Led by Marc Woolford, inspired by Vanda Scaravelli.

• Outstanding visiting teachers including Pete Blackaby, Diane Long, Sophie Hoare
   
• Exceptional opportunity to deepen your personal practice.
   
• Mentoring available for every student by the assistant teachers
   
• Access to film footage of every workshop for student reference
   
• Access to audio classes on specific homestudy practice themes
   
• Comprehensive notes and diagrams on the themes and principles included
   
• Coursework requirements adapted to suit the learning styles of students
   
• Develop your specialist interests using the principles of the school
   
• Foundation course contributes to final teaching qualification
   
• One week intensive as a consolidating initiation to the teacher training content
   
• Ongoing monthly private sessions with Marc Woolford included during the teacher training phase
   
• Gain a thorough understanding of the nature of restrictions/injuries, together with proprietary highly effective whole-body solutions
   
• A 260 hour course means 260 contact hours of workshops and direct one to one support
   
• Continual Professional Development & marketing assistance offered after graduation

Read what current Teacher Trainees are saying aboutt the course...

The course consists of 260 contact hours (workshops, mentoring and one to one sessions), commencing October 2013 with a foundation course. One course will run in the South a parallel course running in Scotland.

The full course content is covered over 15 weekends and one 7 day intensive, offering an opportunity to significantly deepen understanding and experience of yoga, whilst nurturing the ability to share this work with others.

The foundation part of the course (the first 7 weekends) is a deep immersion process to introduce the principles behind the work through practice, and to give participants a chance to experience the degree of transformation that can occur when you can have an opportunity to apply yourself to it regularly and with good support.

The workshops are structured to cover all the fundamental themes. In addition, to support your own practice over the subsequent month, there will be notes and recorded audio classes on each theme. Workshops are also filmed. As a course participant you will be given password access to all recordings, so you can revisit any part of any workshop you would like to work with when you are at home.

The second phase of the course moves towards more of a teacher training emphasis, commencing with a one week intensive.

You still don't have to want to teach to complete the course, but there will be more information involved in the second phase, offering you more of the understanding behind the work, which of course gives you authority in your teaching as well as practice...

The intention behind this course is to support the individual development of each aspiring teacher/practitioner. The Yoga necessarily brings you to a place of greater authenticity, and to my mind it is authenticity that makes for the most inspiring teachers. I also think that people engaging authentically with their practice is a very beautiful thing to see. I believe that this work can only really be taught by those that enjoy the process of conscious evolution, and are truly inspired to share it with others.

During the current course, it has already become very clear that the AcquaViva School is spawning some truly great teachers. Each has a unique style, that is founded in a developing direct understanding of how the body/mind works on many levels. Before the end of the current course we will be posting the details and contact information of these exciting new teachers so you might experience them...

 

For those that don't have any desire to teach, the course will continue to support ever-deepening practice, clarity of experience and understanding ... working with other people's bodies on the course is a very valuable tool in understanding your own.

The second phase will start with a one week residential intensive followed by 8 weekends to complete the course content and the 260 hours. The body of the course will continue to offer ways of exploring the conditions that lead to support strength and movement through release. All of it is designed to build understanding of the natural phenomena that are known as the yoga 'techniques', using 'models of movement and support' to develop direct experience and a new look at the anatomy to understand how it works. This is not the usual anatomy & physiology model. It is a brand new perspective on the anatomy that makes sense of the hard-to-define experience most people have when they work with a good 'Scaravelli inspired' teacher. The understanding can directly liberate you from apparently inescapable postural issues, as well as give you the 'eyes' to help others.

Practice reveals the source of the original yoga techniques, so practice sessions will continue to form the heart of the course to develop direct experiential understanding of the principal asanas, pranayamas, meditations and relaxation techniques.

