Satya Katiza a human being, a lover of life, a woman in all her expressions, a mother, a grandma,  a living yogini in heart and soul. Her life has been driven by being in the company of Truth from a young age after a close encounter with death when she was 13 years old.  When returning to her physical body she had with her the indestructible taste of no fear. After that, she consciously made life and impermanence of life her research field, with no fear she moved into all different realities, and with great curiosity to meet in the real presence the presence of others human beings with the same ground of knowing “ we all are limitless and timeless”.

Her first language to communicate from Here was drawing and painting, Yoga and meditation were her playing field where she naturally was plugged in the field of all-knowing. She didn’t really learn yoga, she remembered it. Sharing this yoga was a natural outcome,  painting and yoga were her expressions until yoga took over everything in her life as a direct language and service to humanity. Satsang has come as a natural outcome of sharing the nectar with all that are ready to receive it.
 

Satya is an experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (ERYT500-RYT 500) and licensed to certify students at the 200 & 500-hour levels. She has in-depth knowledge of Vipassana and Mindfulness meditation, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Yin, and yoga as a way of life. Her friendly personality, contagious enthusiasm, and warm heart inspire her students to get the best out of themselves.

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Since 1983. Satya has found the company a great number of great masters and teachers in Europe, the U.S., and India. Her first guru was Tibetan master Namkhai Norbu Rimpoche, after she met the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi that lead her to her second guru H.W.I. Poonja (Papaji), she received teachings directly from the Dalai Lama, Pattabi Jois became her third guru. She followed for about 8 years the teachings of Vipassana teacher S.N. Goenka and was inspired and influence by B.K.S. Iyengar and Parahamsa Nithyananda, Richard Freeman, Clive Sheridan, Sarah Powers, Tsultrim Allione, Dona Holleman and Orit Sen Gupta and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. "With great and humble gratitude to all the masters that mirror the Truth and gave me the unconditional and unshakable support to manifest from Here in this eternal Now call this life" ~Satay ~

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She started to share her living wisdom naturally  from 1997, creating many sacred spaces where to meet and share the living expressions of dharma in Amsterdam and else where. She founded: "Ashtanga Yoga Amsterdam" in 2001 with Anna Estella, Yoga Moves TT Amsterdam-Utrecht in 2002 with Hilary Menting developing togetehr the Yoga Moves TT 200hours, in 2003 Ashtanga Home Amsterdam , in 2005 Yoga Garden Amsterdam, in 2007 Yoga Tree Blaricum with Brenda Ooteman, in 2007  Gaia Yoga TT 200hours India & Bali with Lea Loncar and Marco Bianco.

In 2010 she was invited to be residential teacher at COMO Shambala state in Bali Indonesia, in 2011 she founded Kura Kura Retreat Center in Bali - Cangu, Indonesia with Sahaj and Marlinda van der Hoff ,  in 2012 Delight Yoga based in Amsterdam invited her to be partner and senior teacher, program developer of trainings, Teachers Tranings of more than 500 hours and spiritual guide, she fully committed to her role with joy and dedication until the summer of 2023.

 

Now she lives and shares dharma wherever she is and whenever she is ask to, at this moment she is fuly dedicated to support the "living awareness foundation" founded in summer 2023 in the Netherlands  with the sangha members to live and hold each other in living dharma here and now in our daily lifes.