Foundation Course Level One
Foundation Courses are for those who want a more profound yoga practice. This is pure time for yourself. It will help to regenerate your energy, revitalise your body, and bring you closer to emotional stability.
Approximately one weekend day per month, from 10am till 4pm over twelve sessions.

The course will help you build your own personal strength from the inside. You will discover that yoga is more about inner strength than outer muscles.
You will discover that yoga involves your whole life. it is more than an exercise program [although we will focus on body work, alignment and posture work]. You will learn how to cultivate your body, but more importantly you will learn how to nurture the life enhancing energy at the basis of all your thoughts, actions and feelings. This will make you a more joyous person in all areas of your life. Changing your emotions and moods, generating happiness in yourself and those around you and making your life more positive, are not mysterious talents. They are learned skills and you come to realise that you can change how you feel, and there is something you can do about it. Instead of being swept along by your moods and emotions, you can learn to participate in shaping them.
We will:
Discover when yoga touches us, it truly transforms us.
Practise pranayama – the art of breathing. Before pranayama, you can be at the mercy of your emotions. Better breathing gives better health, increased vitality, more clarity.
Experience sound yoga – mantras – miraculous words of power
Learn mudras - magical hand and finger gestures that have a profound effect on our psyche.
Know how yoga can harness the mind with life affirming affirmations for a more positive, productive and creative outlook on life.
Look at nutrition in its whole context.
Manage stress. How to live with it, use it and live creatively as a result of it
There will also be days when other tutors with specialist knowledge will be brought in.
These deeper practices of yoga will help to trigger your own powers of transformation in order to regenerate your energy, rejuvenate your body and help you come closer to living from the core of your being – with authenticity. We will learn ways to detoxify the body and eliminate the burden of physical and emotional waste.

Venue:
Saddleworth Oldham.
There will be fresh fruit/veg juices made especially for you, and all coffees, teas, and herbal teas will be available all day.
The courses are regulated by the British Wheel of Yoga
[the lead body for yoga in this country].
You will be required to be a member of the BWY also. See their website.
Level One  begins December 11th 2010 and then the second Saturday in the month thereafter for 12 months....finishes November 2011.

Applications are now being taken. Please email for an application form

If you have any more questions or would like to discuss any aspect of this course you are very welcome to contact me by telephone, 01457 870453
Or email: courses@marilynyoga.com at anytime.


Foundation Course Level Two
If Foundation level One was dipping your toes in,
Level Two goes deeper.

We have learnt that yoga is more than physical training, or positions to be mastered - it is not even about positions or movements or even primarily about exercise. Yoga is an ancient, practical system for accessing healing, and integrating our body and mind. Yoga practice involves our feelings, our thoughts and our emotional flexibiity. In yoga it doesn’t really matter if your hamstrings are tight. It’s more a state of mind than having to touch your toes.
Through these deeper practices of yoga postures, pranayama and meditation, you will learn to transform the negative qualities of your mind to higher states of order and clarity, which promote overall physical and emotional wellbeing. you will reach a new level of integration within yourself.
Who is this course for?
Anyone who has completed Foundation Course Level One and is interested in enriching their own yoga practice.
Anyone who has a passion for yoga and an open enquiring mind,and who wants to be more joyful in their lives, experiencing this through deeper practice of yoga and meditation, feeling how it brings us back to stillness more easily.
Anyone wishes to expand their knowledge of yoga and their own practice.
Foundation Two is a deeply nurturing course.
Can anyone who has not completed Foundation One apply to do the Course?
Yes.
Teachers, of yoga and it counts as In Service Training.
A sixty hour accredited Course starting in April 2008 and consists of twelve individual one-day classes (Download info sheet for full dates) making a total of 60 hours over a period of 11 months.
The cost for the course is £360, payable after a deposit of £60 [and £45 to the BWY , administration fee] by £30 per day. [the last two days will have been paid with your deposit] You will be required to be a fully paid up member of the BWY at a cost of £25 (BWY membership number required for registration)
Venue:
Saddleworth Oldham.
There will be fresh fruit/veg juices made especially for you, and all coffees teas and herbal teas will be available all day.
The courses are regulated by the British Wheel of Yoga
[the lead body for yoga in this country].

More about the Course:
There will be a focus on developing your own practise which becomes a source inspiration and support in your life
We will explore the rhythms of your own creativity and run to the leading edge of your growth and personal development
The course will cover:
Hatha yoga, Pranayama, Yoga Nidra, [deep relaxation] and meditation
Through deeper practise of the asanas you will see how you become much more in touch and in tune with your own body.
Pranayama has the power to soothe, calm revitalise and restore your body and mind. It is the bridge between the outward practise of yoga and the internal surrendering practises that lead to more profound meditation.
Level Two 2009 Has Started.
You may  register your interest for the 2010 Course
If you have any more questions or would like to discuss any aspect of this course you are very welcome to contact me by telephone, 01457 870453
Or email: courses@marilynyoga.com at anytime.