 

 

 

 

 

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The basic premise behind Scaravelli inspired Yoga, is that you let go of tension into the earth, and in that let-go there is a responsive wave of release that travels from the ground up through the entire body and spine away from the ground that continues to support you; dividing and separating the body at the centre of the waist, opening at the heart, and elongating the spine and body in the process ... we grow taller, more centred and stronger as we release tension, whatever the posture.

This is perceived as radical, simply because it is the opposite of most people's experience. But if you have had the great fortune to experience this through your own practice, or with the guidance of a good teacher, the feeling is undeniable.

This is not re-inventing yoga.... it is the fundamental principle of ahimsa - non-conflict. If you practice with the intent to experiment with this basic principle, and work out what actually allows this to happen; if you are prepared to re-evaluate everything you know and do, until 'letting go' leads to this experience; in the process you will naturally rediscover everthing that was ever written about yoga from 4000 years ago, all techniques, all 'secret' practices, all descriptions of the experience of yoga from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika to Patanjale's sutras - it is all there waiting to reveal itself to you spontaneously, as you practice in earnest to remove conflict in your actions, with honesty, whole-heartedness and authentic self-inquiry (all described by the yogic codes of practice - Yamas and Niyamas).

And what is truly significant is that because it is about undoing what has been imposed on the body by misunderstanding, injury, history, habit etc., it is entirely available to ANYONE that is interested in working this way – physical restriction is no obstacle... in fact, as a point of focus, intending to change things until you find a solution to a particular restriction can be a truly valuable - probably more valuable than the desire to achieve a posture.

Any pain or restriction in the body can be used as a way of discovering the body's relationships with itself, and perhaps even the mindset behind it. And there is empowerment in the fact that once you have become aware of a conflictive relationship, you can change it, because it is literally a relationship you have with yourself. And in the process you are working to eliminate the source of the limitation.

Having a postural issue or injury, however long-term, can serve to illustrate the effectiveness of working to find the whole body relationships that remove local conflict... for the very flexible, problems caused by hypermobility in certain areas can be resolved in precisely the same way - by changing the whole body's relationship to the the part that has become hypermobile.

Even in the absense of some basic imbalance to work with, the postures offer you the same challenges in every part of your body and self, so it is equally suitable for experienced yogis, dancers and athletes as it is for those with postural or health issues to resolve.

True yoga practice lays in the intention behind it, and the intention is evident in the quality of practice - it is beautiful to watch, not because it is impressive in its difficulty, but because it looks effortless ... the effort that is witnessed is expressive and authentic, so it is fascinating and beautiful.

The postures stop being something to achieve, and become a framework for the pleasurable act of working to remove conflict within yourself. As you remove more conflict, more postures become available for you to dance with. And you simply go deeper and closer to the source, the more you continue to work with the principle.

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In my opinion, the mechanics of yoga practice is different from the pulleys and levers mechanics of traditional physical excercise. The idea that movement and support are meant to be fluid, and in harmony with breathing, is spoken of in most forms of yoga. But purely on a physical, structural mechanics level, the very act of holding yourself up in a posture with rigid tension for as long as possible, or even lifitng with the inhale and collapsing with the exhale, is very likely to preclude the possibility of experiencing what fluid support and harmonious breathing really means during the posture work ... possibly it is experienced afterwards, in relaxation.

But if we can shift perspective a little and look at the way the body works in terms of fluid mechanics, then the premise behind 'Scaravelli Inspired' yoga not only becomes entirely possible, but it gives us the clues as to go about reorganising the body's structures, and the fluid/breathing spaces between them in order to create the unique conditions that allow this revolution in yoga to happen naturally.

Hence 'the AquaViva school of yoga'. Depending on health and other factors, we are between 60 and 85% fluid. To name a yoga school 'Living Water' or 'Water of Life' made total sense to me... Every cell, every bone, joint space and organ, every system in the body from the endochrine, digestive, lymphatic and cardiovascular to the nervous systems all work because of movements of fluid ... Even when I am talking about structural support, it has to include the fluid spaces between bones, the joints, the intervertebral discs, so even the structure can also respond as fluid support.. then through simple balance, strength comes in response to gravity ... it is strength without tension.

