Yoga is the embodiment of wholeness. Yoga practice must establish pathways of wholeness from the body to Consciousness. Then the power and wisdom of Consciousness can flow along these pathways into your daily life (Ishvarapranidanah). These pathways are established by movement and deepened in stillness. They must activate and integrate all the muscles of the body: motor, structural and respiratory.
For the heart of yoga to open fully your body must be free from tension and restriction. This does not require extremes of flexibility or strength. It only requires mobilisation of each facet of every joint. This takes training. A training in sensitivity to sensation. This Heart of Yoga training will show you how to use movement to sensitise all of your joints, and stillness to integrate all of your muscles. The Teaching Skills Module will show you how to do this for others. The Pranayama modules will provide you with the tools to activate and strengthen the core muscles of your spine, abdomen and throat so that the Heart of Yoga opens effortlessly within the flow of your practice.
No matter what style of yoga you practice, what shapes or sequences you use, this training will give you the tools to refine and deepen your practice so that it becomes the irrevocable fulcrum of a life lived as a gift of peace to the world.
For the heart of yoga to open fully your body must be free from tension and restriction. This does not require extremes of flexibility or strength. It only requires mobilisation of each facet of every joint. This takes training. A training in sensitivity to sensation. This Heart of Yoga training will show you how to use movement to sensitise all of your joints, and stillness to integrate all of your muscles. The Teaching Skills Module will show you how to do this for others. The Pranayama modules will provide you with the tools to activate and strengthen the core muscles of your spine, abdomen and throat so that the Heart of Yoga opens effortlessly within the flow of your practice.
No matter what style of yoga you practice, what shapes or sequences you use, this training will give you the tools to refine and deepen your practice so that it becomes the irrevocable fulcrum of a life lived as a gift of peace to the world.
This Training is modular,
the last of which can be attended in person in Istanbul, or online.
Module 1: Embodying the Bandhas
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Further detailsThis module will present the three core bandhas, and the two peripheral bandhas as the key to yoga posture practice.
Have a look here for more details All the sessions will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days. |
Module 2: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part One (Online course)JANAUARY 2025
Sunday 19th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Monday 20th 18.00-20.30 Friday 24th 18.00-20.30 This session will be a Q &A with Godfrey Saturday 25th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times |
Further detailsThis module will present Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Have a look here for more details All the sessions will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days. |
Module 3: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part Two (Online course)FEBRUARY 2025
Sunday 16th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Monday 17th 18.00-20.30 Friday 21st 18.00-20.30 This session will be a Q &A with Godfrey Saturday 22nd 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times |
Further detailsThis module will present additional Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Have a look here for more details All the sessions will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days. |
Module 4: Asana, Pranayama & Patanjali (Online course)MARCH 2025
Sunday 9th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Monday 10th 18.00-20.30 Friday 14th 18.00-20.30 Saturday 15th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times |
Further detailsThis module will present posture and pranayama practice in the light of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Have a look here for more details All the sessions will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days. |
Module 6: Patanjali in Practice
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Further detailsThis module will present an integrated practice of pranayama, meditation and postures, grounded in the wisdom of Patanjali.
All the sessions will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days. |
More about the training:
Because of the binary nature of the peripheral nervous system recalibrating your muscles refines your perception. As you become able to perceive the subtle within the obvious, wholeness within separateness, the obvious loses its seductive power and separateness loses its false authority. You become a conscious embodiment of wholeness, living a life of peace, joy and love as a gift to the world given freely.
Yoga practice is more than sequencing shapes. Pathways of wholeness depend upon what you are doing within those shapes. Each part of your body must be supporting every part of your body, from your hands and feet to your core. Engaging all your motor muscles, while structural and respiratory muscles respond spontaneously, allows you to refine not only the relationships between all the parts of your body (asana) but also to refine the effort (prayatna saithilya) each muscle is making. Then you experience the bandhas in the whole of your body: each part supporting and embodying wholeness as deep stillness within action (sthiram sukham).
The core bandhas (mulabandha, uddyanabandha and jalandharabandha) being supported by the peripheral bandhas (hastabandha, padabandha) allows the core of your body (sushumna) to open into the presence and power of Consciousness. This is the heart of yoga within which its richest fruits ripen.
Yoga practice is more than sequencing shapes. Pathways of wholeness depend upon what you are doing within those shapes. Each part of your body must be supporting every part of your body, from your hands and feet to your core. Engaging all your motor muscles, while structural and respiratory muscles respond spontaneously, allows you to refine not only the relationships between all the parts of your body (asana) but also to refine the effort (prayatna saithilya) each muscle is making. Then you experience the bandhas in the whole of your body: each part supporting and embodying wholeness as deep stillness within action (sthiram sukham).
The core bandhas (mulabandha, uddyanabandha and jalandharabandha) being supported by the peripheral bandhas (hastabandha, padabandha) allows the core of your body (sushumna) to open into the presence and power of Consciousness. This is the heart of yoga within which its richest fruits ripen.
Who this training is for:
This Training will not only enrich your practice but, thereby, also your life. It is suitable for anyone able to walk upstairs unaided. Including also therapists (of any kind), yoga, movement, dance, somatic and meditation practitioners. It does not require flexibility, strength, agility, nor book knowledge, not even of the Yoga Sutras.
Teacher Training:
An additional module to this course is Module 5: Teaching Skills, which will support you sharing what you have learnt with others. If you would like to learn more about this The Heart of Yoga Professional Training.
Live & recorded:
All the sessions on every module will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days.
Notes:
You will have notes that accompany each module and they will be provided at the end of the course. For genuine understanding follows direct experience.
Payment options:
You are welcome to pay in instalments for this Heart of Yoga Personal Training. If you would like that option contact us directly.
Further questions:
Feel free to contact us here with any queries .
Taught by Godfrey Devereux
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Godfrey is one of the initiators of the Yoga Renaissance that began in the 1990s. The yoga program he created at the Life Centre in London, and his ground breaking book ‘Dynamic Yoga’ steered yoga from the cultural margins towards the irresistible phenomenon it is today. Author of many more books, not only on yoga, his influence within and beyond the world of yoga is incalculable.
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His potent and accessible methodologies of somatic transformation, including 'The Dynamic Yoga Training Method', ’Slow Tantra’, ’Somatic Meditation’, and 'Somatic Resilience Training', have enriched the lives of thousands of practitioners and hundreds of teachers. As a master teacher his effectiveness depends directly on his ability to share his embodied experience of body, mind and Consciousness.
& Olivia Crooks (on modules 2 & 3)
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Olivia began working with Godfrey Devereux in 2003, after completing a diploma in Yoga in Sydney, Australia. She then apprenticed him for the following 10 years. Eventually assisting and co-teaching his teacher trainings. She has been integral to the development of the methodologies in which he teaches.
For the last 14 years she has been running workshops, courses, intensives and retreats (specifically for women). Teaching somatic movement, meditation and pranayama. She continues to teach with Godfrey each year on their annual winter Somatic Meditation Retreat and summer Radical Ecology Retreat. |
Olivia is striking in her inability to be inauthentic, or lean on any external authority. From her deep trust in life she extends, in her presence, words, actions and teaching, an almost irresistible invitation to say 'yes' more deeply to life just as it is.
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