Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement (SATYA 1), Hybrid Livestream Online Immersion

Course Description

In a totally unique way, the SATYA practice opens doorways into the interior, providing new pathways of perception and feeling. It guides students away from “doing” movement and toward sensing, receiving and “being” movement. As an adjunct to yoga practice, somatic awareness leads to embodied wisdom.

SATYA is Prajna Yoga’s “yin” style practice. All the movements are done on the floor in a flowing fashion, without force. The SATYA movements cultivate inner listening and heighten proprioceptive awareness. This awareness is the body’s innate intelligence. By increasing our capacity for sensory awareness, we become more sentient, wakeful beings in the world. The exercises are non-weight bearing and involve sliding, gliding and circular movements to reduce myo-fascial holding in the body.

The SATYA training, along with yoga postures, involves neural-muscular re-education. Like in vinyasa training, breath is combined with movement in order to deepen the respiratory rhythm. All movements support profound physical rest of the body and prepare for savasana and yoga nidra (the yogic sleep).

Hybrid Online 

The in-person immersion (in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) will be livestreamed.  You have the option to attend live via Zoom or watch the recordings on your schedule. 

The hybrid immersions bring the full depth of the Prajna Yoga experience directly to you, wherever you are in the world. With advanced livestream technology and thoughtfully curated supplemental materials, you’ll feel like you’re right in the room—without ever having to travel.

1. A FULLY INTEGRATED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

This isn’t your typical Zoom call. There will be high-quality livestream equipment to give you multiple angles, close-ups, and ambient sound so you feel fully immersed in the space. The experience is seamless and supportive—designed for embodied learning even from a distance.

2. REAL-TIME + ON YOUR TIME

Attend live via Zoom or watch the recordings on your schedule. With one-year access to all replays, you can revisit the material as often as you like, whether you join live or catch up later.

3. COMPLETE DIGITAL ACCESS

All hybrid and in-person students receive the same supplemental content: PDF manuals, guided meditations, recorded practices, readings, and more. You’re not missing out—you’re receiving the full package.

4. MEANINGFUL CONNECTION

Prajna Yoga believe in creating a sacred space, even online. The livestream immersions are interactive, spacious, and held with the same care and presence as the in-person retreats. You’ll feel seen, supported, and part of the sangha. 

Course Syllabus

During SATYA 1, students will learn the key principles and embody the foundational movements of the SATYA practice.

Topics Covered:

• How to cultivate essential sensory-motor awareness by experiencing small movements out of gravity.
• The way SATYA movements benefit the lower back.
• The effects of SATYA on the iliopsoas and spine.
• The anatomy of the five myo-fascial sheaths and how to use the SATYA movements combined with asana practice to develop an awareness of each sheath.
• How to be in “The Pause” and experience the importance of not doing.
• Reduce body fatigue.
• Address low back pain.
• The importance of spirals and counter spirals.
• “It’s all about the joints”: working with the tendons, ligaments and joint spaces.
• Being in the “Pause”: the importance of not-doing.
• How gravity can be your friend.
• How to “ride the edge” through small movements.

Tias offers an introduction to SATYA:

Certification

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

To become a SATYA teacher, all SATYA courses are required – please see the SATYA page for further information on the certification process. 

Yogacampus Diversity and Accessibility Bursary

We are offering one bursary (50% off the full course price) to a dedicated yoga student with a demonstrated financial need and active involvement in a community that could benefit from yoga. This bursary is provided by Yogacampus – The Life Centre Education, a not-for-profit educational body committed to sharing knowledge and making yoga accessible to all.

Bursary places will be awarded to a teacher or trainee who has the ability and commitment to take the course teachings into a disadvantaged community and play their part in the drive to increase accessibility to these profoundly healing practices. Priority will be given to those who themselves are from marginalised or vulnerable groups or are from a minority ethnic background.

To apply, please complete our online form before the closing date of 29 June 2025. Notification of bursary acceptance will be sent out the following week.

Meet the Teacher

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.