A Year of Self Discovery
These training courses are for everyone, whether you wish
to teach Yoga or simply go deeper on your Yoga journey.
The teachers:
Julie Hanson, Sue Woodd, Marit Akintewe
The Seasonal Yoga Teacher Training programme
offers 4 options for training:
100 hour foundation - over 5 weekends
200 hour - teacher programme, over 1 year
300 hour - advanced teacher programme, over 1 year
Wise ones training (seniors) - CPD training, 3 days.Glasgow: Jan 2018 - 200 & 300hr & Oct 2018 - 100hrLondon: April 2018 - 200hrLiverpool: January 2018 - 200hrBonn, Germany: March 2018 - 200hrHelsinki, Finland: November 2017 - 200hrFor full course details, timetables and costs and for details on
online courses, or to download our colour brochure please visit:seasonalyoga.net
Email: [email protected]
http://www.seasonalyoga.net
or phone 07980 244244Affiliate studios?
If you are interested in joining the Seasonal Yoga family,
we are always happy to discuss setting up courses in new studios,
please contact us for more details or a chat.Testimonial
I have loved this course and would do it all again in a heartbeat.
The teachers are so knowledgeable and brilliant at bringing out the
best in you. The posture workshops, lectures, food!, all exceptional.
It’s been a privilege to be part of the group.
Valerie Johnston (Glasgow Group)om body
something new and failed, persuading
me that it’s actually best to stay inside
my onesie and inside my comfort zone.
When I am on the mat it runs backwards
and forwards, like an overexcited dog in a
butchers, telling me that the pose I hate the
most is coming up and it’s probably going to
be horrible and that the one I’ve just done
was rubbish.
Sensitive yoga folk should look away now
because if all of that wasn’t enough to make
your ujjayi breath go a bit whimpery, hold on
to your mats....
I drank wine. And beer. And gin. And I liked
drinking all of those things (not together – I
didn’t need an intervention yet). Sometimes I
drank them until I got a bit...umm...jolly.
I snarled at people who push in front of
me on the train. I hated the Daily Mail (but if
you think that’s not okay, we should call it a
day now). I laughed at ‘You’ve Been Framed’.
And I didn’t like spirulina. Face it, people – it
tastes like a pond.
Live true
How on earth could I be all of those things
and at the same time be a yogi? More to the
point, how could I be all of those things and
at the same time teach yoga?
I knew that I wanted to keep yoga in my
life. It made me feel good (most of the time;
but even after the feeling bad bits I always
felt better). I did get a sense that it was
helping me shift through some of the stuff
that was holding me back, but at the same
time I knew that even with all the yoga in
the world I was never going to be one of
those people.
And then it hit me: I actually didn’t want to
be one of those people. I wanted a long term
relationship with yoga, but I wanted to keep
being me. I wanted to live true to my own
definitions of what a good, positive, whole,
loving, challenging, generous, genuine,
enjoyable, yogic life looked like – for me.
The more I thought about it, the more I
realised there must be more people like me,
and now I know there are. I meet them in
my classes, I get emails and messages from
them, they talk to me in whispered tones
at the end of workshops, and they feel bad
about it – and that’s not okay.
We do our best to do yoga – and not
just the stuff on the mat. We think it’s a
great way to live our lives, and recognise
that it is a truly amazing system of growing
into the best version of you that you can
possibly be; a wonderful world of going out
into the world and making it a better place
for everyone – but at the same we have to
acknowledge that we are living our real lives
at the same time.Do your best
Don’t get me wrong; I have the utmost
respect for yoga and everything this amazing
tradition has brought into the lives of us
mere mortals. I will forever be grateful for
all it has enabled me to achieve and I know
that, as with any potent force beyond our
understanding, its true power is something
that most of us can only pretend to
understand. And, if we ever want to get
close to feeling its awesome potential then
it asks us to make some serious sacrifices;
as it should.
But here’s the thing. I would rather a busy
dad’s ‘yoga’ is taking 10 minutes after the
kids go to bed to do some Sun Salutations,
stretch his body, take some time for himself,
before having a glass of wine, than do
nothing at all.
If a crazily stressed CEO can only do her
‘yoga’ during the 60 minute commute into
work and back, I’d rather she sat on the
bus and used that opportunity to connect
her breath to her body and mind, than
did nothing but think herself into ever-
decreasing circles.
When the only time you can do some
mindfulness is when the traffic lights are
at red and you have a moment of stillness
to scan your body, notice your breath, and
think of three things you’re grateful for, you
take it. That is your yoga.
So this is a rallying cry to all of you ‘bad’
yogis out there; we shouldn’t allow anything
(especially the stuff that’s meant to make us
feel great) make us feel bad when all we’re
all doing is the best job we possibly can with
what we’ve got.
So if you find sometimes opening a wine
bottle more fun than opening your hips;
if your kit is from Sainsbury’s not Sweaty
Betty; if you snigger whenever someone says
‘tittibasana’; if your love/hate relationship
with yoga is more ‘on-again-off-again’ than
Jordan and, well, anyone – you’ll always
have a place with me; the happiest worst
ever yoga teacher. tMeg Jackson is the founder of Real Life
Yoga – a movement to help real people
bring a little (or a lot) of yoga into their real
lives. Join her classes in south London, her
workshops around the country, and (coming
soon) retreats around the world. Find out
more: reallifeyoga.net