It is a well-known fact amongst anatomists and evolutionists that the body and structure is continuously changing as it regenerates, and it changes according to the way it is used. So although fluid mechanics doesn't describe everything involved, as a model of movement and support it is invaluable. It can be found in yoga practice, but when it finds its way into natural daily life, the body and human being begins to evolve a new way.

( 'Acquaviva' is also my Italian natural father's surname - which is why it came to me when I was thinking of appropriate names for the school).

 

 

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The AquaViva School of Yoga teacher training course, is of course for those that wish to teach, or for those that already teach but feel the calling to deeepen their understanding of this particular approach. But it is equally for dedicated practitioners and teachers that simply love yoga enough to want to develop experience and understanding beyond current limitations. It is most people's experience, that once you start to truly 'get' this work, it is almost impossible not to share it with others (Vanda says its like watching people walk around in cages, and you are walking around holding the key)... Nonetheless, 'becoming a teacher' is not a requirement.

If you want a deep immersion experience without perhaps so much of the understanding, the course offers you the opportunity to sign up for the Foundation, with the option of continuing on through the rest of the course should you so decide (space permitting).

My mission is to offer participants the information and direct experiential understanding of what the precise conditions are that lead to the physical (and paradigmatic) liberation offered by an intelligent 'Scaravelli inpsired' approach to Yoga... I feel that the experience of this revolutionary approach to yoga can, and should, be made accessible to anyone that cares to come to a class. This approach is spreading, because it works, and it awakens an intuitive practice that begins to respond to what the body actually needs. I feel that the more practitioners and teachers that that are fully informed of the conditions that allow this awakening to happen, the better. When a teacher has experienced and truly understands what works, the teaching can be simple, and inspirational.

So as well has having the privilege to join and assist people on their own personal journey, I would be honoured to be involved in helping spread this work as far and wide as possible ... This is one of my fondest wishes.

 

 

 

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The intention behind the course is to support each individual student in their journey towards liberating and embodying their essential selves through Yoga. This way, each teacher that comes out of the school will be entirely authentic in their teaching, and unique, in that their style and message will resonate with their own essential purpose in life. The process and information offered will offer each student the direct experiential understanding of the source of the work, enabling them to teach safely, effectively and with informed and intuitive responsiveness to those that they find themselves teaching...

The 'Scaravelli inspired' approach to yoga is defined more by the word 'inspired' than 'Scaravelli' (she would not have had it any other way)... and I believe the only people that can really teach it are those that are truly inspired by their own process of applying themselves to the work.

The course is a carefully crafted (and evolving) process that requires dedication to the PRACTICE of it in between workshops... it is suggested that you have a minimum of 1hr per day set aside for practicing the themed content of each workshop, at least for the first 6 months.
As time goes on and the principles become more present in your natural consciousness, practice naturally extends to mindful awareness in your day to day life. Then dedicated practice on the mat becomes more something you are drawn to do simply for the pleasure of it, to investigate a theme that has been presented to you, or to make deeper progress in the unravelling of some physical history you have noticed.

 

 

 

 

