Yoga Teacher Training with BSY Group (Yoga Register School)

Principals: Ann Williams

The first step to a better lifestyle:
The BSY Group is one of the largest distance learning colleges in alternative health and complementary therapy in Europe. Our courses have helped thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions. In addition, our courses are used by a number of public and private institutions to train their employees.

Your Achievement will be Recognised:
Once you’ve successfully completed your course, you’ll receive a BSY Group qualification to recognise your achievement. This will prove of considerable benefit if you wish to start your own practice or further your career.

With some of our more advanced courses, you’ll be entitled to Associate Membership of the School, and be able to use the appropriate letters after your name. Your name will be entered in the Register of Qualified Students.

Graduates of a School on the Yoga Register (YRS) are entitled to use the letters YRT (Yoga Register Teacher) and benefit from a discounted subscription rate of £25 for annual entry on The Yoga Register (www.theyogaregister.org).

We are frequently asked by members of the public, industry and other interested parties for details of practitioners, and with your agreement, we will be happy to put you in touch with clients in your area.

Yoga Diploma Course:
Yoga means unity. It is derived from the Sanskrit work 'Yuj' which means 'joining'. Yoga is practised to join the body, mind and soul together, therefore forming a unified spiritual whole. Yoga is a natural development for the body, the mind and the soul. All the movements are natural and come from inside the body, and, as such, one should really feel and enjoy its effect naturally. The practice of Yoga maintains a youthful and healthy body thereby improving everything one does physically and mentally, thus bringing an overall gain in self-esteem.

Students who successfully complete Yoga Diploma courses are entitled to use the appropriate designatory letters after their name.

Tantra:
Tantra is an ancient spiritual path that affords great gifts to modern Westerners and therefore has much to offer whether the student is someone seeking to develop a personal integration of spirituality and sexuality, bring some spark back into a marriage or relationship, open blocks to feeling and enjoy sensuality, heal from sexual traumas of the past or learn Tantric skills with regard to working with others.

Subjects included in the course:

• The Roots of Tantra
• Rituals and Practices
• Vamcara Tantra
• The Chakras
• The Yoga of Sex
• Karma and Enlightenment
• Tantra Acceptance
• The Application of Tantra
• Personal Karma

Students obtaining 70% or more marks in the final examination will be awarded the BSY Diploma and are entitled to use the letters BSYA (Tantra) after their name.

UK Price: £295 (Rest of the world Price: £320)

Yoga Beginners:
This is an 'ordinary' Yoga course for 'ordinary' people. It is for those men and women who follow a modern, suburban lifestyle dealing with family and friends, home and work; facing the problems and pressures of twentieth century living, people who are under stress and need help to cope, who wish to improve the quality of their lives or who are simply seeking peace and quiet.

Anyone can benefit from the practice of Yoga. It can be practised from childhood to old age. It can be practised by the physically able and the disabled, and by people of all kinds of spiritual belief or by people with none. Yoga means 'yoke' or 'union' and it is the calm control of mind and body through breathing and gentle movement. Its essence is inner harmony, peace and calm - golden gifts in today's stressful world. The course is simple and straightforward to study - and a joy to follow.

Subjects included in the course:

• Introduction to Yoga
• Sitting and Standing
• Warm up Routines
• Relaxation
• Holistic Benefits of Yoga
• Prana - The Breath of Life
• Simple Postures and their Benefits
• Breathing
• Joy of Movement
• Practice

Students obtaining 70% or more marks in the final examination will be awarded the BSY Certificate of Competence.

UK Price: £165 (Rest of the world Price: £190)

Yoga Class Instructor:
The purpose of this course is to give back-up and structure to the role of the yoga teacher so that both the newly qualified and the experienced yoga teacher can quickly develop the potential and resourcefulness of the teacher of excellence.

This course is a practical guide to excellent, comprehensive class structures for all kinds of individuals and groups along with other invaluable practical advice - teaching yoga made easy. This course is suitable for trained yoga teachers and those who have completed the Yoga Teacher course.

Subjects included in the course:

• Your Scope as a Teacher
• One-to-One Instruction
• Student Registration
• Teaching Scripts
• Beginner's Classes
• Evening Classes
• Session Structures
• Classes for the Over 50s
• Starting a Yoga Club
• Class Advice

Students obtaining 70% or more marks in the final examination will be awarded the BSY Professional Certificate of Merit as Yoga Class Instructor.

UK Price: £230 (Rest of the world Price: £255)

Yoga Intermediate Part 1:
The more you embrace yoga, the more you will feel its benefits in your daily life. The course offers easy-to-use instruction guiding the student progressively through the movements and postures to energise the body and rejuvenate the spirit.

