Yoga coaching - meeting the requirements of each individual

With Mark Breadner

Mark Breadner’s knowledge and experience of both the technical and spiritual aspects of yoga has led him to the top of his chosen field - yoga teacher education. He is recognised as a “teacher of teachers” and his down-to-earth approach takes ancient knowledge to the everyday. He teaches from the heart and these teachings are life-changing.

In this presentation, Mark draws on the yoga coaching approach to training, which is mostly individual, one-to-one, the way Yoga meditation and contemplation has traditionally been taught. Such an approach has been called student-centred-learning: Student-centred-learning is focused on the student's needs, abilities, interests, and learning styles with the teacher or coach as a facilitator of learning.

Yoga Meditation is the art and science of systematically observing, accepting, understanding, and training each of the levels of our being, such that we may coordinate and integrate those aspects of ourselves, and dwell in the direct experience of the center of consciousness.

This talk will focus on how we train each aspect of being and how we train and balance them to flow together in the tradition of the Himalayan Masters. We do the practices, let in the effects and lovingly express them through the heart.

Yoga is complete unto itself. In Yoga, each level of our being is trained independently, while also being trained to flow together. The systematic processes deal one-by-one with our actions in the world, senses, body, breath, and both the conscious and unconscious aspects of mind.

When one has a stable relationship with the external world, when the senses are turned inward, when the body is healthy and free to move, when the breath is smooth, calm and serene, and when the mind stable and tranquil, there comes a stillness and silence from where one can truly begin to practice meditation. From here our lives begin to flow from a deep sense of inner knowing.