British Wheel of Yoga (East Midlands Region) | yoga classes, training and events in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire

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The Summer Warrior
Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Brinsmead Rd, LEICESTER, LE2 3WG
Monday 2nd August 2010 | 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm
Tutor Phillipa Wilson
Event fee: members £5 or £22.50 for 5 | non-members £5.50 or £25 for 5

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Leicestershire County Rep 01509 553994
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The essence of this session will be an exploration of the various warrior postures - focusing on the energy, strength and courage that these postures bring to us. These static postures will be woven together to create an uplifting dynamic sequence, ‘The Summer Warrior’.

Phillipa Wilson is Leicestershire’s Deputy County Representative. She is currently completing her BWY Teaching Diploma with Gillian Gee, and teaches yoga in Derbyshire.

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Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Brinsmead Rd, LEICESTER, LE2 3WG
Monday 9th August 2010 | 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm
Tutor Celia Herrick
Event fee: members £5 or £22.50 for 5 | non-members £5.50 or £25 for 5

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What is transition? What is change? How are they linked? What outcomes can they have?
This session will explore these themes through asanas, breath work, mantra and quiet reflection.

Celia Herrick is a BWY teacher with nearly twenty years' experience. She regularly teaches nine classes a week, and one-to-one lessons. Her work is based on the ethos of Desikachar. The style of her teaching has evolved to include asana modifications and variations to suit the ever changing needs of her students, and she feels privileged to be involved in their transitions.

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Yoga and Meditation from Sunrise to Sunset
Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Brinsmead Rd, LEICESTER, LE2 3WG
Monday 16th August 2010 | 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm
Tutor Anne Roy
Event fee: members ££5 or £22.50 for 5 | non-members ££5.50 or £25 for 5

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Session of yoga and meditation, including the exploration of Surya and Chandra Namaskar

Anne has a BWY Teaching Diploma and has studied Purusothama yoga in Australia and Bali. She has also studied yoga and Buddhist philosophy with Sogyal Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche and Ratu Sri Acarya Pandji Pandita.

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Broughton Village Hall, Gate Lane, Broughton, KETTERING, NN14 1ND
Sunday 5th September 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Maarten Vermaase
Event fee: members £20 | non-members £25

Lunch: please no uncooked salads; anything else is fine. Drinks will be provided.

Please wear loose warm clothing and bring a mat and a cushion to sit on. Bring pen and notebook. Course notes will be provided. Reading list available on request.

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Northamptonshire County Rep 01788 899266
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This event is NOT suitable for absolute beginners, but for participants with previous experience of breath work: Basic Breathing (such as the Full Yoga Breath), Breathing meditation, Nadi Sodhana and Ujjayi. The day will be mostly practical, with relevant theoretical and philosophical elements. All exercises will be discussed and demonstrated by the tutor and practised together, with ample opportunity for questions and answers. Course notes will be provided.

Intended learning outcomes:
• Demonstrate a recognition of the principles behind 'Basic Breathing techniques', Purification Breathing and Pranayama
• Recognize the connection between breathwork in Asana and Pranayama
• Appreciate the importance of correct natural breathing and Breathing Meditation in connection with Kevala Kumbhaka
• Perform certain Purification Breathing exercises safely and independently

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Dutch born Maarten Vermaase is a DCT for the British Wheel of Yoga and has practised and studied Yoga since the early 1970s. He studied Hatha Yoga under Robert Van Heeckeren, and Tibetan Buddhist meditation, Yoga and healing Exercises with numerous Lamas and teachers from the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions. In 1999, at the suggestion of his teacher Kenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, he started the Mahasiddha Yoga Group. He teaches extensively in Oxford and London, and runs regular workshops, retreats and BWY Meditation Modules for groups nationwide.

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Glebe Field Centre, Crich, MATLOCK, DE4 5EU
Saturday 18th September 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Carolyn Clarke
Event fee: members £20 | non-members £25

cost to BWY members: pre-booked £20 - drop in £23
cost to non-members: pre-booked £25 - drop in £28
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Please bring a vegetarian lunch to share: drinks will be provided.

