Deepening Your Practice Series (Maitri collab with Yoga Fellowship)

We're celebrating the wealth of yoga practice and teaching experience around Belfast with a series of workshops at Maitri Studio in collaboration with the Yoga Fellowship of Northern Ireland.

These workshops are for yoga students, from beginners to teachers, as we continue to learn from each other and share our experiences. We know there are students out there in all of the studios in Belfast who have no interest in becoming teachers but enjoy diving into extra learning. And there are many relatively newly qualified teachers, who maybe learned elsewhere and do not have a system of ongoing professional development, for whom these workshops could be an ideal way to progress. 

The Yoga Fellowship is recognised by Sport NI as the accredited governing body for yoga in N. Ireland. The sessions all count as recognised CPD hours for teaching members of the Fellowship. All of these workshops are run by experienced teachers who have many hours of teaching and practice and continue to learn themselves. Maitri Studio is very happy to be connected to the Fellowship, a yoga sangha for NI fostering a deepening understanding of yoga in all its forms, connecting member practitioners and yoga teachers, and promoting the benefits of yoga to all levels of society. 

All the workshops are three hours long, at weekends and cost £40 or £30 for Yoga Fellowship members. If you're interested in Yoga Fellowship membership go through their website https://yogafellowshipni.org/joinnow. A non-teaching membership is just £25 and a teaching membership £40 per year. 

Saturday 15 February ~ 1.30-4.30pm ~ Nicole Minogue (yoga teacher and runs Abhyasa Studio)

CONNECTING TO THE CENTRE ~ a deep dive into how the limbs connect to our deep centre and how we can support our yoga poses from this place. Combining somatics, embodied anatomy and asana we will move through our bodies to track and build the connections in our body. Click here for more.

Saturday 11 April ~ 2-5pm ~ Orla Wallace (teaches at Abhyasa, Maitri and elsewhere)

Chakra yoga - more details to come

Saturday 20 June ~ 10am-1pm ~ Deirdre Heaney (retired senior OT and now yoga teacher)

YOGA FOR CHRONIC PAIN ~ Mind Body Symptoms: how do we know? & why yoga is such  a great fit.  You'll learn about how the brain learns, predicts and maintains pain, how to recognise when pain is neuroplastic in origin, and how to talk about pain with clients in a validating, hopeful way with relevant exercises you can use right away. 

Saturday 8 August ~ 10am-1pm ~ Claire Ferry (Iyengar yoga teacher and runs Maitri Studio)

FROM PERIPHERY TO CORE ~ how physical yoga asanas help effect inner change, on the body, mind, breath and outlook on life. A practical sequence to experience different ways yoga goes beyond functional movement, helping us touch the mysteries and find our connection. 

Sunday 4 October ~ 2-5pm ~ Julie Preston (kirtan, chanting, voice at Maitri and elsewhere)

SACRED SOUND: CHANT 101 ~ an introduction to the transformative power of mantra & voice as tools for healing, grounding and inner connection.  An exploration of Nada yoga & Bhakti yoga with Julie Preston, chant leader since 2011. Click here for more.

Sunday 13 December ~ 2-5pm ~ Lucie Chenet Rea (yin & hatha yoga at Maitri and other studios)

ROOTED IN STILLNESS ~ learn and experience the art of stillness practices to quieten the body and the mind. Explore Yin yoga and its Taoist roots as well as the deep practice of Yoga Nidra, the science behind it and experience it all for yourself.

BOOKING

Book through the Maitri booking page here - choose a Deepening Practice pass (full or YFNI) and remember to register for the workshop/s you wish to attend. 

The Fellowship is also running a series of workshops throughout the year and ours intersperse with theirs, so you can go to all of them if you wish!