Satori · NYC

Ambitious peeps who live well.

Satori is a community for people in NYC building cool things, taking care of themselves, and looking for friends who get it. Coffee in the park, book club, yoga, saunas, hikes, other cool shit. Good people, good convos.

How this started

We built the thing we couldn't find.

Satori is a social club and community in New York City for ambitious people who like to hang and see each other win. Founders, creators, operators, people with a day job and a side thing. Coffee in the park, yoga, saunas, book club, hikes, retreats. Here’s how it started.

When me and my buddy Jake moved to New York, we figured finding our people would be easy. Biggest city in the country, right?

Turns out it’s weirdly hard to find ambitious people who are also well-rounded. People who care about growth and rest. Work and life. Building something and having a good time doing it. The events we found were late at night, way too serious, or basically just drinking with name tags.

So we did the most entrepreneurial thing possible. We built the thing we couldn’t find.

Sundays, during the day, good coffee, good people, no pitching. Coffee & Chill was born. It blew up. And since we’re into wellness, we started hosting more of the stuff we actually wanted to do with the friends we were making. Yoga in the park. Saunas and cold plunges. A book club with no homework. Hikes. Retreats.

Build the world you want to live in. That’s kind of the whole thing.

Now Satori is a community of like-minded, ambitious people who aren’t just following the typical path. Grind but chill. Lift heavy, build heavier. Meditate, then dominate (peacefully). Serious about our craft, always down to laugh.

Kyle Ferguson & Jake Bernstein, co-founders of Satori

What we're about

We take our goals seriously. Not ourselves.

Don't take life too seriously.

Have fun. Laugh at yourself. We take our goals seriously, not ourselves.

Be well-rounded.

Be great at your craft and a good person. Career, mind, body, spirit, community.

Take care of yourself.

Eat good, move your body, meditate, get sun, roll around in the grass. One day you’ll be old and hoping you’ve got another ten years in you to make it to your grandkids’ wedding. Start now.

Support each other.

Someone else winning doesn’t take anything away from you. Make intros. Share what you know. Be positive.

Stay open.

Open to new people, new ideas, and people whose path looks nothing like yours. Less judgment, more curiosity.

Shamelessly follow your dreams.

Go after the thing that lights you up with zero apology. Nobody else is going to do it for you, and the people here will cheer you on the whole way.

The hangs

What we actually do.

Coffee & Chill

The signature Satori hang. Coffee, sunshine, Sheep Meadow, and conversations that go deeper than “so, what do you do?”

Book Club

A chill book club for people who love ideas. Read the whole thing, half of it, or come in blind. No homework police.

Move Your Body

Yoga in the park, free Barry’s classes, pilates and pumpkins, hikes upstate. For laptop-hunched gremlins everywhere.

Sauna & Cold Plunge

Sweat. Plunge. Breathe. Surprisingly great convos once your nervous system calms down.

Retreats

A few days away with a small, vetted group. Work hard, chill hard. Vermont this fall, Puerto Rico next.

Side Quests

Movie nights, Halloween parties, cowork sessions, bento takeovers, the occasional random field trip. If someone in the group has an idea, it usually happens.

How to get in the mix

Open door. Then it gets good.

Come to a hang.

Events are open. Grab a spot on Luma, show up, say hi to a stranger.

Join the Social Club.

Like the vibe? Apply to join the Satori Social Club, our WhatsApp community. General chat, book club, feel good club, spontaneous hangs between events.

Go deeper.

Retreats, smaller dinners, and the stuff we don’t post about. Show up a few times and you’ll get the invite.

What's coming up

Pick one, or just come to all of them.

New hangs go up on Luma.

FAQ

Questions people ask.

What is Satori?

Satori is a social club and community in New York City for ambitious people, mostly founders, entrepreneurs, creators, operators, and people with a day job and a side thing, who want to make real friends while they build their careers. We host coffee hangs, yoga, sauna and cold plunge sessions, a book club, hikes, and retreats.

Where are Satori events?

Mostly Manhattan and nearby. Coffee & Chill is in Sheep Meadow in Central Park. Yoga, sauna sessions, pilates, and book club move around the city. Retreats are upstate, in Vermont, and further out like Puerto Rico.

When are events?

Mostly weekends and daytime. We’re not a late-night crowd. New events go up on Luma a few weeks out.

How much does it cost?

Most events are free. Some, like sauna sessions, fitness classes, and retreats, have a cost that we pass through at whatever the venue charges. There’s no membership fee.

How do I join Satori?

Come to any event on Luma, then apply to join the Social Club. That gets you into our WhatsApp community where the between-event stuff happens.

Is Satori a networking group?

No. Nobody pitches, nobody hands out business cards. People do end up working together, but that’s because they became friends first.

Who runs Satori?

Kyle Ferguson and Jake Bernstein, two founders who moved to New York, couldn’t find ambitious people who were also well-rounded, and built the thing they couldn’t find.

Come hang

Find your people.

If you read all of that and thought “these are my people,” come hang. Tell us a little about yourself and we’ll get you in the Social Club.