Sarah Sati

When I was younger, if something didn’t go my way, I would often sabotage myself.

I would use experience as an excuse for self defeating behaviors, or more apt, I would use it as an excuse NOT to do the self uplifting behaviors I said I wanted to do.

This was the stage of development in between being fully self responsible and fully blaming of others.

It was an important step.

Someone who has passed this stage of development might see someone they love in it and tell them to stop.

This is them forgetting that being there, really being in it, is exactly what is necessary to get past there.

You can’t get to Florida from California driving without going through the middle of America. Anyone who tells you otherwise has either never taken the trip or forgotten the route.

So what I’m saying is; drop the story about how where you are right now, or where someone you love is right now, is bad.

Stop listening to others who have forgotten the value of all stages on the path, or never been in your shoes. And ask yourself: are you this someone giving ignorant advice?

We want to learn to fully be with the experience of now, no matter how negative, even more so the negative. And we want to support this journey in others.

This is the route to progress.

Years ago, after another failure at love with a man, I made a choice to marry myself.

One of the better choices I’ve ever made.

It was then that I started adjusting my perspective on love, listening to love songs as though they were me singing to me.

I stopped putting all of my energy into men and the outcome of relationships with them and I began learning how to direct that energy towards myself.

I took myself on dates, just me and me, where we did whatever I wanted in meaningful connection with each other. It was hard at first, but overtime I became my own favorite date, my own best companion.

From this self work, the flower of a deep inner love affair bloomed.

I have a lot of karma related to self love and the development of it, alongside my capacity to be in romantic relationship with other.

I share this with you, my friends, in case this is the same for you.

It is no easy task to turn the desire for love from outside inward and ask questions like: how can I show up better for me, how can I see the love I need is within me to give to myself?

It’s possible, beautiful people, and the journey towards deep self love, although littered with tears, is as beautiful a journey as I have ever traveled.

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and only you. Not to you and your partner, but just you. Just you alone. You alone are enough, are perfect as is. No other required ❤️

If you ever wonder what I do when I’m not doing yoga, running, juicing, baking, or moming…here I am doing it. It’s reading people. I love to read.

I read two to four books a month depending on book length. My goal each year is a book a week but that isn’t always possible with some of the very long books on my reading list.

I love to hold the book in my hands. There’s something so gratifying about completing a book and placing it back on the shelf. In fact the most possessions I have are in the form of books.

Currently reading The Molecule of More. Have you read it? Are you reading something great right now you would like share? I’d love to hear what everyone else is reading!

Thanks for this cute reading pic of me ❤️✨🙏🏽

These days we have been on fire baking and creating using all of the amazing food available fresh from the earth. It’s really brought me back to my hippy cali roots where I used to spend my days making raw vegan food stuff, juicing my heart out, running my mind off, and doing maximum yoga.

Living on an island has its ups, but definitely something I have really missed while being on bonaire is fresh food in abundance and the space and resources available to truly live how I most enjoy living.

The last few years it’s like I have been living the story of the Alchemist. If you know you know.

I’m now standing in front of one of my life’s greatest intersections to date and I would be lying if I said I feel anything but uncertainty.

Fortunately I have the definitive art of baking at this moment to exercise a moderate sense of control. As for the rest I’m just arms open in surrender.

If you want to eat something I’m making come to my Sunday class. Where I’m gifted the opportunity to give it all away and really feel the sweet release from clinging to what was never mine in the first place.

Our ability to know what we are doing when we cannot see what we are doing is one of the gifts of the practice.

This skill begins with asking questions and looking for answers within the mind. Where is my right leg when I cannot see it? Is my wrist really in line with me shoulder on the arm that is behind me.

Eventually the skill translates to the mind. Where is my mind in this moment while I am reading this book? What emotion is living underneath this reaction to this external circumstance?

In this natural way we develop deep intuitive awareness. We learn to sense subtle energy movements.

It’s a gift of the practice but it is not the aim.

