Teacher Training Intensive: Teaching Yoga to those with MS with Bill Feeney & Fiona Agombar

Fiona is again running the course I inspired her to create after I attended a "Teacher Training Intensive: Teaching Yoga to those with ME Fiona Agombar " Fiona has unattentionally become my mentor and will help to assess me as part of my teacher training with Simon Lowe.


Date: Sat , Sun 18/09/2010 - 19/09/2010
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Price: £150, early-bird £130 before 31st July, £130 concession

MS or Multiple Sclerosis can be a crippling disease. It is an autoimmune problem which occurs because the immune system attacks the myelin sheath, which confuses the neural pathways. Symptoms may include pain, spasm, difficulty with co-ordination, profound fatigue, muscle weakness, numbness and general disability.

Yoga can greatly relieve the symptoms and may help to lessen or prevent further attacks. In this two-day intensive which is suitable for teachers and health professionals, Bill Feeney and Fiona Agombar explain what MS is and examine how to teach yoga that can help this condition. The emphasis is on loving compassionate teaching, based upon the Yoga Sutras, which enhance acceptance and healing as the student moves towards a state of yoga as the mind quietens. The Intensive includes practical work and teaching plans and will tackle questions on mobility and how to adapt postures to the individual. A key part of the training will be working with the breath and pranayama techniques. An opportunity to work with those with MS is being organised.

Instructors: Bill Feeney and Fiona Agombar

Bill Feeney was the Director of The Yoga for Health Foundation and has over 20 years experience both in working with MS and in training teachers to work remedially. He is a student of Dr. Vasant Lad. Bill has also taught on both General and Remedial Teacher training courses for the Yoga For Health Foundation and also on the Diploma course for the Yoga Bio-Medical Trust.

For the last 19 years he has been studying Ayurveda under Dr. Vasant Lad, director of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a world leading practitioner and teacher of Ayurveda as the Science of Life. Bill has travelled extensively both in the UK and abroad giving talks and seminars on all aspects of Yoga and Ayurveda. He teaches Ayurveda up to Prakruti and constitutional levels including lifestyle and dietary guidance. Like his teacher, Dr Lad, Bill teaches Ayurveda as a sister science of Yoga as it was always taught. In 1992 Bill was made a Fellow of the World Society of Clinical Yoga and in 1997 he was made a Life Fellow for the World Society of Clinical -Yoga and Alternative Medicine.

Fiona Agombar is the author of Beat Fatigue with Yoga and originally trained at the Yoga for Health Foundation and in India. Fiona had ME for fifteen years, but recovered with the help of yoga. She is now studying as a KHYF teacher under her mentor Gill Lloyd and runs regular retreats for those with ME and MS. Fiona is also a regular contributor to Yoga and Health magazine.

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