Amrit Yoga Institute

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.

04/16/2026

Healing cannot happen at the level of the mind.

No matter how much positive thinking you do, thoughts cannot remove the negative feelings that are built into the energy body.

The mind can explain, justify, analyze, and try to rise above what is being felt, but that does not clear the energetic block. To create a real shift in the body, you must feel your feelings and experience your experiences.

In yoga, this is tapas.

Tapas is the purification of the feeling center, the emotional clearing ground for the conditioned past.

It is the willingness to stay present with what you are feeling without thinking reactively in order to pacify it. Instead of escaping into mental activity, you remain with the sensation, the charge, and the movement of energy in the body.

This requires patience. It requires learning to tolerate what you feel again and again without turning it into a story.

As you stay present, the feeling center begins to clear. And when you feel at ease, relaxed, and peaceful in that inner space, the energetic block has been released.

As soon as the block is cleared, the body begins returning to its natural self-balancing, self-healing, restorative, and regenerative functions.

This is why healing cannot happen at the level of the mind.

It can only happen at the level of the feeling body.

To move beyond the mind and begin healing at the level of the feeling body, join our on-demand Inner Dimension of Yoga course. Through 5 transformative discourses and 3 guided practices, this self-study experience supports stress relief, nervous system regulation, and a deeper inner experience of yoga.

Use the code IAMYOGA to get it free at the https://ecourses.amrityoga.org/catalog/info/id:490

The 2026 I AM Yoga® Teacher Training unfolds in three movements.June 10–14, 2026We begin with the opening immersion. Thi...
04/15/2026

The 2026 I AM Yoga® Teacher Training unfolds in three movements.

June 10–14, 2026

We begin with the opening immersion.

This first module is devoted to awakening the inner experience of yoga through meditation, breath, alignment for your unique body, daily Darshan and discourse with Gurudev Shri Amritji, energetic transmission, guided practice, and in-depth teachings with Nirali Lauren McCrea.

It also stands on its own as an immersion retreat and meets a portion of Yoga Alliance 200-hour certification requirements.

September 23–27, 2026

The second module moves into Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga alongside the Seven Principles of I AM Yoga®. The purpose is not only to study these teachings as philosophy, but to experience how they become lived practice.

November 12–15, 2026

The final intensive focuses on teaching from clarity, authenticity, and presence. It includes the development of voice, lesson planning, and the integration of what has been practiced throughout the training.

Across the full training, we work with I AM Yoga®, I AM Yoga Nidra™, and I AM Yoga Therapy™, with self-paced study in anatomy, asana, and teacher visibility.

The training is structured as a progressive journey: beginning with your own experience, deepening through practice and understanding, and culminating in the ability to share yoga with depth and integrity.

If you feel called to enter yoga more deeply this year, you can learn more through the link in our bio.

Most people approach yoga as something to perform.Gurudev teaches it is something that happens when performing stops.Two...
04/15/2026

Most people approach yoga as something to perform.

Gurudev teaches it is something that happens when performing stops.
Two of the most structurally precise teachings

He offers about practice arrive together in this body of work, "Yoga is not a practice that you do; it is an experience that you have." And: "Meditation is not a future-oriented process of getting better. Meditation is the experience of now."

Read together, these reframe the entire purpose of practice. When yoga is approached as a technique to be executed correctly - a sequence to be performed, a posture to be achieved - the practitioner is doing. And doing is the ego's activity.

The ego can practice indefinitely.

What it cannot do is experience what practice is pointing toward, because the experience requires the cessation of the ego's performance agenda, not its refinenment.

The experience of yoga happens when technique stops being something you are executing and becomes something happening through you.

When the posture stops being a shape to achieve and becomes a field of sensation to be met.

When the breath stops being adjusted and becomes the felt reality of being alive in this moment.

The same structure applies to meditation. The meditation oriented toward spiritual improvement is the ego meditating. It is using the practice to accumulate something.

The experience Gurudev points toward is structurally different: awareness meeting what is actually here, without a future-oriented agenda.

