Annual Seminar, McIntosh Hall,
St. Andrews University, Abbotsford Cres, St Andrews,
KY16 9HT, Fife
From dinner at 7pm on Fri 15th June to afternoon tea at 4.15pm on Sun 17th June 2012
This year’s guest tutors
Gerry Kielty
Gerry began the practice and study of yoga as a teenager. He trained at the Rathdowne
Yoga Room in Melbourne Australia and at the Edinburgh Iyengar Yoga Institute for
2 years. Gerry qualified as an Iyengar teacher in 1995, and in 1997 he also studied
intensively at the Iyengar Institute in Pune India. Gerry's interest in Ashtanga
Vinyasa Yoga began in 1995, his first teacher being David Svenson. He also studied
with Richard Freeman in Boulder, Colorado, and has
studied with BKS Iyengar and Shri. K. Pattabhi Jois. During his study time, which
still continues, Gerry began teaching in 1993. He has been challenged by many different
teaching environments as well as teaching regular classes and courses. He currently
co directs balance in Glasgow and conducts workshops and retreats around the United
Kingdom and internationally. He is also founder and principal to the balance yoga
teacher training course.
Wendy Teasdill
Wendy Teasdill took up yoga at the end of the seventies, as a cure for hepatitis
picked up in India. Unconventially, she began with Pranayama and found a sensitive
Iyengar teacher - after which the Prana took over and the hepatitis was history.
She used to teach English as a Foreign Language and travelled for many years practising
yoga, returning to her Iyengar teachers in Pune and the UK when possible. Pregnancy
in the nineties brought with it challenges and
opportunities for change, which resulted in an idiosyncratic spiralling away from
the usual Iyengar practices. Wendy's aim is to help people develop autonomy and confidence
in their practice. Wendy is a DCT and teaches the Pregnancy Yoga module for the British
Wheel of Yoga. She has published: ‘Yoga for Pregnancy’ and ‘Walking to the Mountain’.
www.teasdill.com As to what she will be teaching - it will be based practices taken
from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika but adapted for our twenty first century bodies and
souls.
Rajesh David
Rajesh David received his Yoga teaching diploma from The Yoga Institute, Mumbai,
India. He is a composer and singer, trained in Indian classical music. As a professional
singer he was an Agrade artist for All India Radio & Television. He was a resident
of Mandala Yoga Ashram in Wales for four years, during which time he conducted kirtan
and chanting sessions, gave concerts and conducted Nada Yoga courses. These courses
together with two others, “An Introduction to the Mandukya Upanishad” and “An Introduction
to Adi Shankaracharya's Bhaja Govindam” are recognized as IST by the BWY. He is currently
teaching with Swami Nishchalananda on a one year course of Kriya Yoga at the Mandala
Yoga Ashram. His many CDs include collections of devotional music, such as “The Music
of AUM - The Mandukya Upanishad” and “Kabir - mystic poems”, and practice CDs, such
as “Nadopasana”, for practitioners of Nada Yoga.
Upasana
Upasana received her yoga teaching diploma from the Dharma Yoga Centre after a 5-year
course under the tutelage of Julie Friedeberger and Swami Dharmananda Saraswati.
From 2001 to 2005 she was a resident of Mandala Yoga Ashram, where she taught regularly,
and developed “Movement Pleasure and Insight”, a course recognized as IST by the
BWY. Keenly interested in the transformative potential of movement, she is a serious
practitioner of the discipline of Authentic Movement. She is also currently undergoing
training on Ruthy Alon's “Bones for Life” programme. As well as joining Rajesh for
concerts and on some of his CDs, Upasana is a co-tutor on all their IST courses.
She has recorded two Yoga Nidra CDs.
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