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Karuna Center for Yoga and Healing Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts. 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, ethnicities, and genders. Karuna's Yoga Studio offers daily yoga classes, yoga workshops with world renowned yoga teachers, 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, and 500-Hour 5 Element Yoga Teacher Training. Yoga means union of body, mind and spirit. Many people in the West know of yoga as a collection of physical postures to be performed. In fact, yoga is one of the six major classical Indian philosophies, and it is a method for reducing suffering in all aspects of one’s life. Yoga has many benefits. It promotes strength, flexibility, healthy breathing, relaxation, a sense of inner peace, increased mental focus, and healing from physical injuries and emotional pains. Whatever one’s primary reason for studying yoga may be, the longer one continues to practice yoga, the more its positive effects deepen, strengthen and multiply, bringing one into closer harmony with one’s true nature. Karuna Center for Yoga and Healing Arts is licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Our Teacher Training Program is in compliance with the standards of the nationally recognized Yoga Alliance and approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Our 5 Element Shiatsu Program is an AOBTA (American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia) and Department of Education approved Program.