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Hanne Gillespie (née Thome) 18th August 1952 – 24th June 2020

What is it like to become a Vedic Chant teacher in this tradition?

We all know that showing kindness is important for human connection and our relationships, for mental health and wellbeing.

Patricia Ace recently graduated from the TSYP Teacher Training Diploma Course in Scotland. She reflects on this part of her yoga journey.

TSYP teacher member Paula Visser describes her work for one of the Medical Research Ethics Committees in the Netherlands.

The third in a series of contributions by current Foundation Course participants. This time one of our younger members.

The second in a series of contributions by current Foundation Course participants.

The first in a series of contributions by current Foundation Course participants.

This article follows on from the recent post on how we can become a yoga teacher or support those wanting to become yoga teachers.

Andy Curtis-Payne describes what becoming a teacher in the tradition of T Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikachar means, referring to concepts in the Yoga Sūtra.

Jatinder Wilson shares a practice she has offered her students recently.

If you’d like a little inspiration in your āsana practice, we’ve posted a couple of practices for you to try; one calming, the other energising.

Have you wondered about going further with Yoga and training to become a Yoga teacher? Lisa Soede, Head of TSYP Vedic Chanting, shares her journey.

As Covid-19 continues and the UK stays locked down for at least another three weeks, TSYP Helen Macpherson shares some reflections.

Here’s a contribution to our occasional series ‘Members talk’ by one of TSYP’s most experienced teachers, Liz Murtha.

As we continue to spend much of our time indoors, we are pleased to point you in the direction of a new online opportunity. Friends and colleagues in our tradition, Ranju Roy and David Charlton of Sadhana Mala and members of aYs, will be offering an interactive study of Yoga…

We, the citizens of the world are facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions, and no country is left untouched by the fear surrounding the pandemic. Unfortunately, our fear and anxiety are also multiplied manifold as we see and read about how every nation struggles in this battle against a fairly…

Fiona Ashdown, TSYP member, yoga teacher and therapist writes about how prānāyāma and mantra can help with symptoms associated with Covid 19, such as breathlessness.

The BWY in conjunction with Yoga Alliance and Yoga Sports Science has held a number of webinars to support yoga teachers in delivering classes safely online.

Andy Curtis- Payne reflects on the impact of Covid 19 and how we can look to the future…

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According to Desikachar Vedic chant is one of the most powerful tools of the modern era.

Dear friends, it seems like a long time since I sent out the last guidance on Covid 19 and yet it was under a week ago!

Helena del Pino, one of our teachers, has offered us a journaling retreat …. Beginning on Monday we will be posting one day at a time for anyone to download and use.

Dear Friends in Yoga, I just wanted to bring this term to a close with some thoughts on the Coronavirus situation and how we might apply our yoga principles to it – yoga is still relevant!

This is a short helpful guide from Michael Hutchinson for those of us who need some TLC with using technology!

March 2020 Dear friends, The current situation with coronavirus  means that many of us will be isolated and less able to link with others in our usual ways.   Despite this we can still chant and so may i invite you to participate in a rather special chanting session? On…

Updated on 23rd March 2020 Dear friends, It seems like a long time since I sent out the last guidance on Covid 19 and yet it was under a week ago!

We are thrilled to announce that TSYP has formalised its already strong relationship with the KYM by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.  This is particularly significant given the high esteem in which KYM is held across the world for providing a centre of excellence for the teaching of yoga and yoga…

I first heard that Andy and Helen took groups to India every year when I had just started my teacher training with Andy in 2017. I remember thinking, “oh wow I would love to go along someday.” “Someday” being the operative word. I’m not sure exactly when “someday” became January…

In January, TSYP member Michael Hutchinson travelled to India’s deep south and explored the legend around the ancient tamarind tree in the village of Almar Tirungari, where Sri Krishnamacharya received the Yoga Rahasya.

Bea Teuten interviews Radha Sundararajan, Vedic chanting teacher, and one of the patrons of TSYP.

TSYP’s Andy Curtis-Payne was recently invited to talk to members of the British Psychological Society about the ways in which Yoga can contribute to the work of psychologists.

Helena del Pino trained in the tradition of Krishnamacharya and teaches yoga in Peterborough under the name of Healing Yoga, dedicated to health, healing and personal development through yoga. Helena offers some thoughts as we enter a new year.

We are so enthusiastic about Ranju Roy and David Charlton’s new book that we’re posting another review of it, this one by TSYP member Helena del Pino. 