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Derbyshire County Rep 01629 57896
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Japanese Haiku poetry is simple in its wording and straightforward in its message. Our day of practice will be of a similar nature: when we practise yoga and release tension in the body, we free tied up energy. This can then be used to focus the mind and create 'ekagrata' - one pointedness - a key state within the yoga model. The day will include the use of asana, pranayama, mudra and bandha with contemplation and development of ekagrata as a key component in our process.

Since yoga is personal in nature, work will be modified and varied to suit individual needs.

Carolyn has been studying and teaching yoga for over 25 years, and is a DCT in Nottinghamshire. Interested in all aspects of yoga, practical and theoretical, she is always trying to develop and refine her practice and understanding of that practice. ‘As I ‘mature’, my journey is to let Yoga help me to live life with ease and strength and assist me in refining my relationship with ‘self’ and the ever-changing roles I have created for ‘my’ self.’

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Quorn Village Hall, 64 Leicester Road, Quorn, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 8BB
Saturday 25th September 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Sarah Beck
Event fee: members £20 | non-members £25

Bring your own lunch; drinks provided.

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Leicestershire County Rep 01509 553994
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Ayurveda, a sister science of yoga, is a beautiful system through which we can learn to work with nature to achieve a more balanced lifestyle and to return to health when we are unwell. Unlike most forms of health care, Ayurveda is self-empowering because it requires us to develop our own self-awareness and observational skills and teaches us how to act upon that information. Also, significantly, it asks us to see the world differently, as being a dynamic expression of consciousness, meaning that Ayurveda is simultaneously simple and at the same time extremely profound.

The aim of this workshop is give you a good basis of Ayurvedic understanding and how to apply this knowledge practically to enhance your own health and happiness. There will also be time dedicated to practice and discussion when you can raise any questions you may have.

Sarah Beck has been studying Ayurveda for approximately seven years. She has been fortunate to study under the guidance of Dr David Frawley and Vaidya Atreya Smith, two of the leading western authorities on Ayurveda. More recently Sarah has completed a clinical internship with Dr Alaknanda Rao B.A.M.S. and Dr Deepa Kshire B.A.M.S. at the Panini Clinic, Pune, India.

Sarah works as a B.W.Y. Diploma Course Tutor running teacher-training courses on the Wirral and has a small Ayurvedic practice at her home.

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Welbourn Village Hall, Beck Street, Welbourn, LINCOLN, LN5 0LZ
Saturday 25th September 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Blu Cottam
Event fee: members £15 | non-members £20

Please bring a light packed lunch. Drinks will be provided.

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Sound can have a profound effect on restoring right resonance and therefore, harmony, to the Chakra System, so it combines beautifully with yoga to increase further our potential for true well-being, a peaceful mind, and to finding our centre within a radiant heartspace.

The day will bring together Sound with a programme of Hatha Yoga for balancing the Chakras, Mantra, Sacred Chants from around the world and a Sound 'Bath' employing the deeply purifying, 'unblocking' and harmonizing qualities of instruments , such as a Chinese Wind Gong, Shamanic Drum and Tibetan Singing Bowls. A total fine-tuning for all levels of the being#

Blu's fascination with all that nurtures body, mind and spirit has been the main focus of most of her life. She first discovered the joy of Yoga and its wholistic effect in 1976 and has been teaching (BWY) Yoga since 1989. Her next major study was colour through the Aura-Soma Colour Care system, in which she qualified as a Practitioner and Teacher. A Sound workshop at a BWY Congress later inspired Blu to complete the training with the College of Sound Healing to become a Sound Healing Practitioner and Teacher, further complementing her work also with Seichem-Reiki, again, giving healing treatments and Initiations.

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Glebe Field Centre, Crich, MATLOCK, DE4 5EU
Sunday 26th September 2010 | 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Tutor Sandra Kirkham
Event fee: £30

Please bring your own lunch, it will not be a shared lunch. Drinks will be provided.

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Derbyshire County Rep 01629 57896
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All British Wheel of Yoga student teachers need to produce a valid first aid certificate during Unit One of the Diploma Course and all Diploma holders are subsequently advised to renew that qualification every three years. If you do not have a valid certificate or need to renew your existing one, this day is appropriate for your needs

Part of the day’s work will be to integrate the essential aspects of First Aid within the role of Yoga teaching so it becomes ‘real’. Focus will be on dealing with an emergency situation in a safe and effective way, and will include short lectures, CPR on manikins, placing a person in recovery position, bandaging, putting on slings and care in secondary illness. Questions and answers will be an integral part of the day.