The practical consequence is immediate, "When the mind returns to where your body is and when your mind does what your body is doing, you merge into the integrative experience of NOW."

The body is always in the present. The mind is almost never there.

Yoga and meditation are the return of the mind to where the body has been waiting - not as a discipline but as a recognition. When that return happens, even briefly, it is not the practitioner who produces presence.

Presence is simply what remains when the mind stops being somewhere else. It's not just a new arrival, but an uncovering.

Comment YOGA to join our Amrit Community for FREE today (link in bio).

Swami Kripalvanandji, known widely as Swami Kripalu, is remembered in this lineage not as a public personality, but as a...
04/14/2026

Swami Kripalvanandji, known widely as Swami Kripalu, is remembered in this lineage not as a public personality, but as a living demonstration of what yoga becomes when it is taken inward.

He is the guru of Gurudev Shri Amritji, and the name "Kripalu" has been carried forward in the West as an acknowledgement of that relationship and its impact.

One of the clearest signatures of Swami's life was mauna, silence, not as an aesthetic, but as spiritual discipline.

He is remembered for extended periods of silence and for guarding the inner work from the mind's constant need to express, explain, defend, and control. In that stillness, the teaching is not something you "agree with."

It is something you enter.

Swami's silence was inseparable from his emphasis on love and compassion.

In this path, love is not sentiment and compassion is not weakness.

They are the strength of an undivided heart, an inner condition that refuses to harden into resentment, suspicion, or demand.

This is why he is so often remembered for a simple, uncompromising principle: the inner life is transformed through self-observation without judgment because what is seen clearly no longer needs to be acted out unconsciously.

Swami's presence points to the same truth again and again: when the mind becomes quiet, it becomes honest.

When it becomes honest, it becomes pure. And when it becomes pure, it naturally rests in what does not depend on circumstances: clarity, steadiness, and love

To learn more about Swami Kripalu, visit swamikripalu.yoga

04/14/2026

Stress does not begin only with what is happening around you.

It begins when the body's natural self-regulating intelligence is burdened by more tension than the nervous system can release.

When tension is not fully processed, it does not simply disappear. It remains registered in the tissues, the breath, and the autonomic nervous system.

Over time, this disrupts the body's natural rhythm of inhalation and exhalation. Breath in and breath out are not separate events.

They are one living polarity, a continuous movement of activation and release, receiving and letting go. This polarity is part of how life maintains balance within the body.

When unconscious habits, emotional reactions, and internalized tension interfere with this rhythm, the breath loses its natural harmony.

As that harmony is disturbed, the effects are felt throughout the whole autonomic network, influencing respiration, circulation, digestion, and elimination. What appears outwardly as stress is often the result of a much deeper inner constriction.

In I AM Yoga®, the root cause of stress is not simply external pressure. The deeper cause is bound life force.

When prana becomes trapped in the autonomic system through unresolved reactions and conditioned patterns, the body can no longer regulate itself in the way it was designed to.

Stress is then no longer just a passing state. It becomes a condition held in the body.

This is why true healing cannot come only from changing outer circumstances.

You may reduce stimulation for a moment, but if the life force remains bound, the inner condition that produces stress is still there.

Real transformation begins when the body is allowed to release what it has been holding, the breath regains its natural rhythm, and the nervous system returns to its original intelligence.

The goal is not merely to manage stress.

The goal is to understand its source so deeply that the body can return to its natural state of balance, harmony, and inner freedom.

To begin releasing stress at its root, join our Inner Dimension of Yoga course, featuring 5 discourses and 3 guided practices for stress relief, nervous system regulation, and deeper inner balance.

Use the code IAMYOGA to get it free here: https://ecourses.amrityoga.org/catalog/info/id:490

Presence is not the reward at the end of enough practice.It is what was here the entire time.All of I AM Yoga's teaching...
04/13/2026

Presence is not the reward at the end of enough practice.

It is what was here the entire time.

