Cultivating life with awareness.
Offering traditional yoga philosophy as a path to freedom, Sati Yoga School offers a body-safe and inclusive environment for yogis at all stages of practice. With limited class sizes, classes intentionally provide the physical spaciousness, inclusive community, compassion, and trauma-informed lens that welcomes all to a deep and meaningful practice.
What to expect from a Sati class
From the outside, our classes might just look like a slow, skillfully planned yoga class. Sati is the Pali word for “mindfulness” or awareness, which infuses every aspect of our style of teaching. In class, we help students gain greater awareness & embodiment (the ability to be present within the body) by encouraging the continual exploration of sensory feedback while we stretch, move, roll tight tissues, breathe & learn to listen to our own individual body’s cues. Through this, the nervous system learns greater regulation which supports increased mental & physical health & wellbeing.
Sati Yoga
A great place to begin if you’re new or returning to practice, this foundational class teaches the fundamentals of yoga asana, mindfulness and philosophy. It’s yoga slowed down and simplified with an emphasis on developing body awareness, healthy postural habits and releasing spinal tension through stretching, targeted rolling, breath work & mindfulness. All levels and bodies welcome with modifications and alternative options given, along with loads of encouragement to explore and adapt what's offered to fit the needs of the day.
Sati Flow
This intermediate class is for those already familiar with foundational asanas to further the technique, skill and depth for greater power and precision. Deep, strong, energizing, and balancing, this is a strong practice to support and open the body, inspire the heart, and strengthen mindful awareness. With an emphasis on developing clarity and specificity within the body along with exploring some more nuanced philosophical themes, this class will inspire and challenge you to try beautiful, fun postures with thoughtful and purposeful sequencing to provide a full-body experience, leaving you feeling deeply supported, inspired and connected both physically and mentally.
If you love playing around with inversions and arm balances, join Sati Flow 2/3
Sati Somatics
Tune the instruments of body and mind with deeply healing, restorative somatic movement sequenced to help release long-held patterns of tension and torsion in the hips, spine, shoulders, and neck. This unique, slow and meditative class begins with gentle rocking and undulating movements done on the ground ~ flushing the body of fatigue, rehydrating tissues, and assisting in re-regulating the body's stress response. After floor work, class will often move through a simple flow of standing and seated postures to build resilience and strength in the hips and core before pranayama (breath work) and deep rest in Savasana. All levels and bodies welcome with modifications and alternative options given, along with the sincere encouragement to adapt what’s offered to suit you.
Kind Words from Students
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Court leads thoughtful, purposeful yoga, that challenges you physically as well as mentally. She has an uncanny sense of connectedness to her students and their development, always encouraging them to layer new skill and strength into their practice. She is a natural teacher who radiates enthusiasm and sincerity for her craft.
Brian Rudin
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Court creates a full experience in a yoga practice that goes far beyond what has become ubiquitous within the yoga world. It is apparent that her classes are created with holistic, artistic, ritualistic intention - an intention that extends beyond the physical space and details, into the space she creates to expand and evolve a practice. Court brings a thoughtfulness, calm, and strength to yoga practice, creating and disrupting rhythms, and challenging assumptions that, for years, ruled how I lived my life. Her teachings have helped me to integrate the work I already do and develop a new, more joyful way of being present in my life.
Emily Slusser
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The best way I can describe Court's yoga style is with the old saying, "Give someone a fish and they will eat for a day; teach someone to fish and they will eat for a lifetime." In class, Court will give me a fish to meet my immediate need (like a reminder to notice, or a strong physical practice to clear my head, or an eye-opening physical adjustment), but her greatest gift has been teaching me to fish for myself. The more I went to her classes, the more I found myself practicing yoga outside the studio, both on and off the mat. Through her methodical physical and spiritual guidance, practice has become not just something I do, but part of who I am.
Eleanor Schroeder, RYT200
Sati Teachers
Laura Williamson
ERYT200, M.S. Exercise Sports Studies
Court Morgan
ERYT500/RYCEP, M.A. Design Studies
171 Chestnut Street, floor 2
SATI Yoga School is located in Providence’s Jewelry District. Public parking is available in the lot next to the building. There are ample posts and fences for bike locks.