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Marc Woolford Marc is Director of Studies and founder of the AcquaViva School. He is the author of the course content and of the proprietary approach to this work (Creating the Conditions ©) Marc became passionate about yoga as a child, and since 1991 has been studying and practicing exclusively with people that have worked directly with Vanda Scaravelli such as Diane Long and Sophy Hoare, as well as osteopaths and anatomists that have been called to further her work such as Pete Blackaby and John Stirk.
Marc has an an informal and informative approach to yoga that invites deep exploration and an inner awareness, enabling transformation and liberation from life long holding patterns and/or injuries. At the centre of his work is an understanding of the precise conditions that allow for the direct experience of liberation through integration to occur, and he is renowned for his skill at guiding people towards that experience, as well as offering practical, common sense explanations of what is occurring and why for those interested in the information.  His work is appropriate for all levels of experience from curious beginner to dedicated practitioner/teacher. "To my understanding the word 'yoga' means to bind, to put back together, to reintegrate. It has nothing to do with achieving postures by distorting the body, but it has everything to do with creating the unique condition of harmony and synergy within the structure, and by reflection, within the human being. When this unique state is achieved, the body is suddenly capable of moving in extraordinary ways with simplicity and grace."
Abigail Peck Abigail is Director of Administration and Co-ordination for the School, and provives Yoga for pregnancy (pre and post natal) & Business ethics modules. She also provides mentoring support for students throughout the course.
"Yoga to me, is deeply healing and a source of strength.   I use the postures, breathing and meditation as means of communication with myself and my students. We explore frustrations, find peace and most importantly, have fun. I find yoga in my garden, while driving, in engineering, in business, in conflict and I am working on finding the yoga in places where it still eludes me. I have a particular affinity with peri-natal women because I found it so difficult to find support while I was pregnant. I enjoy connecting with women through yoga during the biggest changes of their lives. I love to see their blossoming friendships, growing confidence and developing bond with their babies. Yoga is union and postures are the springboard - a lesson I learned from my students." Abigail has been a yoga student for 16 years and a teacher for 10. Her practice and teaching are inspired by Vanda Scaravelli. Specialities include; Women's yoga, Fertility yoga, Antenatal yoga, Active birth, Hypnobirthing, Birth and postnatal doula, Postnatal yoga, Baby yoga
Tuesday McNeil Tuesday helps with monitoring assistance in teaching practice, and brings her lifelong teaching skills to help students get creative with class structuring, developing workshop themes etc... She also provides 121 student mentoring support throughout the course.
"Yoga is my passion; it uplifts, inspires and educates me on a daily basis.  This process starts on the mat but doesn’t end there. Yoga can teach us how to be mindful, open, energised, kind, grateful – the qualities of our true nature that exist within us at all times" "Yoga practice is about learning to live a life of balance. The Urban Yogi approach combines the physical challenges of posture work with an exploration of yoga’s potential for personal development and self- awareness. Postures, breath work, focused awareness and relaxation techniques can encourage you to explore your inner world. Learn to understand your thoughts, feelings and reactions on the yoga mat and you can begin to apply what you discover to everyday life.  I look forward to meeting you on the journey." Om shanti
Supporting Visiting Teachers:
Pete Blackaby Yoga Teacher, Osteopath, Naturopath & Author of 'Intelligent Yoga' "Yoga is a broad church, spanning many styles and belief systems. The approach I am working with at the moment has its roots in a humanistic philosophy. To understand as clearly as one can the rationale for yoga practice, and then to encourage practice with attentive curiosity. So that practice becomes your own, and you grow to be your own teacher."
"I've also taken issue with some of the modern asanas than I feel may cause harm if practiced regularly. Many of these asanas are part of the lexicon of modern yoga, and have remained un-critiqued for over 50yrs. It is time to re-evaluate, and that is what I have started in 'intelligent yoga'."
Diane Long Diane Long has been developing and refining yoga for most of her life. While living in Florence, Vanda Scaravelli invited her to become her student. She was a devoted student of Vanda's for the next 23 years. This meeting with Vanda introduced her to a new form of consciousness in the study of yoga and body/mind awareness. At Vanda's urging, Diane began teaching in the late 70's in Italy and later in Canada, England and the United States.
The intuitive yoga of Diane Long is a progressive physical practice with the intention of leading one to the vital core, the spine, and is based on the concept that the spine divides at the 4th and 5th lumbar vertebrae. It is here that strength grows into lightness. The base of the position is where one is rested and anchored into the earth. Refining the awareness opens the vision to wholeness and harmony, guided by this intention and concept. This becomes a way of being, a form of meditation, which allows for new sensation and a different approach to asana.
Sophy Hoare "In 1991 I met Vanda Scaravelli who invited me to become her student. In my first lesson I knew immediately that Vanda was offering me this key. After that I visited her in Italy once or twice a year to learn how to work with the principles she had discovered in her own practice. At Vanda’s house I met Diane Long and recognised in her practice the same freedom that I saw in Vanda. I invited Diane to teach me and my students in London and since then we have been meeting regularly to practise and teach together."
"The emphasis is not on achieving postures but using them to undo tension and find integration. The practice is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between the parts of the body and between our movements and the breath, the ground and the space around us. Gradually a new network of muscles is brought into use. Then our movements come from the spine and bring us back to the spine and the whole body pulls together. We train our attention so that we can feel more, impose less, and allow the intelligence of the body to reveal itself."
Javier Castro Allonso Javier will be providing a Philosophy and Meditation module on the course. From a very young age Javier was drawn towards the inner life, and immersed himself in Yoga traditions. In the 80’s, he won a grant to study Siddha Yoga, philosophy and meditation for four years.He spent the 90’s travelling around the world learning Hatha Yoga directly from the creators of the most prestigious styles.
" When I prepare to teach, I dedicate my heart with the utmost delicacy and excellence, until I am in front of the class, and realise that everything I know is to help, support and empower the student. And for the at, and before we get on the mat, there is always an alignment to allow th eUniverse to guide and inspire us. "

