For those interested in therapeutic Yoga, the following workshops qualify as modules towards the:
YOGA BODYWORK CERTIFICATE
This course combines researched and proven Indian, Japanese & Chinese Yoga Bodywork methods for self-application and to help others.You can take individual modules as workshops in their own right for personal interest, or do them all, in any order, within your own time frame, if you wish to gain the certificate. No prior experience is required or assumed.
What is Yoga Bodywork?
Yoga Bodywork is a synthesis of techniques and methods that achieve the following:
• Efficiently and deeply corrects imbalances in body alignment and muscle tone.
• Rapidly and safely increases flexibility and strength, thereby making it easier to overcome physical barriers within yoga postures.
• Provides techniques for deeper states of relaxation and body control.
• Helps alleviate many common ailments.
• Markedly improves overall health.
What methods does it employ?
Yoga Bodywork offers a combination of dynamic physical bodywork and internal energy bodywork, by adapting and utilising:
• The most up-to-date techniques used by physio’s & exercise physiologists to
increase the range of movement throughout the musculo-skeletal system.
• Ayurvedic & Yoga massage based rejuvenation systems to eliminate toxins from the body, and revitalize the skin, muscles and nerves.
• Chinese & Japanese bodywork techniques to realign the posture and benefit the
internal organs.
• Indian & Japanese yoga therapy methods effective for alleviating common ailments and maximizing health.
• Chinese Qigong exercises to increase vitality & reinforce resistance to disease.
Who should learn it?
Yoga Bodywork is an ideal system for those who practise yoga. It will add a new dimension to, and considerably improve, your yoga practise. It will also enable you to apply the methods to others, either as a professional bodywork therapist, or on colleagues and friends. However, if you do not practise yoga, you can still practice this system effectively.
Those of you who are already established in other areas of health care will find these courses highly complementary to your existing skills, mainly because we strongly emphasise the principles of: efficient use of the body, the use of support & connection rather than force, continuity and fluency of technique, and empathy.
Where does it come from?
Yoga Bodywork has been integrated into a single system by Chris Jarmey, who has drawn upon over 35 years experience as a Yoga teacher, physiotherapist, and practitioner / teacher of oriental medicine. Chris has synthesized the most effective elements of Yoga / Ayurvedic bodywork, Shiatsu & acupressure, modern PNF muscle balancing techniques, therapeutic Qigong (Chi Kung), and the corrective exercise element of Japanese Okido Yoga. Yoga bodywork is therefore a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern research.
Where can I learn this method?
Courses are held in Spain, Portugal & Greece. From this year courses will also be held in Marlborough Wiltshire, and Central London.
If you run a Yoga Centre, hold yoga classes or run a college of massage or complementary medicine, we can organise Yoga Bodywork modules or the complete course within your organisation.
How are the courses structured?
Courses range from short workshops to a full practitioner training, with modules available to be taken in any order, either individually or as a full course; thus enabling you to design your own programme to fit into your own time frame.
Beyond the Yoga Bodywork course, graduates have the option of continuing onto the Yoga Therapy Diploma course.
SYLLABUS
CORE MODULES
Module RV (one day)
• Realigning Vertebra
This workshop presents a specific exercise for each vertebra, to realign its position and strengthen its surrounding musculature. Many of the exercises, though not all, are adaptations of basic yoga asana’s. Each vertebra and its adjacent spinal nerve root has a direct relationship to a specific internal organ and body/mind function. Therefore, these exercises have a physiological effect beyond simply correcting distortions of the spinal column. They can be applied to oneself or prescribed to a client.
Module AE (one day)
• Anatomy of Energy: Chakras, Nadi’s, Channels & Points
This module presents an overview of the Indian system of Nadis and Chakras, and highlights its relationship to the Chinese system of Channels and Points (Gates), as well as showing how the Tibetan view of energy circulation interweaves into these systems. The day will include various visualization / meditation exercises.
Module ADT (one day)
• Ayurvedic Deep Tissue Massage
This workshop presents a deep muscle massage technique using a cream. It is EXTRAORDINARILY effective in releasing muscle tension and improving flexibility and posture. This particular system is based on a ‘Yoga Chikitsa’ body rejuvenation technique; an ancient Ayurvedic massage method that developed in India around 600 BC (Ayurveda means ‘knowledge of life’ in Sanskrit).
