Satya - understanding and refining your truth as a yoga teacher

May 15, 2020 Madina Tanekeyeva

Ashtanga Yoga, the 8-fold path as described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, was the subject of my recent mentoring circle for the Sukha Mukha studio teachers in training.

Mentoring is very dear to my heart as I love inspiring others and supporting new yoga teachers on their path of transmitting yoga knowledge.

So Satya.

Beng the second of Yamas (control/restraints/behaviour conduct), Satya translates as “truthfulness” or being true to your heart.

We all know what truth is and why we are to adhere to it. Simple and very old knowledge.

So what about Satya from a teacher’s perspective?

The art of sequencing

August 8, 2018 Madina Tanekeyeva

We all know this blissed out feeling of coming out of a class being whole, complete, balanced, tuned up. A good class for me is when I get up from savasana and have no urge to do one more pose. I do not want one more little stretch or another handstand. It is when my whole body was addressed and my mind cleared.