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Pelvic Floor 2. Asana Practice Integrating Pelvic Floor Awareness throughout a woman’s life

AIMS OF PART ONE – there will be: Use of the CD and course information on:
  1. Self-screening
  2. Assessment of reasons for doing this course
  3. Posture to reduce pressure on the pelvic floor
  4. Asana practice for locating and working the pelvic floor
OBJECTIVES – there will have been practice and reflection on:
  1. Any contributing factors to pelvic floor weakness/instability
  2. Yoga practice to access and support the pelvic floor
  3. Long-term maintenance of the pelvic floor through Yoga
  4. The transition from the physical (Annamayakosha) to energetic (Pranamayakosha) bodies
AIMS OF PART 2 – there will be: Use of the CD and Practice Response material
  1. To give written responses on the pro forma response sheets, relating to all 4 stages above.
  2. To give personal additional input.
  3. To consider how you would take this into your teaching.

OBJECTIVES – there will have been responses and experience in the following:
  1. The selection of practices appropriate for you
  2. Reasons for the practices you have chosen
  3. Integration of breath awareness, Pranayama, Mudras and Bandhas with a selection of Asanas
  4. A summary of what you have discovered and how you would integrate this into your teaching.
OPTIONAL To try out appropriate sequences on your own class and give feedback

There is an audio CD and a CD with the course content.
METHODS OF PRESENTING THE SUBJECT
Keeping a Personal pro forma Diary of progress in each practice section and returning to Tutor for comment/advice. Optional try out with your own class.
E-mail and optional phone contact are encouraged.
ABOUT THE TUTOR: WENDY TEASDILL
Wendy Teasdill
Wendy has been practising Yoga since the late seventies, when she picked up hepatitis on an overland journey to India; unconventionally, she began with Pranayama, and this recognition of the energy body has informed her yoga practice ever since. Before having a family she lived mostly in Asia, teaching English as a foreign language in Japan and Hong Kong, travelling and studying in India, Nepal, China and Tibet. Nowadays Wendy lives, writes and teaches in Glastonbury. She is a DCT and a BWY Modules tutor, and currently serves on the education committee as Modules Officer. She combines a strong back-ground in Iyengar Yoga with sensitive attention to pranic flow in Asana, from which the Mudras and Bandhas naturally arise.
OUTLINE PLAN FOR THE RUNNING OF THE COURSE
  1. You will Register and pay on line. Your Tutor will give you information about the initial use of the site, that is, how to register yourself in order to get onto the Members page.  The details of the payment method will be seen on the web site. 
  2. Your Tutor will be informed through the web site that you have been registered and paid to do the course.  They will receive confirmation of all your contact details which you have filled in on line when you registered.
  3. Your Tutor will send you a welcome letter with all their own contact details (by email) confirming to you within a few days, unless away on holiday.
  4. At the same time, they will give you a date for when you can expect to receive your material. This may be within 2 weeks or six months depending upon the course start date you have chosen
  5. Confirm to your Tutor, when you receive your email as at 4. above, and also confirm when any course material arrives.  You may contact by email or phone should you have any queries.
  6. There will be 2 CD’s. CD 1 will be the audio practice / information CD.  CD2 will have the course material files on.   You will down load CD 2 onto your PC and print off to give you a clearer overall view.  Do not try and work on the material first solely on the PC.  When you have the overall picture, and have listened to your CD, then you will work on the screen for the material which is to be returned to your Tutor. 
  7. Begin your course.
  8. You will have all the dates for completion in the letter you have had at 4. above.
  9. Follow the dates carefully and let your Tutor know, should there be any hold up due to health, life event etc.
  10. When you have returned all your material to your Tutor and your Tutor has returned the material back to you, with their comments, then confirm that you have received it.
  11. Finally, to complete the course, you will go back on line into your membership number and your original password chosen when at 1. above. Bring up the course Evaluation page (by finding ‘my booked places’ on the left hand vertical column), this will display your own details and you will directed to fill in the Evaluation page and then print your certificate.
  12. When you enter the completed Evaluation, you will only then be registered as completed and gain the 7.5 CPD points and receive your Certificate.  So, please make sure that you send the Evaluation, otherwise your Office record will not be ‘official’
  13. There will be an additional button on your course tabs which you can enter to pass any other comments about the course and also suggestions for future topics.
  14. The site will also direct you to where to enter your CPD points.
The course is expected to take between 5 to 6 hours of your time, but you can take more if you want to. If you miss the completion dates without an agreed reason, then you may keep the material but not have a refund.

I hope you will find the study useful and satisfying and I look forward to working with you.
Wendy.