A comprehensive booklet and first aid kit are provided.
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Sandra Kirkham is a RGN, BWY dip and qualified first aid instructor. She is also Regional Officer for BWY East Midlands and has completed various courses on Anatomy and Physiology, nursing and yoga with main qualifications of First Aid at Work and Paediatric First Aid.

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Scout & Guide Activity Centre, Back Lane, Ollerton, Newark, NG22 9AQ
Sunday 26th September 2010 | 11.00 am – 4.30 pm
Tutor Richard Adamo
Event fee: members £20 | non-members £25

Due to the nature of the work during this day, drinks and biscuits will be served at 1.30 and then a shared afternoon tea during Q&A session at the end of the day.

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Nottinghamshire County Rep 01623 861207
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In addition to exploring the theoretical background to yoga poses and links between postures, this day will allow you to experience new poses and know which other poses can usefully be used as warm-ups and alternatives.

As part of the day attendees will:
• perform peak poses to the best of their ability
• widen their practice/teaching content
• work out restrictions that prevent them being able to perform poses

Richard Adamo has been practising yoga for 24 years and teaching for most of those - mainly a mix of ashtanga and Iyengar styles. During this time he has been attracted to using asana and pranayama practice as a method of stilling the mind as well as for its physical benefits. To do this, the practice must be sufficiently strong to hold the attention without losing focus, and a flowing style of asana practice works well to this end, rests being provided by change and counterpose rather than by static relaxation. This will be the type of practice that we will be doing during the sessions.

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Scout & Guide Activity Centre, Back Lane, Ollerton, Newark, NG22 9AQ
Sunday 3rd October 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Andrea Kwiatkowski
Event fee: members £10 | non-members £15

Please bring a vegetarian dish to share for lunch; drinks will be provided.
For the afternoon session please bring bolsters if you have them, two blankets, blocks, straps and eye pillows. Some equipment will be supplied on the day.

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Nottinghamshire County Rep 01623 861207
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Morning Session: 10.00am - 12.00 noon
Jivamukti Yoga is a method of yoga that emphasises the goal of yoga at the heart of its teachings with a spiritual theme incorporating vigorous vinyasa sequencing, Sanskrit chanting, meditation, scripture, hands on adjustment and inspirational music. The morning session will develop our understanding and relationship to the earth using standing poses. Students will have the opportunity to experience a Jivamukti session according to their own ability with modification and variations appropriately used.

Lunch & AGM: 12.00 noon - 2.00pm

Afternoon Session: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Restorative Yoga develops our inner relationship to how we feel at any given moment. Using asana that is propped, the nervous system is given a chance to restore itself and aid a feeling of calm in the mind. For the work to be received, props must be used intelligently. Students will have the opportunity to experience some pranayama as well as meditation.

Andrea Kwiatkowski trained as a professional dancer and worked extensively around the world where her interest in yoga and eastern philosophy began. She is a DCT for the BWY, and a certified Jivamukti yoga teacher, having completed her certification in New York in 2005 with Sharon Gannon and David Life. She is certified to teach Yin yoga after studying with Sarah Powers since 2003, and is a Restorative yoga teacher under the guidance of Judith Hanson Lasater. She is also 800hrs-certified for Yoga Alliance.

Andrea has studied and taught in India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Spain, Egypt, France, Turkey and Australia. She teaches in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, where she lives, at the Jasmine Trust BWY-approved centre, and also at the Jivamukti centre in London. She leads BWY events, retreats and workshops around the country and taught at the annual Congress last year. She has set up Santoshayoga, a Yoga centre which gives a percentage of all profits to animal welfare and charities both here and abroad, including Azahar - a foundation for teaching yoga to children in the Third World.

Andrea believes that yoga can enable us to become self-aware and fill our lives with compassion and love. She has years of knowledge of how the body works and uses this experience in teaching asana in her classes and courses.

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Glebe Field Centre, Crich, MATLOCK, DE4 5EU
Saturday 9th October 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.30 pm
Tutor Helen Barker
Event fee: BWY teachers £25 | teachers not paying BWY teacher subscription £30

Enclose a SAE if you would like confirmation of your booking.

