Mikey Sato Yoga

Mikey Sato Yoga Iyengar Style Yoga Teacher offering:
- Group & Private Classes
- Yoga Therapy & Rehabilitation
- Retreats

Its been 8 years now since I last taught a yoga class. And it may very well be another 8 years + another life time befor...
29/01/2025

Its been 8 years now since I last taught a yoga class. And it may very well be another 8 years + another life time before....or if ever I teach again.
It's a practice in itself alone and having to self motivate and also a joy.
This photo is striking a pose at 19600ft high in the himalayas. The idea of balance changes.
Last year I practiced pranayama and kriyas on a climb to 22000ft. Its another story altogether practicing with breath at those altitudes.
Imagine sprinting above 16000ft for 100mtrs, then stopping and watch the body go into a deep panic trying to recover when the oxygen is just not available. One really learns to breathe and stay calm then.
I would not recommend it really. But it will show you how tense or not your brain is.
However, over 14000ft the air becomes to cold to deeply inhale..

01/09/2021

When a pose is performed correctly and deeply, when you come out of it, the world is a quieter place for a moment. Nothing sticks to you, only stillness and content.
If the grip is held throughout the body in the pose, and the skin is softened and the muscles released so that the bones and grips hold the pose, the attention and energy goes inwards and feeds the inner senses.
If the pose is held with 'grit' strain and locked muscles, the attention and energy goes to the outer senses, heightening the external world.
That is where we wobble and become afflicted.
Keep practicing and you will find it. If this makes no sense, then its yet to be experienced...thats all

[Insert: Photo of me in lemon lulu pants striking a pose on sunset]

Almost one year later same bat place, same bat pose, not a millimetre closer to my head.Damn it!!🤬
30/08/2021

Almost one year later same bat place, same bat pose, not a millimetre closer to my head.
Damn it!!🤬

I practice on my own now, so utilising props and structures to assist me to manipulate the body into deeper poses become...
27/12/2020

I practice on my own now, so utilising props and structures to assist me to manipulate the body into deeper poses becomes a must.
Everything is slowly getting closer...

15/10/2018

Hi all yoga at Kuhinour hall is cancelled this evening (16/10) because of the floods and a weekend wedding party that has been unable to return to the scene of the crime to clean up due to flooding.
Most humble apologies

Tuesday afternoon Iyengar styled yoga classes at Kuhinour hall, uppermain arm 5.30 - 7pm. All levels welcome. All equip...
19/09/2018

Tuesday afternoon Iyengar styled yoga classes at Kuhinour hall, uppermain arm 5.30 - 7pm. All levels welcome. All equipment supplied. Come along and do something wonderful for that body of yours that is given to you by Mother Earth

Hello everyone. Yoga classes at kuhinoor hall at 1300 main arm rd uppermain arm on 5.30 - 7.00pm tonight.A magical spac...
27/07/2018

Hello everyone. Yoga classes at kuhinoor hall at 1300 main arm rd uppermain arm on 5.30 - 7.00pm tonight.
A magical space for yoga practice.
Just bring yourselves as all props are provided.
All levels and experience welcome.
$15 per class. trades also possible.
Have a super day.
Mikey

13/06/2018

Hello there, the most humble apology that i must cancel the Thursday morning 14th June class at kuhinour. I'd rather not risk contaminating anybody and I feel I may still be mildly radioactive. (manfluitis).
So may all resume as normal the following Thursday 21st June

I have just come from a weekend of Iyengar yoga training seminar in Brisbane. Well i only made it through the first day ...
12/06/2018

I have just come from a weekend of Iyengar yoga training seminar in Brisbane. Well i only made it through the first day actually before being taken out at the knees and left flat on my back for 3 days with a super violent virus that has swooped through my family home.
Lying about relentlessly for hours on end unable to sleep in a delirious stuper, i observed the object of my body. (There was nothing else to do with eyes wide open through the nights). My whole skeletal structure was aching. I really do know that i have one inside of my flesh now.
Even though i got swiped off my feet and i consider myself pretty organically healthy, i could see how an unhealthy person in their bones could be in serious trouble contracting such a ferocious virus (where are they coming from?)
Because, it felt as though my body was working overtime in the bones creating white blood cells (?) To combat the virus. And if my bones were unhealthy to start with, what is there left to get better with.
I am mentioning the bones because Iyengar yoga focuses greatly on moving, stacking, massaging and resting on the bones. Its all about the bonezz.
This once again helped me realise how important it is without fear of sickness, to take responsibility for our own well being. So when nasty stuff comes along ( and may it not ever come your way), a healthy body is a saving grace. And if there is anything worth while investing in, in our futures that are not even really there yet, its our long term health...organic health through good real yoga refined over 5000 years.
What a devastating horror it could be to have to live and function in a ill body and try to be your best to those around you that share your life and not be a misery.
So the bare bones of yoga has come back to me...good organic health from the outer tip of a forearm hair to the inner atoms of one's being. Then its a lot easier to be happy, kind and truly grateful in the world

12/06/2018

Hi all, unfortunately June 12th and 19th which are the Tuesday nights that are up and coming. There will be no class due to other hall bookings. The Thursday mornings will continue on as usual. Try an early morning class. It sets you up wonderfully for the day, and you won't even remember the getting out of bed in the cold struggle! May your bones be warm.
Mikey Sato

Its just the 'freeing ourselves' bit which can seem a bit messy and almost hopeless sometimes.Yoga helps me find the bal...
28/04/2018

Its just the 'freeing ourselves' bit which can seem a bit messy and almost hopeless sometimes.
Yoga helps me find the ball and shackles within my own mind and conditioning. How...? The deeper, longer and more correctly I can do a pose the more knooks and cranny's of the knots in my body and mind get found and released.
But then I think how can just doing a bendy pose and holding it for a while do that for me? Everytime I do any form of excercise, even working in the garden I feel so much better.
So just imagine then doing a specific physical motion that is refined over centuries to a point of it being a science and form of art to the body, which in turn has an effect on the mind and so on to one's spirit.
So when I can weirdly twist my body into a strange not-sexy-at-all posture, hold it for a while, adjust my bones so they stack correctly and hold me, so that I can then let go of all the muscles in my body as best I can, soften my belly so my brain can sigh a relief because it is not bulging anymore from holding my breath tight. That breath can then move freely through my body and get into all the knooks and cranny's - to the extent of between layers of muscles, skin and those ruffled nerves of mine from daily life pressures. Then my partner and children can have a nicer Mikey for a while.

It has a really, really, really liberating and refreshing effect on me to the point that for that moment and a while after, nothing in my life is really that bad, urgent or serious...its all just fine. I am not caught in any of it in my head. The ball and shackle has released its grip.
Of course it fades by the next morning and I am back to my usual ball and shackling drama's. However, I know that if I do yoga regularly and correctly I will become more of that refreshingly liberated Mikey rather than the self-inflicted prisoner of my own nonsense.

Have a super day one and all

There is good reason why my children call me 'upside down daddy'
27/04/2018

There is good reason why my children call me 'upside down daddy'

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