Practice with Sam, Insight Yoga Institute Endorsed Teacher!

Join Sam for her regular weekly classes, some extra team teach classes, Friday Night Yin on June 2nd and 23rd, and Lunchtime Learning series: Therapeutic Yin Yoga for Any-Body starting this Wednesday May 31st and will be available to watch in our on demand video library. 

“We all are very fortunate in the Insight Yoga Sangha to have Sam join our global group of endorsed teachers. With each teachers’ dedication and expertise, we look forward to connecting with you.” ~Sarah Powers, founder of Insight Yoga Institute 

Amanda and Sam talked about Sam’s endorsement by Insight Yoga Institute. In this short interview, Sam explains the journey of freedom and the psychological inquiry that has been integral to her growth and learning at Insight Yoga Institute for the last 11 years with one of her teachers, Sarah Powers. Sam highlights the importance of always learning, growing and evolving. 

Here’s a short sample of what the conversation contained. Read the other parts of the interview Here. You can listen to the recording on the Lunchtime Learning Event Page. 

“I, like most people, find that adversity in our life brings us to other things that help us heal. And one of the things that helps me heal is mindfulness and working with the subtle body, energy body. And helping at least for my journey through life, is being a little kinder to myself.”

“I think from my own journey being trained in yoga. There was something missing. So I started to look for trainings and teachers that would fill the other side of yoga, to yoke, on philosophical, especially, the part of yoga that helps us uncover our true essence. So I started to supplement that in and that was the work I started to do with Sarah Powers and the Insight Yoga Institute 11 or 12 years ago.” 

“The, IYI or Insight Yoga Institute is a community that when you commit to practicing or joining the institute, you're committing to really working on cultivating a balance in your well being - related to mindfulness and psychological inquiry of who we really are. You have to do a lot of self work.”

“Freedom is to me is this mindful awareness that we are free. And we're most, we're most able to feel freedom when we are most in tune to our True Nature, who we are. So freedom to me is training up our ability to know our True Nature. And what helps support us to be feel free, not euphoric necessarily, but this time where we're free. We feel grounded. We feel calm, and more rested and when something big is thrown at us we still have those characteristics there. So freedom is building and training up our mindfulness that now and being mindful. Freedom is also the action of training up freedom, which is also when we're able to recognize when we are not free.”

“Yin Yoga is one of the tools of Insight Yoga. The goal of the [yin foundations] training is to help teachers and students take Yin Yoga and not feel like they have to be in the deepest, longest held pose. You can move any time you want to. You should prop. So teaching that, with skeletal variation in mind [and medical history], what we call the archetypes and variations to make the practice more accessible. My goal is to make it more accessible to folks.” 

The Insight Yoga Institute model is part of the influence for the creation of Sam’s upcoming Therapeutic Yin Yoga for Any-Body Lunchtime Learning. 

Yin Yoga is a practice that cultivates more time in a Mindful State. In Yin Yoga, we are using the poses, in a healthy way, to stress certain fascia planes that are associated with the energy body, the subtle body. The balance of the subtle body and the physical body is a really beneficial practice for our wellbeing. 

What makes this training different is Sam brings in her work with functional movement. She wanted to create a Yin Yoga course that makes Yin poses available to Any Body. The series takes and adapts poses to “you” whether there is arthritis, osteoporosis, inflammation, high anxiety, etc. 

This course will give the participants a foundation to bring into a group class or in a customized home yin practice. Sam’s goal is that you walk away with your own yin archetype variations and understand how you are benefiting your energy system. All with the added benefit of cultivating longer periods of Freedom, Mindfulness.

We invite you to practice with Sam, Insight Yoga Institute Endorsed Teacher!

Sign up for one, some or of the Therapeutic Yin Yoga for Any-Body Lunchtime Learnings on Momence:

All of our group yoga and meditation classes are a few clicks away. Sign up using the calendar on our class sign up page.

If you have questions, reach out to us at info@dogwoodstudioyoga.com. We are here to help. 

SAM Sather, founder of Dogwood Studios, is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) and an Insight Yoga Institute (IYI) endorsed teacher. She individualizes the yoga practice with appropriate modifications for participants’ unique bodies and medical histories with a focus on finding calm and improving health. She offers several live, online and in person yoga classes as well as private sessions so you can focus on your needs one-on-one.