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 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.
Sarcha is both gentle and uncompromising in her approach in equal measure, which has given me the confidence and motivation to keep returning to class – and working towards improving my practice.
Thanks Sarcha for your sensitive, intuitive adjustments which come from years in the game as well as who you be, as it were. It’s a wonderful place to feel nurtured and challenged, whatever you choose. See and experience for yourself. From a Golden Yogi who has put 10,000 hours and some into yoga practice, training, teaching and 30 years as a Registered Nurse.
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.
There are plenty of yoga teachers out there but few have Sarcha’s deep knowledge of yoga and her generosity of spirit. I started yoga over 12 years ago but it wasn’t until I started Mysore practice with Sarcha a few years ago that I embraced yoga and truly understood its value in my life and that of others.
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.