Satty Yoga

Workshops

Deepening the Dialogue

While my weekly practice grounds the body, these workshops provide a larger container to explore the intersection of movement, mindfulness, and the psyche. These sessions are offered periodically or can be requested as bespoke private intensives.

1. The Integrated Intensive: “Get Out of Your Comfort Zone”

Format: One-to-One Private Workshop (3 hours + 30-minute follow-up)

This intensive is designed for those at a crossroads in their career, relationships, or personal growth. It is explicitly structured to move you from the “safe zone” into a space where real change occurs.

  • The Exploration: We investigate your boundaries to understand why we stay in habitual zones and what prevents us from moving beyond them.

  • The Tools: Using a blend of movement, mind analysis, specific breathing techniques, and journaling, we dismantle the mental inhibitors that stall progress.

  • The Outcome: You will leave with a defined 6-month action plan and the mindset required to move beyond restraints and barriers.

2. Yoga, Meditation, & Creativity: Unlocking Flow State

Format: Half-day Immersion

A workshop dedicated to the “creative portal” within. Studies show a strong correlation between meditative stillness and the ability to access a more open flow state.

  • The Practice: We incorporate Vinyasa flow and mindfulness to enhance internal awareness and mind-body integration.

  • The Expression: Using drawing or painting (not as “art,” but as a somatic expression), we explore form, shape, and texture.

  • The Goal: This is not an artistic critique; it is a session designed to unlock self-expression and bypass the “inner critic” that often blocks our creative potential.

3. Release the Knot of Contraction

Format: 3-hour Workshop

This session explores the profound truth that “tightness in the mind brings tightness in the body, and vice versa.” We look at the “knot” of self-contraction—the way we physically and mentally pull away from difficulty.

  • Dropping into the Body: Moving out of the “head” to explore how tension is held and sustained.

  • Tuning into Difficulty: Guided meditation specifically designed to meet discomfort with curiosity rather than resistance.

  • The Release: Learning a new relationship to tension, using sustained practice to return to a state of balance and presence.

4. The Architecture of the Chakras: An Insight Workshop

Format: 2-hour Immersion

An introduction to the seven energy centers (chakras) located in the body and connected to the central nervous system. In Sanskrit, chakra means “wheel”—a wheel of moving energy.

  • Mapping the Self: We explore each center—from the pelvic floor to the crown of the head—to understand where energetic flow may be blocked.

  • Inner Alignment: Using physical practice and meditation, we work to cultivate balance throughout the mind-body system.

  • The Nervous System: Connecting ancient wisdom with modern physiological awareness to foster harmony.

5. Letting Go, Letting Be: Managing the Stress Response

Format: 2.5-hour Workshop

This workshop bridges the gap between home and the workplace, investigating our personal stress triggers and our habitual reactions to them.

  • Catching the Trigger: Understanding the mind-body connection before the reaction occurs. We learn to see the physical manifestation of stress early.

  • The Skillful Response: Changing the habitual “mode” of reacting to one that is more skillful, responsive, and less harmful to ourselves and others.

  • Practical Tools: Silent meditation, breathing exercises for “heat of the moment” calming, and reflective journal writing.

6. Welcome to Whatever Comes

Format: 2.5-hour Workshop

A heart-centered workshop focused on the art of acceptance and the practice of “heartfulness.”

  • Opening the Heart: Using specific postures and breathwork to experience a softer, more accepting connection with yourself and others.

  • Grounding in Difficulty: Learning how to remain balanced regardless of what life “throws your way.”

  • Setting Intentions: Clarifying what acceptance means in your specific life context and setting meaningful intentions for the path ahead.