Please bring a packed lunch: drinks will be provided.

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Derbyshire County Rep 01629 57896
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This day will assist you to consider the components of Kriya Yoga (Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras 2.1) and the doshas of Ayurveda with respect to personal practice (sadhana) and/or lesson planning. There will be discussion, group work and time for reflection as well as an opportunity to be taught vinyasa from Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy by Mukunda Stiles.

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Helen Barker (Shakti Bhakti) is a British Wheel of Yoga Diploma holder, BWY Diploma Course Tutor and Structural Yoga Therapist. She has been teaching yoga classes for more than 10 years and training yoga teachers since 2003. She has practised yoga with many teachers and is currently inspired by her teacher Mukunda Stiles to assist students to develop harmony in their lives.

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Papplewick Village Hall, Linby Lane, Papplewick, NOTTINGHAM, NG15 8FB
Sunday 10th October 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.30 pm
Tutor Sarah Ryan
Event fee: BWY teachers £25 | teachers not paying BWY teacher subscription £30

Please bring your own lunch; drinks will be provided

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Nottinghamshire County Rep 01623 861207
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This will be a day of practice and discussion about how yoga can help people nowadays. Nearly everyone nowadays is extremely busy, often to the point of exhaustion. We shall explore the possibility of giving our students short practices, involving body, breath and mind, to make it easier for them to practise at home.

We shall also look at the ideas of karma yoga presented in the Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, to see whether they could help make our lives, and those of our students, more meaningful and rewarding.


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Sarah Ryan has taught yoga since 1970. She was a BWY DCT and has served on the Education Committee, for three years as its Chair.
Since 1987 she has studied in the tradition of Krishnamacharya. She is a Teacher Trainer for the Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation and is doing their four-year Yoga Therapy course. She teaches the Yoga Journey course which gives yoga teachers the skills they need to teach on a one-to-one basis.

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Welbourn Village Hall, Beck Street, Welbourn, LINCOLN, LN5 0LZ
Saturday 16th October 2010 | 10.00 am – 2.00 pm
Tutor Caroline Arthur
Event fee: members £10 | non-members £12.50

Drinks will be provided

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• The day will explore the concept of expansive and contractive qualities inherent within breath and asana to allow access to stimulating and quietening practices.
• The practice of asana (postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation (concentration) and simple sounds will aim to reduce rajas (excitement - activity) and tamas (dullness - heaviness) whilst cultivating a quality of sattva (lightness - clarity) in the mind.
• This will result in you feeling light in physical energy and clarity at a mental level.

Caroline Arthur began her career in 1994 as a school teacher and she has been studying and practising yoga since the mid 1990s. She was introduced to the teachings of T K Krishnamacharya by Sheila Baker (aYs) and has studied with Ranju Roy and Dave Charlton as part of the Sadhana Mala Teacher and Therapy Practitioner Training Programme. Her approach to yoga is sensitive and varied respecting each individual's uniqueness. She continues to study with the aYs, teaches yoga classes, workshops and one-to-one and offers therapy around Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.

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Quorn Village Hall, 64 Leicester Road, Quorn, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 8BB
Saturday 30th October 2010 | 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Tutor Beryl Norton
Event fee: members £10 | non-members £12.50

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Leicestershire County Rep 01509 553994
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'Yoga has two parts: inner actions and outer actions. Our outer actions are controlled by our inner actions, yet few care or know about the inner actions.' Hari Rama Das

This will be a practical morning working with, and exploring - through yoga - our inner actions and the way they can affect our everyday life. A constant process of learning about yourself. Some yoga experience is necessary.

Beryl began practising yoga many years ago with Wilfred Clarke in Derbyshire. Since then she has worked with some of the great teachers, including TKV Desikachar. Alongside teaching her own classes for over 40 years, Beryl has trained many teachers, having run countless BWY Diploma courses in the Midlands.

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Quorn Village Hall, 64 Leicester Road, Quorn, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 8BB
Saturday 13th November 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.30 pm
Tutor Zoe Knott
Event fee: BWY teachers £25 | teachers not paying BWY teacher subscription £30

Bring your own lunch; drinks provided.

