Dru Yoga Access Training Course

Dru Yoga Foundation Course

Perfect for everyone who wishes to explore Dru Yoga in more depth.

Deepen your understanding of Dru Yoga and take your personal practice to a new level with this excellent grounding in the essential foundations of Dru Yoga.

This is a stand alone course designed to enable you to develop your own yoga practice. In addition, you can gain entry onto the Dru Yoga Teacher Training Course, with the first quarter credited to you. 

 

 
Next intakes:
July & November 2012
   

The Dru Yoga Foundation Course is for...

1   Yoga newcomers who would like a confident personal practice
2   If you are considering the Dru Yoga teacher training course
3   Yoga teachers from other schools who want to teach Dru Yoga in their classes 

 Foundation Course Dates

 

Dates for 2012

Intake 1, Manchester:November TBC

Intake 2 Sheffield: 27-29 July & 24-26 August

For an information pack email manchester@druworldwide.com or call us, 0161 839 7039

 

Venue & Price

 

MANCHESTER Dru Yoga Foundation Course

Saturday and Sunday: 9.30am until 5.30pm
Venue: Mercure Piccadilly Hotel, Piccadilly Plaza, Portland Street Manchester M1 4PH. COURSE TUITION & MANUALS: £795.00
(plus a £75 non-refundable admin fee to secure your place)
Monthly price plan available. Call us on 0161 839 7039 for further information.

 

SHEFFIELD Dru Yoga Foundation Course

For the first time, enjoy the Dru Yoga Foundation Course as a summer holiday treat! In July and August 2012 we are holding two, 3 day retreats in Sheffield. You can choose to attend one - or the other - or both! Both retreats cover course content from the Dru Yoga Teacher Training Course, and, if you deicde to train further with us, these weekends will be credited to you.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 9.30am until 5.30pm
Venue: Jurys Inn Eyre St, Sheffield. S1 4QW COURSE TUITION & MANUALS: £795.00
(plus a £75 non-refundable admin fee to secure your place)
Monthly price plan available. Call us on 0161 839 7039 for further information. 

 

 What you will learn...

The Dru Yoga Foundation course is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of Dru Yoga and take your personal practice to a new level. The Dru Yoga Foundation course has the added benefit that you can go onto the Dru Yoga teacher training course, with the first quarter credited to you. This course is designed for:

•Everyone who would like to develop an effective personal practice
•Yoga students who want to explore Dru Yoga more in depth
•Yoga students who are considering joining the Dru Yoga Teacher Training course
•Yoga teachers from other schools who want to teach Dru Yoga in their classes 

Dru Yoga is a graceful and potent form of yoga, based on soft flowing movements, controlled directed breathing and visualisation. With its foundations set firmly in ancient yogic tradition, it works on body, mind and spirit – improving strength and flexibility, creating core stability, building a heightened feeling of positivity, and rejuvenation your whole being.

Learn the seven keys that will help you unlock the subtleties of Dru Yoga so that you can gain the maximum benefit from your practice.

Principles of Dru Yoga
Principles of Activation
Foundation Energy Block Release Sequence (EBR 1)
Body preparation
Establishing a regular practice
Tri-spinal Release
EBR 2

Pranayama
Pranayama Energy Block Release
Pigeon Breath
Windmill
Diaphragmatic breathing
Mechanics of breathing
Deep Yogic Breath – lying & sitting

Asanas
Tadasana - Mountain
Vrksasana - Tree
Marjariasana - Cat
Savasana - Corpse pose
Adho Mukha Svanasana – Downward Facing Dog
Bhujangasana - Cobra
Setubandhasana - Bridge
Simple inversion
Utkatasana - Chair of the Heart
Paschimottanasana - Sitting Forward Bend
Makarasana - The Crocodile

Sequences
Prithvi Namaskara - Salutations to the Earth
Surya Namaskara - Salutation to the Sun

Meditation
What is meditation? Parts 1 & 2
How to sit properly
‘Relax the whole body’ meditation
Watch the breath’ meditation

Anatomy & Physiology
Overview of the Nine Systems
The Muscular System
Skeletal system (including joints and the spine)

Subtle Energetics
Understangin the Koshas
Understanding the Chakras and Nadis
The spiral of empowerment.
Chakra Dharana Sadhana
Chakra awareness
Ajna Centring
 
Philosophy
A Brief History of Yoga
Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga
Practical application of the Yamas and Niyamas