Victoria James | Friends of Yoga

CPD Day with Bill Wood – 15th June 2025

MF2025-07-08T08:25:03+01:00Categories: CPD|Tags: 2025 June, Victoria James, with Bill Wood|

A Day of Yoga with Bill Wood on the theme of 'Being Soft, Being Strong' Date 15th June 2025 Timings 10.00 - 16.00 Location Virginia Water Community Centre 35 Cabrera Avenue Virginia Water GU25 4EY Price £65 Description FRYOG South Area CPD Training Day Paradoxically the softer and looser we can be in our yoga practice, the stronger and more vital it can become. Exploring this theme, this workshop will be posture based, with periods of relaxation and sitting practice woven in. Author of “A Journey into Being: Practising Yoga from Within,” and a teacher since 1994, Bill runs [...]

Shining a Light on Kyphosis – 30th June 2024

MF2024-07-02T08:08:34+01:00Categories: CPD|Tags: 2024 June, Victoria James|

Shining a Light on Kyphosis An exploration of postural issues that affect the upper back and neck Date 30th June 2024 Timings 10am-4pm Location Virginia Water Community Centre, 35 Cabrera Avenue, Virginia Water, GU25 4EY Price £65 Description Join us for a day of training designed exclusively for yoga teachers, led by Aimee Newton, an experienced Osteopath and Yoga Teacher. This one day immersive workshop will deepen your understanding of the anatomy of the spine and neck. We will be exploring therapeutic techniques to address common postural conditions prevalent in yoga practitioners, including “text neck”, kyphosis, “dowager's hump”, and [...]

Anatomy with Aimee Newton – 19th November 2023

MF2023-12-06T11:18:56+00:00Categories: CPD|Tags: 2023 November, Victoria James, with Aimee Newton|

Anatomy with Aimee Newton Date 19th November 2023. Time 10am - 4pm. Location Virginia Water Community Centre, 35 Cabrera Avenue, Virginia Water GU25 4EY. Price £62. Description The workshop is delivered by Aimee Newton, registered Osteopath and Yoga Teacher and Educator with over 17 years experience. I am in the process of deciding the exact content of the workshop with Aimee. It will be along the lines of helping us, as Yoga Teachers, to understand the anatomy of the body, with a view to how anatomy and yoga postures find harmony. I will confirm the details, once I have [...]

CPD Training Day ‘Freeing the Spine’ with Bill Wood – Sun 24th Sept 2023

MF2023-10-10T13:10:02+01:00Categories: CPD|Tags: 2023 September, Victoria James, with Bill Wood|

FRYOG South Area CPD Training Day ‘Freeing the Spine’ with Bill Wood Date Sunday, 24th September 2023. Time 10am – 4pm. Location at the Virginia Water Community Centre 35 Cabrera Avenue Virginia Water GU25 4EY. Price £62. Description Healthy posture is never ‘held,’ but is more a loose and animated way of inhabiting the body, with a continuously moving spine at its core. This day of yoga will experientially explore this theme, practising different ways of being more gentle and mindful and creative in our practice, so our deep holding patterns can start to release, and our natural spinal [...]

The Internal Dynamics of Yoga – Sun 30th Oct 2022

MF2022-11-09T16:28:00+00:00Categories: CPD|Tags: 2022 October, Event Date Passed, Victoria James, with Bill Wood|

FRYOG South Area CPD Training Day ‘The Internal Dynamics of Yoga’ with Bill Wood at the Virginia Water Community Centre 35 Cabrera Avenue Virginia Water GU25 4EY Sunday, 30th October 2022 - 10am–4pm This day will explore how moving away from ‘holding’ postures can help us to find a looser, more alive and more attentive place inside ourselves, where our body can become softer and stronger, and where we’ll find more and more space to breathe, to release and to realign. Open to all levels of experience, the day will be posture based, with periods of relaxation and meditation woven in. ***** [...]

FRYOG South Area CPD Training Day – Sunday 15th May 2022 – 10am-4pm

MF2022-01-26T10:42:22+00:00Categories: CPD|Tags: 2022 May, Victoria James|

FRYOG South Area CPD Training Day ‘Managing Students with Pain in a General Yoga Class’ with Aimee Newton (Osteopath) at the Virginia Water Community Centre 35 Cabrera Avenue Virginia Water GU25 4EY Sunday, 15th May 2022 - 10am – 4pm As teachers we often get students coming to class with aches and pains or sometimes more serious injuries or chronic pain conditions. Often these individuals are advised to do yoga to help, but this can create a challenge for Yoga Teachers and raises some important questions. How do we adapt our teaching to incorporate these individuals? Should we be [...]

‘Finding our Ground’ with Bill Wood – 19th September 2021 – 10am–4pm

MF2021-10-06T12:27:37+01:00Categories: CPD|Tags: 2021 September, Event Date Passed, Victoria James|

‘Finding our Ground’ with Bill Wood (almost fully booked) FRYOG South Area CPD Training Day Staines Preparatory School, 3-5 Gresham Rd, Staines TW18 2BT. Sunday 19th September 2021 10am – 4pm Learning how to surrender more and more fully to the pull of gravity can be a central tool in releasing patterns of holding in the body, becoming more deeply relaxed, and quietening the mind. Open to all, this workshop will be a blend of posture, relaxation, and sitting practice. Bill Wood A yoga teacher since 1994, Bill runs weekly classes in south Devon, and weekend workshops and retreats all [...]

Demystifying Lower Back Pain with Aimee Newton (Osteopath) – 25th July 2021 – 10am–4pm

MF2021-06-06T12:34:06+01:00Categories: CPD|Tags: 2021 July, Aimee Newton, Victoria James|

FRYOG South Area CPD Training Day ‘Demystifying Lower Back Pain’ with Aimee Newton (Osteopath) Virginia Water Community Centre, 35 Cabrera Avenue, Virginia Water, GU25 4EY Sunday 25th July 2021 10am – 4pm Low back pain is a common cause for people to seek out yoga and trying to incorporate students into a general class can be a challenge. Understanding the anatomy of the spine and some common conditions which cause pain can really help to make you feel more confident as a teacher. This CPD day is for yoga teachers wanting to understand more about low back [...]