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WELCOME to the Shanti Yoga School Ltd web site, redesigned in September 2007. It is being constantly updated for content as new people wish to communicate their interest in and enjoyment of the courses--this latest is on 13th October 2009. This page sets out the outline of what we do and why we do it, what courses are available and how we go about passing on this amazing resource. We could easily call our courses " how to live well and fruitfully in the 21st Century"--because yoga is really an up-to -the-moment process despite conception thousands of years ago. It was THEN an up-to-the-moment discipline even though the era is utterly different. What is truly wondrous , of course, is that human beings are fundamentally NO DIFFERENT --heart , mind and spirit and indeed, BODY are no different despite thousands of years of history. Yoga today is perhaps MORE RELEVANT than ever before. 
 CURRENT NEWS
A new book by Andy Thomas: YOGA - How and Why it Works, is now available to purchase and download as an eBook OR --you may now directly purchase this from Amazon and read the reviews of the book. The ISBN is 978-1-84549-367-7 and once again the proceeds from the sales will go to the charity .
Within these pages you will find statements about the yoga courses being run. We intend to transmit to you what type of people we are and our attitudes, ethics and ways of going on! This is to enable you to decide if we are your kind of people, before you let us know of your interest in our courses. We have been transparent and open and frank about ourselves, in the belief that you will be much more likely to do well with our school if you have understood this . It may be that what we write decides that we are not for you-so this will also have served a useful purpose!
The web site, whilst essentially existing to inform you about the courses offered, has evolved over its short life, to be much more than this. So we have taken the old web site and redesigned it completely to incorporate medical pages, case studies, an additional course and additional teacher profiles. .
. During the year a few teachers discussed changes for the future and --hey presto--FULL MOVEMENT YOGA was born. This seemed to be an entirely rational development as one person said--why cant we combine the full movement method of therapy with the way we do yoga--so FMY was created. This is in essence what you would be learning if you decide to undertake Course 2 and the fmm training. There are a lot more therapists in training in our sister company--FMTSchool Ltd ., than is the case in the yoga courses. However, the most successful practioners are those who have already acquired the therapy skills and ally them with the yoga teaching skills. Please do speak with us about this. There will be current student comments posted in the relevant course details before the end of September --with a bit of luck! For those looking at this web site in October 2009 or later and considering participating in a course , please note the change of fees for 2010 students--and that at present we have not worked out how to alter the application form which still shows the 2009 costs!! Apologies for this! Shanti Yoga School has now produced many new teachers and the vast majority have their own classes. We regularly have days of continuing professional development as lots of teachers seek to deepen their knowledge in order better to help their students. It does seem that teaching creates a greater level of enquiry in the minds of the teachers--it seems thay many wish to never stop learning and exploring. We generally believe that the courses attract the sort of person who is a life long learner and certainly we encourage this atmosphere. Generally it is true for us that the people who join us are " life changers"--those who have discovered that they wish to change direction or strengthen an existing spiritual direction. We do not attract "note takers"--indeed we could be rightly be accused of positively discriminating against those who want to sit and watch but who do not wish to actually get their hands dirty--we mean this in its spiritual context. We DO attract those who see us being right for them in their current phase of life--we are viewed as important facilitators and sometimes cauldrons in which new potions are to be mixed. The words boring and come-day-go-day and ordinary have never been used! Love life and the process of yoga. A commitment to yoga is like a first parachute jump--an absolute leap of faith and those who succeed just throw themselves out and do not worry about whether the chute will open--we have not seen anyone for whom the chute failed!!!! om shanti. |
Thank you all for the great efforts. It was stretching in so many ways. I am not the same person I was a year ago. I hope the next years course is just as satisfying for the new intake.
Shanti Yoga School Ltd was conceived in 2001, born in 2002 and begun its first course in 2003 in January. Andy Thomas had a dream after finishing osteopathy training in the early 80’s, to start a healing centre in Spain. 20 years later conception of Shanti Yoga School took place in Spain—but it followed the realisation that a centre could be a knowledge place rather than having to be an actual building.. The stimulus to “ do it our way” was probably born during the time of many teaching sessions at the Yoga for Health Foundation at Ickwell Bury, now sadly no longer with us. Many thousands attended the training courses and lots of these were experienced teachers who had acquired much anxiety and fear about yoga. Much of the teaching time spent there was devoted to unpicking the effects of fear. Hence our statement that teaching yoga should be done to liberate the person from fear-- not to provide more reasons to be fearful---in other words we major on finding your blockages and helping you to free yourself from the bonds of mental slavery!!