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The UK Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapy Practitioner Training Programme
BWY accredited three year Yoga Teacher Training Programmes are offered in Bristol.
They are available for those students who wish to develop the skills to teach, using this approach to Yoga. The Yoga Teacher Teaching Programme offers an in-depth Yoga
teacher training in Yoga Practice, Yoga Teaching, Yoga Psychology and Yoga Therapy.
The Yoga Teacher Training will include both working with small Yoga groups and a
special emphasis on one to one Yoga teaching and therapy for learning or healing Yoga.

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Aims:
To present a view of Yoga to help develop our practice and deepen our relationship with Yoga. This means respecting the vital source from which these teachings originated and their place in our age and culture.

Framework:
The Yoga Teacher Training Programme reflects the Yoga teachings of TKV Desikachar and his father and teacher T Krishnamacharya as taught to Paul Harvey over 25 years through appreciating Yoga as a:

• Learning or healing practice for groups or individuals
  
  
• Holistic Teaching received from T Krishnamacharya through TKV Desikachar
  
  
• Reality Philosophy through Texts and Teachers
  
  
• Lifestyle Psychology comparable to Western models
  
  
• Complementary Therapy to support health and recovery from illness
  

Prerequisites:
Prior completion of a minimum of 60 hours study through the Centre for Yoga Studies Introductory and Foundation Yoga Study Courses or the equivalent through an acceptable Yoga National Governing Body Foundation level study alternative.

I am continually reviewing which alternative Nationally Accepted Foundation or Accredited Teacher Training courses would qualify. For example any BWY Foundation Certificate or Teaching Diploma holder would be acceptable and therefore, if they so wished, would be exempt from the Centre for Yoga Studies Introductory and Foundation Study Courses, but not the other prerequisites.

However all candidates would be expected to have a Foundation level of appreciation in the theoretical understanding and practical experience of the approach of T Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikacher to the teaching of Yoga.

Application and Acceptance Process:
Applications can be submitted at any time. All applicants will also need to attend a YTP interview as part of the evaluation process at the Yoganjali Practice and Teaching Centre in Bristol with Paul.

They will be held as part of the prerequisite criteria. An informal personal meeting, short presentation on any topic, along with a theory and practice assessment will take place during these days. These meetings will be held according to demand so any interested students can apply at any time and from there suggestions can be made around suitable dates.

Successful completion of the meeting will result in an applicant being offered a place on the Yoga Training Programme. If applicants are unsuccessful on the day they will be offered guidance on possible options.

Some applicants may be asked to undertake further study prior to any final decision regarding acceptance onto the Programme. Because of this and the limited number of places some applicants may be asked to re-apply.

Group:
Each group will have up to 16 students.

Diploma:
Students successfully completing the Yoga Teacher Training Programme will receive the Practitioner Qualification and will qualify for the BWY National Governing Body Accreditation status and EUFNY European Teacher Registration.

Teachers:
The Programme will be led by Paul Harvey with faculty assistants and specialist tutors supporting the Programme where necesary and appropriate.

Programme Contact, Study, Teaching and Supervision Hours:
This full teacher training programme totalling over 600 teacher training hours (over 500 hours training plus a minimum of 60 hours at Introductory/Foundation level) meets the European Minimum Standard of 500 hours training over 4 years. It also exceeds the national educational standards in the UK of a Governing Body of Yoga, the British Wheel of Yoga with its 2 years minimum and 240 contact hours as well as the Yoga Alliance 500 accumulated seminar and study hours Yoga Teacher levels.

- A minimum of 500 hours over three years through:

• 425 contact hours over 21 non-residential three day workshops with Paul Harvey and Specialist Faculty Teachers.
  
  
• 20 hours personal lessons with an acceptably experienced teacher.
  
  
• 10 hours individual and group class supervision for your current teaching work from the second year with an acceptable supervisor.
  
  
• 5 hours (approx) external group class assessment from the second year with an acceptable external assessor.
  
  
• 100 hours in home study and course completion projects.
  
  
• 80 hours personal teaching in group classes and individual lessons.
  

Assessment and Projects:
There will be informal and formal teaching and practice assessments with emphasis on the overall quality of the individual students’ development. The work will be assessed by the Programme trainer or where appropriate faculty support teachers.

• Continuing assessment of coursework given as both theoretical and practical home study is necessary and the student is expected to fulfil each year satisfactorily in terms of completion on time and the quality of the work submitted. The home study will include written work each weekend around Yoga theory and practice, Yoga Sutra study, anatomy and physiology, teaching methodology and counselling skills. Here the students own personal teacher will support the students own efforts with the home study homework.
  
  
• All students will be required to teaching group classes by the second year and working with individuals by the third year.
  
  
• Live teaching experience is necessary based on actual teaching experience of 40 hours group class teaching over at least 3 terms from the end of the first year and eight individual case studies of at least 5 tuition hours each to be undertaken from the end of the second year. The case files will be supervised with appropriate feedback.
  