Becky Sperring writes about her journey to becoming a Vedic Chant teacher. So I still can’t quite believe I’ve just qualified as a Vedic Chant Teacher! And am immensely proud of the fact that I can now read some Sanskrit!!

TSYP member Maggie Shanks reviews a newly published book by two yoga practitioners who trained in the tradition of TKV Desikachar.

We gratefully reprint an article here by TSYP chairman Andy Curtis-Payne, recently published in Darśanam, the quarterly journal of the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. I have been extremely fortunate over the last thirty years to have been able to work both as a gardener and a yoga teacher. At first these…

TSYP member Michael Hutchinson brought the work of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to our attention recently, after reading an article in the Basingstoke Gazette. Applying for a Churchill Fellowship might make travel to TSYP’s ‘mother’ organisation, the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, a possibility for someone who otherwise would be unable to afford…

The Duty of Candour applies to all UK health professionals who are subject to statutory regulation. As a yoga therapist you are not subject to statutory regulation but may have chosen to be a registrant of a non-statutory regulator such as CNHC. In any event, adhering to the principles behind a…

Working in the field of yoga therapy one often finds oneself trying to bridge two worlds and explain to people in each of them the special way in which yoga can be applied therapeutically. On the one hand yoga practitioners and the public will say ‘Isn’t all yoga therapeutic?’ On…

The first Yoga in Healthcare Conference was held in February this year at the University of Westminster, and TSYP was there. Organised by the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance, the lively and upbeat event was attended by an international mix of Yoga teachers, Yoga therapists and mainstream health professionals, with some participants…

Gill Lloyd is one of the founding members of The Society of Yoga Practitioners (TSYP), a teaching organisation dedicated to following the teachings of T Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikachar. Here she talks about her teacher, Desikachar. “He had an amazing gift for connecting and communicating … using simple language to…

Teacher Mandy Meaden was asked recently, as a part of the Foundation Course Tutor Training she was undertaking with the TSYP, to speak about her current favourite sutra for five minutes. She settled on II-30, the sutra on the yama-s, and shares the essence of the presentation here.

The latest Foundation Course tutor training course was held in Crawley at the beginning of 2019. Seven TSYP teachers took part in a lively and inspiring weekend. One of them has already completed her course plan and is advertising her first Foundation Course, which will commence later this year.

Helena del Pino trained in the tradition of Krishnamacharya and teaches yoga in Peterborough under the name of Healing Yoga, dedicated to health, healing and personal development through yoga. Helena offers some thoughts as we enter a new year.

Hi Everyone, It is hard to believe that another year has passed. 2018 was busy and fruitful year for TSYP, with three teacher training courses running currently and another due to start in November next year, and the extremely successful and important Vedic Chant teacher training course, not forgetting the…

‘All we are doing in yoga is increasing positive samskara to overcome negative samaskara.’ This was the opening statement of the weekend and just one of the many golden nuggets our teacher Nrithya Jagannathan from the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) in Chennai shared with us at the TSYP Annual Gathering…

A translation of the Sarva śāntā from the Taittirīya Aranyaka by TSYP member Michael Hutchinson.

Kaivalya and Yoga Sutra chapter 4 were the subject of the KYM annual retreat at the Swami Dyananda Ashram in Rishikesh from 26th June to 7th July 2018. Wendy Haring describes her experience there. For the past four years I had wishfully looked at the details for the retreat in…

On the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), TSYP put out a clear privacy policy message on the website.

TSYP member Liz Knott is currently taking the TSYP Vedic Chant Teacher Training course with Radha Sundarajan and Helen Macpherson. Liz has been chanting for about twenty years and talks about her journey.

Early summer 2018 Gill Lloyd attended a gathering of 16 fellow students of TKV Desikachar in France. They came together to celebrate Sir’s life and teaching through meditation, chanting and open discussion, and to talk about how his work can be transmitted to new and future generations.

This year’s WYF at Beale Park beside the Thames, again took place under largely sunny skies and hosted the same wide range of Yoga approaches and related activities.

With great sadness we pass on the news that our late teacher’s brother, Sri T K Sribhasyam, passed from this life at the weekend.

Michael Hutchinson reflects on his experience at the 2nd World Yoga Festival, 2017. In the first weekend of July the sun shone on the 2nd World Yoga Festival at Beale Park, on the banks of the Thames in Berkshire.Andy, Helen and I arrived in the early coolness of the Friday morning to sit…

Gill Lloyd, the UK’s remaining direct student of Sri Desikachar during his final years and formerly Chair of both Viniyoga Britain and KHYF-UK, was awarded honorary life membership of TSYP at our 2016 AGM.