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Urban Sadhu Yoga is a modern integrated yoga method that incorporates the ancient teachings of yoga i THE SIX PILLARS OF URBAN SADHU YOGA

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While Raja Yoga does not acknowledge Kundalini (shakti) both Tantra and Hatha do. While the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita Shri, Krishna expresses that satva is superior as a state in nature. Tantra expresses that the 3 gunas are just states of nature. One is not better than the other and they must be balanced in the same way that the doshas must be balanced in Ayurveda. The Urban Sadhu method has divided the practice up using the gunas to express the nature of different kriyas. Meditation, Nada and Pranayama are considered sattvic practices. Hatha, Karma and Jappa are considered rajasic because of their active nature. Yoga Nidra and Restorative forms of Yoga where the practitioner is passive are tamasic. Because the urban yogi is confronting a dynamic constantly changing world, the yogi has to be able to tap into these subtle energies of the gunas to maintain balance in their lives. Urban Sadhu Yoga Shala offers classes based on these 3 states of nature to help the yogi tap into their (spiritual) needs. Ahimsa (non-violation) foundation of Patanjali’s 8 limbs of yoga and the first Yama or “restriction”. Cause no intentional harm through one’s thoughts, words, actions or deeds.

2. Sadhana (action, accomplishment or rite) Includes but is not limited to bhakti yoga, krama yoga, raja yoga, jnana yoga, hatha yoga, nada yoga, tantra yoga, japa yoga, kundalini yoga and prana yoga.

3. Svadhyaya (Self-study) “Study thy self, discover the divine” — Patanjali’s Yoga sutra, II.44 Understanding one’s true nature, its source and union with it is the goal on Urban Sadhu Yoga.

4. Dhyana (meditation) Inner connection to the Universal Self.

5. Aikyam (acknowledging the oneness of being) The oneness of the Individual Self and the Universal Self (jīvātma paramātma aikyam). Tat tvam asi or “Thou art that”.

6. Dharma (righteous duty) realization of responsibilities to ones family, friends, society, personal community, global community, all beings in that global community and ones higher authority beyond this realm.

06/04/2025

New class announcement Echo will be teaching an Urban Sadhu Yoga Open Class in Mandarin and English starting this Sunday 2pm at

05/28/2025

We are excited to host Yogeswari .azahar again at for three Sundays 6/8, 6/29 and 7/6. 10am Open Class, save the date and book in advance.

05/22/2025

New class alert. Starting Saturday June 7th 9:30am Urban Sadhu Yoga will be added Kundalini Yoga to our weekly class schedule. Lead by Horus .of.horus

What is Kundalini Yoga?
Kundalini Yoga is an ancient technology designed to awaken the dormant energy at the base of the spine, known as the Kundalini, in order to elevate consciousness through breath (pranayama), movement (kriya), sound (mantra), and meditation. Rooted in Ta***ic and yogic traditions, Kundalini was once reserved for those who had devoted their lives to spiritual study. It was introduced to the West in the late 1960s with the intention of helping humanity move through the Aquarian age with clarity and a deeper connection to spirit. Today, it remains a powerful practice for those seeking to break through energetic blockages, expand awareness, and access their innate creative power.

Description of Class:
Kundalini Yoga is a sacred space to activate your inner fire, awaken your intuition, and align with the highest version of yourself. Each class is a journey through breath, dynamic movement, mantra, and deep meditation. Here we explore how the body expresses itself and how it finds homeostasis in its own way and own time. Kundalini Yoga is a practice that calls upon each person’s individual truth and the unique journey we take to reach our own evolution. Horus creates a grounded yet elevated container where you are invited to release what no longer serves, reconnect with your truth, and rise into your power. Whether you’re new to kundalini or deep on your path, come as you are, ready to expand, express, and embody your light in an ever-changing world.

See you at

05/09/2025

Happy Mother’s Day. This weekend mom’s get a free class at Special gentle Yin class Sat 3pm with ❤️ mom will love it.

