Yoga is the embodiment of wholeness. Yoga posture practice does this from the body to Consciousness. There are many different approaches to yoga posture practice, but they all depend upon the same foundation: integrated activation of the whole body. Teaching Yoga is perhaps the most satisfying and meaningful activity. Yet, it is not as easy as it can be made to look. You need not only to know what you are offering on the basis of your own embodied experience. You also need to know how to transmit that to the experience of others.
Whatever style of practice you favour it must establish Pathways of Wholeness, from the body to Consciousness.
Then the power and wisdom of Consciousness can flow along these pathways into daily life (Ishvarapranidanah) as an embodied sense of vitality and safety. These pathways are established by refining the relationships between the obvious parts of the body (asana). This is done by using small local muscles in the whole body that integrate all the motor, structural and respiratory muscles: an integration esoterically known as "the bandhas in the whole body" (Sarvangabandha).
Heart of Yoga Training
Our training will show you how to use the subtle 'functional' actions to activate and integrate the whole body. This will take place in the Embodiment Module in December. These actions must take place within any and all postures, fertilising them. Some of these actions require the availability of deep, structural muscles that need to be activated and strengthened. This will be taken care of in Strengthening Modules 2 & 3. They will provide you with the tools to activate and strengthen the core muscles of your spine, abdomen and throat. Integrating Module 4 will focus on accessing the power of free breathing within the postures so that the Heart of Yoga opens (sushumna). The Teaching Skills Module 5 will show you how to teach the bandhas and pranayama to others, both in both posture and pranayama practice.
What it will give you
No matter what style of yoga you practice or teach, what shapes you use, or sequences you present them in, this training will give you the tools to refine and deepen your practice and teaching, without any need for special skills, extreme abilities, or even familiarity with yoga texts.
The foundation of the Training has four embodiment modules.
Embodiment 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. |
Strengthening Module 2: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part One
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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. |
Strengthening 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. |
Integrating 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.
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The next part of the Training will show you how to teach what you have embodied to others. You will learn how to apply the following to the teaching of yoga postures and pranayama:
to distinguish between structural and functional actions
to distinguish between actions and impacts
to fertilise stillness with movement and repetition
to harness the relationship between structure (posture) and function (breathing)
to activate the intelligence of the body
to access the Intelligence of Consciousness
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the art of progressive sequentiality (vinyasakrama)
somatic instruction (talking into the body)
communication dynamics
power dynamics
to distinguish between actions and impacts
to fertilise stillness with movement and repetition
to harness the relationship between structure (posture) and function (breathing)
to activate the intelligence of the body
to access the Intelligence of Consciousness
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the art of progressive sequentiality (vinyasakrama)
somatic instruction (talking into the body)
communication dynamics
power dynamics
Module 5: The Teaching Skills Module (Online Course)
Attendance of modules 1-4 required
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APRIL 2025
Saturday 5th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times You will learn:
10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times You will learn:
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APRIL 2025
Saturday 12th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times You will learn:
10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 You will learn:
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All the sessions will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days.
This last part of the Training will give you the foundation for daily practice.
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.
It will provide you with a fertile foundation for ongoing daily practice. All the sessions will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days. |
This whole Training will enrich your practice, teaching and life.
You will get:
- an understanding of the power and wisdom of Natural Intelligence
- an understanding of the relationships between Spiritual, Somatic and Cognitive intelligence
- a theoretical understanding of the relationship between body, breath mind and awareness
- a practical understanding of the experiential relationship between body, breath mind and awareness
- a theoretical understanding of the relationship between the conscious and subconscious mind
- a practical understanding of the experiential relationship between the conscious and subconscious mind
- a practical understanding of a disembodied mind and its causes
- a practical understanding of how to ground a disembodied mind
- simple, powerful principles of somatic instruction
- how to avoid spiritual by-passing
- how to embody the power and wisdom of Spiritual Intelligence
Who this training is for
It is suitable for anyone teaching or training or wanting to teach Yoga. Including also therapists (of any kind), movement, dance, somatic and meditation practitioners and teachers. It does not require flexibility, strength, agility, nor book knowledge, not even of the Yoga Sutras.
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
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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