davidmichael73

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Here’s the formal stuff… Yoga Siromani (Teacher of Yoga Diploma by Sivananda) DipNspH (Diploma in Natural Spiritual Healing) NCFE Teaching Certificate in Exercise Studies HNC Exercise Science BSc Exercise Development (1st year only) NVQ2 Health & Social Care And here’s the non formal stuff… I am currently a traveling Yogi with a passion for bringing Yoga into people’s lives as it was once brought into mine. My journey started around 2000 when I stayed in a Buddhist Monestary. Whilst there I met my first yoga teacher called Murial, a lady in her late eighties who had lived in India for over 30 years and was a disciple of Swami Satchitananda. She lived at the Monestary and I would sometimes stay with over the next three years learning mainly Hatha Yoga. In 2003 whilst lying in bed one night I had a strong decisive thought enter my head, which just said, “do yoga”. So the next day I shifted from a casual practice to an intensive full time one. The pull was so strong I quit University, the band i was in, job, left my home and friends and over the next 4 years i traveled and devoted myself full time to yoga working my way though the shatkriyas, asana, pranayama, mudra and bandha and meditaton of Hatha Yoga in a systematic and traditional way. I also studied the Raja Yoga Sutras, Vedanta, mantras and emersed myself into Bhakti Yoga and explored as many aspects of yoga as i could. During this time I completed the Sivananda Yoga Teacher Diploma and traveled across Europe, India and Nepal in search of yoga masters and enlightened beings. I met some great Yogi’s and elevated beings who taught and inspired me as they continue to do so today. In 2005 I tried to replicate what many Hatha Yogi’s in ancient times and some in modern times have done and complete a period of intensive practice in isolation. Using the Hatha Yoga Pradipika as my guide, I carried 3 months worth of food up the Andorra mountains in search of a place of solitude in which to practice. I found a lovely spot by a waterfall and set up my tent. However, due to certain reasons I couldn’t stay for three months on the mountain but I did continue this period of practice for five months in the south of France, near to one of my teachers. These days ‘normal life’ has resumed and I have been learning the new challenge of integrating Yoga into everyday living, which has been harder for me than being in a cave alone! but i still have occasional self guided periods of isolated intensive practice wherever I can find a good place and the time. Both ways have their own benefits. Having personally experienced the full spectrum of different ways and reasons to practice yoga, from intensive full time practice for attaining enlightenment to fitting yoga into daily life amongst its many responsibilities, or a casual practice for general health and well-being, I feel I have the knowledge and understanding to be able to teach yoga to you at a level and purpose to suit. I have been teaching on and off here and there for many years but it is only recently that i am devoting myself fully to the teaching side of Yoga. I hope to be able share something of value and help with you. Please get in touch if you would to arrange a session with myself David