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Julie is co-owner of the Chi Yoga Centre in Glasgow and has been involved in the health and fitness sector for over 30 years.
She is also joint founder and director of the Chi Yoga School, a yoga and personal development school running courses in Glasgow/Perthshire.
Seasonal Yoga Flow is Julie's main passion. She teaches seasonal yoga workshops in Scotland, England and in Europe. With her co-author Sue Woodd, Julie has published a book "Energy in Season" which gives clear guidelines to living, eating and practising Yoga, Tai Chi and Chi Gung in line with nature and the seasons. See www.ENERGYINSEASON.com for more info.
Julie's early career was rooted in the fitness industry and running SPORT AID World Workout in 85 was one of her personal career highlights.
Now her time is split between writing, teaching and training the occasional celebrity. She has made regular TV and Radio appearances over the years. She educates students and teachers alike to live life in line with nature, encouraging them to maximise their potential for health and fitness and achieve lifestyle and personal goals. International yoga teachers Shiva Rea and David Keil have influence Julie's style of teaching.
She lives in Glasgow with her two children.
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 Claire has been practising yoga for many years and completed her teacher training with Yoga Scotland in 2005. She has been teaching classes regularly since then, and draws on the teaching she has been fortunate enough to experience with the Dharma School of Yoga, Yoga of the Shadow School, Yoga Scotland and in recent years, Scaravelli-inspired teachers. Claire is also a writer and is a former columnist with the Sunday Herald Magazine, where her popular columns "The Simple Guide to Fitness' and 'Balance - Mind, Body, Spirit' appeared for over two years. Claire’s classes - aim to build strength and flexibility in the body, to develop our use of breath so our practise can become more effective in cleansing the body and in doing so, can allow us to experience the stability and peace that yoga can bring, not only to the body, but to the mind, and into our lives and relationships.Claire's lunchtime class is suitable for all students, and as work commitments may get in the way of attending on a block-book basis, it is accessible on a drop-in basis.
Her web-site address is bodymindsolutions.co.uk
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 Jilly began practicing Hatha Yoga from books and videos in 1999 and in 2003 she was lucky enough to be introduced to Julie Hanson at the Chi Yoga Centre. Julie’s teachings inspired Jilly to pursue a
deeper understanding and knowledge of Yoga and, in 2007 she enrolled for teacher training at the Chi Yoga School. There, Jilly was taught under the exceptional tuition and guidance of Julie Hanson and June Mitchell.
Jilly’s class is Seasonal Flow - designed to invigorate, strengthen and calm the body and mind by combining postures into a ‘flow’ or rhythmic sequence. It promotes overall wellbeing, flexibility, vitality and stress release and a higher level of health and fitness; building on power and agility, creating increased levels of energy, in tune with each season and linking it with Yoga practice and general life activities. |
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What began as a class taken once a week in the local sports centre has become a passion and a way of life.
After starting a new job and enduring six months of sleepless nights Judi attended her first yoga class – an act of desperation. In a very short time her weekly yoga class worked its magic helping to alleviate stress and anxiety. Something just kept drawing her back to class week after week.
Further workshops and a growing awareness of self inspired Judi to seek to deepen her practice and understanding of yoga by enrolling in the Yoga Scotland Foundation Course. Gradually yoga became more than just something to be done in a weekly class.
On completion of the course Judi was so eager to continue her yoga journey she enrolled on CYS teacher training at Chi Yoga School, Glasgow.
It was this journey from pupil to fledgling teacher that ignited Judi’s enthusiasm for Ashtanga vinyasa yoga– the flow of breath and movement, the discipline of a challenging sequence and the respect & humility that comes from practicing in an ancient tradition. Also came the growing awareness that all are pupils and teachers both.
“It is an honour to be able to share my practice of yoga, and a privilege to help and support students on their own personal journey” - Judi Farrell
Judi has been practicing yoga for 12 years and has attended workshops given by some of today’s most inspiring yoga teachers including Manju Jois, David Swenson, David Keil, Paul Dallaghan, Matthew Sweeney, Sean Corne and Sarah Powers.
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Yoga Teacher and Course Director of CYS Scotland/London Yoga Teacher Training qualified as a yoga teacher in the Sivananda method in l976/77 under the tuition and guidance of William Mowat Thompson, Founder/Principal of the Scottish Yoga Centre, Edinburgh and Dr. Arthur de la Poer Rowbothem, Psychiatrist, Philosopher and Vedantist. Her certificate in Hatha Raja Yoga was given ‘With Merit’ in the first yoga teacher training course held in Scotland. She continued further training with many of the country’s leading Sivananda and Iyengar teachers in the seventies and eighties, combining yoga teaching and study with raising her two sons.
