I had no idea what I was letting myself in for when I started. At times it was hard, always enjoyable and very enlightening. I learned more about myself than I could have imagined was possible.
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The tutors for the Yoga Teachers Training Course are;- Phaedra Cobb Phaedra Cobb
Phaedra is a qualified remedial massage and F.M.T. therapist who has been running her busy practise in Bingham for 10 years. Her interest in the body brought her back to full yoga practice in 1990 and she has been teaching yoga and stretching for the past 10 years. She was been a volunteer practitioner on Ickwell Bury’s M.S. Intensive courses in the early 90’s. And is a teacher of Full Movement Therapy. Phaedra has an abiding interest and enthusiasm for the innate intelligence of the body and it’s relationship to our psychology and spirit and seeks to support all those on their journey of integration of mind, body and spirit in a practical and yet inspiring way. She has spent much time working with the spiritual aspects of dance, voice sound and ritual in her ongoing exploration and adventure with consciousness. Carole Pearson
At the age of 39, after a family crisis and personal re-assessment her yoga practise became her saviour. She began to practise regularly attending one to one classes with a teacher who helped her enormously with breathing. Her pranayama practise put a vital piece in her yogic jigsaw and her classes today have a strong emphasis on the importance of the breath with asana practise. She was recommend to SYS where she completed her yoga teacher training and now teaches classes in Leicestershire. Her other great passion is Ayurveda. She is currently studying with the European Institute of Vedic Studies. She sees yoga and ayurveda as forming a complete approach for optimal health, vitality and higher awareness and she hopes in the future to teach both on a one to one basis to enable anyone to gain vital self knowledge which she sees as being much needed in society today.
Andy Thomas.
The combination of physical therapy appropriately applied, and yoga was seen to be very effective in producing much better solutions to muscle and joint problems and to have the great benefit of empowering the person towards self – help. As a result of the combination he has evolved a process of physical therapy known as FMT (full movement therapy), based strongly on yoga principles and greatly complementary to it. Andy found that many people who came to his class had given up hope of ever being fully functional. Working through these people’s problems with them has strengthened his conviction in the efficacy of yoga. His style of teaching is strongly orientated towards liberating the person from excessive formality, actively promotes the principle of yoga as a liberating discipline which requires nothing more of the student than dedication. He seeks to include rather than exclude and has a built in dislike of CONFUSION and FOG and BULL. He is always attempting to teach yoga as an enjoyable process, where the participant can feel freed from the bonds of mental slavery. He is a CAN DO person….CAN’T does not appear in his dictionary.
Liz Thomas.
Her strengths as a teacher on this course lie in teacher training. Currently she works part-time at Nottingham Trent University lecturing on the PGCE for further and higher education. She has been lecturing on the TNTU since 1990 and before then was an assistant Principal at Tamworth College Staffs. She began her teaching career as a secondary school teacher in 1970. Her role on this course will be to teach the principles of adult education.
Lindsey Walker.
Initially Lindsey had dismissed the idea of becoming a yoga teacher as impossible as she didn’t see herself with the confidence to lead classes, but with the encouragement of her teacher she undertook the Yoga for Health Foundation teacher’s certificate followed by the Remedial Training course. She now runs several busy classes in which she teaches a wide variety of people and she loves it! Lindsey’s great strength is her willingness to attempt even the most difficult things and this has given her a special gift in interpreting yoga to people who have difficulties with confidence based issues. Lindsey also runs her own clinic where she treats patients with her unique blend of remedial massage, reflexology, Reiki and FMT. |
Phaedra’s first encounter with yoga was at 18 when she met Joan Cooper author of ’Yoga and the Spiritual Evolution of man’ amongst other works, who was to be her guru for 2 years. She studied meditation under her guidance having no real interest in asanas at that time. She has been teaching meditation and working with meditators for many years now. She is deeply interested in transformational work on both a personal and global level and was part of the Hundredth Monkey group in the 90’s. A group of a hundred plus meditators were exploring Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance and how group mind may effect the collective unconscious positively. 
Carole attended her first yoga class at the age of 15. From that moment a small seed was sown and for the next 25 years she attended classes intermittently, always falling back into her practise when her mind and body cried out for it! 
Andy started life in engineering and stayed for 20 years before a greater yearning took over. In the early 80’s he trained in osteopathy and massage and started in practice immediately afterwards, adding a yoga teachers training course soon after when he realised that physical therapy on it’s own had considerable limitations. The yoga training was quickly incorporated into his own work and he started running yoga classes for his patients in the mid eighties. He started with a beginners course and then added a more advanced course for genuine seekers and kept this routine for about 10 years. During this time he taught prospective yoga teachers at the yoga for Health Foundation, Ickwell Bury and went on to design and help in the setting up of the MS intensive course at the Bury which runs to this day. He has taught hundreds of teachers at the Bury, many from overseas.
Liz has been practising yoga for 30 years and trained as a yoga teacher at the Yoga for Health Foundation in 1991. She has taught yoga locally, in West Bridgford, and worked with yoga teachers at Ickwell Bury.
Lindsey discovered yoga 25 years ago but practised intermittently. 5 years ago she began attending classes regularly following a period of mental suffering and personal re-evaluation. After a year of daily practice she felt much stronger both mentally and physically and began exploring a new path in her life which led her to gain qualifications in reflexology, Reiki and massage.