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
Sarcha is a great teacher—kind, generous, and deeply committed to her own practice and to helping others on their journeys.
Her level of knowledge is by far the most comprehensive of any yoga teacher I have known in 20 years of doing yoga. Thank you Sarcha, you’re really amazing!
I have learnt so much from you and can’t believe how much you and yoga have changed me for the better – I’m sure you hear this from all your students, but it’s true! The warm, family atmosphere and your personal kindness and knowledge have meant so much to me.
I’m so thankful that I have had Sarcha to guide me. Over the past few years she has gently supported me as I have navigated my way back into a daily practice. Her confident, knowledgeable, and sensitive approach to teaching has allowed me to rediscover my own strength and balance. Sarcha is a true teacher. You can sense Sarcha’s knowledge and experience in every instruction and adjustment she provides. She is patient, encouraging and fun. Sarcha has created a space that is welcoming to all and it truly is a joy to practice with her.
Sarcha is an exceptional teacher and person. She is so astute when it comes to reading my body and for that matter the bodies of all her students. She is so adept and just knowing what every student requires in terms of their practice. However, I think for me, the most important aspect of Sarcha’s teaching is her kind, nurturing non-judgemental approach. Sarcha has taught me accept who I am, in terms of my strengths and limitations. Sarcha even helped me to get my first gig as an inexperienced yoga teacher; for which I’m eternally grateful. I couldn’t be anywhere else. Thankyou from the bottom of my heart.
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.