The Yoga College is offering a two year, 230 hour certificate course validated by the Independent Yoga Network and registered with the Yoga Register to ensure quality and integrity. The venue is Boreham, Near Chelmsford, Essex (2 minutes off the A12). There are 38 5-hour study days, normally on the second and fourth Sunday of each month excluding August and December. Numbers are limited to ensure personal attention. The tutor is Jeremy Jones, who has nearly a decade of experience teaching yoga (mostly full time) in a wide variety of venues and to a wide range of ages and abilities. He has tutored three British Wheel of Yoga foundation courses, many short courses and seminars and has taught yoga in four fitness centres, three colleges, two prisons and a number of private classes. He is also a writer and researcher on yoga and related matters. The emphasis on the course will be on practical teaching skills over a wide range of yoga and improving personal practice for greater insight, personal development and demonstration skills. A creative, joyful approach will be encouraged. The course contents can be adapted to almost any style of yoga. The style will be secular and non-sectarian. You will NOT be attending a religious course disguised as yoga or a yoga "boot camp". Written work will be kept to a minimum.

KEY STUDY AREAS -

(a) Preparation/limbering - several limbering routines will be taught and one available in handout form.

(b) Asana (postures) - a wide range, including some sequences (Vinyasa) and modifications for the less/more able students.

(c) Mudra (seals) and Bandha (locks) - All major bandhas and a number of mudras.

(d) Pranayama (breathwork) - Several pranayamas including techniques of breathing into postures and breath and movement style exercises.

(e) Pratyahara/Dharana/Dyana (sense withdrawal, concentration and absorption) - These are usually loosely drawn together under the term "meditation". The psychology, culture and techniques will be examined in detail.

(f) History and culture - Yoga's fascinating history and cultural background will be examined.

(g) Philosophy - Three major texts will be discussed and interpreted, with emphasis on Patanjali's Eight Limbs as a theoretical model.

(h) Western ideas and psychology - the work of the Western body workers, especially Reich, Alexander and Pilates, will be examined in detail because of their relevance to contemporary practice and ideas.

(i) Kriya (cleansing practices) - Three widely practiced Kriya will be explained. Participation strictly optional!

(j) Laya yoga/pranic anatomy - Western and Eastern concepts of the life force such as nadis (energy channels), chakras (energy vortices) and orgone (universal life force) will be discussed in detail and demonstrated experimentally.

(k) Anatomy/physiology - all the major human systems will be outlined in a straightforward way. You won't need to be a medical student!

(l) Teaching practice - great emphasis will be placed on good teaching practice. You will spend a lot of time on the course teaching and being taught by your peers. This is the only way to gain the confidence, mental agility and creativity essential for good class teaching.

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.

E-mail for more details -jeremy@yogacollege.co.uk Or look at our website www.yogacollege.co.uk Or phone 01376-500795