Tickets for Instil 2018 will be on sale towards the beginning of May and there are only 100 spaces this year. It will be held at Friends House, Euston, London. Instil is a series of workshops pertaining to yoga for young people as well as an update on the work that the foundation is involved and work opportunities for graduates of the TeenYoga course. It is also the AGM of the charity, and all graduates are highly recommended to join us to find out any new rules and legislation around yoga in schools as well as new opportunities.
The conference will be a mixture of lectures by prominent players in the field of yoga and schools followed by experts leading workshops both in the morning and the evening.
Confirmed speakers: Charlotta Martinus, yoga in South Africa. Dr Nick Kearney on the EU Hippocampus project and app. Team Bliss will hold a panel at the end of the day. More information to follow.
Workshops with: Yvonne Morey (counsellor and TeenYoga teacher trainer) on yoga for exams, Sophia Kouame and Natalie Reid on yoga and BME, Sarah ABdullah on yoga and Islam, Dr Lisa Kalye-Isley (psychologist) on yoga for anxiety and depression, Dr Jo Barker and Aeron McGates on yoga and eating disorders. Yoga teacher, Tiffany, will be running a yoga session with her daughter on transitioning between primary and secondary schools.
Keynote speakers: Netia Prema Mayman – Shining the light of yoga on schools. Adapting and accommodating 21st century knowledge to ancient insightNetia was a passionately enthusiastic English, Drama and Media teacher in comprehensive schools from 1982 to 2006 and left her role as a deputy head to become a local authority adviser, knowing she would teach again, but maybe not Macbeth. She opened the Virtual School for Looked After Children, Oxfordshire, which she led for 6 years. Over this period she learned that she had not known much of use, in her preceding career, about many of her vulnerable students. She also worked as an Ofsted lead and conducted inspections in the north and south east. It is not entirely a joke when she says the best thing about teaching yoga in schools, is the bad karma it pays back, especially when she teaches the staff. She discovered yoga when she had ME/CFS in her thirties and learned to make the condition her friend, appreciating what it had brought into her life and living next to her rajassic nature. From an early stage she knew that she wanted to bring yoga into schools, but had to wait. After reconnecting with her Sivananda lineage in India in 2015 she trained as a yoga teacher and, with Laura Sewell, started Yoga in Schools in 2016. This work has been led by Swami Sivananda’s guidance: ‘Adjust, adapt, accommodate’.
