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We believe that yoga is not just a set of physical exercises but an attitude to life.
BWY Foundation Course II with Lucie and Anna
24th September 2025
Deepening your practice and study
The British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) Foundation Course 2 builds on the BWY Foundation Course 1 and Teacher Training Cerificate. Participants will be encouraged to delve deeper into their asana adding pranayama, kriya, mudra, bandha and meditation to their personal practice. They will gain a greater understanding of yoga philosophy by studying key yogic texts like Patanjali yoga sutras, Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the Bhagavad Gita.
The course is suitable for non-teachers that have taken the Foundation Course 1 (or similar) or for BWY Certificate teachers wishing to add the subtle practices of pranayama and meditation to their personal practice.
Lucie and Anna have worked together on several Foundation Courses 1 and 2 as well as Teacher traning Certificate. They are excited to offer the recently revised BWY Foundation Course 2.
The course has 8 Sunday sessions held online over 9 months (9am - 4pm) including a 2-night/3-day residential retreat in Godalming, Surrey (Friday 4pm - Sunday 4pm).
Course dates 2026 - 18 January, 22 February, 22 March, 26 April, 24 May, 28 June, 19 July, 25-27 September (2-night
residential retreat), 25 October
Your Investment: Course costs - £645, Residential weekend - £295, BWY registration - £60, BWY annual membership - £46.
Online Taster Session Sun 23 November, 10am - 1pm, £20.
Online Morning 1/2hr Yoga Classes
29th September 2025
Mix of gentle yoga, chi-qong and pranayama. Mixed ability.
Dates:
Time: 7.30 - 8.00 am
Mondays - 29 September to 8 December (£3.50 per session or £30 for 10)
Wednesdays - 1 October to 10 December(£3.50 per session or £30 for 10)
No sessions 27 or 29 October
Fridays 6.30 - 7.30pm
Mediation sessions with Lucie and Maggie most Fridays or as advertised.
Maggie sends out an e-mail letting everyone know the date of the next session.
If you would like to be on our meditation mailing list, please let us know.
(Sessions are free)
2X per year - at Gurupurnima in July and 1st January or as advertised
Satsang - literal meaning from Sanskrit sat meaning 'Truth', sanga meaning 'company'.
It is an Indian spiritual tradition which can mean:
(1) the company of the Highest Truth
(2) the company of an Enlightened person
(3) the company with an assembly of seekers who listen to enlightened discourses and talk about the Truth.
(Sessions are free)
The aim of our life philosophy is the realisation of the human potential by opening one's awareness to that which is usually dormant in oneself.
When one experiences the joy of being in the present or in the Self, it leads to experiencing the underlying Unity of All. Yoga gives us various paths and practices that lead to this realisation.
It can be by adopting the selfless attitude of Karma yoga (service without expectations), the worship and service of Bhakti yoga (devotion and surrender) or detached analysis of Jnana yoga (wisdom without attachment).
Hatha yoga gives us the practical advice on how to purify our body and the body's energy system. Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads or Patanjali Yoga Sutras point us to the inner wisdom which we have the potential to discover in ourselves by disciplining the mind.
Lucie is a British Wheel of Yoga teacher and teacher trainer. Her main focus is on meditation, pranayama, yoga philosophy and how these practices can enhance our every day.
Her main inspiration were the Satsangs with her spiritual teacher Prof. O. Sharma in India with whom she studied and meditated for over 30 years. Her Hatha yoga teacher in England was the late Shri Indar Nath at Patanjali Yoga center in Battle.
Before teaching yoga she was a ceramic artist. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art and later finishing postgraduate studies in Kyoto, Japan.
After that, she had her own studio for a few years. She also taught ceramics at the Art College in Prague and at Adult Education in Kent, England.
Her second degree in Hindi and Indian philosophy is from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Quote of the Day
Gurudev O. Sharma
The power of thought that is given to human beings is very important.
In the beginning you have worldly thoughts, as you contemplate physical pleasures.
But when you follow the spiritual path you come to the conclusion that such pleasures are not worthwhile.
Even at this moment thinking is going on.
Gradually those previous thoughts start to disappear and new thoughts start coming.
It is at the highest and final stage that thoughts stop or seem to stop, and you have peace.
It is only after self-realisation that thoughts, ideas and questions disappear.
As long as you are trying to distance yourself from thoughts, you cannot be successful.
You are trying to distance yourself from thoughts but the thoughts do not leave you.