Our Story
Yoga Center Amherst aspires to be a living laboratory for yoga in its widest sense.
There are three sacred streams that join in the heart of Yoga Center Amherst, each with its own individual integrity. Each of these streams informs our work and is represented in our offerings. These streams are Embodyoga and practices that support embodiment, Light Omega and the teachings of Guruji-Ma, and Integral Yoga/Auroville, which includes a deep honoring of the ancient roots of yoga and India and the vastness of its scope. We experience these streams as one, as a unified vibration that is coming into manifestation at YCA.
Yoga Center Amherst seeks to nurture and cultivate the experience of our fundamental unity with the Infinite Creative Spirit without leaving the Earth or our bodies. It seeks to be a space where the One can be found in the many, the infinite in the finite, spiritual reality in our bodies, and throughout our daily lives. For this to be possible Yoga Center Amherst must be more than a yoga studio – it must be a yogic enterprise, where yoga breathes in all its many aspects and flows through its days. So, in addition to providing access to yogic experiences through classes, workshops, teacher trainings, and retreats, we seek to always to align the business with the Divine inspiration that has created it, sustains it, and continually transforms it.