The ancient teachers of Yoga devised postures by observing the movements of certain animals who seemed to move more gracefully, and to relax more easily, than humans. The postures are designed to develop flexibility, suppleness, inner awareness and controlled relaxation of the mind and body. This course guides the student further in to the creation of mental, emotional and physical harmony.

Subjects included in the course:

• The Nature of Postures
• Prone Postures
• Relaxation
  Inverted Postures including:
• The Headstand Family and the Gentle Hare Pose
• Twisting Postures
• Exercises for Ankles, Knees and Hips
• The Shoulder-stand Family and the Pose of Tranquillity
• Supine Postures
• Yoga Mudras

Students obtaining 70% or more marks in the final examination will be awarded the BSY Certificate of Competence.

UK Price: £165 (Rest of the world Price: £190)

Yoga Intermediate Part 2:
Building on the lessons learned in Part 1, this course introduces the student to a further range of postures and opens up a whole new world of well-being. It expands your capabilities and moves on to cover more advanced possibilities. Yoga has long been used to promote fitness of body and mind, and many people have benefited from its practice. Yoga heightens our awareness and enjoyment of the present moment. It teaches us to transcend the tensions and anxieties of life, so that we may become completely alive in the present. This course takes the student further along the journey of inner peace and harmony.

Subjects included in the course:

All Fours Postures including:-

• The Cat
• The Diamond
• The Child and others
  Kneeling Postures including:
• The Fencer
• The Simple Camel
• The Gate
  One Legged Balance Postures including:
• Stork
• Mountain Pose
• Bird in Flight
  Hip Stretch Postures including:
• Rishi’s Posture
• Squat Postures and others

Students obtaining 70% or more marks in the final examination will be awarded the BSY Certificate of Competence.

UK Price: £165 (Rest of the world Price: £190)

Yoga Teacher (Hatha Yoga):
'A Thousand Candles - A Single Light'. It is a well known fact that if you know something really well, you will have no difficulty explaining or describing it. Likewise, if you want to teach, you must first of all get to know quite a lot about that which you propose to teach.

By the same token, if you want to teach Yoga, you must first of all get to know quite a lot about the subjects with which Yoga deals. Throughout this century yoga has grown, and continues to grow, rapidly in popularity. Its valuable use as a therapy for stress-related ailments has been added to its more traditional role of promoting inner peace and harmony in body and mind.

The British School of Yoga is enormously proud of the fact that it has trained more yoga teachers than any other school, and with the ever-growing popularity of Yoga there is a greater and greater demand for the well-trained teacher. This teaching qualification enables you to obtain professional indemnity insurance and to teach Yoga.

Subjects included in the course:

• Human Anatomy
• Nutrition
• The Sub-Conscious Mind and Conditioning
• Breathing Techniques
• Psychology
• Demonstration Techniques
• Physiology
• Relaxation
• Yoga Application and Branches of Yoga
• Asanas and Mudras
• Morality, Philosophy and Origins
• Class Management

Students obtaining 70% or more marks in the final examination will be awarded the BSY Diploma and are entitled to use the letters BSYA after their name.

UK Price: £295 (Rest of the world Price: £320)

Yoga Therapist:
What is Yoga Therapy? The aim of Yoga Therapy is to restore health and well-being for healing, maximising the body’s own amazing capacity where previously there has been stress or disease. It offers wide - ranging training in a number of holistic therapies which can then be used to help heal when disorder, energy blockage and malfunction give rise to unhealthy symptoms.

Like all other forms of therapy, Yoga Therapy is directed towards the recovery of normality in the human apparatus when disorder and malfunction give rise to unhealthy symptoms. Yoga Therapy is today a very successful system employing the profound wisdom and principles of Traditional Yoga. The demand for Yoga Therapists is, by necessity, increasing daily, providing unparalleled opportunity for all those seeking a worthwhile career and life fulfilment. 2 days of practical training is required for Professional Indemnity Insurance. Full details available on request.

Subjects included in the course:

• Human Anatomy & Physiology
• Manipulation
• Breath Therapy
• Cellular Dynamics
• First Aid
• Psychology
• Yogic Osteopathy
• Relaxation Massage
• Hygiene
• Hypnology
• Relaxation Therapy
• Biostrata
• Remedial Massage
• Treatments
• Nutrition

Students obtaining 70% or more marks in the final examination will be awarded the BSY Diploma and are entitled to use the letters BSYA (Th.) after their name.

UK Price: £530 (Rest of the world Price: £555)

For further information:
website: www.bsygroup.co.uk
email: info@bsygroup.co.uk
write: BSY Group, Stanhope Square, Holsworthy, Devon EX22 6DF
freephone: 0800 731 9271
call (International): 44 1409 259214 call (UK): 01409 259214.
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