Download our WORD forms and prospectus, these can be found below towards the bottom of this page.

If you have any questions about the course or applying please us via the Contact page.

Please submit your application by – 29 April 2024 to

foundationlivingyogaapplications@yogascotland.org.uk

The cost of the Foundation Course is £TBC. A deposit is payable on acceptance of the course. All monies paid are non-refundable. Yoga Scotland Membership is included as part of the course.

Bursaries are available under certain criteria, including low waged or in receipt of certain benefits. Students can request a bursary application form from our Administraion Team before applying via our Contact Page.

Melanie has been practicing yoga and meditation since the early 1990’s, in order to manage a serious back condition and anxiety.

She has been teaching since 1995, having been introduced to the work the The Yoga For Health Foundation (YfHF) based in Bedfordshire.  After completing Teacher Training with the YfHF in 1995, she then became a teacher at their residential centre.  During her time there she continued her studies for the Remedial Teacher Training Course which she completed in 1996.

Melanie moved to Edinburgh and completed the Yoga Scotland Teacher Training Diploma in 1999.  She has completed numerous other trainings in pregnancy, yoga for children, pranayama and GP referral.  Melanie has run a number of BWY Foundation Courses and set up and run a Remedial Yoga Teacher Training course with her husband.  She is a guest tutor in Yoga and Disability Awareness for the Scottish School of Yoga Therapy.

Melanie teaches a number of classes in Edinburgh and the Lothians, offering accessible and inclusive classes, chair classes and private sessions for people with long-term conditions and disabilities. She continues to be inspired by her students, many of whom are living with life changing conditions.

Melanie is currently working on a number of projects for yoga and MS and Dementia friendly yoga.  She continues to study and practice in the areas of yoga, mindfulness, ayurveda, Theravaden Buddhism and neuroplasticity.

Andrea owns and runs The Yoga Mill Centre in Galashiels and teaches Yoga to all ages.

She first encountered meditation and relaxation techniques when she was 19, and later on after she had her 3rd child her interest in meditation led her to yoga, as a movement to help her aching body. And it did. First the asana practice helped to heal her physical aches and pains after a difficult pregnancy, then she realised how much more there was and fell in love with the deeper teachings of the practice.

Andrea has been teaching yoga and meditation to adults and children for over 10 years and in 2016 completed her 3 years training with Yoga Scotland. The 3 years with Yoga Scotland was a wonderfully intense, in-depth training of 1 year of Foundation Course followed by two years of Teacher Training to gain her 500 hours qualification. She has also completed the 1 year Living Yoga Course with Yoga Scotland.

On the Teacher Training Course we not only learned how to practice, but how to teach this practice. In philosophy we studied the ancient texts to support our personal practice and our teaching. Anatomy lectures helped us gain an insight into why we move in certain ways and how the practice of yoga physically helps our health, physically and mentally.

Of course we are ever the student and Andrea continues to learn through workshops, personal practice and learning something new from each of her students every time she leads a class.

Andrea’s classes are suitable for everyone; beginners and those wishing to deepen their practice. She teaches a hatha class that embodies the whole of yoga: meditation, pranayama (breathwork), asana (postures), philosophy and usually a lovely long relaxation to end.

Andrea sees yoga as something deeply personal to everyone as we explore our inner landscape through our practice. She loves teaching everyone to work intuitively, working from within and meeting ourselves where we are. Finding the essence of our true nature through exploration of the body, mind and spirit.

Unfortunately due to a change in circumstances, the Sept 2023 is not running this year.

Rona has been practicing Yoga for 18 years and teaching for 10 years.  Yoga and family have become her vocation.  

Rona trained as a Yoga Teacher during time spent in London, qualifying in 2007 with the British Wheel of Yoga Teaching Diploma.  Teaching in the Inverurie area of Aberdeenshire, she agrees that Yoga should be accessible to all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Gratitude, openness and collaboration are at the heart of her practice. 

Hatha led, her style draws on a mix of traditional and modern teaching influences in asana, pranayama and relaxation.  She works closely with the breath in all aspects of asana practice, often with sequences, encouraging Students to build strength and flexibility at their own pace.    

Identifying what can disturb inner peace, and helping Students find Santosha through Yoga, is a recurring theme she builds upon.  Although work-in-progress, this includes Rona’s own personal exploration into a more minimal and uncluttered lifestyle.  

Rona also teaches children and youngsters in schools, and has recently incorporated more restorative Yoga and meditation into her adult classes.

Rona is a co-tutor for the Yoga Scotland Aberdeen Foundation Course and believes this is a very rewarding step for Students seeking a deeper appreciation of Yoga and an enhanced practice.