Summer School 2024 will be zoom only
Zoom Summer School 2023
Tuesday evenings 7-8.30pm.
July 25th Bill Wood "Feeling More - Holding Less"
August 1st Janet Anthony-Buck "Align with Your Inner Warrior"
August 8th James Chapman "Yoga for Stress"
August 15th Carolyn Clarke "Finding Symmetry through Asymmetric Practice"
August 22nd Vicky Fox "Fabulous Feet and Firm Foundations"
"Dear All
Summer School is ready to go! Teachers, please forward this to students who are not members of Fed.
All the sessions will be held on Tuesday evenings (via Zoom only) starting 25 July from 7.00 to 8.30pm.
Please indicate your interest in an email to Jane on this address as soon as you have decided you want to join in. This is so that we can set up the register and look out for the payment.
Access to all 5 sessions will be £20 for members and £25 for non-members. Please pay directly into the Yoga Fed bank account by 6.00 pm on the 18 July (so that Hazel and Jane have time to liaise to set up the register and mailing list) and then links will be sent to you each week before the session.
Bank account details: a business account in the name of North Yorkshire Yoga Federation.
Please put your "surname + SS" in the reference box so that Hazel can recognise who you are if your bank account details are in a joint name and that it's a Summer School payment.The teachers have all kindly agreed that recordings of their sessions will be available, to those that have paid for Summer School, for a few weeks afterwards allowing you to enjoy all the sessions even if you are away. We will send these out after each session.
Date Tuesday 25/07/23 – Teacher Bill Wood
Theme: Feeling More- Holding Less
During this session we’ll explore how asanas can be felt more as places of balance within us, rather than as specific physical shapes - places we can access via feeling rather than mind, as our practice becomes as much a form of mindfulness as it is a bodywork - where the asanas can become fluid expressions of this growing awareness, as our body becomes stronger, more released, and more at ease.
This session will be posture based, and with periods of relaxation and sitting practice woven in.
Bio: Author of “A Journey into Being: Practising Yoga from Within,” and a teacher since 1994, Bill runs online and in person classes from his base in south Devon and teaches workshops and retreats all-round the UK.
While inspired by many different yoga and meditation traditions, his main influence has been the teachings of the late Vanda Scaravelli, and he continues to study with Sandra Sabatini, one of her longest standing students.
Away from his mat he also mentors students in the world of outdoor education and nature connection; worked previously as a psychotherapist for 10 years; and can often be found paddling a canoe somewhere between Dartmoor and the sea.
Date Tuesday 1/08/23 -Teacher Jan Anthony-Buck
Theme: Align with your Inner Warrior
A warrior is one who lives by their values and has the courage and self-belief to stand by their convictions. During the class we will :
Contemplate our own personal core values
Explore what the physical core is, and how to access inner strength.
Practice Warrior postures using some interesting teaching tips to help bring out our own inner warrior
End with a beautiful yoga nidra (deep rest), re help reintegrate our values
Bio: Janet was introduced to yoga at a very young age by her mother, during the 1970’s, and her father’s interest in meditation was also passed on to her. Jan qualified as a Yoga teacher with The British Wheel of Yoga in 2005 and has continued to advance her learning and training in all thing’s yoga. She has furthered her yoga teaching qualifications in various areas, particularly in the field of therapeutics: Yoga for Mental Health (working in clinical setting with the NHS and schools), Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs, Yoga for Women's Health, Yoga philosophy, and Gentle years yoga. Janet runs regular Yoga for well-being classes in the Neath and Swansea Valleys, and online via zoom. She holds monthly yoga, meditation and philosophy workshops and offers specialist yoga classes for pregnancy, post-natal, back care, stress management and one to one yoga sessions.Janet is also a qualified Hypnotherapist, Somatic movement education coach and Bowen Technique practitioner.
Date Tuesday 8/08/2023 James Chapman
Theme: Yoga For Stress
Bio: James Chapman is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, massage therapist and mental health trainer who has been teaching mental-health based yoga for 20 years. James discovered the transformational and healing qualities of Yoga whilst suffering from a chronic back condition. Initially introduced to Hatha, he moved onto Iyengar and completed teacher trainings in Kundalini and then a few years later in Sivananda in Kerala. He has been a long-term student of Catherine Annis and John Stirk and has trained in Scaravelli with them. He has completed restorative trainings with Dr Roger Cole and then Judith Hanson Lassater and this led to an 800 hour yoga therapy training with Yogacampus. James undertook various trainings in massage therapy and psychotherapy, and has been working full time as a Yoga teacher and massage therapist since 2004. He enjoys deconstructing classical postures and adapting them to the needs of individuals.
He has worked extensively with people suffering with mental health conditions, addictions, stress and has also taught international workshops and retreats.
Tuesday 15/08/23: Teacher – Carolyn Clarke
Theme: Finding Symmetry through Asymmetric Practice
Carolyn explores ideas around single sided practice, mudra, and breathing which may be effective establishing presence and a new sense of balance.
Bio: Carolyn has been teaching for over 40 years. She has always brought the legacy of yoga into everyday teaching. Carolyn adapts postural, breathing and contemplative practices to enable individuals to find personal flexibility, strength and calmness of mind within a class setting which reinforces positivity and confidence in everyday life. Equality and diversity are visible in the mixed ability classes she teaches locally and nationally. Carolyn also runs Yoga teacher training courses and the BWY Foundation course, and quality assures yoga teacher training nationally.
Tuesday 22/08/23: Vicky Fox
Theme: Fabulous Feet and Firm Foundations
Exploring how we can create stability in our practice and learn tools that we can take off the mat and into our day.
Bio: Since qualifying in 2008 Vicky has studied with many world-renowned teachers such as Rod Stryker, Doug Keller, Julie Gudmestad and Leslie Howard. Vicky’s teaching style is based around her own varied experience of yoga and through that has created a physically challenging class developing strength and suppleness while emphasising alignment and precision. All the time believing that yoga should be an individual and safe practice. Vicky is registered with the Yoga Alliance as a senior registered yoga teacher and teacher trainer, teaches at triyoga in Camden, Ealing and Chelsea, and Paul’s Cancer Support Centre. She also teaches applied anatomy. In 2013 Vicky studied with Laura Kupperman on her “Yoga for Survivors” teacher training course and is now teaching yoga to cancer patients at any stage of their recovery. The classes are designed to provide a safe refuge to come and practice yoga, to build strength, increase range of motion and reduce stress. Vicky runs a Teaching Yoga To Those Diagnosed with Cancer training. Vicky has published two books: Yoga for Cancer: The A to Z of C and the recently published Time to Repair: How Yoga can Restore Body and Mind in 5 minutes a day.
Zoom sessions with teachers from far and wide. With a Zoom catch up option for 4 weeks after the event when the tutors are happy for this.
The cost for the whole 5 sessions £25 for non members, £20 for NYYF members.
You may not recognise the names. Monica has worked incredibly hard for us to find teachers from around the country so that we can experience delights from further afield... less like summer school & more like a summer holiday smorgasbord
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