Teaching Yoga as a Liberating Discipline.

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!!

This means that all the teachers are adventurous in their own practice and will take you through this same adventurous place so that you too can be freed. We teach yoga as the art of the possible—not as something which will  add constraint but which will  remove constraints. To do this  requires proper KNOWLEDGE  and not guess work. This is what we call our unique knowledge , gained from thousands of therapy hours on patients as well as seeing all the normal physical  problems suffered by humans in our yoga classes.  We pass on this unique knowledge.