Module RB (one day)
• Reading the body
How to read signs on the face, tongue, back, belly and general posture, that indicate constitutional weaknesses and strengths, plus potential and actual physical disorders, as well as revealing the emotional and psychological characteristics of the recipient.
Module RCA (one day)
• Relieving Common Ailments
Based on Zen Yoga Therapy, this system combines acupressure with adapted yoga asana’s and related exercises to help alleviate common ailments such as breathing disorders, insomnia, bowel disorders, menstrual disorders, minor prolapses, and many other problems. They can be applied to oneself or to a client.
Module MF (one day)
• Muscle Flushing
These techniques involve a combination of muscle contractions within a modified twisting stretch, plus specific techniques applied directly to joints, and innovative ways to access and treat pressure points. They are very effective in clearing waste products from body tissues, strengthening and realigning muscles and sinews, and correcting distortions in joints.
Module SPR (two days)
• Sotai Postural Rebalancing
Sotai is a highly effective system of simple exercises and techniques that equalise muscle tone and correct distortions in the posture. It can very effectively eliminate pain in the back, neck or shoulders, and release muscular stiffness or pain anywhere in the body. It is presented as a sequence of techniques that begin with the feet and finish at the neck. It can also be used to release blockages in the energy pathways (nadis / meridians) throughout the body.
Sotai uses the principle of following the line of least resistance. For example, if your neck will not turn easily to the left, then specific exercises based around moving the neck to the right, away from the pain and stiffness, will re-establish full mobility.
Other related exercises for lengthening and strengthening specific muscle groups, based on the latest research into muscle physiology, will be presented here.
Module GIS (three days)
• Generating inner Strength
Including Indian yoga mind-centring exercises & Chinese Qigong forms, plus the science and application of healing sounds and mantra.
PERIPHERAL MODULES
General Foundation Course (four or six days, depending on format)
• Shiatsu Bodywork – General Foundation Course
This course involves stretching, leverage and leaning your weight into various parts of the recipient's body to encourage greater harmony of energy, circulation, flexibility and postural integrity. The system involves selected Shiatsu techniques given in various positions. This course must be completed to gain the Yoga bodywork certificate. It can be taken before,between or after the core modules. This course is offered at all European Shiatsu School branches in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Greece. For dates and locations of these courses, go to Foundation Course on the left hand menu, under courses.
Module A & P (three days)
(Those with a therapy qualification that includes A & P may be exempt from this module).
• Anatomy & Physiology
The anatomy syllabus covers the musculo-skeletal system in detail and is taught over
three days. Physiology is given as a self-study pack.
Module EX (one day)
• Final exams
This module only applies to those wishing to gain a practitioners certificate. Those
doing modules for personal development only need not take these exams
Bolt on modules in subjects such as nutrition, ear acupuncture, ear acupressure and
face-lift bodywork are also available upon request.
Graduates of the full certificated course can be entered onto the Register of Yoga Bodywork and receive full insurance cover.
COURSE FORMATS AND DATES
There are three ways that you can complete the core modules to obtain the Yoga Bodywork practitioner certificate at High Bank, Lockeridge, Wiltshire UK; either with or without accommodation. These are:
1. Attending on Saturdays and Sundays only, approximately one weekend per month.
2. Attending on Thursdays and Fridays only, approximately every month.
3. Attending on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, roughly once per month.
You can take the modules in any order, which enables you to begin the course at any time. Therefore, there is no specific start or end date because you choose according to your circumstances. Also, if you miss a day on one format, you can make it up by attending the day on another format, or wait until that day is repeated on the next course cycle.
We are also willing to hold some or all of the modules anywhere in Europe if, for example, you would like to have them in your own venue, yoga centre etc.
In addition to completing the core modules, all participants wishing to obtain the practitioner certificate must at some point complete a General Foundation Course. This module is as a 5-day midweek residential course in Lockeridge, near Marlborough Wiltshire, or can be taken over three non-residential weekends in London, Brighton, Farnham, or Ware in Hertfordshire, plus Ireland, Spain and Greece. Occasionally, it can also be taken over two intensive weekends in Lockeridge. For dates and locations of these courses, click on Foundation Courses, under the Courses menu on the left of this page.