03/31/2025

Ishta Dhyana : Ganapati Dharana
facilitated by at
May 31-June 1 at Urban Sadhu Yoga
(pre-registration at: https://www.urbansadhuyoga.com/ganesha-sadhana-intensive).
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02/27/2025

Great class vibs with at

02/24/2025

For Your Tender Heart: A Journey with Hanuman
with Matthew Dwyer o
SUNDAY MARCH 2 from 5-7pm
$40 advance $50 day of event

A workshop dedicated to nurturing your spiritual and emotional heart.
Join Matthew for a heartfelt exploration combining movement, sound, and storytelling. This workshop begins with a gentle sequence of poses designed to prepare your body for sweeter gentler backbends. The movement will be slow, playful, and focused on building both strength and sensitivity.

After the physical body is prepared, we’ll move into practices that to nurture our inner landscape. Using the Indian wisdom practice of namasankirtana, you’ll be invited to use your voice and sing, fostering a deep and intimate connection with your heart.

Throughout the workshop, we’ll be guided by the inspiring stories of Hanuman, the embodiment of Bhakti Yoga—the yoga of love and devotion. Let these tales weave a sense of connection, devotion, and tenderness into your practice.

Come ready to move, sing, and feed your heart.

02/21/2025

This Sunday the divine Florencia .fridman will be leading Sacred Cacao & Sound Alchemy Experience
with Florencia Fridman
Sunday February 23 from 5:30-7pm
$45 admission
$55 day of event
Please come and join us at in this event we will channel the positive energy of the earth and the cocoa plant. We will sing and hold space together as a community.

12/15/2024

Come join us on New Year's Eve for an entire evening of yoga, food, singing and joy. The evening begins at 4:30 with an extended yoga class followed by a vegan dinner. At 8:15 Priest Radha Krishna Sharma joins us to conduct a fire ceremony and puja. After that we'll have a joyous Kirtan with Devadas. The evening ends with 45 minutes of silent reflection and chanting to toast in the New Year. There is an option for a full or half event. Come and go when you can or join us for the entire evening of community and happiness.

Tue Date: Dec 31 2024 - Jan 01 2025 From: 4:30 PM - 11:55 PM
New Year Celebration
with Matthew and Austin Yoga Guides
Priest Radha Krishna Sharma, Puja
Devadas, Kirtan
Tuesday Dec. 31 from 4:30 - Midnight

Full Event $85
Class, Dinner, Class, Dinner, Puja Kirtan, Mauna, Blessing
Half Event $45
Puja Kirtan, Mauna, Blessing

New Year’s Eve at Urban Sadhu Yoga. Spend the last day of the year in yogic bliss. The event will start with a 2-hour yoga class lead by Austin Sanderson and Matthew Dwyer followed by a vegan dinner (to attend the dinner you must attend the asana class).

After dinner there will be a Puja lead by Priest Radha Krishna to being an auspiciousness to the evening. After the Puja, Devadas will lead a Kirtan, singing the many names of the Divine; this will lead us into mauna (silence). During mauna you can spend time in mediation, writing or reading, just no talking. As we get closer to midnight, we will chant Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu 108 times, leading us to the final countdown of letting go of the old year and ringing in the new year with a toast of non-alcoholic ‘Champagne’ and blessings and well wishes from your host Austin and Matthew.

Event Schedule:
Asana Class with Austin and Matthew (2hr) 4-6pm
Vegan Dinner, buffet style (1hr) 6-7pm
Puja, with Radha Krishna (1hr 30mins) 7-8:30pm
Kirtan with Devdas (1hr 30mins) 8:30-10pm
Mauna (silent time) (1hr 30mins) 10-11:30pm
Japa chant, 108 ‘Lokah’ (25mins) 11:30 – 11:55pm
Countdown 11:59-12am
Toast and New Years well wishes 12-12:10am

10/28/2024

Urban Sadhu Yoga offer Pranayama & Meditation Class Monday nights 7:45pm. Come and clear the mind and heal the body.

10/16/2024

Urban Sadhu Yoga Exploration of the Month October 2024

What Lurks in the Shadow
Urban Sadhu Exploration October 2024

PYS 1.33 maitrī-karuṇā-muditā-upekṣānāṃ sukha-duḥkha-puṇya-apuṇya-viṣayāṇāṃ bhāvanātaḥ citta-prasādanam

Meaning: Through cultivation of friendliness, compassion, joy, and indifference to our emotional extremes such as pleasure and pain, virtue and vice, the mind becomes favorably disposed, serene, and benevolent. – Austin Sanderson

Over my many years of teaching yoga as a spiritual endeavor, I find myself in conversation where a student will ask, “If God is unconditional love, then why so many evils in the world? Why does God allow for this evil?” and the answer is one that is not very satisfying for many who ask.

