{"id":77,"date":"2022-07-30T21:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T21:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2022-08-30T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:09:17","slug":"what-is-satya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/what-is-satya\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SATYA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In recent years, I have been studying with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prajnayoga.com\/tias-little\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tias Little of Prajna Yoga<\/a>, Santa Fe.  One of his principle teachings is <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips14'>SATYA<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SATYA (Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement), guides students away from \u201cdoing\u201d movement and toward sensing, feeling, and \u201cbeing\u201d movement. The SATYA movements are done on the floor in a flowing fashion without force to increase somatic awareness. The exercises are non-weight bearing and involve sliding, gliding, and circular movements to balance the body\u2019s structure, reduce tension and fatigue and boost immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;SATYA helps us to gain greater insight into the changing landscape inside of our selves. SATYA cultivates vipassana by learning to sense, feel and otherwise witness pulsation, electrical activity and vibration in the body.  Over time we become more able to differentiate multiple and nuanced  sensations.&#8221; <\/p><cite>~ Prajna Yoga<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Curious to try out some SATYA practice? My <a href=\"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/sunday-morning-class\/\">Sunday morning class in Woodacre<\/a> begins with a SATYA sequence before moving into a gentle yoga <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips13'>Asana<\/span> series.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips13','a pose or posture in yoga and meditation'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips14','Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement, a modality that focuses on paying keen attention to what we sense and feel inside our bodies.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SATYA is a gentle movement practice which complements traditional yoga asana by mobilizing fascia while developing a &#8216;felt sense&#8217; of our internal state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/satya-drawing.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamessandersyoga.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}