Geoff Farrer

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Personal Information

Area

London

Membership status

Practitioner/ Yoga Teacher

Postcode

SE15 5NZ

Telephone

0207 703 1495

Qualifications and Experience

2006 KHYF Yoga Teacher Diploma
1999 Post Graduate Diploma in Viniyoga ( now AYS )
1992 4 Year Practitioner Diploma in Viniyoga ( now AYS )
BWY Diploma

About me

I have been studying and practising yoga since 1981.In 1987 I started to work with Paul Harvey and attended group classes with Pamela Tyson in London. In 1989 I began the four year training course with Paul Harvey and graduated in 1992.

I started teaching Yoga in 1988 and have taught a range of different levels from beginners to advanced students.I also have experience in teaching yoga to children, adults with learning difficulies and the elderly.

Much of my teaching over the past fifteen years has been focused on one to one work usually involving therapeutic work and practices aimed at promoting constitutional health and well-being.

In 1998 I undertook further training and became a post-graduate in the AYS in December 1999. Since then I have been running workshops in yoga, usually on a seasonal basis.
I aso started working with Gill Lloyd in 1999 and have had regular contact and excellent help and advice from her since then.

I am currently teaching a small group class on Monday evenings on a termly basis (usually 11 or 12 classes per term) at the Streatham Friends Meeting House,off Brixton Hill.Thursdays(daytime)and Fridays are kept free for one to one lessons at my home in Peckham.

The workshop I am running in October will be on 'antaraya' obstacles in yoga and possible helpful ways to address these.

In the early nineties I became the Sangha Organiser for the London Vedic and Yoga Sutra Chanting Group which meets on a monthly basis and is co-run with Margaret McGlashan.The Sangha meets either in Peckham, at my home, or in Wimbledon at Margaret's

I am now also a member of KHYF and I am looking forward to continuing the approach to teaching inspired by Krishnamacharya and his son Desikachar in conjunction with the inspiration of so many excellent AYS teachers over the years.

Details of classes

Group Class-Monday evenings 7.40-8.40 Streatham Friends Meeting House off Brixton Hill SW2

One to One - usually Thursdays ( daytime ) or Fridays but other times are possible depending on the individuals' needs.

Next workshop Streatham Friends Meeting House off Brixton Hill SW2 on obstacles in yoga, Saturday, October 13 10-4.30

The chanting Sangha on Sundays will run on a monthly basis usually the third Sunday in the month but this can vary.

Special Interests

- Workshops often based on themes from Patanjali Yoga Sutras

- Chanting, Vedic and Yoga Sutra ( see details of Sangha above)

- All aspects of one to one and group class teaching from therapy to stronger asana,pranayama practices.

- Meditation, I have started to incorpoate a lot more meditative aspects into my practice over the past three years, partly inspired by workshops run by Sylviane Gianina in North London