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Leicestershire County Rep 01509 553994
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The day will explore:
1. The principles of working with strength in asana
2. Specific techniques to develop core strength
3. How to move in and out of postures in the safest way

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Zoe Knott has practised yoga for 30 years with many different teachers from a variety of traditions. She uses a combination of these styles in her own teaching. However one of the key areas of her teaching comes from a point of safety and Zoe has developed a style of working with strength in asana to protect the body from stress. A Teacher Trainer (DCT) for the Wheel, Zoe has also taken the additional BWY modules in Pranayama and Pregnancy and provides In Service Training around Great Britain.

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Braunston Village Hall, The Green, Braunston, NN11 7HW
Sunday 14th November 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Andrew Shakeshaft
Event fee: members £15 | non-members £20

Bring your own lunch. Drinks & cake will be provided free.

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Northamptonshire County Rep 01788 899266
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• Learn how the 5 elements and 3 doshas relate to health and happiness.
• Learn how to determine constitution and current imbalances and how to restore healthy balance through simple diet and lifestyle choices.
• Gain an introduction to marma and the location of specific marma points to help improve focus and concentration.

Co-founder of Essential Ayurveda, Andy has studied Ayurveda in the UK and India and holds a Masters Degree in Ayurvedic Medicine with postgraduate study into the Ayurvedic management of diabetes. He and his wife Laura run an Ayurvedic retreat and clinic in Lincolnshire and provide practical information on Ayurveda through seminars and workshops.

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Welbourn Village Hall, Beck Street, Welbourn, LINCOLN, LN5 0LZ
Saturday 20th November 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Karen Da Silva
Event fee: members £20 | non-members £25

Please bring a light packed lunch. Drinks will be provided.

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We will be using postures and gentle breath with the aim of bringing peace, stillness, strength and awareness to the whole body. The objective is to maintain this in our daily lives outside the Yoga class.

Karen has been practising yoga for 30 years and has been an Ayenga teacher for 22 years. She is also a 'Touch for Health' Practitioner and an Indian Head Masseur.

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Glebe Field Centre, Crich, MATLOCK, DE4 5EU
Saturday 27th November 2010 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Rosemary Bennett
Event fee: members £20 | non-members £25

cost to BWY members: pre-booked £20 - drop in £23
cost to non-members: pre-booked £25 - drop in £28
Enclose a SAE if you would like confirmation of your booking

Please bring a vegetarian lunch to share: drinks will be provided.

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Derbyshire County Rep 01629 57896
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It is almost inevitable in any yoga class that there will be someone with a back problem. In this workshop, we will explore movements and postures that can help to strengthen the muscles which support the spine. They may, if practised regularly, help to overcome back pain.

Inspiring national and international teacher Rosemary Bennett is a BWY Diploma Course Tutor and has been practising and teaching yoga for over 30 years. She has held many volunteer posts for the BWY such as Education Vice Chair, Special Developments Officer and County Representative. She has been influenced by many teachers and styles of yoga over the years and encourages a combination of strength and flexibility, alignment and dynamism; as a spiritual seeker, you will find this at the heart of her teaching. Rosemary runs a complementary therapy business, which offers reflexology and The Bowen Technique.

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Welbourn Village Hall, Beck Street, Welbourn, LINCOLN, LN5 0LZ
Saturday 22nd January 2011 | 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Tutor Adam Ward
Event fee: members £10 | non-members £13

Drinks will be provided

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Feldenkrais is a unique method that is conscious of working with mind brain and body in each moment. It increases through movement our repertoire and ability of expression across all three aforementioned areas and as such is quite evolutionary. Almost as you read this the obvious is slightly elusive because you need to be in several places at once to appreciate completely what is being said. However in practice none verbally this is a natural occurrence and quite a pleasurable experience. We will work with Awareness through Movement (ATM), a class format like a yoga session and Functional Integration (FI) which is one on one work. It is intended to have plenty of time to work and discuss as we go along. The workshop is pitched to be fun yet informative.

Adam Ward began yoga practice 20 years ago and his teaching refers much to the eight limbs. Having studied the profound and philosophic with some passion, he began the study of Feldenkrais eight years ago - working with those recognised as the most accomplished tutors in the world today. Qualified through the Mia Segal School as a practitioner in Feldenkrais, Adam is a Pioneer Teacher for Ruthy Alon in Bones For Life and is both UK Co-ordinator and Franchise Holder for BFL.

