Śraddhā is Sanskrit for faithfulness.

Shraddhā Yoga is a yogic enterprise, a business devoted to embodying the yogic principles of truth, wholeness, and love. Our intention is for the wisdom of yoga to infuse every aspect of our work.
At the heart of yoga is unity with each other, with the essential Self, and with the Divine Beloved.
Shraddhā Yoga’s “Pay From Your Heart” model aligns with this unity. We welcome all to share in the gifts of yoga, for all are a part of our human family.

In the Bhagavad Gītā, Krishna tells Arjuna that we are all śraddhāmayaḥ, ”made of faithfulness”. We become what we are faithful to. Similarly, the world we co-create reflects what we value.
Śraddhā can be a bridge between our hearts’ deepest values and what we love and honor with our thoughts, words, and actions.

“Śraddhā - the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace.”

— Sri Aurobindo

We value…

  • The cultural and spiritual richness, depth and diversity of India, the birthplace of the yoga traditions.

  • Teaching and sharing yoga as a gift we have been offered and trusting the divine to support us along the way.

  • Yoga as a path of Self discovery, union with the divine beloved and all beings.

  • The various limbs, aspects, teachings and practices of yoga that support awakening, freedom, well-being, a deepening of consciousness, greater embodiment and love.

Every human is a soul, a ray of infinite light, embodied within finite form. Yoga is the path of joining soul radiance with human life.

Shraddhā Yoga’s purpose is to help open the way for the future by supporting the embodied self and the soul to come together and create an integrated, purposeful, and fulfilling life.
We offer teachings that support surrendering the separated identity’s motivations and desires to the soul’s wisdom and aspiration. And we teach embodiment practices that integrate body, life, mind, and soul. Shraddhā Yoga exists to be a container for joining spirit and matter and infusing the sacred into every day, every moment, every breath.

“Shraddhā is the innate nature of everything. People are made of shraddhā. They become what they are faithful to.”

— Bhagavad Gita, 17.3

Corinne and Matthew Andrews — Shraddhā Yoga Co-owners

Since we met in 2000, the honoring and pursuit of yoga in its many forms has been central to our lives. To us, yoga is the progressive flow toward unity with the Divine Beloved. We aspire to join with that flow, which we feel moving through all creation, drawing all toward wholeness and Truth.

We love India, and bow to the land and the people, and to the wisdom and spirit that have been cultivated there for millennia. We receive this wisdom with humility and gratitude and offer what we can of it through our teaching and our lives. It is a profound gift to travel there regularly, and we were even able to bring our children Arin and Irina along with us for 3 years in a row!

After graduating from UMASS Amherst in 2001, we traveled west and studied Classical Ashtanga Yoga, Sankhya, Vedanta, and mantra with Baba Hari Das  at the Mount Madonna Center. Soon after, we met Guruji-Ma, whose embodiment of the deepest yogic principles has been our lodestar through the adventures of life. She has lovingly held us and guided us toward an ever-deeper knowing of who we are. We have also trained extensively in Embodyoga® with Patty Townsend, whose celebration of the body's innate wisdom has transformed our lives.

We are very inspired by the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, whose radical call to collective awakening stirs our deepest hearts, and whose inner guidance has helped to shape our lives. The call to divinize all of life, live a life Divine and be a willing servitor of the sat-chit-ananda that permeates all of life speaks deeply to our souls.

Whether you feel called to join us in weekly classes, private sessions, teacher trainings or journeys in India, we very much look forward to connecting with all seekers and sharing the pilgrimage of yoga.

From the gratitude we and Shraddhā Yoga have for all we have been given, we give back and support various aspects of Indian culture and society.  
Over the years, we have supported:
Mohanam Village Heritage Centre
Arunachala Ashram’s Sat Dharma Trust
Baba’s Feed Project

And here in Western MA, we offer $50/month to the Amherst Survival Center

We bow in gratitude to the vast teachings and teachers of yoga and to these three, to name a few Divine inspirations...

  • GurujiMa

    GurujiMa is a holy being of light who has been Corinne and Matthew’s beloved teacher since 2003. She has blessed Shraddhā Yoga from the beginning, pouring her selfless love into it and holding the vision of its deepest purpose. She is herself the embodiment of shraddhā, and its essence pours from her being and shows us what is possible for ourselves and for humanity.

  • Mother and Sri Aurobindo

    Mother and Sri Aurobindo taught that every life is purposeful, and that at all times we are drawing closer to the truth of our being and the truth of the Divine Being. This sense purpose has inspired Shraddhā Yoga through every step of its becoming. It is the voice of the Mother that guides us in the silent depths of our hearts, lighting our way as we try to follow the path of yoga as willing servitors of Divine Consciousness.

  • Arunāchala Śiva

    Arunāchala is the Sanskrit name of a sacred hill in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu India that has been honored since time immemorial as the physical body of Śiva. The sacred mountain radiates grace, and millions of pilgrims come each year from around the world seeking blessings and transformation. Arunāchala radiates love and magnetizes us toward truth. Every time we visit the mountain and receive teachings of Śiva in various forms, we are inspired and renewed in our aspiration to offer our lives and our work to the Divine. Arunāchala and the radiance of Śiva lives inside our hearts.

Historically, the teachings of yoga have been passed down through lineages of teachers and students. Over time, leaders, representatives and members of various yoga lineages have used their power to aggrandize themselves and harm others. These individuals have departed from the teachings of yoga and the pure stream of wisdom that nourishes the lineages. Yoga is the progressive realization of our oneness with all of life, and all forms of domination and abuse of power inherently undermine this realization.

Today we see an interface between traditional yoga lineages and colonialism, white supremacy, extractive capitalism and hypersexuality. This has created a broad milieu in which yoga is commodified, privileged, and appropriated for personal gain. Shraddhā Yoga is a business, and as such we operate within this milieu. We aspire to do so with open eyes and sincere hearts.

We honor the countless gurus and seekers, past and present, who have nurtured, protected, and passed down the pure stream of yogic wisdom that supports and uplifts all beings on a path to embodied truth and self discovery. And we stand against misuse and abuse of power in spiritual communities, ashrams or other institutions. We stand for individuals to be held accountable for their actions. And we also stand for forgiveness and redemption for all those who have acted against the truth of their oneness with all.

We have faith in the path of yoga and that it will lead us toward personal and collective awakening. This awakening includes welcoming all beings into a radiant web of relationship that is built on harmony, respect and honoring. May all who feel themselves to be outside this web experience the truth of their inherent belonging and release the perceived need for domination. May we be shown the way ~ through truth, love, honesty, sincerity and generosity ~ how to be a part of bringing forth the evolution and awakening of consciousness.