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 generous with her time and brings joy to the room with a heartfelt approach to her students and the 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.
Thank you for the most amazing year. This year with your teachings, guidance and encouragement I have felt very blessed. Thank you for being such a sturdy mentor. You have taught from the heart and passed on a piece for us to nourish, grow, and share.
What I value most in Sarcha is her balanced approach to teaching. She balances rigorous instruction, grounded in decades of experience and knowledge, with a lightness and a sense of fun. I also greatly appreciate Sarcha’s resilience and strength over the past 2 years of the pandemic. Despite what must have been, and remains to be, an extremely challenging time to run a studio, Sarcha has maintained a sense of positivity. I have re-immersed myself back into Ashtanga over the past 12 months, and my practise has evolved substantially over this time with Sarcha’s personalised and insightful guidance. I am so grateful for her instruction and the opportunity to be part of the Yogahub community.
Sarcha I listen and observe you most mornings and I don’t think I have met anyone as kind and interested in others growth.
Sarcha has a warmth and humility that makes being in her presence an absolute joy. This coupled by her immense knowledge and dedication to her own yoga practice makes for a teaching experience which not only perfects the body but enriches the soul.