In l98l June launched Perth Yoga Centre, the second of its kind to be established in Scotland after the Scottish Yoga Centre in Edinburgh. Perth Yoga Centre created a foundation for the flourishing of complementary medicine in the area during the l98O’s, initiating the first-ever workshops and teaching groups in many aspects of this now established and significant part of our health awareness in Scotland. In l992 she completed a Certificated Course in Yoga Therapy for Low Back Pain through the Yoga Biomedical Trust in London and taught by Indian Orthopaedic Consultant and Yoga Teacher, Dr. D. G. Dongaonkar. In l993 June founded the Riverside Centre in Perth where at any given time between ten and fifteen teachers and natural health therapists worked, offering holistic health treatments to the community and which was twice short-listed in the Business Excellence Awards initiated by the Perth Chamber of Commerce – seen as being innovative and influential in its field.
She now runs classes in Perthshire and Glasgow with a team of CYS teachers, as well as the Chi Yoga Centre in Glasgow with its founder, Julie Hanson. In the Spring of 2OO3, furthering her enthusiasm for the Ashtanga Vinyasa system of yoga, she completed an Intensive Yoga Teacher training with Paul Dallaghan, Founder/Director of Centered Yoga, Yoga-Thailand and Certified International Ashtanga Yoga Teacher, becoming the first person in the UK to have this worldclass training which has Yoga Alliance International Certification. She is a direct student of the Ashtanga guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, having studied and practised with him in 2004 at the AYRI in Mysore, Southern India.
In 2OO3 June and Julie founded CYS Scotland, an Independent Yoga School offering the highest standards in yoga teacher training and which will shortly begin its Year 8 course in September 2010. Following on the success of CYS Scotland, CYS London, began in February 2OO6 in Windsor and is now in its Year 5 course in the South of England. CYS teachers are established throughout Scotland, the South of England, Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia - sharing their expertise and knowledge - and are listed on the Teachers’ Register on the website. CYS Scotland/London is backed by an authoritative and influential Governing Body of professionals from the fields of yoga and personal development and is known as a Centre of Excellence. As a Registered Yoga School RYS 200 with the US-based Yoga Alliance (www.yogaalliance.org), its graduates have the opportunity to teach worldwide.
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Alan is a Chi Yoga School qualified instructor of Hatha Raja Yoga
Alan’s experience as a teacher has led him to share practice with people of all ages and levels of ability. This ranges from working with the public on behalf of studios, clubs and leisure facilities in the Glasgow and Lanarkshire area and also individual fitness professionals.
His most notable appointment being to administer a sports specific flexibility routine for the senior level players of Glasgow Rangers Football Club. This was designed to educate players on how to stretch safely and with awareness, promoting injury prevention, quicker recovery times and peak performance. |
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I went to my first Ashtanga Yoga class at The Practice Place, Edinburgh in 1999 and my mind, body and breath came together. The flow of movement, method of breathing and heat through my body, woke me up.
With no Ashtanga Yoga teacher in Glasgow, I was drawn to travel back and forth to Edinburgh and felt alive from this dynamic form of Yoga.
In 2001 I started going to June Mitchell’s classes at The Chi Yoga Centre. June’s weekly classes were an anchor to my week, and I felt huge benefits, physically, mentally and emotionally. June’s classes gave me the guidance to develop my own personal practice, and brought me to myself.
I studied with The Chi Yoga School and received my Yoga Teaching Certificate in 2004. I took post-graduate study over the next year at the Mysore Institute of Ashtanga Yoga and with other teachers from the Lineage.
Studying with devoted teachers such as Sri K Pattabhi Jois, Manju Jois, David Swenson, John Scott, David Keil, Rolf Naujokat and Paul Dallaghan immersed me into the discipline of Ashtanga Yoga and integrated the stamina and inner strength this form of yoga brings.
Monday Dynamic Hatha Yoga classes are rooted in the Ashtanga Yoga form, but modified with no vinyasa and are at a slightly slower pace. This allows students to work a bit closer with each posture and their alignment. The classes include Sun Salutation, Dynamic Standing Postures, Balancing Postures, Forward Bending, Backward Bending, Twists and Inversions.
The Dynamic classes bring heat to your body aiding in the detoxification and release of muscle tensions and toxins, and the flow of sequences clears your mind, steadies your focus and revitalizes you.
I work with verbal and physical adjustments, and use my knowledge in anatomy and physiology to bring alignment to your body, to improve your posture, and increase the cleansing effect of your practise.
Yoga Practice has given me priceless tools. It is empowering, and I am passionate about facilitating others on their personal journey, in connecting, and being with their full potential. It is with honour and gratitude to my past and present teachers that I endeavour to pass on the teachings and healing benefits of Yoga to others to the best of my ability.
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