Shanti Yoga School in Nottinghamshire hosts world-renowned mantra master

A world-renowned mystic and mantra master will be running a two-day workshop at the Nottinghamshire-based Shanti Yoga School in July.

Muz Murray, who has been studying mantra for 40 years, will be sharing his knowledge and expertise at the yoga school on July 21st and 22nd.

Based at the Eco Centre at Home Farm, Screveton near Bingham, Shanti Yoga School offers yoga teacher training and continuous professional development courses.

“This is a rare opportunity to study with one of the heart masters of mantric knowledge and Advaita Vedanta in the West,” said Liz Thomas, who runs Shanti Yoga School. “Muz will be offering an introduction to the spiritual, psychological and practical aspects of mantra, plus pranayama, the energisation of the physical body with the mantric alphabet, mantra chant practice and satsang.”

During the 1960s, Muz became the founder of a mystical community in London, known as Gandalf’s Garden, which produced a world-distributed magazine of the same name. The magazine and work of the community became a spiritual inspiration to many thousands in Britain and on the Continent during the flower-power era of the late Sixties and early Seventies.

Now in his early 70s, Muz lives in France and tours the world giving workshops.

For further details or to book a place at the event, which costs £90 per person, please contact Carole Pearson on 0116 2711220 or 07742613703 or carolepearson@fsmail.net.

For further details about Shanti Yoga School, which has trained dozens of yoga teachers in Hatha Yoga since it was launched in 2003 and is accredited by Yoga Alliance as an approved teacher training school, visit www.shantiyogaschool.co.uk

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Shanti Yoga School and Full Movement Training School stage open day event in Nottinghamshire

Yoga is coming under the spotlight at an open event being held by Shanti Yoga School in Nottinghamshire.

The event on Saturday January 14th is being held at the Eco Centre at Home Farm, Screveton, and will focus on new classes that are launching this month and next.

These include seated yoga for the less mobile and a course to train as a yoga teacher.

The event, which runs from 11am to 3pm, will also be an opportunity to find out more about the Full Movement Training School – a sister company to Shanti Yoga School - which teaches a unique therapy linked to Hatha yoga.

Both organisations were run by Andy Thomas, from West Bridgford, who died in March 2011, and the open event marks a re-launch by his family, friends and colleagues.

“The open event at the Eco Centre is the chance for anyone interested in yoga or the full movement method to find out more,” said Liz Thomas, Andy’s wife.

“We have a range of yoga classes starting in January and February, for people who want to learn yoga and for people who currently practise yoga and would like to learn how to become teachers. A course to train in becoming a Full Movement Method practitioner also begins at the end of January.

“The open event will feature some mini taster sessions and also the opportunity to meet members of the team and teachers.”

A six-week course of yoga classes for men and women starts at 6.30pm on Monday January 16th at the Eco Centre, while yoga classes for the less mobile begin on Thursday January 19th from 11am to 12.30pm.

The seated yoga classes are run by Sandra Fowkes, who explained that yoga could be beneficial for those with reduced mobility.

“Everybody can have a go and you can still get the benefits,” she said.

Shanti Yoga School, which has recently been accredited by Yoga Alliance as an approved Teacher Training School, was founded in 2003 and has trained dozens of teachers in Hatha Yoga, who have since gone on to run their own classes.

A two-year teacher training courses run at specific weekends to help students who have weekday commitments starts in February 2012.

The Full Movement Training School, which is based in Colwick, Nottingham, but also runs courses at the Eco Centre, teaches therapists in the discipline of the Full Movement Method, a unique blend of yoga and physical therapy that was created by Andy Thomas.

Andy trained therapists locally, nationally and abroad to practise FMM, which resolves muscle and joint pains, immobility and malfunction, and students have gone on to open FMM clinics in Bournemouth, Sheffield and elsewhere.

In November 2011, the Full Movement Training School was given official accreditation from the Federation of Holistic Therapists, the largest and leading professional association for therapists in the UK and Ireland.

To get to the Eco Centre, follow the signs for Car Colston off the A46 and pick up the Screveton sign in Car Colston. Turn left at the Farmeco sign in Screveton.

For more information visit www.shantiyogaschool.co.uk or www.fullmovementmethod.co.uk


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Legacy continues following the re-launch of Shanti Yoga School and the Full Movement Training School

Two businesses run by Nottingham therapist and yoga teacher Andy Thomas have been re-launched following his death earlier this year.

Colleagues, associates and family have joined forces to ensure that the unique therapy devised by Andy to treat muscle and joint pains, immobility and malfunction will continue.

The Full Movement Training School, based at the premises of the PDW Group in Colwick, Nottingham, provides teaching in the Full Movement Method – the unique therapy devised by Andy, who had treated hundreds of patients over many years, including sportsmen and women, actors and road accident victims.

For many years, Andy trained therapists locally, nationally and abroad to practise FMM, and students have gone on to open FMM clinics in Bournemouth, Sheffield and elsewhere.

He also ran Shanti Yoga School, which has trained dozens of yoga teachers in Hatha Yoga. The core postures in yoga are at the heart of initial diagnosis for FMM: Andy saw the flexibility that yoga postures bring as a fundamental key to relieving pain via FMM.

The school has recently gained accreditation from Yoga Alliance UK, which sets standards for yoga, yoga teacher training, yoga teachers, and yoga training providers, and is re-opening in a new home at the eco-centre at Shackerdale Farm, Car Colston, near Bingham.

Andy’s wife Liz Thomas, from West Bridgford, remains a director of both businesses. Andy’s eldest son, Jim Thomas, has been appointed a director of the Full Movement Training School. Jim’s wife Elan Thomas has been appointed a director of Shanti Yoga School.

Liz Thomas said: “Andy was an inspirational teacher, both of yoga teachers and of his unique therapy FMM, as well as a dedicated practitioner who treated hundreds of people in Nottingham, the East Midlands and beyond.

“We are very pleased that his legacy will live on and that those he taught will continue to treat patients and teach yoga, as well as teach others how to practise the unique therapy and yoga that Andy devised.”

Andy, 65, from Melton Road, West Bridgford, died in March 2011 after suffering from lung cancer.

For more information visit www.shantiyogaschool.co.uk and www.fullmovementmethod.co.uk


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