BWY Modules

Modules are now split into two: Personal Development modules - which are open to all members of BWY; and Teacher Training modules - open to any yoga teacher with an approved teaching qualification, BWY or other.

Modules include: Teaching Yoga To Children, Pregnancy, Post-Natal, Ayurveda, Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Sutra, Meditation, Pranayama, Cancer. In the near future there will also be modules covering Vedic Chanting, Anatomy and Physiology and Baby Yoga.

Future BWY Modules

Teaching Yoga in Prison – Oxfordshire

Date: Monday 25th to Friday 29th June 2012
Venue: Charney Manor, Charney Bassett, Wantage OX12 0EJ
Cost: £460 [NB: For TEACHERS ONLY]

For more information, contact phone icon 01865 512 521

For more information, contact phone icon 01788 890575

This 5-day residential course, run as a British Wheel of Yoga module and open to all teachers, equips you with the knowledge and confidence to teach in prison. In the beautiful house and grounds of rural Charney Manor, we will explore in depth the issues, challenges and rewards that can arise when working behind bars.

Content includes: security, professional boundaries, teachers as role models, young offenders, female prisoners, sex offenders, drugs and alcohol, the life and work of prison officers, applying for prison teaching and accrediting your students.

Daily meditation and yoga practice are an integral part of the course. To receive accreditation, teachers must later observe a prison class and then be assessed teaching a prison class.

Course fee includes room, board and BWY administration fees.

Progressive stages in Meditation (level 1) – West Midlands

Date: Oct 2012 - July 2013
Venue: Friends Meeting House, Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AF
Tutor: Maarten Vermaase
[NB: For TEACHERS ONLY]

For more information, contact phone icon 0796 905 8458

For more information, contact phone icon 07969 058458

Starting on 13th October 2012, this BWY module will run on 7 Saturdays between October 2012 and July 2013, and is for teachers and students with Foundation Course 1 or equivalent experience. The module covers the principles and practice of meditation as an essential aid to the understanding, experience and development of our lifestyle and personal practice of Yoga.

tutor photo Maarten Vermaase is a Buddhist scholar and a Hatha Yogi with more than 30 years' teaching experience. He studied Hatha Yoga with the late Robert Van Heeckeren, and Tibetan Buddhist meditation with teachers from the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Based in Oxford, Maarten is a BWY Diploma Course Tutor and also runs a post-graduate BWY Meditation Module based on the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Mahamudra.