 

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UK South: Course dates (dates TBC): 2013: 12-13 Oct |9-10 Nov |7-8 Dec |   2014: | 4-5 Jan | 8-9 Mar | 12-13 Apr |10-11 May (end foundation) 13-20 June ~7 Day Intensive (for both groups – dates & venue TBC)   | 9-10 Aug | 27-28 Sep|1-2 Nov | 13-14 Dec |   2015: | 17-18 Jan | 7-8 Mar | 11-12 April | 16-17 May (Graduation)
Venue TBC: London or Brighton(Shoreham)	map to follow
SCOTLAND: Course dates (dates TBC): 2013: | 5-6 Oct |2-3 Nov |30 Nov-1 Dec |   2014: | 11-12 Jan | 1-2 Mar | 5-6 Apr |3-4 May (end foundation) 13-20 June ~7 Day Intensive (for both groups – dates & venue TBC)   | 2-3 Aug | 20-21 Sep|25-26 Oct | 6-7 Dec |   2015: | 10-11 Jan | 28 Feb-1 Mar | 4-5 April | 23-24 May (Graduation)
Venue: Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Yoga Room 5a Forth Street Edinburgh, EH1 3JX	View Larger Map

 

The course weekend workshops will be approximately structured as follows:

Saturdays & Sundays 10:30am - 6:30pm with appropriate breaks

 

Review of previous workshop; feedback and assistance on points raised by homestudy when appropriate; teaching practice on previous theme when appropriate; introduction to the subsequent theme of the weekend.

 

The rest of the weekend will be dedicated to exploring the theme in depth with theory and practical application; Guided sessions throughout (and self-practice with hands-on assistance) on the theme of the weekend ; Q&A and open discussion; reference to anatomy/physiology/philosophy with notes available for download online (occasionally pure anatomy or philosophy seminars followed by practical application to asana/pranayama/meditation); ongoing reference to, and understanding of traditional yoga practices, techniques and philosophies. Setting of home-study. Pranayama, Meditation, Deep relaxation.

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• Techniques Training/Practice — Including asana (posture work), pranayama and bandhas (breath work and relationship to structure), kriyas (cleansing techniques), mantra & meditation, and other traditional yoga practices, with reference to thematic (see below*) and traditional models of understanding. 'The Sequence' or Creating the Conditions' will form the framework for the work. There will be equal emphasis placed on teaching practice as on experiential and analytical understanding of the work...

