Thank you all for the great efforts. It was stretching in so many ways. I am not the same person I was a year ago. I hope the next years course is just as satisfying for the new intake.
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Teaching Yoga as a Liberating Discipline. This we believe is the true spirit of yoga. Much criticism of " modern" yoga has appeared in many newspaper and magazine articles--the criticisms range from yoga practitioners being money-grabbing to having lost the plot completely. We cannot identify with this notion of yoga. All Shanti teachers have walked the red hot coals of fire , as the saying goes;- none is a theorist and all seek to free students from the things that bind them whether this is mental anguish or fear of the future. This is our source of joy in the passing of this wonderful system--none of us has any real interest in money and none seeks fame nor social prominence. We offer to you ,the potential student ,the true heart and spirit of yoga sincerely and with completly honest intent. There are no personal agendas to subscribe to nor any egos to polish. What stands out, we are told, is that we encourage each individual to take the path most suited to them, in the same way that the enlightened parent permits each child the luxury of just being themselves without any attempt to mould or distort --brainwashing , the very notion, fills us with a mighty dread!! People know what they want and our job , as we see it, is to assist this movement along the chosen path, whilst shining some light onto the map and sometimes holding out the compass ., Certainly we wish each participant to go off down the cul-de-sac and have a good look and wander off down little lanes of exploration because it is only when the participant is in charge of the process themselves that true enlightenment can take place. There is a wonderful saying---" humans are like stained glass windows--when the sun shines on them they look very bright but when it is grey outside it is only the light from within that makes them bright." We subscribe to this--so you will not find prescriptions, nor certainty, ---you will not find exclusions nor fears repeated, nor reasons to NOT do something. Yoga is a CAN DO discipline--there is no room for CANT . It is the art of the possible. If this fits with your way of seeing life then it is highly likely that you will like our way. If you are not sure then do attend one of the many Shanti teachers classes or attend one of the foundation course sessions and meet the current students.Equally, if you have a look at where Shanti teachers are running their own classes and attend one of these you will quickly pick up whether the "attitude" suits you. |
Shanti Yoga School Ltd was conceived in 2001, born in 2002 and begun its first course in 2003 in January. Andy Thomas had a dream after finishing osteopathy training in the early 80’s, to start a healing centre in Spain. 20 years later conception of Shanti Yoga School took place in Spain—but it followed the realisation that a centre could be a knowledge place rather than having to be an actual building.. The stimulus to “ do it our way” was probably born during the time of many teaching sessions at the Yoga for Health Foundation at Ickwell Bury, now sadly no longer with us. Many thousands attended the training courses and lots of these were experienced teachers who had acquired much anxiety and fear about yoga. Much of the teaching time spent there was devoted to unpicking the effects of fear. Hence our statement that teaching yoga should be done to liberate the person from fear-- not to provide more reasons to be fearful---in other words we major on finding your blockages and helping you to free yourself from the bonds of mental slavery!!| Next > |
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