What I Teach
Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga is a practice of asana sequenced in a fixed order and traditionally practiced in the early morning.
How I Teach
By providing support as one experiences both the positive and difficult changes that result from practice.
Practice Tools
A series of documents a videos to help you pratice Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, written and developed by Sarcha.
Perth Ashtanga Yoga with Sarcha Thurston
“I’m deeply serious in my commitment to yoga. Yet, I try to fulfill that commitment lightheartedly.”
Yoga is both my anchor and my sail, the discipline of daily practice provides a grounding to life’s challenges and triumphs. The spiritual practice helps to illuminate the path ahead and keeps me growing in the right direction. To develop a sincere and consistent practice over time brings yoga’s gifts of a strong and healthy body, the ability to focus the mind, and a place where I can turn inwards towards my true nature.
Sarcha is the principal Ashtanga and Mysore teacher at Yogahub Perth and focuses on helping her students develop breath integration with functional movement and alignment patterns. Off the mat her wish is that this translates to more grace, stability and compassion in her students’ lives.
What my Students are Saying
The program is comprehensive and has been very thoughtfully constructed, Sarcha’s vast knowledge and experience shine through in every aspect, lifting all of her students into a beautiful space to learn and connect.
Sarcha has the most wonderfully compassionate and encouraging approach to teaching yoga, making it accessible to all manner of people. She is a brilliant practitioner in her own right, with many years training and experience under one of the most highly regarded and experienced Ashtanga teachers in Australia.
Studying yoga under Sarcha has been one of the best decisions of my life.
I spent many years waiting to find a teacher to do a teacher training course. Sarcha did not disappoint. Her depth of knowledge and passion for the practise is extraordinary. Not only has the teacher training taught me a new language that I can hopefully impart to others but it has most definitely deepened my own practice.
I’ve spent a lot of time with Sarcha, and I’ve found that Sarcha really understands that each person will be at their own particular place in their yoga journey – be that physically or in terms of how they approach their practice. Working from this, she has an ability to see how this changes over time and uses this as the basis for her teaching and support. She encourages commitment and patience, and it is by applying this to my practice that I’ve learnt so much more about myself as well as skills I can apply off the mat in day to day life.
Her skill level and dedication to her practice is inspiring in itself, however it’s Sarcha’s dedication and generosity of time and spirit with her students that is truly extraordinary. Her teaching method is an equal mix of perceptiveness, compassion and firmness and her commitment to technique and individualised guidance and adjustments is clear