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SATYA 1 | Opening the Fascia | In-person 5-Day Immersion

September 22 - September 26

REGISTER AT ORLEANS YOGA HERE

Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement

Hosted by Orleans Yoga

 

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).

Course of Study
  • cultivate essential sensory-motor awareness
  • mobilize the joints and build bi-lateral symmetry in the body
  • address low back pain
  • design fundamental sequences that include both SATYA and asana
  • discover the importance of spirals and counter spirals
  • “it’s all about the joints”: working with tendons, ligaments, and joint spaces
  • being in the “Pause”: the importance of not-doing
  • using gravity to help center inward
  • re-educating the neural-muscular system and brain pathways
  • learn how to “ride the edge” through small movements
  • learn the healing potential of the movements and their effects on the myofascial system
  • reduce fatigue and exhaustion
  • reduce the effects of speed trapped in the body
  • sense and feel the connection of the iliopsoas muscle to your spine
  • discover how to use the SATYA movements to stretch the myofascial sheaths
  • investigate the most current myofascial and brain information based on current research

 

*SATYA I is the first course of a 3-part 150-Hour SATYA Certification Program

*SATYA 1 is a prerequisite for SATYA 2 and SATYA 3

*SATYA 1 is run in collaboration with Orleans Yoga

When: September 22 – 26, 2026
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 9:30 am – 5 pm (1 hr lunch)
Location: The Church of the Holy Spirit | 204 Monument Rd, Orleans, MA 02653

 

Cost:
$1,090 before September 1st
$1,240 after September 1st

**Registration includes one year of access to the course materials

**Registration for the in-person immersion includes daily vegan, organic, gluten-free lunches and tea

**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 Therapy Track and our 300/500-Hour Teacher Training Program

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