 

• Teaching Methodology — Including principles of demonstration, observation, teaching styles and appropriate pace, hands-on/instructional adjustments and the intention behind the adjustment, and awareness of the different ways students process and learn. The course will include supportive feedback of your teaching as well as your observation of others ... the Sequence© will used as the basic format to support and help you develop your personal style of teaching (I will offer some postural sequences to work with, but the course will also involve sequencing - the practice of creating your own series of postures to express the core principles based on your direct understanding). And the emphasis will be on developing simplicity in your teaching practice.

 

• Anatomy & Physiology — Physical anatomy (with anatomical explanations of 'creating the conditions') and physiology (bodily systems, organs, nervous system and brain chemistry etc.) with reference to traditional yoga models of physiology (chakras, nadis, energetics and state of mind etc.). Emphasis will be on the application of yoga practice to bring all systems into homeostatic balance. There will also be time spent with how to address particular situations (contraindications and other problems, and using the 'Sequence of conditions' as a framework solution).

 

• Yoga philosophy — Including its practical application to teaching and business as well as yoga practice. The course will include clarification of personal intent behind the practice and teaching. There will be a section on the direct application of the 'yamas and niyamas' (ethics and observances), and some study of Patanjali's sutras.

 

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*Themes are valid models of movement and support that can help clarify the principles behind the work. 

The themes include:

Gravity
Gravity as a basis for movement and support. Redefining our relationship with the Earth. Sub-themes include:

• The difference between 'grounded' and 'heavy'... contact with the earth, from the ground up.
• Working with gravity versus working against it ... 'red' and 'white' muscle tissue.
• Through the joints** as a model of support and movement, including:

Anatomy of specific joint types and familiarisation with the detail of interaction and relationships within the limbs and body.

• 'Patterning' – recognising similar patterns of movement between structures to aid understanding.
• The pull of gravity and the elongation through the axis of the spine.
• the Ground and the naturalisation of all yoga practices

 

The Breath
As a model of practice, using the idea that there needs to be no conflict between breathing and postural support - ideally they are the same thing. Sub- themes include:

• The choices available in our breathing, & awareness of personal preference/habit... .
• Understanding of the physical mechansims of the breath, as well as awareness of the relationships between breathing, the emotional body and postural habits.
• Applying awareness of choice to posture work and 'creating the conditions' for appropriate choices to be made available..
• Breathing patterns and effects on posture and the spine
• Breathing patterns and effects on state of mind.
• Diaphragms – reorganisation of breathing spaces.
• Bandhas, Mudras, the Sequence©, and application to posture.
• Breathing practices (pranayamas) to redress imbalances in our breathing preferences.
• Breathing and voice - mantra as a means of redressing habitual patterns.
• Teaching the conditions that redress breathing preferences (without teaching breathing!).
• The Breath and the naturalisation of all yoga practices.

 

The Fluid Body
Fluid mechanics as a model of movement and support. Sub-themes include:

• The inherent strength of Fluid mechanics versus pulleys and levers
• Through the joints** and our relationships to the space we occupy
• The organs and their fluid nature in support and movement.
• Diaphragms – reorganisation of the fluid core.
• The Anti-gravity response to gravity, the diaphragms' relationship with the earth.
• Spirals – the 'sleeve' the body. Bandhas & Mudras,
• Relationships between the heavy structures of the body through the fluid core
• Movements of fluid, pressure and the breath.
• 'Patterning' – recognising the similarity of key fluid movements to aid understanding.
• Working with the fluid body to naturalise all yoga practices

 

The Spine
The spine at the central axis of movement and support as a model for practice. 
Sub-themes include:

• Defining and refining understanding the conditions that lead to the release of the spine...
• Relationships between the spine and the heavy structures of the body.
• Relationships between the spine and the limbs
• Between the spine and the breath.
• Between the spine and the pull of gravity
• 'Patterning' – recognising the similarity of key movements of areas of the spine to aid understanding.
• The spine as a whole – Its relationship through the body & the limbs to the hands & feet. And its relationship to the earth through the released breath
• The awakening and release of the spine to naturalise all yoga practices.

