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Meet the tutors on our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Course
Our 200 hour Yoga teacher Training Takes place in-person near Highbridge in North Somerset. For almost two decades, we have been building relationships with highly-experienced, dedicated and heart-led teachers who are experts in their field of yoga study. I have hand-picked each of these very special guest teachers, many of whom I have been working with for over a decade and all of whom I trust to deliver the very best in their field. Well, I'll start with myself because it
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4 Ways Yoga Teachers Can Support Their Students with Cancer
The prospect of supporting someone with cancer can be daunting. In truth, it's not that complicated. The mistake most people make is...
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Why My Consent Card Always Says No — Even Though I Love Hands-On Assists
Consent isn't a personality trait.
I'm not a person who “likes assists” and therefore permanently belongs in the YES category. Consent is specific and contextual, and no one should expect to agree in advance to being touched, without knowing the context and the specifics.
Why "Move Slowly and Gently" Is Poor Advice for Back Pain
There’s a moment many yoga teachers will recognise. A student approaches before class and mentions their lower back. Perhaps it’s been troublesome for years; perhaps it’s having a particularly opinionated week. They want to practise, but they’re unsure how much to do.
“Take it slowly and gently,” we say.
Am I Actually Teaching Yoga?
If I teach a series of movements involving lunges, twists, balances and stretches, those movements don't become yoga because I give some of them Sanskrit names and finish the class with everyone lying in Savasana.
Without a philosophical and ethical framework, we may have created an intelligent, enjoyable and beneficial movement practice. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
But is it yoga?I don't think it necessarily is.
Words That Move Us: Rethinking Yoga Cues
Since words have a power that surpasses all thought, from words alone come direct realisation. Just as one who is asleep is woken by sound, so one in ignorance is enlightened only by words. sabdasakteracintyatvâcchabdãdevaparoksadhih I prasuptah puruso yadvacchabdenaivavabuddhyate – Sadācārānusandhānam (Advaita Vedanta 19) Over a thousand years ago, Advaita Vedānta recognised something modern movement science is rediscovering: language does not merely describe experience,
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