Being Yoga: Through Personal & Professional Relationships

Why this course is different

This course goes further by supporting real-time integration of learning into your personal and professional life.

Inspiring seminars with leading teachers are woven together through live group supervision and integration sessions with Dr Stanford Wong — medical doctor, yoga therapist, and yoga teacher. These sessions ensure that learning is not just understood intellectually, but embodied, applied, and personalised.

Through this distinctive structure, you are supported to:

• Integrate seminar learning into your own intentions, relationships, and teaching contexts
• Deepen understanding of scientific concepts in relation to life experiences such as stress, fatigue, resilience, and recovery
• Develop the ability to clearly, confidently, and professionally explain the benefits of simple Body–Breath–Mind practices
• Present yourself with authenticity, authority, and wisdom in diverse professional and community settings

In this course you will …

• Have experience of using techniques of empathy and compassion to shift internal awareness, using observation as part of communication. 
• Learn how to re-frame self-regulation into co-regulation, from ‘me’ to ‘us’.
• Understand ways to use language and embodiment in working with others.
• Learn how to use your understanding of the principles and skills of body-breath-mind practices for use in your professional and personal life.
• Engage in discussion with yoga teachers who are using body-breath-mind practices in their professional work outside traditional yoga settings.
• Have reflected on how this learning can benefit your own personal and professional development, with new working ideas and opportunities.
• Use coaching techniques to support the exploration of your aims and goals.

Course Structure

The 20 hours of this course includes 19 hours live online learning and 1 hour of self-study.  

In Week 1:

Supervision session with Stanford Wong (1 hour) ‘Professionalism’: This initial supervision session will cover the topic of professionalism in relation to the Yamas and Niyamas.

Seminar with Judith Hanson Lasater (3 hours) ‘Self-Empathy and Communication’: In this introduction to using Nonviolent Communication, Judith will share the principles of using empathy and compassion to shift internal awareness, using observation as part of communication. 

Seminar with Charlotta Martinus (3 hours) ‘Communication and Embodiment’: Charlotta (founder of Teen Yoga) brings her experience as a teacher trainer working with professionals offering yoga in educational settings, working with young people, and translating body-breath-mind practices for use in family life.

Supervision session with Stanford Wong (1 hour) ‘Communication’: This supervision session will be related to the questions What are we observing? How are we listening?

In Week 2:

Seminar with Anji Gopal (3 hours) ‘Beyond the Studio: Translating Yoga Skills into real world mind-body skills’’: Anji Gopal will share her perspective, having worked for 16 years in banking, now as as a yoga teacher/trainer and osteopath.  In this seminar, we will explore the principles and experiential practices for working outside of traditional yoga settings. This session will include:  

• Practical examples of how yoga competencies become evidence-informed mind–body practices. 
• Discussion of what could get lost in translation by dropping the word 'Yoga' & how to hold the ethical tension

Seminar with Judith Hanson Lasater (3 hours) ‘Observation, Feelings, Needs, Requests’:  This session builds on the first seminar with Judith: Applying inner awareness to communicating your feelings and needs - learning to communicate with compassion, even in challenging situations.  

In Week 3

Supervision with Stanford Wong (1 hour) ‘Neuroscience’: This session will relate to working within a multi-disciplinary environment, will also cover principles of Western neuroscience and Eastern philosophy of human physiology.

Group Coaching (session 1) with Susan Grandfield (1.5 hours). ‘Gaining clarity and setting your intention’

• Starting with why? - getting clear on why you want to evolve your business, tapping into your motivation and desires.
• Intentions vs goals – the power of intentions to guide you, defining your intention, setting your inner compass. 
• Who are you serving and how? – connecting with your ideal clients, understanding what they want and need, getting clear on how you can serve them.

Self-Study: The space in between the coaching sessions provides you with the opportunity, focus and impetus to turn your ideas into actions and to start to bring energy to your intentions.    The self-study hours will also be devoted to homework integrating the foundational neuroscience covered in the Week 3 supervision session.

Week 4

Group Coaching (session 2) with Susan Grandfield (1.5 hours) ‘Building momentum and tapping into your inner resources’

• Sharing insights – sharing what you discovered from your self-study “homework” to help you gain confidence and clarity in the direction of travel for you and to stimulate ideas and insights in each other.
• Getting out of your own way – getting real about what might get in your way, challenging limiting beliefs, tapping into your inner resources.
• Building momentum – staying focused on your intention, practicing relaxed effort, committing to doing one thing every day.

 Supervision with Stanford Wong (1 hour)  ‘Wrapping up and moving forward’

Yogacampus Diversity and Accessibility Bursary

We are offering one bursary (50% off the course price) to a dedicated yoga student with demonstrated financial need and active involvement in a community that could benefit from yoga. This bursary is provided by Yogacampus – Radiant Light Yoga Limited, a not-for-profit educational body committed to sharing knowledge and making yoga accessible to all.

Bursary places will be awarded to a teacher or trainee who has the ability and commitment to take the course teachings into a disadvantaged community and play their part in the drive to increase accessibility to these profoundly healing practices. Priority will be given to those who themselves are from marginalised or vulnerable groups or are from a minority ethnic background.

To apply, please complete our online form.