We don’t want to go into the practice wishing for the gifts. And when the gifts come we don’t want to confuse them as the aim and let our practice end there.

Gifts, like everything else, come and go. Clinging to them destroys our practice and disconnects us from our deeper potential and our ability to advance.

If we want to live our most rich and authentic life we have to learn to never get distracted by the shinny things and to never get caught up in the s**t.

Just see where we are at, give thanks, cry if we need to and move along. That’s it. Not special. Just part of the flow.

The first new moon of 2023. What are you going to fast from?

That’s the question I’m asking myself.

My 2023 has started with more questions than answers. Plans have changed and priorities have shifted and I’m currently riding the waves of total uncertainty and deep introspection.

Confusion is the beginning of great awakening.

This new moon I allow myself to be confused. To have too much thinking and too little understanding, and this is clarity.

Cloudiness is clarity in disguise, if you didn’t know.

So while I may or may not fast from food for the new moon, I will certainly fast from the things that ate haunting me. These things are all conceptual. All narrative.

For instance, the narrative that my value is based on what you think of me, or how much money I can make, or how many friends I have or likes my posts get or the amount of content I can create.

The narrative that I need to be someone special; I’m for sure fasting from that.

Again I failed to take pictures of an event. I called it a workshop but next time I will give it its real name. Heart Felt Intentions at was a ceremonial ritual, no workshopping about it.

I kept reminding myself to take pics and video before I began, but what happens when I begin to guide is I totally drop out of the scene. I completely lose touch with the part of me who wants to show others what I’m doing and I step fully into the space of doing. I goes. Am remains. It’s why I think I love teaching so much, I get immediate access to selflessness and pure being through the teacher in me.

So anyway it was awesome. Here is a pic of me blessing the space for the heart to open. I am so honored to share what I love with people. May 2023 be only about that❤️

The way we reflect and set our intentions matters.

If you’re looking for an exercise to help you get started in a positive direction this year, check out my latest blog post.

Or join me in person tomorrow at Hot Yoga Club in Chico from 12 - 2 tomorrow for a juicy heart opening experience.

Time for Reflection: A New Year's Activity An old year reflection and new year's intention setting activity for 2023.

I call it the great sand mandala, although it’s made from asana or words and not sand.

Here is what I mean:

When I do something (I believe to be) meaningful, for instance record a 45 minute practice I’m going to upload to YouTube or write some (what I consider) profound caption for an IG post, and then…

And then I realize my headphones weren’t connected so there is no sound. Or I think I saved the draft but when I go back into IG it’s gone.

This is THE moment to practice what great humans across time have practiced: the subtle art of letting go.

Letting go is not an action.

Letting go is a fancy term for not clinging. As there was nothing to let go of since of course there was nothing there.

To not cling is to trust. Basic trust is the backbone for experience.

Not to trust that I can do it again or I can save it or remember it, but to trust that what I think matters is just that - “I” “thinking” - and both of these aspects of reality are one big game of the mind.

It’s moments like these a little crack opens in the fabric of experience. Rather than “work to let go” or “try not to cling” if we can simply laugh at the play then it’s all good.

Anyway, in the end it is always all good.

Here’s a pic of me from my latest video with no sound I may or may not delete. What I do with it doesn’t matter. That’s not the point.

The point is what I do with it.

If you’re confused, it’s a start.

This will be my first time in teaching at YG Studios] and I am super looking forward to it. If you’re in the area consider joining me on the 16th & 17th of December.

On day one I will offer a guided Rocket (progressive Ashtanga) primary class followed by a short q&a.

On day two I offer a workshop breaking down the primary sequence and what makes it so special, focusing on the use of Surya a & b to support mobility, strength and flexibility and the difference between all standing poses on the right side before all standing on the left (right brain / left brain integration). As well this will be a time to learn how to use this special practice to meet you exactly where you are (from beginner to advanced).

For questions or to register check in with YG Studios] ❤️❤️❤️or send me a DM