Did you know that FRYOG has for some years supported the charity Towards Nirvana? Swami Saraswati Satvikananda has shared the below from KD who is the main contact for the organisation and the person who actually set up “Towards Nirvana”. He lived at The Satyananda London Centre for very many years when he was not in India where he stayed often for six months of the year. A big [...]
Celebrating 50 years of The Friends of Yoga Society. The Friends of Yoga society began in 1972 as a voluntary organisation. All of the Executive Committee posts have been, and continue to be held on a voluntary basis, placing the emphasis on karma yoga and promoting a worldwide spirit of friendship. To mark the Golden Jubilee of our wonderful yoga society we have produced a lapel badge which we [...]
The Solent Yoga Collective are inviting Yoga teachers to join us on Sunday 7th November between 10am-12noon for a coffee and catch up. The last 18 months have been a strange time for us all, and our little collective have been somewhat absent during this time. So instead of coming back with a full-on workshop, we decided a good cuppa and slice of cake is what we need the most! [...]
In the wake of Covid-19 and all the subsequent disruptions this has caused to our Continuing Professional Development programme we are delighted to clarify our new CPD guidelines. Helen Sutcliffe, our Director of Education, presented the revised policy at our recent Biennial General Meeting held virtually at the beginning of October 2020
Chris asked me to contact you all to ask if you might consider taking on the role of FRYOG Secretary. She has done an amazing job keeping everything very well organised for us and maintaining the smooth running of FRYOG for many years. She has very much earned the right to step down and hand over to another FRYOG member. Do you have a little bit of spare time that you can devote to helping the little band of FRYOG volunteers keep our valuable yoga community running smoothly?
Yoga Alliance has recently changed their credentialing requirements for Registered Yoga Schools and having canvassed our existing tutors’ it was unanimously decided that as from August 2020 we will no longer continue with this affiliation. Since registering our Teacher training course with Yoga Alliance over 10 years ago we have only had Eleven FRYOG teachers register with them individually. For those eleven teachers who have already registered this will not make any difference to your YA registration and you can continue to renew in the usual way.
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Satvikananda is back from her annual trip to Rajasthan! As you are probably all aware FRYOG gives a monthly donation to ‘Towards Nirvana’ a charity of which I am a Trustee. As it is some time since I wrote a piece about ‘Towards Nirvana’ I was asked if I would do so again when I returned from my last visit to The Nirvanavan Foundation just before Christmas. Towards Nirvana [...]
Have you thought about getting more involved with Friends of Yoga Society? Do you have skills to share and time to spare? Vacancies are opening up in 2020 for the Secretary and Membership Officer positions. Join our friendly team and help to sustain and grow the Friends of Yoga Society. Role outlines are included below.
Barefoot Barn Subsidized CPD - A Great Success! Dartmoor Sponsored CPD Weekend 8th and 9th September 2018 at Barefoot Barn. The weather on 8 September was perfect, allowing the glory of Dartmoor and Barefoot Barn to welcome twenty six members of Friends of Yoga to the first sponsored day for SW (W) and Friends of Yoga’s first ever weekend of CPDs.