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.

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Cost: $1050

DAILY SCHEDULE


  • Part 1: Daily Live Zoom Meetings January 27 – 31, 9:30am – 12:30pm [Mountain Time] EXCEPT Friday January 29th: 9:30am – 1:30pm [Mountain Time] (Fridays include bonus mentorship/Q&A session with Tias & Surya)


  • Break: February 1 & 2: OFF


  • Part 2: Daily Live Zoom Meetings February 3 – 7, 9:30am – 12:30pm [Mountain Time]  EXCEPT Friday February 5th: 9:30am – 1:30pm [Mountain Time] (Fridays include bonus mentorship/Q&A session with Tias & Surya)


*Included in this course is bonus access to the Prajna Live classes at 10:00 – 11:30am MST (5:00 - 6:30pm UK Time) on Tuesdays, January 26 & February 2, and Fridays, January 29 & February 5. SATYA 1 registrants will have extended access to these classes directly in their course curriculum*

**Please note ALL Live Zoom sessions and classes will be recorded should you be unable to attend any live streams


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.


** SATYA 1 is good for 45 hours of total combined live training, pre-recorded material, classes, homework, and mentorship available for Continuing Education hours through Yoga Alliance

**SATYA 1 can be applied towards required hours for the Prajna Yoga 300/500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program. SATYA 1 is part of the Prajna Yoga Therapy Track.


Course Curriculum


  Introduction | SATYA: Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement
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  Introducing the Teachers
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  Ask a Question
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  SATYA Reference Guide
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  Section 1: Connective Tissue & SATYA
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  Section 2: Neuro-Differentiation and Brain Maps
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  Section 3: Mindfulness on Sensation
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  Section 4: Sensation, Pulsation, and the Nadis
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  Section 5: Building Somatic Intelligence
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  Section 6: Dropping the Bones
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  Section 7: The Spiral
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  Section 8: The Skin Suit
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  Section 9: The Low Back
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  Conclusion: Reflection & Revision
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“The SATYA training created an opportunity to restore and rejuvenate while learning to fine-tune my body awareness. What I did not expect was that my chronic pain would be relieved and leave my body! I’ve been given the tools to maintain my health and manage pain.” 


-Jane Baldwin, Dallas, TX

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Prajna Yoga: Tias & Surya Little


Prajna Yoga educates, inspires, and transforms. We preserve the ancient roots of yoga practice while integrating contemporary research on the mind-body connection. Deeply experienced and spiritual teachers, Tias and Surya honor the traditions of yoga and while bringing a holistic approach that will awaken your mind, body, and spirit. Whether you are looking to return to your center in your personal practice, become a certified yoga teacher in the methods of Prajna, expand your practice into yoga therapy or simply looking to learn from us online, we have offerings to meet you where you are.

Yoga for Everyone


Being all inclusive is a central tenet of Prajna Yoga. Diversity makes our sangha (community) all the more dynamic and creative. Thus we are receptive to all walks of life, that is people of all color, caste, and creed. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, economic status, or belief system. Our culture of inclusion enables us to better learn, grow, and thrive. Like a mala strung from many beads, our community finds beauty and strength from the unity of each unique individual.

“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


BONUS CLASSES

With registration, you will receive FOUR free Prajna Live classes, each of which will compliment the SATYA 1 training


LIVE ZOOM

This module contains live Zoom meetings & lectures with Tias & Surya, and a library of supplemental material at your fingertips

45 HOURS OF CREDITS

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