All of I AM Yoga's teaching on the ego, its mechanisms, its grooves, its strategies of blame and expectation and fear and control - every week of this arc has been examining what obscures the same thing: presence.

The direct experience of awareness unconditioned by the past; not a mood, a meditative state, or a prize distributed to those who practice correctly and long enough.

Gurudev Shri Amritji places presence at the summit of the teaching not because it is difficult to reach but because it requires a fundamental reorientation of what the practitioner believes they are looking for.

Presence is not ahead of you.

It is not on the other side of the next retreat, the next insight, the next layer of conditioning dissolved.

It is what has always been beneath every layer - the witnessing awareness that was never conditioned, never reactive, never incomplete.

He names what keeps it hidden, "The presence is hidden in the present. Reaction is our way of closing the door on Divine Presence."

Every time a conditioned groove fires and occupies the field of attention, the present moment is bypassed.

The reactive pattern engages not with what is actually here but with its own projection of what this moment is - assembled from past impressions, driven by stored charge.

The door closes completely while reaction is running. And then the teaching that dissolves the acquisition model entirely: "All that can never be done by your doing can happen only in the non-doing presence of your being."

Presence cannot be achieved through the ego's effort because the effort is the ego.

What practice actually does is create the conditions in which attention can be withdrawn from the ego's activity long enough for what is already here to be recognized.

When in your practice - on the mat, in meditation, in an ordinary moment of daily life - have you touched something that was not an achievement, not a state you produced, but something that was simply revealed?

04/13/2026

What do you need to develop to support your spiritual destiny? 93-year old yoga master, Gurudev Shri Amritji, shares the foundations

Many people believe spiritual growth depends on extraordinary experiences, special techniques, or withdrawing from life. Yet the deeper teachings of yoga point to something far more practical and transformative. Your spiritual destiny is supported not by escaping life, but by learning how to meet life with awareness, clarity, and inner stability.

At 93 years old, yoga master Gurudev Shri Amritji continues to share that spiritual growth begins with developing the inner capacity to observe yourself. When you begin to notice your reactions, your expectations, and the patterns that shape your perception, you start to loosen the grip of conditioning. This awareness creates space, and in that space, a different intelligence begins to guide your life.

Spiritual destiny is not something outside of you. It unfolds as you develop patience, self observation, forgiveness, and the ability to remain present in the midst of change. These qualities allow you to move beyond reactive living and into conscious participation with life itself.

Rather than striving to become someone new, you begin to uncover what has always been within you. Over time, your actions become more aligned, your mind becomes quieter, and your decisions arise from clarity rather than pressure or fear. This is how spiritual destiny naturally begins to unfold.

93 year old yoga master Gurudev Shri Amritji shares the foundational qualities needed to support this journey in the April 12, 2026 livestream.

Watch the full teaching at amritji.TV

You changed the job, the city, the relationship. The groove followed you there.Gurudev names the only lever that actuall...
04/12/2026

You changed the job, the city, the relationship. The groove followed you there.

Gurudev names the only lever that actually matters.

Gurudev Shri Amritji teaches, "When you change some conditions around you, everything else remains the same. When you change yourself, everything changes."

And in its most direct form, "If you change the conditions of your life, you have changed little or nothing. If you change yourself, you have changed your whole life."

This is the teaching that lands hardest for people who have made the most external changes and found the same internal experience waiting for them at every new destination.

The groove does not live in the circumstance.

It lives in the body, in the nervous system, in the energetic template formed by years of conditioned reaction.

No change in the external arrangement can reach it there.

The new job presents the same trigger. The new relationship surfaces the same charge.

The same groove fires because the groove traveled with you - it was never in the thing you left behind.

He identifies what confronts this dynamic, "The present is what you are forced to face in spite of your unconscious commitments to the past."

The groove's commitments run deeper than conscious intention.

The I AM Yoga practice is what brings awareness to those commitments directly: in the body, in the breath, in the precise moment the groove activates.

Join us live today at 11:00 AM ET on Amritji.tv as we do our Sunday Darshan with Gurudev Shri Amritji.

