Sattarka School of Yoga
Where curiosity, love, devotion, rigorous logic and sound inference drive the quest for Truth and progress on the path to peace with high quality training programs for yoga students and teachers at all stages on their journey.
“Among all the lights of yoga, sattarka has been determined to be the blazing sun by which one is liberated and liberates others.”
~Mālinīvijayottaratantra
What is Sattarka?
The word tarka means logic or reasoning. However, logic alone can be both valid and inaccurate. It can put us in a place of certainty that causes rigidity and resistance to possibility.
What differentiates tarka from sattarka is how love, devotion, curiosity, and an eye for wonder guide us in a quest for clarity and efficacy along the path to peace.
About Us
Sattarka School of Yoga is dedicated to honoring the wisdom you have already accumulated and discovered in your practice as a student and teacher of yoga. We simultaneously maintain a commitment to the process of examining any limited patterns of thoughts and beliefs that keep us entrenched in our small self. Our studious approach to learning and practicing the art and science of yoga welcomes and values all approaches and lineages, enthusiastically celebrating whatever works, in support of all beings on the embodied path to peace.
Guiding Principles
The Philosophical Foundation:
The human experience is an ongoing play of co-creative interactions (leela) that provide infinite opportunities to witness the Truth of our essence (satchitananda). We are called to live and act in accordance with this Truth (dharma).
Yoga is:
The optimal state of compassionate (karuna), conscious embodiment that honors basic essential goodness as Truth. This state occurs when the interdependent relationship between seemingly discordant things is made clear and discipline (abhyasa) is only ever in service of freedom (moksha.)
The Practices:
The method for creating the conditions of yoga are storytelling, posture practice, breath awareness and techniques, and meditation.