teacher training
Teach Yoga Ethos
Teach Yoga are creating a name that speaks of Uncompromising Excellence, where all your Yoga needs can be met.
Our philosophy is that a great teacher is an inspired teacher. This is why our yoga teacher training courses are designed to inspire our students, helping them discover their golden nuggets and wrapping them in a foundation of anatomical precision and philosophical grounding.
When Teach Yoga organise workshops, we do it to share teaching that inspires us, and our weekly yoga classes are a place that everyone can come to learn with our teacher training course tutors, who I'm sure will have you wanting to return again and again!
Teach Yoga originally came into being as Body Primo, insired by the symbol that of the Vitruvian Man as designed by Leonardo Da Vinci and devised by an ancient Roman architect Vitruvius (which is where the name for the drawing comes from).
The symbol is well used and for good reason. Delving into an understanding of the Vitruvian Man, I learned of the name that Da Vinci had given to describe its significance...la cosmografia del minor mondo, the cosmograph of the microcosm.
He felt the material and spiritual workings of man was an analogy for the workings of the universe. And so human
existence was the link between the material and spiritual worlds. This he felt was depicted well in the drawing below.
The square represents material existence and the circle spiritual existence in which our own nature is bound. Here was
the yogic connection!
(source: wikipedia)
Teach Yoga and Yoga
In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita and certainly in the Upanishads, Yoga is represented as any path that allows the union between the atman (individual soul) and Brahman (the universal being) to happen. Thus, much like the above, I understood that in this lifetime we can make the connection within ourselves, between the material and spiritual, through Yoga!
A symbolic approach to teaching Yoga
1. Anatomical precision (the square)
Our approach to Yoga informs both the way we teach our students as well as our trainee teachers.
I feel this approach contains the seeds of Ahimsa, Truth and Compassion - key ethical principles as espoused by Patanjali!
2. Philosophical grounding (the circle)
3. Correct postural alignment (the Vitruvian man)