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'The Sequence©' ('Creating the Conditions')

Creating the sequence of conditions that remove internal conflict within the body - in the praparation for, the movement into, and within the asana, pranayama or meditation. The removal of conflictive relationships between structures of the body, the movements of breathing, and the support offered by the contact made with the earth, so that yoga can become a spontaneous expression of our natural birthright of freedom and health.

Copyright:: Marc Woolford © 2010. All rights reserved

 

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£2,595 for all tuition (15 weekends and one week intensive ~ 260hrs incl. monthly private support sessions)

• £450 on successful application
• £445 on commencement of foundation course.
• £500 to be paid before completion course commencement date (deadline - one month before this date)
• 10 payments of £120 paid by standing order on the 1st of the month, starting on the month that the completion course commences.

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Or for those that wish to apply for the Foundation Course only

7 weekends ~95-100 hrs:

£895 for all tuition

• £450 on successful application
• £445 on commencement of foundation course,.

If you then decide to apply to continue on to the Diploma course
(1 week residential intensive + 8 weekends ~ 165hrs incl. monthly private support sessions):

 

• £550 on successful application.
• 10 x payments of £120 paid by standing order on n the 1st of the month, starting on the month that the completion course commences.

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The School will consider other reasonable payment options - the main thing we are looking for is for people that are committed to the depth and discovery of the work.

Other costs:

Suggested Reading list (TBC)...

Asana/Yoga:

Awakening the Spine – Vanda Scaravelli

The Heart of Yoga – Desikachar

Yoga practice handbook – Cloe Fremantle
Intelligent Yoga – Peter Blackaby

Breath, The Essence of Yoga – Sandra Sabatini

Philosophy:

The Bhagavad Gita – Translated by Winthrop Sargent

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras – Translated by Swami Hariharananda Aranya

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Anatomy:

Anatomy of Movement – Blandine Calais-Germain

Job’s Body – Deane Juhan

Anatomy Trains - Tom Myers

The human body book. (ISBN 978-1-856-3007-3) - optional

Psychology:

Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be – Lama Surya Das - optional

 

A Computer with a webcam - Marc offers students free monthly half hour Skype sessions to assist you if you have a query about the Yoga or if some body issue that has arisen... both Tuesday and Abigail also offer student support around more personal issues and concerns. Also, all wokshop notes and supporting audio classes are published on a secure page which you will be given access to with a login and password... this saves on paper and makes the notes and classes always available at any time. The workshops themselves are also filmed and converted so that they can be streamed from another page ... so you can always revisit a workshop you feel you could do with repeating.
 

A 3D interactive anatomy program -- I currently use Visible Body Human Anatomy Atlas 2 (google search and you will find it ~ £30). This will be a very valuable tool for for the completion phase of the course... if you enjoy and are interested in anatomy you may wish to have this program avaialable throughout (although I am not a fan of 'understanding' anatomy without direct experience of what we can achieve with practice - this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding. But as a tool for understanding your experience it can be invaluable)
 

A Skeleton – If you have an articulated skeleton at home, it will be an extremely useful hands-on tool for home study, as well as help develop your understanding of structural support, visualisation and problem solving skills in hands-on situations (You can usually get one on ebay for around £130). This is optional. Accommodation – For those of you travelling far enough to need accommodation, there are local guest houses and possible flat share's available. This will be coordinated by Abigail (listed above). Those of you living nearby with appropriate space, might want to consider offering a bed (or something makeshift) for other students, perhaps for a nominal amount to cover heating costs etc.. Abigail is happy to coordinate accommodation plans if needed.

