UPCOMING
Events
Join us for in-depth studies to support your practice for inspiration, healing, and well-being!
February 2025
February 6-Class Online Series | For the Love of Bandhas
Bandhas are internal seals used to direct the flow of energy. This month we practice bandhas to expand our breath and regulate our nervous system. We practice bandhas in SATYA before engaging them in asana and pranayama to harness the vital energy within.
February 7, 2025
Afternoons with Tias & Surya | Healing the Kidneys for Vitality and Longevity
It is essential that the myofascial tissue around the kidneys not become constricted. This can happen as a result of muscular tension in the low back, dehydration, or emotional holding. We can think of the kidneys as huge aquifers that provide endurance and homeostasis to the entire body. Immerse with us on the Prajna Temple grounds for an afternoon of deep practice, meditation, and sangha sharing.
february 14 – 16, 2025
Prajna Yoga Immersion in Berkeley, CA
Join Tias & Surya for a very special weekend immersion at Green Yogi Telegraph in Berkeley, CA! Surya will offer a women’s practice Friday night, and Tias will offer three workshops – two on Saturday and one on Sunday.
MARCH 5 & 6, 2025
Developing a Psychic Shield | Online Workshop
This workshop covers ways to develop a kind of “psychic shield” in order to protect mind and body from invasive thinking and imagery.
In meditation, we emphasise ways to put into place a good “spam filter” while fortifying resiliency in the heart/mind. We use visualisation, somatic awareness, sound resonance, insight, and intention. Discover ways to connect to animal totems, call in the support of an ancestor, solicit the support of an ally or guide and bathe in the body of light.
March 6, 13, & 20, 2025
Women’s Wisdom Practices: Supporting Menopausal Transitions for Inner Balance and Longevity
In this series of classes, Surya and Margo combine their expertise in therapeutic yoga, nutrition, hormonal balancing and herbal medicine. Because menopause can result in a dip in energy and overall mood, we focus on practices to restore vitality, increase energy, optimize digestion and balance mood. Join our community of supportive women for this shared practice.
MARCH 21, 2025
Afternoons with Tias & Surya | Preparing the Psoas for Pranayama
Most anatomists deem the iliopsoas muscle in the abdomen to be the quintessential muscle in the body for stability. The psoas is a muscle of respiration, as it attaches directly to the diaphragm. It is essential to providing support and integrity to the lower spine and is considered the most core muscle of the body. 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.
April – June, 2025
Mindfulness, Somatics, & Yoga: 200-Hour Training Program
Mindfulness, Somatics, and Yoga is a course of study that leads to internal transformation at the deepest level. Building from our first training course offered in 1998, this body of work is a rich tapestry of yoga, pranayama, Insight meditation, chanting, myths, and more.  We weave together alignment-based yoga postures, anatomy, and somatic movement. All practices are both dynamic and deeply restorative. Our aim is to help deepen your own study while preparing you to teach both online and in-person classes.
April 25 – 27, 2025
Spring Awakening: A Women’s Weekend Immersion with Surya & Jane
The season of spring is ideal to awaken dormant energy and to generate new growth. Surya and Jane invite you to immerse in a community of women to share the path toward equanimity, self-compassion and self-discovery. Through journaling, reflection, sharing and silent time, we practice a kind of co-enlivening and co-awakening over 3 days at the beautiful grounds of Prajna Yoga in Santa Fe.
June 12 – 16, 2025
The Mystery of the Light: Summer Solstice Retreat | in Santa Fe
On the Solstice we come together to harness the once a year potency of the light. Through meditation, movement and mindfulness we yoke to the strongest ray of the sun, taking it down through the crown of our head, bathing every cell in our bodies. Each day includes a meal from Surya’s Kitchen with ingredients coming from Santa Fe’s regional farmer’s market. Whether in movement, stillness, or eating, this retreat brings true nourishment.
June 18 – 22, 2025
SATYA 3 | Immersion in Santa Fe
SATYA 3 investigates the therapeutic benefits of SATYA on the nervous system, endocrine system, digestion, and circulation in order to heal the subtle body. We specifically review SATYA’s effects on the autonomic nervous system and how SATYA can heal trauma in the body. Much focus is given to working with the neck, cranium, eyes, and inner ear. Students will learn how to utilize SATYA therapeutically with individual clients.
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August 3 – 7, 2025
Anatomy of the Vayus | Immersion in Santa Fe
The earliest yoga teachings describe the life force moving through the body like wind. Through thousands of tubules, channels and vessels, interior “winds” (vayus) bring animate all tissues in living prana. In this in-depth study of the subtle body, we explore the five primary winds —in the lower intestine, solar plexus, chest and head. Through dharma study, guided meditation, yoga nidra, somatic awareness and yoga postures, this is a transformational week of practice and study. Each day includes seated meditation, chanting and inspirational dharma teaching followed by Somatic Awareness Training (SATYA).
August 10 – 14, 2025
SATYA 1 | Immersion in Santa Fe
Designed by Tias Little after 30 years of education, practice, study and research, SATYA is a somatic practice that builds mindfulness through movement. We practice fine articulated movement to open new pathways of perception and feeling. Done mostly on the floor, SATYA involves sliding, gliding, stretching, unwinding and core building movements. This training covers the foundational movements of the SATYA practice. This week will revitalize your own body by reducing fatigue and increasing mobility in your fascia.