Free trial available - come as you are, with nothing to prove and everything to receive.

Comment DARSHAN below and we will send you the link to join.

You were not trying to repeat the pattern, but reaction is not trying.It is the pattern running itself.Gurudev Shri Amri...
04/11/2026

You were not trying to repeat the pattern, but reaction is not trying.

It is the pattern running itself.

Gurudev Shri Amritji teaches, "Reaction is an unconscious attempt to prevent change from happening."

This is one of the most clarifying teachings in the entire I AM Yoga body of work on conditioning.

The reactive pattern does not persist because you want it to, or because you have failed to want freedom badly enough.

It persists because the reaction's specific function is to prevent the change that meeting the stored charge directly would initiate. Reaction is the groove protecting itself.

He goes further: "All of our unconscious reactions to what is present prevents us from seeing what is truly present."

When the groove fires, you are not in contact with the present moment.

You are in contact with the groove's reading of the present moment, which is always a reading filtered through whatever charge the groove was formed around.

What you perceive as your response to right now is, in almost every case, the groove's response to a moment that already passed. And then the structural consequence: "Reaction is a conditional perception that reinforces the unresolved experiences of the past."

Every reactive discharge simultaneously relieves the immediate pressure and deepens the very groove it discharged from.

The groove is self-sustaining, as long as it operates below the threshold of awareness.

Join us tomorrow for Sunday Darshan with Gurudev at amritji.tv - live at 11 AM ET.

You cannot outmaneuver the groove from inside the groove, but awareness stands outside of it.This week mapped the full a...
04/10/2026

You cannot outmaneuver the groove from inside the groove, but awareness stands outside of it.

This week mapped the full anatomy of conditioning: the groove formed through repetitive unconscious reaction, the self-sustaining loop in which unconscious action feeds the next reaction, the way the inner subconscious field generates the outer experience rather than simply responding to it, and the reason no external change reaches a groove that lives in the body.

All of it points toward the same conclusion: the only leverage point is awareness.

Gurudev Shri Amritji teaches this with compression that carries the full weight of the practice, "Awareness has boundless capacity for perpetual change."

It is not ncremental change. Perpetual change - because awareness is the one thing that stands outside the groove.

The groove cannot condition awareness the way it conditions behavior and perception.

When awareness meets the groove in the moment of its activation, the groove is no longer operating in its natural element, which is the unconscious. It is being seen. And what is seen clearly, without identification, begins to release.

He names how conditioning shapes experience before awareness intervenes, "We suffer and enjoy not what is, but the filtered perception of what is. Our perception makes or breaks the world we live in."

The groove is the filter.

Every experience that arrives is passed through the accumulated impressions of past charged events, and what reaches consciousness is not the event itself but the groove's interpretation of it.

What we have taken as direct experience of reality is, in almost every case, a conditioned reading of reality.

When awareness is brought to the moment the groove activates - when you witness the filtering happening rather than simply receiving what the filter delivers - something specific changes.

The groove has been identified. And the energy that has been locked in its maintenance begins, for the first time, to become available.

The I AM Yoga® 200-Hour Teacher Training begins with Gurudev Shri Amritji and Nirali Lauren McCrea this June.The full tr...
04/09/2026

The I AM Yoga® 200-Hour Teacher Training begins with Gurudev Shri Amritji and Nirali Lauren McCrea this June.

The full training unfolds across three in-person modules: June 10–14, September 23–27, and November 12–15, 2026.

In a time when yoga is everywhere, what is often missing is not more information, but more depth.

This training is for those who want to move beyond collecting techniques and enter the inner dimension of yoga through direct experience, meditative awareness, and authentic practice.

Guided by Gurudev Shri Amritji and Nirali Lauren McCrea, the I AM Yoga® 200-Hour Teacher Training offers a foundation for teaching, but it is also a path for those who want to live yoga more deeply, with greater clarity, integration, and Presence.

Learn more through the link in our bio.

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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.