It’s confusing for many of us who talk about a benevolent higher power and then have to deal with the evil that we see around us in the world. We project the onus of responsibility for evil in the world onto that higher power. But is God the source of evil in the world, or do we humans need to take the burden of responsibility? Maybe the question should be, “Why do humans allow so much evil in the world?”

Animals are programmed to do one thing in life, a woodpecker pecks wood, a bee collects pollen, but humans, on the other hand, are more complex thinkers. Humans have the ability to analyze thoughts and acts, make judgement about those thoughts and actions, and act upon the analyzation. Unfortunately, this does not mean that humans always take the high moral road of “love and light”.

Both modern psychology and ancient yoga recognize that humans, (unlike other animals) have what Carl Jung called a “shadow self”; to put it another way, we have a “virtuous nature” and a “transgressive nature,” the “shadow self.” Sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras calls the “shadow self” a kleshas” (blocks). This shadow self is a combination of not only the worst of human nature, such as egoism, hate, anger, fear, unbridled sexuality, and untamed animal impulses that society suppresses, but could also include elements and characteristics that are life affirming but may challenge society’s social norms. The dark and evil attributes stand out to us, but the positive parts of the shadow self are harder to understand because of human socialization. Have you ever been laughed at for being a creative dreamer? Or scolded for being assertive? Maybe you’ve been told not to be so ambitious and competitive because it’s problematic to others. These good qualities are also part of what Jung sees as our shadow self because of the suppression of by social constructs. It is important to note that Jung and Patanjali do not see eye to eye on everything, but they would both agree that the conflict within the shadow self (and/or the kleshas) both stem from the small ego personality.

Carl Jung’s concept of evil and the shadow self is complex and dynamic. He once said, “We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points ... a great change of our psychological attitude is imminent, that is certain ... because we need more understanding of human nature .... The only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man – his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil ...” When Jung spoke of evil, he was not just speaking of the type of evil in the world that is so easy to point out and condemn such as human genocide but evils that we go along with because culture and society condone them. For example, a culture that spends trillions on militarization and accepts abject poverty within its society, or a culture of gun violence where gun owners’ rights outweigh common sense on how to protect the public from weapons for violence. A meat-eating culture that turns a blind eye to the pain and suffering of over 55 billion animals that are killed yearly in the US alone to feed the flesh-eating lust of a culture drunk on the blood of suffering animals.

Jung points out that humans need to study their own psyche to understand their own nature. He calls this study “psychology”, a study of cognitive, emotional, and social behavior with the intention of making the unconscious conscious. Sage Patanjali has a similar approach – he says that a yogi must self-study, a process called “Svadhyaya”, so that the yogi can make the unconscious conscious but with a final higher intention of Samadhi (yoga), a total liberation from the individual body, mind, ego, thoughts, and feelings that every society constructs. In truth Patanjali’s higher intention is that of a deep spiritual practice, but that is not to say that Jung is not spiritual in his approach.

Jung points out that there is not only an inner personal shadow self, but that societies have a shadow self. To reach a higher consciousness we have to study both, a study of both the inner and the other. Also a process we see in the yoga tradition through the practice of Yama and Niyama, external restrictions and internal observation.

In Owning Your Own Shadow, Robert A. Johnson points out, “The tendency to see one’s shadow `out there’ in one’s neighbor or in another race or culture is the most dangerous aspect of the modern psyche. It has created two devastating wars in this century and threatens the destruction of all the fine achievements of our modern world. We all decry war but collectively we move toward it. It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow to which every one of us has contributed.” That projection of otherness also happens when we project human beings’ evil acts onto God and refuse to take responsibility for our own actions as individuals and as the human species. Johnson adds, “To honor and accept one’s own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime.” Accepting does not mean acting upon the shadow, but taking ownership of it and managing it. To “honor” the shadow self is to understand that humanity is the root of evil in the world, so that we can let go of the idea that the root cause of evil is God or beyond our control.

Note that shadow work is not an excuse to unleash your bottled-up ‘toxic negativity’ onto the world around you, and it is essential to point out that our goodness and rectitude do not grow into some form of ‘toxic positivity’ by controlling our dark shadow side as some might suggest. When bypassing and ignoring the light or darkness of human nature, the neglected elements can manifest into full-blown moral and ethical decay. The shadow and the light are part of human nature: we must see them both, sit with them both, then confront them both, and be at peace with the shadow and the light that makes us complex beings. Only then can we start to divert and redirect the dark shadow energy away from evil and toward goodness. Shadow work can be both unsettling and greatly rewarding.