  
• There will also be external examination of around 5 hours (3 hours teaching plus feedback time) of the student's own group classes in the second and third years by a teaching practice assessor who will make a written evaluation.
  
  

Programme Fees:
The total budget for the three years of the 2013-2015 course will be around £5700 plus approx £300 BWY completion costs.

This breaks down into an approximate annual budget of:

• £1500 per year fixed over three years for seven three day weekend workshops in Bristol including refreshments and lunch, an 800 page manual and all tuition costs. This would be payable over each year at the time of tuition or through a negotiable bank schedule. All Workshop fees must be paid for whether or not the student is able to attend.
  
  
• £400 per year (approx average if based on £40 per hour) for 20 hours of personal tuition (from year one) and 10 hours of group (from year two) and individual (from year three) supervision; payable directly to the teacher or supervisor at the time of tuition.

plus course commencement/completion costs of up to approx £300 comprising:

• around £120 Course registration fees for the BWY in order to qualify for student teacher training insurance and BWY Course Verification and Accreditation when the course is completed.
  
  
• around £180 to cover around 5 hours external assessment of two of your group classes. The fee to visit your group classes will be around £60 per visit plus travel costs for a minimum of two assessments.

A Programme Registration Deposit of £600 is required as confirmation of acceptance of a place. The BWY Course registration fees are also payable at the same time. The Programme deposit of will not be refundable but will be offset against the final years workshop fees. British Wheel of Yoga membership is required prior to starting the Yoga Training Programme.

Weekend schedule:

• Friday
  11.00 - Arrivals
  11.30 - Session and Practice
  12.45pm - Lunch
  1.45 - Session
  2.45 - Break
  3.00 - Session and Practice
  4.00 - Break
  4.15 - Session
  5.15 - Break
  5.30 - Session
  6.30 - Supper
  7.30 - Practice Session
  8.00 - Departures
  
  
• Saturday
  9.00am – Session
  10.00 - Break
  10.15 - Session
  11.15 - Break
  11.30 - Session and Practice
  1.00 - Lunch
  2.00 - Session
  3.00 - Break
  3.15 - Session and Practice
  4.15 - Break
  4.30 - Session
  5.30 - Break
  5.45 - Session and Practice
  7.15 - Departures
  
  
• Sunday
  9.00am - Session
  10.00 - Break
  10.15 - Session
  11.15 - Break
  11.30 - Session and Practice
  1.00pm - Lunch
  2.00 - Session
  3.00 - Session and Practice
  4.00 - Departures

Venue and Dates:
Yoganjali Yoga Teaching and Therapy Centre
Princes Place, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8NP

2013-2015 Programme dates to be finalised

The YTP topics are:

1. Yoga Sadhana - Yoga Practice

• Individual lessons for personal practice
• Group workshops to develop self planning, planning for others and observational skills.
• Building and working with basic, group class and personalised Learning or Healing Yoga practices.

2. Yoga Sutra - Yoga Psychology

• A in-depth study of Chapters One and Two of the Yoga Sutra.

3. Roots of Yoga and Related Texts

• Definition of Yoga according to root texts.
• Approaches to and evolution of Yoga.
• Overview of related texts

4. Asana - Yoga Postures

• Definition according to Yoga texts.
• Detailed study of Primary Asana.
• Introduction to Intermediate Asana.
• Overview of Advanced Asana.
• Classification, sequence building, compensation and breathing.
• Movement, stay, variation and modification.
• Asana with sound, Mudra and Bandha.
• Apprenticeship into the Art and theory of observation in practice.

5. Pranayama - Seated Yoga Breathing

• Definition according to Yoga texts.
• Detailed study of important techniques and theory of Prana and Nadi.
• Preparation, classification, components and sequence building within Pranayama.

6. Dhyana - Yoga Meditation

• Introduction into the various aspects of meditation within practice.
• Basic techniques applied through Asana and Pranayama.
• Refinement of practice through meditation.

7. Yoga Cikitsa - Yoga Therapeutics

• The therapeutic possibilities of Yoga in working with problems or illness.
• Study of Ayurveda and its therapeutic links with Yoga.

8. Viniyoga - Application of Yoga

• The Teachings from T Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikachar.
• Eastern and Western Teaching Methodology and the student teacher relationship.
• Advantages and disadvantages of individual and group tuition.
• Application of Yoga for individual and group situations.
• Organisational and Ethical aspects of teaching.
• Introduction to counselling skills.

9. Sanskrit and Nada - Yoga of Sound

• Introducing the Romanised Sanskrit alphabet.
• Understanding the important names in Asana and Pranayama.
• Application of voice work and techniques for sound in practice.
• Reciting the Yoga Sutra and Yoga teachings.

10. The Human System

• Study of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology and kinesiology.

11. Svadhyaya - Home Study

• Formal home study of a practical nature through reading, practice planning, theory questions and personal practice.
  
  
• Completion of final year Yoga Sutra study project.
  
  
• Completion of 80 hours external group and one to one teaching.