Anatomy or Physiology training can be arranged for those who have not studied this elsewhere as part of another therapy course. Final exams can be arranged individually when you have completed all modules.
Mid-Week Option: Winter / Spring 2009
Jan 22 RV / Jan 23 AE
Feb 26 ADT / Feb 27 RB
March 26 RCA / March 27 MF
April 30 SPR / May 1 SPR
June 17pm GIS / June 18 GIS / June 19am GIS
Weekend Option: Winter / Spring 2009
Jan 24 SPR / Jan 25 SPR
Feb 28 RCA / March 1 MF
March 28 ADT / March 29 RB
May 2pm GIS / May 3 GIS / May 4am (Bank Holiday) GIS
June 20 RV / June 21 AE
Thursday to Sunday Four-Day Block Option: Winter / Spring 2009
Jan 22 RV / Jan 23 AE / Jan 24 SPR / Jan 25 SPR
Feb 26 ADT / Feb 27 RB / Feb 28 RCA / March 1 MF
May 2pm GIS / May 3 GIS / May 4am (Bank Holiday) GIS
The cycle of modules will recommence in September 2009 for those who embark on the training part-way through the cycle of dates shown above.
CLASS TIMES
Most classes will run 9.30am to 4.30pm if they are modules of One or Two days.
Module GIS (Generating Inner Strength and Calm) will begin with Lunch at 1pm and run until around 6pm on Day One. Day Two will run from approximately 9.30am to 5.00pm. Day Three will run from 9.30am until lunch at 1.00pm (and will include lunch)
FEES
The fee for the full 12-day series of core modules is £875 if non-residential.
Residential students pay another £25 per day to cover accommodation, breakfast and lunch. Therefore, the total cost of the full 12-day module with accommodation is £1175.
(Note that supper is cooked communally by the course participants, using the facilities of the venue).
The General Foundation Course costs £395 if non-residential, or £495 if residential.
The fee for the final examination day is £80.
Fees for individual core modules if taken in isolation
(add £25 per night if two or more one-day modules are taken back to back and accommodation is required).
Module RV (one day) Realigning Vertebra
£96 non-residential.
Module AE (one day) Anatomy of Energy: Chakras, Nadi’s, Channels & Points
£96 non-residential.
Module ADT (one day) Ayurvedic Deep Tissue Massage
£96 non-residential.
Module RB (one day) Reading the body
£96 non-residential.
Module RCA (one day) Relieving Common Ailments
£96 non-residential.
Module MF (one day) Muscle Flushing
£96 non-residential.
Module SPR (two days) Sotai Postural Rebalancing
£220 non-residential. £250 residential
Module GIS (three days) Generating inner Strength
£138 non-residential. £168 residential
To Enrol, contact:
ESS Central Administration on 01672 861 362 email: info@shiatsu.net
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Don’t miss this years …
LAM RIM AUTUMN REJUVENATION
October 17 - 19 (Friday eve’ from 7pm, to Sunday afternoon)Residential Course at Lam Rim Buddhist Centre, Near Raglan, Monmouthshire, S.Wales
This weekend is suitable for everyone, regardless of experience of anything.Here’s the chance to do some:
• Qigong to boost our vitality.
• Meditation in a space where its hard NOT to meditate.
• Healing sounds to regenerate our organs & tissues.
and …
• Receive shiatsu to open our sinews & joints
We just look for any excuse to go to Lam Rim!
Lam Rim is a Tibetan Buddhist Centre. The house itself is a Tudor manor house set within several acres of its own grounds with stunning views of the Black Mountains. Beautiful walks are in abundance, and Lam Rim has an extra special tranquillity of its own. One reason for this is the many visits by high ranking Lamas, including His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, who dedicate their lives to compassion and spiritual values.
Lam Rim houses the resident Tibetan Lama, Geshe, Damchö Yonten, former Abbot of Samtenling Gompa Norba Monastery, in Ladakh.
And last but possibly least, food at Lam Rim is superb!
Cost: £133pp for 4 bedded shared room residential + £16 Single room Supplement if required.
Send full fee or £50 deposit to secure your place, to:
Lam Rim Buddhist Centre, Pentwyn Manor, Penrhos, Raglan,
Monmouthshire NP15 2LE
Cheque payable to Lam Rim Buddhist Centre.
