TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - The heart and the lungs work together to pump the prana through the body. In this class we expand the lung cavity through backbends and inversions in order to open the chest. Then we center into the heart chakra through meditation and pranayama.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - The body compensates with pulls, rotations, shifts and torques. To see the body’s asymmetries and strain patterns under your hands is an art. Careful and intelligent sequencing creates an authentic, skillful yoga class. Without proper sequencing, a class can leave you ungrounded, imbalanced and potentially nauseated!
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - In this class come prepared to generate blood flow through dynamic and supported postures.We practice twists and side bends to “pranagize” (energize) the body by bringing blood flow to all the tissues of the body. This aids in nourishing the tissues, healing chronic pain and bringing energy and vitality to the body and mind.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - This class includes movement with precision of alignment. In the alchemy of our practice we unite stillness with movement, whether in seated meditation, flowing through postures or doing unwinding movements on the floor (SATYA). This leads to states of sublime awareness and feather fine concentration.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Unlike most other yoga trainings, Prajna Yoga offers time in silence, a time that enables "inner communion.” Yogis seek silent retreat time to evolve on the path of yoga. Today, the intimacy and power of silent practice is needed more than ever before.
Full Immersion: June 18, 2019 - July 13, 2019
DJUNA MASCALL - This session explores the foundational teachings of the yoga practice with an emphasis on how the feet are “the foundation to the temple of the body”. From the Ground Up explores the foundational teachings of the yoga practice.
NICOLLE JENSEN - Join Nicolle for this empowering evening of yoga and music to soothe your soul.
DJUNA MASCALL - The body is 75 percent water, and as we age, the body slowly loses its hydrating capacity. This session explores flexibility through fluidity.
Register Online Schedule: 8:30am-5:30pm (8 hours) The science and practice of yoga is framed in Sanskrit words and verses. A basic understanding of the Sanskrit language is important for any student or teacher of yoga. Many asana (posture) names have interesting, deeper meanings and stories behind them. The subtle body ...
NICOLAI BACHMAN - How can we live in alignment with the core teachings of yoga? Patanjali, author of the Yoga Sutras, ordered the eight limbs of yoga deliberately from outer to inner.
Register Online Schedule: 8:30am-5:30pm (8 hours) Join Surya Little & Linda Spackman for an unforgettable course on women's health, designed to inspire teachers and empower practitioners to explore how to adapt the practice and support women in all life phases. In the yoga world, many teachers ignore the need to ...
SURYA LITTLE & LINDA SPACKMAN - The skill and real success of teaching a comprehensive yoga class involves careful and intelligent sequencing. This day long is an introduction to the Art of Sequencing work and complements Mastering the Basics teaching principles.
SURYA LITTLE & LINDA SPACKMAN - This program provides the essential teaching skills in order to teach a yoga class following the principles of Prajna Yoga. This mini-intensive guides, inspires, and motivates you to confidently and competently begin to teach yoga classes.
TIAS LITTLE - Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement (SATYA) is an integral part of the Prajna Yoga experience. This day long is an introduction to the SATYA work.
TIAS AND SURYA - The pathway into the subtle body involves practice for the delicate structures of the throat, neck, cranium and brain. In yoga practice, the brain and sensory organs must be carefully protected and drawn inward. Session III presents ways to posturally balance the skull efficiently on top of the spine and to mindfully create a "psychic shield" to protect and empower spiritual awareness.
TIAS LITTLE - SATYA 3 further investigates the therapeutic benefits of SATYA on the various systems of the body. SATYA 3 students design and fulfill a 15-hour practicum, using SATYA as a therapeutic modality.
SURYA AND YOSHI - Join Surya Little and Yoshi Nakano to optimize your health through Zen touch and Yoga asanas to open and enhance your life force throughout the meridians. Through the use of palming techniques, direct touch and varying positions you will experience a deep calm of your central nervous system and improve your postural alignment and experience a grounded sense of prana.
TIAS AND SURYA - The chakras evoke mystery, an artistic imagination and connection to the subtle body. In this specialized course we cover the physical structures that correspond to each chakra beginning with the tailbone and leading to the crown of the head.
TIAS LITTLE - In a totally unique way, 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. During SATYA 1, students will learn the key principles and embody the foundational movements of the SATYA practice.
TIAS LITTLE - In a totally unique way, 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. During SATYA 1, students will learn the key principles and embody the foundational movements of the SATYA practice.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - The aim of this class is to reduce shoulder and neck restriction and to effectively yoke the shoulder blades onto the back. We will practice SATYA techniques to help release strain from the shoulders and yoga posture to open the shoulder girdle.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - The aim of this session is to provide the student with the practical skills and creativity to teach a well organized, clear and inspiring class. We help teachers who are already teaching bring greater depth and variety to their classes.What makes Prajna Yoga unique is how Prajna instructors weave together asana, mindfulness, internal alignment and wisdom.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - In this class we open up the hips through floor poses and standing poses. Through fun and challenging hip openers we build both strength and elasticity in order to align
the hip flexors, hip joints and external hip rotation muscles.
Forward bends serve to draw the mind inward toward the spirit and to restore the organ of the brain. This class emphasizes release of the back body-the spine, kidneys and lungs- in front bends in order to reduce fatigue and prepare the mind for meditation.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Unlike most other yoga trainings, Prajna Yoga offers time in silence, a time that enables "inner communion.” Yogis seek silent retreat time to evolve on the path of yoga. Today, the intimacy and power of silent practice is needed more than ever before.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Join us for a very special Winter Solstice class, where we will practice bringing light and joy into our practice on the shortest day of the year.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Join Tias & Surya for two special Holiday Season classes at BODY of Santa Fe!
