Meet Satya, the collaborating teacher in the Living Yoga Program

Why am I offering the Living Yoga Program

If you had asked me twenty years ago why I practiced yoga, I would probably have spoken about movement, breath, feeling better in my body, finding peace.

I thought yoga mostly happened on the mat.

Life has been a beautiful teacher since then.

It has brought me love, motherhood, immense joy, but also heartbreak, uncertainty, difficult decisions, and moments where I felt completely disconnected from myself. There have been times when no beautiful pose or inspiring yoga philosophy could help me. Those were the moments that quietly asked me the most important question:

What does it actually mean to live yoga?

Not for the duration of a class in a studio, but on the ordinary life when your patience is gone. When your relationship feels difficult. When you're grieving. When you're afraid. When you've made mistakes and have to face yourself with honesty instead of judgment.

Over the years, I've realized that this is where yoga becomes real.

This is why I'm offering Living Yoga.

Not because I have figured life out, I certainly haven't, but because I have experienced how deeply this practice can support us when we allow it to move beyond the physical.

There is another reason this offering feels so close to my heart.

It's because I get to share it with someone who has quietly changed my life.

I met Satya in 2012 at Delight Yoga.

I remember watching her teach and thinking, Who is this woman?

I honestly didn't know where to place her.

She didn't fit into any image I had of what a yoga teacher should be. She wasn't trying to inspire people through charisma or perfection. She wasn't performing wisdom.

She simply was.

There was a remarkable coherence about her. A presence that was impossible to ignore. She carried herself with a kind of quiet strength that made me both curious and slightly uncomfortable. Looking back, I think I recognized something in her that I wasn't yet ready to recognize in myself.

She wasn't a "normal" teacher.

She was a force.

I knew I wanted to know more about her, but life took me in different directions.

And perhaps I wasn't ready.

A few years later, after making some mistakes and learning many lessons the hard way, I found myself returning to Satya's teachings.

This time, I wasn't looking for more information.

I was looking for truth.

Something had softened in me. I had stopped searching for the next technique, the next workshop, the next answer outside myself. I had become willing to sit with discomfort instead of trying to fix it.

That's when her teachings really landed.

Over the years, Satya became one of the most important people in my life.

Not only as a teacher, but as someone who stood beside me during some of my most difficult personal chapters. She never tried to rescue me or tell me who to be. Instead, she reminded me, again and again, to come back to presence, to honesty, and to trust the quiet wisdom that is always available underneath the noise.

That has been one of the greatest gifts anyone has ever given me.

When I came to her for advice about the 200hrs training program that I wanted to start teaching outside of the regular yoga studio setting, she offered to collaborate in it, it felt incredibly natural, because what connects us isn't simply yoga.

It's the understanding that yoga isn't something we do. It's a way of meeting life.

And Living Yoga is an invitation to explore exactly that.

How do we bring awareness into our relationships? Into parenting? Into conflict? Into our work? Into the moments when life doesn't go according to plan?

How do we keep coming back to ourselves, not because we're trying to become someone better, but because we're learning to become more fully who we already are?

This program isn't about perfecting a practice.

It's about allowing the practice to transform the way we live.

In many ways, this offering is a reflection of my own journey.

A journey of searching.

Of getting lost.

Of making mistakes.

Of being supported.

Of beginning again.

And of slowly discovering that the deepest teachings of yoga were never asking me to become more flexible, or knowledgeable, they were asking me to become more present.

If this speaks to something in you, if you've been longing for a way of practicing that doesn't end when you roll up your mat, I would love for you to join us.

Because I truly believe that the most meaningful yoga happens in the middle of our wonderfully imperfect lives.