Balance payable on Day One of course
Tel: 01600 780383 margaret@lamrim.org.uk
Check out Lam Rim at: Lam Rim Buddhist Centre
Participants are requested to bring outdoor clothing & footwear.
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A JAPANESE YOGA SPINAL REALIGNMENT WORKSHOP
At The Old Barn Yoga CentreIronmonger Lane, High St, Marlborough
What is Japanese Yoga?
Japanese Yoga, also known as Okido Yoga or Zen Yoga, was developed by Masahiro Oki, who founded the Japan Yoga Association in 1958. Oki developed a series of unique Yoga based exercises for the treatment of many ailments and postural distortions. His acclaimed system of exercises and postures designed for straightening the spine and relieving common ailments has been further developed by Chris Jarmey, who worked with Master Oki.
Chris has been teaching yoga since the age of 18 and lived for many years in various yoga ashrams. He is a qualified physiotherapist and Principal of the European Shiatsu School. He also holds post-graduate qualifications in exercise physiology and Oriental medicine, and is author of many books on anatomy, oriental medicine, qigong, shiatsu and meditation.
Japanese Yoga for Realigning each Spinal Vertebra
Sunday November 16th 10am – 5pm £68 Teacher: Chris JarmeyThis workshop presents a specific exercise for each vertebra, to realign its position and strengthen its surrounding musculature. Many of the exercises, though not all, are adaptations of basic yoga asana’s, and can be combined with acupressure to enhance their effect. Each vertebra and its adjacent spinal nerve root has a direct relationship to a specific internal organ and body/mind function. Therefore, these exercises have a physiological effect beyond simply correcting distortions of the spinal column. They can be applied to oneself or to a partner.
TO ENROL: Send £68 full fee or £30 deposit made payable to Chris Jarmey, and send to:
ESS Central Administration, High Bank, Lockeridge, Marlborough, Wilts SN8 4EQ
For more details, contact ESS Central Admin on 01672 861362 or email: info@shiatsu.net
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CLASSES, COURSES & WORKSHOPS
at theWellbeing Clinic
6 London Road, Marlborough,WiltshireThree Friday taster evenings plus three one-day workshops:
The taster evenings will offer insight into the subject matter of the one-day workshops on the same subjects. All the workshops are suitable for therapists/practitioners as CPD and to complement existing skills, and for anyone else who may simply be interested in gaining some useful skills. The fee for each evening is only £5. Each one-day workshop is £65. If two workshops are booked together, the fee is £110 for the two.
Cross-fibre Muscle Flushing
This workshop will present bodywork techniques that efficiently clear waste products from body tissues, strengthen and realign muscles and sinews, and correct distortions in joints. In particular, they significantly reduce the muscle soreness that can follow strong exercise. These techniques can all be applied through clothing.Taster Evening: Friday OCT 10th 7.30pm – 9pm £5
One-Day Workshop: Saturday NOV 22nd 10.30am – 4pm £65
Reading the body to assess body/mind imbalances
Learn how to read signs on the face, tongue, back, belly and general posture, that indicate constitutional weaknesses and strengths, plus potential and actual physical disorders, as well as revealing the emotional and psychological predispositions of the recipient.Taster Evening: Friday NOV 7th 7.30pm – 9pm £5
One-Day Workshop: Saturday NOV 23rd 10.30am – 4pm £65
Ayurvedic Deep Tissue Massage
This is a deep massage method based on Ayurvedic rejuvenation techniques that utilize fingers, thumbs, elbows and forearms. It is EXTRAORDINARILY effective in releasing muscle tension in the shoulders and back, and improving flexibility and posture.Taster Evening: Friday NOV 28th 7.30pm – 9pm £5
One-Day Workshop: Saturday DEC 6th 10.30am – 4pm £65
Meditation Course
This course will take place over four Thursday evenings, and explore various meditation methods based on Tibetan, Indian and Chinese traditions, many of which are described in Chris Jarmey’s ‘Book of Meditation’ (Element), which will be available during the course.4 Thursday evenings: NOV 20, 27, DEC 4, 11 7.30pm – 9pm £48
TO ENROL: For Taster Evenings, send £5 full fee. For One-Day Workshops send £25 deposit or the full fee to: The Wellbeing Clinic, 6 London Road, Marlborough SN8 1PH
Tel: 01672 513583. Please make cheques payable to: The Wellbeing Clinic.
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