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Lunge into the New Year by opening your hip joints, sacrum and low spine to prepare for backbends.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - In this class through asana and pranayama, experience the subtle body by engaging the bandhas to regulate activity in the nerves, glands and organs.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - This class mobilizes the essential structures of the spine—the spinal discs, ligaments rib attachments and musculature-- while exploring the mystical central channel of the spine called the sushumna.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Join Tias & Surya Little at BODY of Santa Fe for a class guiding students in poses that are designed to draw fatigue out of the body and to reduce stress.
TIAS LITTLE ONLINE - Join Tias & Surya Little at BODY of Santa Fe for a workshop where we'll practice movements that enhance the flow of fascia through the body. We also track how thoughts, feeling, memory, and a sense of "I" are imprinted on the connective tissues.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, seasonal meal, and sangha sharing. Take an afternoon to drop into deep practice for your body, mind and spirit.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, seasonal meal, and sangha sharing. Take an afternoon to drop into deep practice for your body, mind, and spirit.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - SANTA FE, NM - In this class we use somatic movements, pranayama and supported asana to infuse bright red oxygenated blood through all the arterial channels of the body. Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, and sangha sharing.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - In Santa Fe - Spring is the perfect time to release stagnation from the abdomen and move energy through the spine. In this class we practice many bridge poses and bridge-shoulder stand combinations. Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, and sangha sharing.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, and sangha sharing. Take an afternoon to drop into deep practice for your body, mind, and spirit.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Santa Fe, NM - 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.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Santa Fe, NM - In this course Tias and Surya share their combined 50 years of study, practice and teaching to help teachers design classes that are dynamic, playful, creative and enlightening.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, and sangha sharing. Take an afternoon to drop into deep practice for your body, mind, and spirit. In this class we build pliability in the lungs, diaphragm, and ribs.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - As the winter season sets in and the light in the sky wanes on Winter Solstice, we come together for an immersive practice. In this class we illumine the spaces within through breath work, meditative flow, supported holds, and deep stillness.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - Santa Fe NM - This mid-winter class supports dropping into deep rest while revitalizing both body and mind. We weave together, poetry, prayer, movement, and meditation to generate a feeling of spaciousness, calm, and inner delight.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - This is a unique opportunity to work with both Tias and Surya in the beautiful setting of the Prajna Temple. In this immersion we dive into core work for the spine, sacrum, back, and hips.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - This is a unique opportunity to work with both Tias and Surya in the beautiful setting of the Prajna Temple. In this class we free the sacrum, coccyx, and surrounding musculature in order to mobilize the energy of Kundalini in the first chakra.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - After winter, spring twists are the medicine to sprout new change and growth while energizing the body. This class will emphasize standing, seated, and supine twists that mobilize the internal organs and promote abundant circulation of blood through the spinal nerves.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe, NM - In this class we “press”, twist, rotate, and squeeze the hips to generate fluidity in the spine. This helps pump spinal fluid up the spine and around the brain, fluid that the yoga texts liken to a divine elixir.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In this course we utilize postures, pranayama, meditation, and dietary regulation to support the health of the internal organs.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In SATYA 2, you will learn more complex sequencing, more nuanced variations of movement, and more about the physiological benefits.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In this course we take a posture, map out the anatomical layers of fascia, and practice different techniques to release the connective tissue.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - The cranium and pelvis are closely paired in their structure and dynamic function. This immersion explores the vital balance between the polar ends of the spine – the sacrum and skull.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In this immersion, Tias and Surya share their combined 50 years of study, practice, and teaching to design classes that are dynamic, playful, enlightening, and creative.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In this immersion we dive into sequences that will help deepen and diversify your practice. Each class explores posture combinations that are fun, dynamic and challenging. This is a unique opportunity to receive assistance and personal guidance in order to safely take your practice to the next level.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In yoga and Chinese Medicine, the fall is associated with the organ of the lungs. In this immersion we practice somatic movements and postural yoga to make the lung tissue more supple and resilient.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In yoga and Ayurveda, marma points are vital acupressure points located on the surface of the body that connect to the energetic circuitry of nerve and blood. In this course we detail the 21 most important marma points that can be directly stimulated through yoga postures.
SURYA LITTLE & ELENA BROWER - in Santa Fe - Join Surya and Elena to center in, get back in touch with yourself and tune into your innate wisdom as we turn inward for winter.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In this immersion we cover the location of lymph nodes and vessels in the throat and practice many different variations of these poses in order to safely promote immune health in the neck and upper chest.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - Join us as we peer through the aperture of time in bearing witness to the light on this shortest day of the year. This class helps spark open a truly magical connection to the light within. Through asana, meditation, poetry, song and verse we invoke a timeless, all-penetrating light.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - In the Chinese New Year calendar, this year is the year of the snake. In this class we free the sacrum, coccyx and surrounding musculature in order to mobilize the energy of kundalini in the first and second chakras.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, and sangha sharing. In this class, we will investigate the anatomical position of the kidneys and identify ways that the kidneys support the lungs and the flow of prana. In practice we practice twists, forward bends and supported backbends.
TIAS & SURYA LITTLE - in Santa Fe - Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, and sangha sharing. Take an afternoon to drop into deep practice for your body, mind, and spirit. In this class, Tias begins with slide work to outline the anatomical structures associated with the iliopsoas. In practice we alternately lengthen, flex, and revolve the iliopsoas prior to the practice of supine and seated pranayama.
