand and move. Emotional release happens because you stop preventing it. Every suppressed emotion is still inside you, not as a problem to solve, but as energy seeking completion. It has been waiting for the conditions that allow it to finish what was interrupted.

The ego wants to manage this. It wants control over when and how you feel. It wants a safe schedule for surrender. But emotion doesn't negotiate. It moves when the conditions are right.

And the condition is simple: presence without resistance.

This is why I AM Yoga does not force release. It creates space. You hold the posture long enough that the body cannot distract itself with movement. In that stillness, what has been held begins to surface. Heat. Trembling. A tight throat. A sudden impulse to cry, to shake, to laugh, to exhale like you've been holding your breath for years.

This is not you "breaking." This is wisdom. This is the body finally given permission to tell the truth.

God's will is not an external demand placed upon you. It is the ending of your inner argument with what is. It is surrender, not as an idea, but as a lived experience.

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02/05/2026

Lineage of Light: Initiation with Gurudev

There are moments on the path that don't happen through effort alone. Moments where practice becomes presence, and presence becomes transmission.

Join us for Lineage of Light, an intimate initiation weekend with Gurudev Shri Amritji, alongside Chandrakant and Nirali Lauren McCrea, on our Forest Side campus in Salt Springs, Florida.

🗓 March 13–15, 2026

⏰ Check-in Fri 4:00–6:00pm | Check-out Sun 1:00pm

📍 Amrit Yoga Institute (Forest Side)

🌿 Limited to 18 participants for direct connection and a close community of sincere seekers. The small gathering creates space for energetic sadhana, true stillness, and the quiet nourishment of our reflective ashram setting.

This retreat is a rare occasion to practice, study, and receive energetic transmission directly from Gurudev. In the spirit of the lineage, initiation is an invitation to awaken the "guru within," to stop outsourcing love, safety, and approval… and to reconnect with the source of steadiness already living inside you.

During the weekend you may receive:

• The Guru mantra (a sacred key for inner guidance)

• Tools for meeting fear and karmic patterns with clarity in everyday life

• (Optional) a Sanskrit name from Gurudev, marking a new inner chapter

Weekend rhythm includes morning sadhana, darshan with Gurudev, and a closing ceremony—held in a setting designed for stillness, reflection, and inner awakening.

Program-only commuter rate: $499 (includes all meals). Lodging options are also available.

Prerequisite: completion of one eligible core training (see the program page for the full list).

If you feel the call, we invite you to join us.

Spots are very limited, visit https://amrityoga.org/programs/2066/lineage-of-light-2026/ or check the link in bio to register

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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.