The Yoga Room
Home of Satyananda Yoga in Surrey
Welcome to The Yoga Room, home of Satyananda Yoga in Surrey.
With over 48 years of yoga practice and extensive training in the Satyananda tradition, Swami Satvikananda offers expert instruction in yoga, meditation, and yoga therapy. Located in Ottershaw, Surrey, we provide classes for all levels, from beginners to experienced practitioners, including specialised sessions for seniors and those with varied medical conditions.
How to find us
All classes and courses are held at :
The Yoga Room, Otterbourne House, Chobham Road, Ottershaw, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 0QF.
Directions to the Yoga Room in Ottershaw
From the large roundabout at Ottershaw, with the big Miller and Carter Steak House on the corner, take the A319 exit marked Chobham & Fairoaks Airfield.
Exactly 1 mile from the roundabout at the bottom of the hill on the left hand side there is a large red brick wall and a post box, by some very large wrought iron gates.
On the gates it states ‘Private Estate, No Unauthorised Entry & Ottershaw Park Private Estate The Bothy Nos 15 -19’.
Otterbourne House is through the gates and is the second house on the left hand side with a large bay window both upstairs and downstairs.
PARKING : PLEASE HAVE CONSIDERATION FOR NEIGHBOURS AT ALL TIMES
1) Through the gates and directly outside Otterbourne House. This is the first choice.
2) In Home Farm Close, the turning on the left just before our driveway, well back from the main road so that it is safe for people to turn in from and exit to the main road, and with consideration for neighbour’s driveways and entrances
3) On the main road, on the grass verge - post box side of our driveway and NOT too near the driveway exit, (parking the other side of the driveway blocks the resident’s view of cars coming down the hill and makes exiting out of our drive challenging for all.)
Directions from the M25 : Leave the M25 at junction 11 and at that roundabout take the A320 to WOKING, (a left hand turn if coming from Gatwick direction and right hand turn if coming from Heathrow direction). At the next roundabout turn left marked A320 Woking (also Ottershaw & Fairoaks Airfield). At the third roundabout, with the Mill and Carter Steak House on the corner, you are then in Ottershaw so see the directions at the top of this notice.
About Us
Swami Satvikananda Saraswati
Swami Satvikananda is a Yoga Sannyasin initiated by Swami Niranjanananda of the Bihar School of Yoga in North East India. She has been practising yoga for over forty eight years and has been teaching since 1994.
She was trained by Swami Vedantananda Saraswati to teach in the Satyananda tradition and gained her Satyananda, (Bihar School Of Yoga), Teaching Diploma.
She also has both a FRYOG teaching diploma and a British Wheel of Yoga accredited teaching diploma. Swami Satvikananda trained for a further two and a half years with the Yoga Biomedical Trust at the Homoeopathic Hospital in Great Ormond Street to gain their full Yoga Therapy Diploma plus additional diplomas in Nervous Conditions, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Low Back Pain and Asthma & Respiratory Conditions.
For some years she worked at the Yoga Therapy Centre in London seeing clients with many diverse medical conditions including cancer, arthritis, ME, IBS, HBP, HIV & AIDS, stress, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, mood swings, Parkinson’s, MS, diabetes, eating disorders, asthma, and menstrual & menopause problems. Swami Satvikananda also has a British Wheel Of Yoga Diploma for Teaching Yoga To Children.
Swami Satvikananda teaches General Satyananda Yoga classes in Ottershaw, Surrey and her current specialised yoga classes include Teaching Yoga At A Slower Pace which is suitable for Senior Citizens and students wishing to do yoga from a chair, as well as for all students that wish to practice more leisurely. She sees students for individual yoga therapy for various medical conditions and teaches one to one general yoga. Swami Satvikananda holds meditation classes once a month.
Swami Satvikananda is a theory and practical assessor for the FRYOG Yoga Teacher Training Diploma and she runs weekend Yoga and Meditation courses and workshops throughout the year.
The Satyananda Yoga / Bihar Yoga Tradition
Swami Sivananda Saraswati
Our Grandfather Guru is Swami Sivananda who was born at Pattamadai in the state of Tamil Nadu on 8th September 1887. He was initiated into Dashnami Sannyasa in 1924 by Swami Vishwananda and founded the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh in 1936 and ultimately the Rishikesh Ashram. He left his body on the 5th December 1963. During his lifetime he guided thousands of disciples and aspirants all over the world and authored over 200 books.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Our Father Guru is Swami Satyananda who was born at Almora in the state of Uttar Pradesh on the 24th December 1923. He met Swami Sivananda in 1943 and lived with him in Rishikesh where he was initiated into Dashnami Sannyasa. In 1955 he left his Guru’s ashram to live as a wandering mendicant and later founded the International Yoga Fellowship in 1963 and the Bihar School Of Yoga in 1964. Over the next 20 years he toured internationally and authored over 80 books. In 1987 he moved to Rikhia and founded Sivananda Math where the Rikhiapeeth ashram is now thriving. It has propelled the surrounding villages out of poverty and provides schools, medical care, pensions for the elderly and much, much more. Swami Satyananda left his body on the 5th December 2009 at midnight.
Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
Our Guru is Swami Niranjanananda who was born at Rajnandgaon in the state of Madhya Pradesh on the 14thFebruary 1960. At the age of 4 he joined The Bihar School of Yoga and was initiated into Dashnami Sannyasa at the age of 10. From 1971 he travelled overseas and toured many countries. In 1993 he was anointed Preceptor in succession to Swami Satyananda and he travelled extensively abroad until 2008. Swami Niranjanananda was the President of Bihar School of Yoga for 25 years, and has played the dual role of guru and administrator with remarkable skill. He has inspired, instructed and been the guiding light for thousands of yoga aspirants and devotees world-wide. His decisions as an administrator have been flawless and his guidance to people illuminating. In 2008, Swami Niranjanananda reached a turning point in his life and retired as an administrator although he will continue to guide and inspire the people for as long as he lives. He will continue to reside in Munger to guide and ensure the transition of the yoga mission from the second to the third generation. He has now succeeded Swami Satyananda and has withdrawn from much of outside life. Swami Satyananda’s lifetime of good works is very safe in his hands. He has authored over 50 books.
Swami Satyasangananda (Satsangi) was born in Chandorenagore in the state of West Bengal on the 24th March 1953. From the age of 22 she experienced inner awakenings which led her to her Guru, Swami Satyananda, who she travelled ceaselessly with, for many years. She was initiated into Dashnami Sannyasa in 1982 and lived in Rikhia with her Guru until he left his body in 2009. She is now in charge of Rikhia Peeth and all that surrounds it. In 2009 she started travelling again outside the Ashram spreading the word of Satyananda Yoga all over the globe. Swami Satsangi is now authorised to initiate disciples into the Dashnami tradition and is a direct channel for Swami Satyananda’s energy to be received by everyone. She is also a channel for the transmission of her Guru’s teachings and a wise overseer of all his projects and dreams for Rikhia. She has authored many important books.
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