Karuna Center For Yoga and Healing Arts

Specialties

The mission of Karuna Center for Yoga & Healing Arts is to create community and promote healing through yoga and the healing arts. We are available to people of all ages, abilities, ethnicity, and gender.

Karuna offers vibrant daily yoga classes, 200-​Hour, and 500-​Hour Level Yoga Certification and 500-​Hour Shiatsu Certification. We are accredited by the Yoga Alliance and the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Yoga promotes strength, flexibility, healthy breathing, relaxation, a sense of inner peace, increased mental focus, and healing from physical injuries and emotional pains. The longer one continues to practice yoga, the more its positive effects deepen, strengthen and multiply, bringing one into closer harmony with their true nature.

Yoga students learn the foundational, intermediate, and advanced poses. Students practice standing poses, backbends, and inversions such as Salamba Sarvangasana (Shoulder Stand), balances, restorative, and pranayama. Philosphy is interwoven.

History

Established in 1999.

Many people have commented on the special quality of our studio space. A 1900 square foot room with maple floors and a 30-​foot domed ceiling, it was originally designed by the Freemasons employing sacred geometry. The atmosphere of the room has been enhanced by its many years of use as a space for yoga, healing and meditation. The nature of our space supports the work we do.

Meet the Business Owner

Eileen M.

Business Owner

Eileen began her yoga training in 1969 at the age of 13, and her studies led her to India, China, and Japan. She has been devoted to studying and teaching the Iyengar method since 1983. In addition to being a Yoga Alliance certified teacher, Eileen is also an AOBTA — certified instructor of Shiatsu therapy and teaches a year-​long 200 hour teacher training program and a 300 hour advanced teacher training.

Eileen has been practicing Vipassana Meditation for over 25 years. Since 2004 she has been meditating with Adyashanti. Her teachers are Nisargardatta Maharaj and Adyashanti. Nisargardatta was teaching in Bombay, India in the form of Advaita Vedanta (non-​dualism). He lived from April 17^th 1897 — Sept. 8^th 1981. She believes Adyashanti is the living embodiment of the teachings of Nisargardatta.

Eileen’s teaching is compassionate and full of vitality. Each class is an exploration into stillness, gently penetrating the layers of being. She is Scottish and has a lively Celtic spirit.