The study of Feldenkrais significantly deepened his understanding of Yoga and one practice helps the other perpetually. 'The practice of Feldenkrais to me is a pleasure and thrills me just as asana freshens and satisfies similarly to the first time I practised'.

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Welbourn Village Hall, Beck Street, Welbourn, LINCOLN, LN5 0LZ
Saturday 12th February 2011 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Wendy Lake
Event fee: members £20 | non-members £25

Please bring a light packed lunch. Drinks will be provided.

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Sometimes we need to walk the walk, and Astanga is a lot about doing just that: walk up to your mat and get on and do your practice. The emphasis is on doing it. The aim is to distinguish between doing a pose and developing a sense of being (or presence) in a pose and in every breath, no matter what physical exertion or contortion that the body is enduring. We will move through Sun Salutations A and B and the Standing Series quite promptly. Then we will work through the whole seated series (to the best of our abilities), with more adept practitioners adding full vinyasa in between. We need to complete with the Closing Sequence and a final Savasana.

We will break for lunch after completing the exerting physical aspects of the day. After lunch we will develop the 7 other limbs of the practice and concentrate on Astanga as a spiritual practice.

Wendy Lake has been teaching for around 15 years, and has been a BWY county rep in Lincolnshire and Durham. She has taken BWY Modules in Cancer, Pregnancy, Prison Teaching with the Prison Phoenix Trust, as well as Yoga Therapy with the Yoga Biomedical Trust, together with many other intensive retreats with renowned teachers such as Tias Little, Doug Keller and Uma Dinsmore Tuli, at the Life Centre (now Yoga Campus) in London, in addition to less well known international teachers in Buddhist Retreat Centres.

Wendy is also qualified in an array of holistic, health, fitness and teaching related qualifications, eg. Crystal Healing, Reflexology, Massage & Aromatherapy, Teaching Assessor TDLB D32, D33 with specialist areas being inclusion of range of populations with mental health issues.

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close Deconstructing Challenging Asana (the joy is in the journey)
Welbourn Village Hall, Beck Street, Welbourn, LINCOLN, LN5 0LZ
Saturday 12th March 2011 | 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Tutor Andrea Kwiatkowski
Event fee: BWY teachers £25 | teachers not paying BWY teacher subscription £30

Please bring your own light packed lunch. Drinks provided

Make your cheque payable to 'BWY East Midlands Region'
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Organiser 01529 488355
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This is new for 2011 and is suitable for both BWY teachers and student teachers who would like to understand the body, and sequence their classes to include the poses.

Why asana is important? How can we deconstruct the challenging poses from our course and use them to deepen our own experience of the body and practice? There will be a practical session on Unit 3/4 asana with breakdown on back bending, forward bending, strength work and inversions. Following morning work, there will be a Q & A session and session techniques for chakrasana, sirsasana, ustrasana, surya namaskar.

Andrea Kwiatkowski trained as a professional dancer and worked extensively around the world where her interest in yoga and eastern philosophy began. She is a DCT for the BWY, and a certified Jivamukti yoga teacher, having completed her certification in New York in 2005 with Sharon Gannon and David Life. She is certified to teach Yin yoga after studying with Sarah Powers since 2003, and is a Restorative yoga teacher under the guidance of Judith Hanson Lasater. She is also 800hrs-certified for Yoga Alliance.

Andrea has studied and taught in India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Spain, Egypt, France, Turkey and Australia. She teaches in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, where she lives, at the Jasmine Trust BWY-approved centre, and also at the Jivamukti centre in London. She leads BWY events, retreats and workshops around the country and taught at the annual Congress last year. She has set up Santoshayoga, a Yoga centre which gives a percentage of all profits to animal welfare and charities both here and abroad, including Azahar - a foundation for teaching yoga to children in the Third World.

Andrea believes that yoga can enable us to become self-aware and fill our lives with compassion and love. She has years of knowledge of how the body works and uses this experience in teaching asana in her classes and courses.

