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Satyana Yoga

a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. -lao tzu Wide open windows in the summer and heated floors in the winter.

We offer hatha yoga classes and private sessions for students of all experience levels and interests. We have a beautiful renovated space in downtown Watertown in the Paddock Arcade, second floor. Licensed masssage therapy and/or thai yoga bodywork available. Feel invited to drop in!

06/28/2025

sorry for the short notice.

after today, i'm taking the remainder of the summer off from teaching saturday morning class. it's been a long run of 22 years, with short breaks during a couple sebaticals in india and over the long covid crisis. i have loved and enjoyed your encouragement and support and commitment- and patience and tolerance, surely. let's not worry about the next step or have any regrets. yoga is, was and shall always be about right now. om shanti.

06/15/2025

in every sense, yoga involves learning. learning requires a willingness to transform. transformation is about change. change should be based upon honest self-reflection. honest self-reflection leads to the understanding of cause and effect. understanding cause and effect is learning.

om shanti all students!

01/28/2025

heh heh.

01/21/2025

heh heh. sun salutations for septagenarians.

01/16/2025

we come into the world with nothing and we leave with nothing- not the world's best kept secret. how we choose to live is the only ripple we can make.

11/12/2024

so sad to hear of the passing of sharath today, son of dear saraswati. this is how i'd like to remember him- with a big smile and most likely at something silly we did. later he became the director of the ashtanga shala in mysore after the death of guruji, his grandfather and student of krishnamacharya. this pic is from nyc in 2006 when ayri was a traveling show of sorts when india got too hot in the spring.

thousands of miles, or the passing of years- no difference. your memory will always be alive and close by.

10/30/2024

its ridiculous to ask someone to change their minds or way of thinking because most folks simply don't have the capacity to make changes that easily.

it's like asking someone who doesn't work out at the gym to deadlift 200 pounds.

they haven't used the necessary cognitive muscles, gradually strengthening them and by practice eventually becoming capable of uncolored thought.

if you don't have the habit of analytical thinking and continue to react without due consideration... you can't be expected to choose wisely.

08/07/2024

as humans we've invented many, many things. perhaps the most dangerous invention was our concept of 'time' and its triumvirate - past, present and future.

when we only look backwards, into the 'past', we see where we were once upon a time- try driving a car by just looking in the rear view mirror and see how far that gets you.

when we gaze off into the 'future' we recognize our own extinction. amongst god's creatures we are alone in knowing we will die one day, so we tend to see danger everywhere. and even though we push this knowledge into our unconscious it still makes us afraid because, yes, it's all gonna end one day.

in yoga, the 'past' is just memories (smrti) which exist only as chemicals in our brain cells, but still heavily influences our 'present' especially when we're not paying attention or acting on autopilot.

likewise, the 'future' is only a fantasy (vikalpa) based upon ideas, dreams, desires, etc. while it does not exist in any way, it also influences everything we believe about the trajectory of our lives.

so, a yogi argues that there is nothing called 'time', that there is only 'now' - that this is where the juice is. 'now' is the only place where existence can happen. if you really wish to be alive and to experience all that life has to offer, then there's no better time than the 'present'. this is where your body is, this is where your breathing is, this is where you should be. oh, and be grateful you're not dead yet.

08/02/2024

Instant karma's gonna get you
Going to knock you on the head
You gonna break your body, darling
Pretty soon you're going to be dead

What in the world you're thinking of
Laughing in the face of love?
What on earth you trying to do?
It's up to you, yeah, you

Instant karma's gonna get you
Going to look you right in the face
You better get yourself together
Come and join the human race

How in the world you gonna see?
Who on earth d'you think you are?
Laughing at a fool like me?
Superstar, right you are

Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Right you are, come on

Instant karma's gonna hit you
Gonna hit you back off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Every one you meet

Why in the world are we here?
Surely not to live in pain and fear?
Why on earth are you there?
You're everywhere, come and get your share

Well, we all shine on
With the moon and the stars and the sun
Well, we all shine on
Everyone, come on, yeah
Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun...

- john lennon and yoko ono

06/07/2024

'empathy' is the concept that you are capable of putting aside your hard won patterns of thinking and making the effort to understand your enemies. not everyone is good at it, but we are all capable. and like any challenge we improve with practice.

you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. - harper lee

whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. - f scott fitzgerald

self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. when we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. but when we focus on others, our world expands. our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection- or compassionate action. - daniel goleman

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. - milan kundera

sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort. - roy t bennett

everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: pain is for the living. only the dead don't feel it. - jim butcher

i defeat my enemy when i make him my friend. - abraham lincoln

05/19/2024

if you think you're free, there's no escape possible. - ram dass

04/29/2024

the practice of yoga, irregardless of style, should give us tools we can then use to "be." be present. be here now.

"if, while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not “washing the dishes to wash the dishes.”

"what’s more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact, we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink.

"if we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either. while drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. thus we are sucked away into the future- and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life." -thich nhat hanh

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