Come and join us

for a series of dedicated Yoga Teacher Training modules designed to deepen your practice, improve injury rehabilitation, awaken the felt sense, and understanding of the body’s wisdom.

Our ethos lays in encouraging self awareness, movement and its teaching from a place of feeling with an emphasis on personal enquiry.

We offer a series of dedicated Yoga training modules to compliment our 200 hour intensive, ‘The Immersion’ with the following intention:

 

  • Deepen your practice
  • Awaken the felt sense
  • Awaken body-wisdom through interpreting and understanding the body’s language
  • Enhance knowledge for preventing and rehabilitating injuries
  • Encourage movement, teaching, adjusting from a place of kinesthetic understanding.
  • Build intimacy with the breath and its effect on health.
  • Help you feel the subtle spirals in the body that promote ease of movement.
  • Enquiry methods for understanding and liberating the stories that affect well-being.

Module 1 Vitality & The Spine

Theme

  • Awareness and functionality of the spine and its role within overall health.
  • The spine and its relationship to the rest of the body and overall health.
  • Breathing exercises that awaken the intelligence of the spine.
  • Physical, emotional and energetic qualities of the internal organs.

Content

Movement

  • Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar)
  • Somatic exploration
  • Sequences for spinal release and decompression

Breath

  • Internal organ awareness and cleansing
  • Holographic breath
  • Ovarian & Testicular breathing

Enquiry & Meditation

  • Recapitulation – mapping injuries to the spine, back and neck.

Module 2 The Wave, Headstand & Sequencing

Theme

  • Experiencing waveform and its effect on movement and health
  • Sensing the fluid body: moving beyond the idea of the body as a solid structure and appreciating its fluid interconnection.
  • Rehabilitation and injury prevention for the hip, lower back and shoulder girdle.

Content

Movement

  • Sequences for experiencing the health benefits of waveform
  • Variations on head-stand, shoulder-stand and elbow dog with the focus on safety and alignment
  • Downward dog as a framework exploring the body-mind’s relationship with gravity
  • Spontaneous movement: revealing the song of the body

Breath

  • Extended Kapalabhati
  • Chakra toning

Enquiry

  • Relating to injuries in self and others

Module 3 A Seated Practice

Theme

  • Sensing the bones and joints: moving from an awareness of the skeletal body
  • Exploring ways to find comfort and ease in sitting
  • Creating the conditions for a buoyant and free spine in seated meditation
  • Prevention of injuries to the joints

Content

Movement

  • In depth exploration of seated postures
  • Sequences to develop an inspiring flow of seat postures
  • Learn effective adjustment and the art of intuitive hands-on guidance

Breath

  • Fusion Breath: Development of the Tibetan Purification breath and accompanying mudra
  • Bone breathing

Enquiry

  • Mapping injuries to bones and joints

Module 4 The Spine in Extension: Back-bending

Theme

  • Creating the conditions for safe and healthy back-bending
  • Exploring the effects of back-bending in movement practice
  • Focusing on the non-doing of the breath as a gateway to feeling connected with nature and existence

Content

Movement

  • Exploring back-bending through various asana – standing, bridge, laying down etc.
  • Mobilisations to help free the spine for back-bending

Breath

  • Kumbhaka – exploring the pause in the breath
  • Non-doing breath

Enquiry

  • Map any habits / tendencies where ‘doing’ is automatic, e.g: ‘Pulling’ or ‘taking’ the inhalation, locking the knees etc.

Module 5 A Warrior's Balance

Theme

  • Looking at how functional legs and feet are beneficial for health
  • Exploring ways to bring strength and flexibility of the legs
  • Creating safe, grounded conditions for power practices: Raising the fire from a strong root.
  • An enquiring to bandhas and their role in health and functionality

Content

Movement

  • Standing postures
  • Sequencing of standing postures
  • Mobilisations and strengthening exercises for the legs and gluteus

Breath

  • Bastrika – Bellows breath
  • Alternate nostril breath

Enquiry

  • Mapping accident and injury from over-ambition.

More Information

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