Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement (SATYA 2), Online Immersion

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.

In this second part of the training, we cover the shoulder girdle in detail. We have a section on SATYA and the cranial-sacral rhythm, SATYA and lymphatic drainage, and SATYA for pranayama. This training lays out the essentials for how to sequence the SATYA movements and how to combine them with asana. We learn how to practice and teach the movements beginning with the simplest forms and leading to greater complexity. Following completion of this training, you will be able to begin using the movements in your own classroom.

Course Syllabus

• Learn to use SATYA movements to prepare the body for asana
• Design SATYA sequences to release specific areas of the body (e.g., lower back, hips, shoulders, and neck)
• Design SATYA sequences that include both SATYA and asana
• Learn how SATYA adjusts the spinal joints: ligaments, facets, and tendons
• Study how SATYA supports pulsatory rhythms in the body
• Discover how SATYA works as a kind of “visceral manipulation”
• Learn how SATYA supports circulation of blood and lymph
• Learn how to heal the body through savasana and SATYA
• Dharma practice: Working with Hindrances

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.

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

45 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

Tias Little synthesises more than 30 years of study in classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhism, anatomy, bodywork, and trauma healing in his dynamic, original style of teaching. Tias began studying the work of B. K. S. Iyengar in 1984 and in 1989 resided in Mysore, India, where he studied Ashtanga vinyasa yoga under the tutelage of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. A licensed massage therapist, Tias has in-depth training in craniosacral therapy. His practice and teaching is influenced by the work of Ida Rolf, Moshé Feldenkrais, and Thomas Hanna. Tias earned a master’s degree in Eastern philosophy from St. John’s College in Santa Fe in 1998.

He is the founder of the Prajna Yoga school. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Surya. In 2010, Tias created SATYA, Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement, a therapeutic movement system. He also offers a wide array of online classes through Glo, YogaU, Yoga Journal, Embodied Philosophy, and Shambhala and teaches internationally. The author of three books: The Thread of Breath, Meditations on a Dewdrop and Yoga of the Subtle Body, his fourth book, The Path is the Practice: Lessons and Reflections on the Transformative Power of Yoga, was released in June 2020.

Surya Little has travelled the globe studying various facets of yoga philosophy and practice and her path includes parallel studies in yoga and nutrition. She teaches from an intuitive understanding of the energetics of the body and combines expertise in yoga therapeutics and nutritional knowledge. She is an avid student of the Chinese Five-Element theory and studies Gigong with the MogaDao Institute. Her extensive training is in both Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Surya began her studies in Iyengar Yoga with Karin Stephan and Aadil Palkhivala and continues to study today with Patricia Walden. Co-founder of Prajna Yoga with her husband, Tias, Surya specialises in women’s health, nutrition and therapeutic yoga. Her classes are dynamic and light-hearted while cultivating a strong mental and physical practice.