 

 

The 7 day intensive will be with groups from both Scotland and the South (date: June 2014, venue TBC). The venue hire and tuition is included in the cost, but food and accommodation is not (approximate cost £150 - £300 per head depending on venue). Then the course continues in each area as before, for a further 8 weekends.

 

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Applicants for the full teacher training course must have at least 2 years of dedication to practice behind them – this doesn't have to be in yoga, but some kind of body work that requires awareness and refinement of the body/mind relationship... Contact us if you are unsure whether your particular discipline qualifies.

The defining quality is an inquiring mind and an enthusiasm for the potential tranformational nature of body/mind work.

Applicants for the foundation course only need to have at least 1 year's body work experience behind them... enthusiasm and a spirit of inquiry is still a requirement.

Successful graduation and accreditation will require attending all workshops, and submitting required homeworks on time, although in special circumstances extensions can be granted to complete the work. Workshops that are unavoidably missed can be replaced with a 3 hour private session with Marc (at additional cost).

Those that don't require accreditation, do not need to adhere to the requirements – certification by the AquaViva School of Yoga is still possible, and will be at the discression of the School.

Homestudy is designed to aid your progress and understanding, so even if you do not require feedback on your work, it is suggested that you still do it.

Applicants will be required to submit an application form (which you can complete and send online), and must attend or have attended at least one workshop, or had private tuition sessions with Marc Woolford. This way, all participants will have a basic introduction to the the work before the course starts.

Alternatively, if you have worked reasonably regularly with teachers such as Pete Blackaby, Diane Long, Sophy Hoare or John Stirk, attendance to an introductory workshop is still advisable, but not required. An alternative for those that can't make a workshop, is to book private tuition or Skype session with Marc (for this purpose at a reduced cost of £40/session - Skype is £60 for two).

If for some reason your browser doesn't work with the form, you can apply direct via email including contact details, which course you would like to participate in (Edinburgh or London; full course or foundation), contact details, D.O.B, something about what has attracted you to the course, and a CV of relevant history.

After application, you will be contacted if more information is required, and if you are selected, there will be an informal one-on-one interview (in person or via Skype) with Marc... the purpose of which is mainly to see if the course is for you.

If on application, you wish to book a private session with Marc, the session can serve the same purpose as the interview - two sessions for people new to the work.

On acceptance on the course, a non-refundable*** deposit of £400 is payable to secure your place (full course), or £450 if you are applying for the foundation course only. The balance for the foundation is due on commencement. (Payment details are above).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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***The exception being in the unlikely event of the course being cancelled at some point or not running at all, in the latter case, deposits will be fully refunded, in the former, there would be a refund proportionate to the number of course hours that would have run to date.

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Your Name *

Your Email Address *

Contact number *

D.O.B. *

Course you are applying for: *

London   Scotland

Interested in: *

Complete 250hr YTTC   Foundation course only   The Foundation course, with the possibility of continuing to completion

Please tick any that apply:

I would like to become a Yoga teacher   I have no interest in teaching at present but am keen to develop my own yoga journey   I don't know whether I want to teach or not, but I have a passion for Yoga and would like to see what unfolds   I am already teacher but feel there is more to be gained from my practice, and more I can offer my students   I am unfamiliar with 'Scaravelli inspired' yoga, but have had it recommended to me    I have experienced some 'Scaravelli inspired' teaching and feel it is the way to go for me   I was looking for a teacher training course, and liked the sound of the course content   I have been practicing with 'Scaravelli inspired' teachers for a while now, and I would like to understand and experience more

Please write something to let us know what has attracted you to this course, and what you would like to gain from it. If you wish to become a teacher, tell us a little about what motivates you.. *

Please give us a brief C.V. of your Yoga experience to date, together with details of all other mind/body-work experience that might be relevant. If you wish to include anything from your work life that you feel says something about where you are coming from, feel free to include it. *