Many of you have felt the extraordinary benefits of this practice on your fascia, joints, and breath. This course on SATYA will no doubt add depth and somatic sophistication to your practice… and it is so healing. Designed by Tias Little after 30 years of education, practice, study, and research, SATYA is a somatic practice that builds mindfulness through movement.
SATYA (Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement) is Prajna Yoga’s therapeutic, “yin” style practice. We practice fine articulated movement on the floor in a flowing fashion, synthesizing breath with movement. The exercises are non-weight bearing and involve sliding, gliding, and circular movements to reduce myo-fascial holding in the body. When done on the floor, the breath and movement together enables myofascial release without strain. All movements are done slowly, in isolation, and without force. The SATYA movements replenish the body by increasing circulation (the flow of prana) throughout all the tissues of the body. SATYA acts as a “prana pump” to oxygenate the bloodstream and irrigate, or “soak” the tissues.
The SATYA movements cultivate inner listening and heighten proprioceptive awareness, neuroplasticity, and neural-muscular re-education. This awareness is the body’s innate intelligence. By increasing our capacity for sensory awareness, we become more sentient, wakeful beings in the world. While yoga today often emphasizes the “doing” of a posture, SATYA encourages “being” in a movement with heightened awareness. Our aim is to tap an inner potency, and to help support the body’s innate intelligence and capacity to self-regulate. Thus SATYA is mindfulness training through movement. As a movement meditation, SATYA builds vipassana (insight) into the sensory-motor pathways of the body. The movements are a powerful tonic to reduce fatigue, strain, and tension in the body, and to build deep relaxation and clarity. All movements support profound physical rest of the body and prepare for savasana and yoga nidra (the yogic sleep).
This training covers the foundational movements of the SATYA practice. This will revitalize your own body by reducing fatigue, building coherence, and integration of all the connective tissues of your body. At the same time, you will learn the key principles of the SATYA practice for the classroom. For yoga teachers who work therapeutically or with aging populations, SATYA is a simple yet highly effective system to help safely mobilize and repair the connective tissues.
This online immersion with Tias and Surya includes guided meditation, sound resonance, dharma study, visualization training, and SATYA practice. We do yoga postures following SATYA to stabilize the core tissues of the body. Tias will teach anatomy through an array of colorful slides. Tias integrates images from nature, sacred architecture and art to describe the energetic flow of prana through the body. Tias brings his background in Sanskrit, cranial-sacral study, yoga philosophy, and mystical anatomy to provide a transformational online course of study.
Cost: $1,050 or Bundle SATYA 1, 2 & 3 for $2,850
DAILY SCHEDULE:
- Day 1: Thursday November 3rd, 9:30 - 12:30pm MT
- Day 2: Friday November 4th, 9:00am - 12:30pm MT (includes public Prajna Live class)
- Day 3: Saturday November 5th, 9:30 - 12:30pm MT
- Day 4: Sunday November 6th, 9:30 - 12:30pm MT
- Day 5: Saturday November 19th, 9:30 - 12:30pm MT
- Day 6: Sunday November 20th, 9:30 - 12:30pm MT
- Day 7: Saturday December 3rd, 9:30 - 12:30pm MT
- Day 8: Sunday December 4th, 9:30 - 12:30pm MT
**SATYA 1 is good for 45-Hours of Continuing Education hours through Yoga Alliance, and can be applied towards required hours for the Prajna Yoga 300/500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program and the Prajna Yoga Therapy Track
**Please note ALL Live Zoom sessions will be recorded should you be unable to attend any live streams. All course materials are available indefinitely.
**Included in registration for the full course is access to FIVE Prajna Live classes at 10:00 – 11:30am Mountain Time. Registrants will have access to these classes directly in the course curriculum for 30 days after the course completes.
COURSE OF STUDY:
- 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.
Course Curriculum
- View Class Recording - Prajna Live | Allow Yourself to Soak Inward - Tuesday, October 18 (94:28)
- View Class Recording - Prajna Live | Follow the Grain - Friday, October 21 (93:15)
- View Class Recording - Prajna Live | Where There is Breath There is Blood | Tuesday, November 1 (91:14)
- View Class Recording - Prajna Live | Nourishing the Lungs in Autumn - Friday, November 4 (90:06)
- View Class Recording - Prajna Live | Pranayama in Every Pose - Friday, November 18 (90:32)
- SATYA Principles: Connective Tissue and Indra’s Web
- Watch Lecture: Anatomy of Connective Tissue (49:50)
- Listen | Guided Meditation: Intimacy, Immediacy, Spontaneity, and the Obvious
- Reading: The Endless Web chapter by Louis Schultz
- View Zoom Recording - SATYA 1 | Day 1 - Thursday, November 3 (166:12)
- SATYA Principles: Dropping the Bones
- Listen | Guided Meditation: Dropping the Bones
- Watch Lecture: Anatomy of the Bones (33:33)
- Reading: Wisdom of the Bones by Tias Little
- SATYA Principles: The Low Back
- Watch Lecture: Anatomy of the Low Back and Sacrum (44:57)
- View Recording - SATYA 1 | Day 6 - Sunday, November 20 (164:08)
“This course is extremely well run, well resourced, and comprehensive. Both teachers possess a fountain of knowledge and share with a passion in a friendly instructive way. The materials are excellent, downloadable, well written, illustrated, and easy to understand. The guided practices, meditations, poetry, and chanting are excellent and you can feel more attuned and more aware of your own signature shape, what works for your own unique body, and apply this to asana practice. I loved it and would recommend it highly.”
-Trish Campbell, UK
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