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Welbourn Village Hall, Beck Street, Welbourn, LINCOLN, LN5 0LZ
Saturday 16th April 2011 | 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Tutor Sandra Kirkham
Event fee: BWY teachers £45 | non-teachers/teachers not paying BWY teacher subscription £50

Please bring your own lunch, it will not be a shared lunch. Drinks will be provided.

Make your cheque payable to 'BWY East Midlands Region'
Send booking form and cheque to
Organiser 01529 488355
Organiser's postal address is printed on the booking form

All British Wheel of Yoga student teachers need to produce a valid first aid certificate during Unit One of the Diploma Course and all Diploma holders are subsequently advised to renew that qualification every three years. If you do not have a valid certificate or need to renew your existing one, this day is appropriate for your needs

Part of the day’s work will be to integrate the essential aspects of First Aid within the role of Yoga teaching so it becomes ‘real’. Focus will be on dealing with an emergency situation in a safe and effective way, and will include short lectures, CPR on manikins, placing a person in recovery position, bandaging, putting on slings and care in secondary illness. Questions and answers will be an integral part of the day.

A comprehensive booklet and first aid kit are provided.
Download the Pre-course information (PDF opens in new window)

Sandra Kirkham is a RGN, BWY dip and qualified first aid instructor. She is also Regional Officer for BWY East Midlands and has completed various courses on Anatomy and Physiology, nursing and yoga with main qualifications of First Aid at Work and Paediatric First Aid.

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Quorn Village Hall, 64 Leicester Road, Quorn, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 8BB
Saturday 7th May 2011 | 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Tutor Sandra Kirkham
Event fee: BWY teachers £45 | non-teachers/teachers not paying BWY teacher subscription £50

Please bring your own lunch, it will not be a shared lunch. Drinks will be provided.

Make your cheque payable to 'BWY East Midlands Region'
Send booking form and cheque to
Leicestershire County Rep 01509 553994
Leicestershire County Rep's postal address is printed on the booking form

All British Wheel of Yoga student teachers need to produce a valid first aid certificate during Unit One of the Diploma Course and all Diploma holders are subsequently advised to renew that qualification every three years. If you do not have a valid certificate or need to renew your existing one, this day is appropriate for your needs

Part of the day’s work will be to integrate the essential aspects of First Aid within the role of Yoga teaching so it becomes ‘real’. Focus will be on dealing with an emergency situation in a safe and effective way, and will include short lectures, CPR on manikins, placing a person in recovery position, bandaging, putting on slings and care in secondary illness. Questions and answers will be an integral part of the day.

A comprehensive booklet and first aid kit are provided.
Download the Pre-course information (PDF opens in new window)

Sandra Kirkham is a RGN, BWY dip and qualified first aid instructor. She is also Regional Officer for BWY East Midlands and has completed various courses on Anatomy and Physiology, nursing and yoga with main qualifications of First Aid at Work and Paediatric First Aid.

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Quorn Village Hall, 64 Leicester Road, Quorn, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 8BB
Saturday 10th September 2011 | 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Tutor Sandra Kirkham
Event fee: BWY teachers £45 | non-teachers/teachers not paying BWY teacher subscription £50

Please bring your own lunch, it will not be a shared lunch. Drinks will be provided.

Make your cheque payable to 'BWY East Midlands Region'
Send booking form and cheque to
Leicestershire County Rep 01509 553994
Leicestershire County Rep's postal address is printed on the booking form

All British Wheel of Yoga student teachers need to produce a valid first aid certificate during Unit One of the Diploma Course and all Diploma holders are subsequently advised to renew that qualification every three years. If you do not have a valid certificate or need to renew your existing one, this day is appropriate for your needs

Part of the day’s work will be to integrate the essential aspects of First Aid within the role of Yoga teaching so it becomes ‘real’. Focus will be on dealing with an emergency situation in a safe and effective way, and will include short lectures, CPR on manikins, placing a person in recovery position, bandaging, putting on slings and care in secondary illness. Questions and answers will be an integral part of the day.

A comprehensive booklet and first aid kit are provided.
Download the Pre-course information (PDF opens in new window)

Sandra Kirkham is a RGN, BWY dip and qualified first aid instructor. She is also Regional Officer for BWY East Midlands and has completed various courses on Anatomy and Physiology, nursing and yoga with main qualifications of First Aid at Work and Paediatric First Aid.

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