• Do you want to train to be a yoga teacher?
• Do you want to take your yoga knowledge to a higher level?

Then join the Yoga Fellowship of Northern Ireland's Teacher Training Course 2010-12 starting 11 September 2010?

Contact us now about the course and reserve your place.

TTC Coordinator -  Frances Rutland M: 079 7178 1724 E: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   

Further Information - click on: http://www.yfni.co.uk/teacher-training.html

A weekend of Fellowship

The end of May reseidential weekend in the tranquil setting of Drumalis (Larne, Co Antrim) went really well.  All of the participants enjoyed their time at the retreat centre using it to catch up with old friends, make new ones, update their knowledge and take time away from busy schedules.

One of our participants commented: "We all had a pleasant weekend with friends old and new."

 The various workshops proved popular the attendees who collectively agreed they were interesting and informative.  We were delighted to welcome Mairead Flynn, Roshann Kinkead, Terence Quinn and Margaret Brand as the weekend's guest tutors.

 Featured in the pictured below left are delegates with Roshann Kinkead whilst on the right (l-r) are Jane Wright, Mairead Flynn, Margaret Brand and Billy Ingram.

The weekend's weather was glorious and proved the icing on the cake.

During the weeknd the committee took an opportunity to hold the Fellowship's AGM.  Kathryn Bryson and Jane Wright have stepped down from committee and we'd like to thank them for all of their hard work and dedication to YFNI during the time they served. 

Nominations were receied from a number of people interested in serving on YFNI's committee.  As a result we have a three new committee members Seline Mc Elhatton (who has taken over as secretary), Karen Wasson and Nuala McCann.  After their appointment our Chair, Margaret O'Neill, commented: "I would like to welcome them on board and look forward to working closely with them."  

The committee number remains at 14.

The Yoga Fellowship of Northern Ireland (YFNI) is delighted to announce Tanya Gillen is leading our Summer School workshop.

The three hour workshop will take place on 7 August at NICVA (click MAP for location / directions via Google maps).  Tanya's workshop will centre around the hips. The premise of which is

'we can free the hips, the fulcrum of the body, then we can free the rest of the body'.

Registration will take place from 10am with the workshop beginning 10.30am sharp.  We aim to be out in the summer sun by 13.45!

Cost:
£20 per member (please show your membership card at registration)
£25 per non-member

Tanya's Profile

During the summer of 2000 while living in London Tanya went on a three week yoga retreat and became instantly hooked.   

“I enjoyed the positive physical benefits but it was the effect it had on my mind, balancing and calming, that ensured my continuing interest, practice and eventual study of yoga.  It was the perfect antidote to the stresses and strains of a demanding television production career.”

Tanya said she was blessed by a succession of amazing teachers whose integrity and passion inspired her to enrol in a yoga teacher teaching course in 2003.  She followed this with eight months intensive study at the world renowned Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandarin yoga therapy clinic in Chennai, India where she studied under Sri Desikachar, the son of Krishnamacharya.  Krishnamacharya's philosophy was to treat every individual as a unique human being and make the yoga for their needs as opposed to making people fit the yoga. This is a philosophy that is at the heart of Tanya's own teaching.

After living, and working, internationally for 15 years in 2009 Tanya moved back to her hometown of Portrush, Co Antrim and set up Atlantic Yoga.  She recently took over the iconic landmark building called the Arcadia in Portrush where she teaches eight yoga classes a week. "Teaching in the Arcadia is a dream come true; a dream I have nurtured for years.  The building is almost completely surrounded by the Atlantic ocean so the permanent soundtrack is the soothing sounds of the sea."   

She says people love the building and more than one student has commented that practising yoga there is tantamount to a religious experience.

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Congress 2010

Representatives from the Yoga Fellowship of Northern Ireland recently travelled to Warwick to participate in the British Wheel of Yoga's annual conference.

Former YFNI Chair, Terence Quinn, took a number of classes at the congress which were well received.  Meanwhile our current Chair, Margaret O'Neill, together with Moira Harper (Senior Teacher Training Course Assessor) met with the Chairs of BWY and Yoga Scotland.