The central concern of the course
is to deepen your practice and experience. I give the course this
emphasis because, in Yoga, your teaching is as good as your realisation.
As far as I am concerned, you have to teach from your own experience
and your own inner being to be authentic, fresh, alive and effective.
To help you to be good teachers, then, I need to help you to
come as nearly as possible into permanent contact with your Centre
(for want of a better word) so that your intuition with regard
to your students’ needs is highly acute, and your spontaneous
wisdom is operative in teaching situations and, indeed, in life
in general.
So experience is primary and information is secondary. Having
said that, we will be encountering and critically assessing quite
large amounts of information! The aim here is to give you a set
of maps which will enable you to navigate the landscape that the
course will open up for you and which will open up, in turn, for
your students. Hopefully though, it will become apparent to you
that the nature of that landscape is such that it can be mapped
in an infinite number of ways, and that at crucial, transformative
points no map can ever be adequate and all maps ultimately have
to be abandoned.
My own teaching on the course will be alert to who you uniquely
are and what your talents are. This means I will be helping you
towards your Centre and your own style of teaching and your own
speciality. I don’t want to produce clones of myself! Still
less do I want to school you in any narrow story about the way
the world, life and people work. There is nothing alive in living
inside a story and to teach well and live well it is more important
for you to be fully authentic and fully alive than anything else.
The School of Heart Yoga is a Registered Yoga School (200) with
the Yoga Alliance.
Graduates of a School on the Yoga Register (YRS)
are entitled to use the letters YRT (Yoga Register
Teacher) and benefit from a discounted subscription rate of £25
for annual entry on The Yoga Register.
For further information:
website: www.heartyoga.co.uk
email: yates@heartyoga.co.uk
write: Heart Yoga, Parkdale Yoga Centre, 10 Parkdale West, Wolverhampton
WV1 4TE
call (International): +44 1902 424048 call (UK):
01902 424048. |