Austin Sanderson – Urban Sadhu

Read this and other essays at https://www.urbansadhuyoga.com/urban-sadhu-yoga-explorations

09/13/2024

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Urban Sadhu Yoga Shala

Urban Sadhu Yoga is a modern integrated Yoga method that incorporates the ancient teachings of Yoga into a sadhana for the urban spiritual seeker. The method draws from the ancient yogic teachings of India, but does not exclude other spiritual teachings from other cultures. It focuses on Raja Yoga, Ta**ra Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Karma Yoga, Gnana Yoga, Nada Yoga, Jappa Yoga, Yoga Nidra and Bhakti Yoga.

While Raja Yoga does not acknowledge Kundalini (shakti) both Ta**ra and Hatha do. While the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, Shri Krishna expresses that satva is superior as a state in nature. Ta**ra expresses that the 3 gunas are just states of nature. One is not better than the other and they must be balanced in the same way that the doshas must be balanced in Ayurveda. The Urban Sadhu method has divided the practice up using the gunas to express the nature of different kriyas. Meditation, Nada and Pranayama are considered sattvic practices. Hatha, Karma and Jappa are considered rajasic because of their active nature. Yoga Nidra and Restorative forms of Yoga where the practitioner is passive are tamasic.

Because the urban yogi is confronting a dynamic constantly changing world, the yogi has to be able to tap into these subtle energies of the gunas to maintain balance in their lives. Urban Sadhu Yoga Shala offers classes based on these 3 states of nature to help the yogi tap into their (spiritual) needs.

CREED OF THE URBAN SADHU

I believe that Truth (Sat) is One and paths are many. (“Pilgrim, pilgrimage and road- it was but myself toward my Self, and your arrival was but myself at my own door.” – Sufi Mystic, Jaial Al-Din Rumi 1207-73) All spiritual forms, schools, philosophy and religious orders in the eyes of the sadhu are equal. Much of the worlds pain and suffering has come from the conflict of humans fighting over the name of God. The yogi sadhu understands that through the inclusiveness of the Yoga tradition as a school to obtain spiritual advancement in this life, freeing us from the wheel of birth, pain, suffering and death, we must not judge others but recognize the universalist principle in all, a commonality coming from only one source, Truth or Sat.

I believe in one Eternal Source or Ultimate Reality, called by many names, including Self or Higher Consciousness.

I believe that consciousness is present in all of the seven kingdoms, animal, plant, fungi, Protista, eubacteria, archaebacteria and atomic.

I believe that a sadhu strives live a life that causes as little harm and violations too others and gives them their rights the happiness and freedom that all deserve.

I believe that the world is a dynamic, conscious entity, that mankind is but one part of the cosmic ecology and that as stewards, we must rise above the ego and live in harmony with the world, with love, respect and reverence.

I believe in the power of meditation and ability to move energy (prana shakti) through the subtle body.

I believe in the law of karma, and that it is scientific, action equals reaction. Karma can’t be controlled the sadhu must detach from the fruits of his-her action.

I believe in nonconformity, that each person is responsible for his-her own action only, and should follow his-her own consciences, not to be dictates of society order. The sadhu is able to become the witness, so he-she can live in harmony.

I believe that many society’s traditional economic and social structures are broken and must me replaces with a system that all beings are equal. A sadhu understands that yoga and spiritually are both political movement, ones that should uplift and liberation for all beings, no matter what race, religion, sexuality, gender, economic class, education level or species.

I believe that all nature is sacred and that humans are part of nature, not separate and yoga reveals this to us.

I believe in that the world today is in a spiritual crisis, and that the ancient wisdom of yoga can be sued to heal and guide us through this crisis.

I believe in nonviolence; a yogi sadhu is a soul of peace.

I believe that a yogi sadhu, for the benefit of others and the plant is willing to rediscover the global value of frugality, veganism, avoiding waste, implementing and supporting sustainable systems of manufacturing and energy production. Simplicity of life, fosters inner spiritual development and other sustainability for all.

I believe that change starts with me and that yoga is the key to understanding that transformation within myself.