Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement (SATYA 3), Hybrid Livestream Online Immersion

SATYA 3 investigates the therapeutic benefits of SATYA on the nervous system, endocrine system, digestion, and circulation in order to heal the subtle body. We specifically review SATYA’s effects on the autonomic nervous system and how SATYA can heal trauma in the body. Much focus is given to working with the neck, cranium, eyes, and inner ear. Students will learn how to utilize SATYA therapeutically with individual clients.

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Course Description

In-depth Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement (SATYA) practices compliment asana practice while deeply restoring the body. They open the joint spaces, build sensory-motor awareness, re-educate the neural-muscular system and help develop bi-lateral symmetry.

SATYA is so very therapeutic. The non-weight bearing movements are a perfect complement to weight-bearing in asana.

SATYA 3 investigates the therapeutic benefits of SATYA on the nervous system, endocrine system, digestion, and circulation in order to heal the subtle body. We specifically review SATYA’s effects on the autonomic nervous system and how SATYA can heal trauma in the body. Much focus is given to working with the neck, cranium, eyes, and inner ear. Students will learn how to utilize SATYA therapeutically with individual clients.

At the conclusion of SATYA 3, students who wish to complete the SATYA Certification design and fulfill a final practicum, using SATYA as a therapeutic modality.

What Will I Learn?

  • The anatomy of the organic body and the impacts of SATYA on the various systems (cranio-sacral system, autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, digestive and circulatory system) in order to heal the subtle body.
  • How SATYA utilizes pranayama and meditation practices to impact the vestibular and nervous systems.
  • How to work with students and tailor the SATYA/asana practices to meet individual therapeutic needs.
  • Learn how SATYA builds neuroplasticity in the body
  • Learn the effects of SATYA on the craniosacral system, the eyes, the vestibular system of the inner ear, and the brain
  • Practice on releasing the mandible, TMJ strain, and the tongue
  • Use SATYA as preparation for pranayama by strengthening the intercostal muscle
  • Study the effects of SATYA on the autonomic nervous system and Vagus Nerve
  • How SATYA therapeutically benefits muscular-skeletal strain and dysfunction
  • Learn the benefits of SATYA on trauma held in the body
  • Learn how to address head trauma through SATYA
  • Learn how to adapt SATYA for pregnancy

Who Is this Course For?
 

This online immersion is open to yoga teachers and therapists, as well teachers in training who have completed Tias' SATYA 1 and 2 and would like to complete their full certification to teach SATYA as a therapeutic modality.

Replay

Please note ALL Live Zoom sessions and classes will be recorded should you be unable to attend any live streams. However If you are doing this to certify and for the CE credits, you will need to attend all live sessions without fail.


Hours

50 hours of total combined live training, pre-recorded material, classes, homework, and mentorship (available for CE credits through Yoga Alliance US).

Certification

If you wish to gain certification from Prajna Yoga as a SATYA teacher, you will be required to complete all 3 SATYA modules plus some practicum for a total of 150 hours of training – please see the Prajna Yoga website for further information on the certification process

Meet the Teachers

A gifted orator, Tias brings metaphor and imagination to his classes. He weaves together poetic language, embodied wisdom and subtle body awareness in all his classes.  

Tias synthesizes years of study in classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhist studies, somatic practices and anatomy in his dynamic and original style. He began studying Iyengar Yoga in 1984 and lived in Mysore, India in 1989 studying Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Pattabhi Jois. His teaching includes precision of alignment, anatomical detail and meditative awareness. He is the founder of SATYA, Somatic Awareness Training for Yoga, a somatic practice that complements yoga. 

Tias is a long time student of the meditative arts and Buddhist studies beginning with Vipassana and continuing in Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Tias earned a Master’s degree in Eastern Philosophy from St. John’s College in Santa Fe. Tias Little makes his home under the big skies of Santa Fe New Mexico where he co-directs Prajna Yoga with his wife Surya. 

Tias is the author of five books, The Thread of Breath, Meditations on a Dewdrop, Yoga of the Subtle Body,The Practice is the Path (Shambhala Publications), and In the Space Between: The Poetry of Embodiment.  

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