I wanted to share with you the news in case you had not heard…. Angela Jones, owner of City Yoga, publicly announced the other day that City Yoga is closing.

This past week was my last week teaching classes at City Yoga.

It has been my dream for the longest time to serve the Divine through hosting a Lakulish Yoga studio in St. Augustine, FL. My dearest friend Heather and I are in the process now of making that dream a reality. We spent a couple of days taking everything out of the downtown business, Sphere, and we remodeled. We re-painted the floor and rearranged things to make the space more open so we could have classes in the downtown space.

Thus, next week, beginning with Tuesday, February 8th, all Lakulish Yoga classes and meditation classes will be held in the new location at Sphere.

Per your request, I have added more classes! The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday 10am – 11:30am Lakulish Yoga

Tuesday 7pm – 8pm Pranayama & Meditation

Thursday 10am – 11:30am Lakulish Yoga

Thursday 7pm – 8:30pm Lakulish Yoga

Friday 7pm – 8:30pm Lakulish Yoga

All classes are to be held at SPHERE, 51-C Cordova Street in downtown St. Augustine. We are right next to High Tide Gallery (formerly Mullet Beach Gallery) and Second Read Books, across from the large parking lot next to Flager college and the church.

We are looking to start up a Gita Study Group soon as well in which we can really go deeper into the chapters of the Bhagavad Gita. More information on that will be coming soon.

On the 4th Wednesday of each month, I will be leading a class from 7pm – 8:30pm on Lakulish Yoga, going more in depth into the philosophy and scripture and teachings and then covering one Lakulish Yoga posture per class and what each posture does for the body, mind, and spirit.

The pricing structure is as follows:

$10 per class, drop in

$85 per month, unlimited classes (except for the 4th Wednesday night class)

The $85 per month can be split into 2 payments if you like.

If you have ANY questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at lakulishyogaschool@yahoo.com. I hope to see you in class!

Much Love and Light,

Jennifer Jacobsen (Urja)

Satya (Truth) is much more than simply being an honest person. Maintaining honesty is an expected behavior in society, we’ve all been taught not to lie (for the most part) and I believe for the most part humans do try to achieve honesty. Non-truths do not feel right, I can’t imagine one desires to live an unauthentic life. The above to me; however, is not the meaning of satya.

My perception of this yama is the belief that the real satya comes from a relinquished sense of fear and an exposure to all the layers of the self. Truth is equal to purity and the rawness of the person or object. Without the ability to seek out and accept ones personal truths, I do not see how it is possible to live in truth… meaning; if you don’t know who you are and accept everything about your own self, how can you emit honesty and truthfulness to the outside world? Your perception of truth until found would be skewed. In fact, your entire life could become a lie – a constant state of seeking and dissatisfaction. I believe many people in our world suffer from unawareness of their personal truths. Finding personal truth is a large component of self-realization.

Eliminating the fear of self is not easy. We may not always like the truths we find… this is usually only because of what we’ve been programmed to believe is good and bad, dark and light. We must begin to understand that all truths are beautiful no matter how devastating they may be or seem. When we begin to embrace our truths both light and dark, we begin to see that polarity is a part of existence and it is indeed a necessary component of our being. It is only when we begin to understand this, that we can understand the yama satya and begin to actually live in satya.

It is important to note that not living in satya is a large block on the path to both self and god realization; moreover, it becomes a substantial block in ones energy; thus, halting the ability for one to progress. Instead we are sent into the same repetitive cycle over and over until these truths are discovered.

If we want to obtain contentment and realization we must begin to work on peeling back our layers of pre-programmed non-truths and expectations which were never meant to be in our personal truth stories. These expectations and non-truths may have been imprinted into our brain by our parents, friends, relatives, media– anywhere, at any point in time. I believe we may also be carrying some remnants of past life karmic type non-truths as well– or even ancestral belief systems we aren’t aware of.

Most of us must do hard work to begin the process of discovering our raw, true authentic selves and remove any fears attached to our discoveries. When this process of discovering truth has begun… one begins to see how naturally satya evolves into everything. When truth becomes a part of who you are it begins to bring joy, wisdom and purpose. Once satya is incorporated into each second of ones life then this person can say and feel that they are genuinely authentic. This will become visible not only in ones progressive actions but also in ones physical presence. Ultimately, the hope is that finding and living in satya will become contagious to others.