Shunyamurti is the founder and research director of the Sat Yoga Institute, headquartered in Costa Rica. The institute's mission is to accelerate the transformation of human consciousness and contribute to the spiritual and cultural renaissance that is fermenting now on our planet. One project of SYI now underway is to create an ashram/spiritual retreat and eco-village. Shunyamurti's own spiritual path has included many years of Yogic training, including ten years spent as a formal Yogic monk, and many more years of meditative practice in diverse spiritual traditions. He has also deeply studied other transformational disciplines. Before moving to Costa Rica, he maintained a flourishing private practice as a healer in California for over twenty years, integrating such modalities as hypnotherapy, psychoanalysis, family systems approaches, gestalt, transpersonal and Jungian work, in addition to several forms of bodywork and pranic energy transmission. He functions now as a spiritual guide, retreat leader, and teacher, and he is engaged in spiritual community building, in addition to his ongoing advanced research in the Yogic sciences. Shunyamurti can be reached through the Institute's website: www.Satyogainstitute.org. The Sat Yoga Institute offers ongoing training and accepts sincere volunteers who seek an intensive process of Self-realization.