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

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.