Feel Now Yoga Teacher Training

Jan - Dec 2024

NEW! 200 hour Course @ The Yoga Studio in Carlisle

For our 10th training we are teaming up with The Yoga Studio Carlisle to use their lovely cosy studio in the historic heart of Carlisle.

This 200 hour course will consist of 10 in person weekends supported by 10 monthly online Friday 6-8pm workshops with YTT Yoga Elder Debbie Farrar.

Feel Now Yoga is Somatic Yoga

We teach you the philosophical principles of yoga so that you can apply them to any style of yoga, or use them to develop your own yoga teaching style.

“Debbie you are the reason why I teach the way I teach and I practice the way I practice. With compassion, curiosity and exploration” (CT, 7/2/23)

about the course

Feel Now Yoga Teacher Training is an integrated course that weaves the theory, anatomy & philosophy into our yoga practice to bring you a course that is deep without being academic; practical without just being exercise; & thorough without being too long.

Feel Now Yoga invites each individual to listen to their own body & trust its inherent wisdom as they refine their personal practice & develop their own teaching style. To honour this, we provide you with the opportunity to deepen your own experience & understanding of how Yoga works, so that you can help others access its full potential.

Feel Now Yoga has trained over 90 Yoga Teachers who are now teaching yoga in schools, universities, physiotherapist clinics, hospitals, prisons, as part of their psychology practice, in social prescribing schemes, leisure centres and yoga studios. Some are teaching entirely online, some entirely in person. Many deliver specialist classes in areas they chose to research on their training course.

Our 10th teacher training starts in January 2024. We have a maximum of 12 students per course so we can ensure each student is supported throughout, and beyond. Although our final weekend together is in November 2024, you have until 31 December 2024 to complete your 3000 word research project. You will be given as much guidance as you require. Debbie is an education professional, an ex secondary school teacher, currently working part time designing and delivering bespoke education & employability packages for young adults with learning difficulties. So even if you have been out of education for a while, or need extra learning support, her trainee centred approach will help you complete a valuable and useful project. Our aim is that by the end of your 200 hour, 12 month training you will be able to teach your own style of yoga from a confident place of embodied understanding.

about the course tutor

Debbie Farrar, is a lifelong yogin with over 40 years of dedicated personal yoga practice & research, 24 years yoga teaching, 8 years teaching secondary school science, and extensive professional experience of supporting the educational and yogic journey of people with a variety of different learning needs. So our course walks the lines between experience & education; science & art to bring you a balanced & somatic Yoga Teacher Training.

ongoing support

Debbie is committed to giving appropriate support to her Teacher Trainees, during the course, and beyond. You will not be dropped as soon as the course finishes. You will be a part of a rich and supportive community of Feel Now Yoga Teachers across the UK who gather regularly and support each other. We have a Teachers’ Retreat each year, and an online space where you can ask questions about anything, share new developments in yoga teaching, and find cover for your classes. Debbie is in these groups, and always only an email away.

Aw, that’s wonderful! Thanks Debbie, I don’t know where I would be without you! I’m so pleased I found you all those years ago. I’m so much happier having a therapeutic yoga practice in my life. If I had to do it all again, I would definitely choose you as my Teacher, you have been amazing. Your always there to answer my questions or point me in the right direction. Lots of love (DS, 24/6/23)

2024 Course Details

contact hours (160)

The weekends: Sat 1-7.30pm & Sun 11.30-7pm (in person only)

EARTH TERM - support

20-21 January, 17-18 February & 16-17 March 

WATER TERM - flow

20-21 April, 18-19 May & 22-23 June 

FIRE TERM - transformation

20-21 July, 21-22 September & 19-20 October 

16-17 November - Internal Teaching Assessment Weekend

The Fridays: 6.30-8.30pm (live online)

EARTH - 2nd February & 1st March

WATER - 3rd May, 7th June & 5th July

FIRE - 2nd August, 6th September, 4th October, 1st November & 20th December 

non-contact hours (at least 108)

30 hours - 3000 word Research Project - this can be on any area of yoga that interests you, giving you a chance to develop your own yoga speciality.  Topics to be agreed upon with the course tutor, who will help you plan your project if needed. 

26 hours - 26 classes with Yoga Elders or Senior Teachers. E.g. Debbie, Emma & Martin from The Yoga Studio, Carlisle, or another teacher who has been teaching for at least 10 years.  At least 12 of these classes need to be with Debbie.

26 hours - Self practice diary

12 hours - 3 presentations: 1 anatomy, 1 philosophy & 1 on your research project.

4 hours - 2 Class observations

4 hours - 2 Evaluations of your own teaching

6 hours - External Teaching Assessment

Course End Date is 31st December 2024 - all assessed work is to be handed in by then.

assessment

• Attend at least 90% of the contact hours (144 hours) in person or live online. This equates to your being able to miss one weekend and one Friday evening.

• Submit all the coursework described in the non-contact hours section.

• Successfully deliver 3 presentations; 1 anatomy, 1 philosophy & 1 on your research project topic.

• Achieve a pass grade in your 3000 word research project.

• Pass your internal teaching practice on the final weekend of the course.

• Pass your external teaching assessment.

• Trainees will be prepared for the teaching practices as they will be continually and informally assessed throughout the course with mini teaching practices.

You are strongly advised to read the course prospectus thoroughly before applying. For a copy of the prospectus email: debbiefarraryoga@gmail.com

HOW TO APPLY:

Application is a 2 stage process.

Stage 1: Complete & submit the application form at the bottom of this page.

Stage 2: If your application form is successful, you will be invited to attend a practical evaluation session. There are in person evaluations in Carlisle from 1-3pm on Sat 11th November, and in Preston from 11-3pm on Sun 17th December. If you can’t make either of those then we can arrange your evaluation to take place in an online yoga class with Debbie. Please specify which you prefer on the application form. You will be contacted by email a few days after the evaluation to let you know whether or not your application has been successful.

Once you have been offered a place, you can enrol on the course & pay your deposit or the full course fees by clicking on the enrol button above, but the preferred payment method is bank transfer. Details of how to do this will be sent to you in your acceptance letter. Please do not pay your deposit until you have been offered a place on the course. The deposit or full payment is expected within 2 weeks of being offered your place.

Course fees £2400: £600 deposit & 9 monthly instalments of £200 payable between Jan & Oct 2024.

Early bird payment in full option: £2100. (£300 discount available if you pay in full within 2 weeks of being offered a place on the course.)

GOOD LUCK!

FEEDBACK FROM PREVIOUS COURSES

Sue’s Yoga Teacher Training Poem (December 2020)

The basis, the principles, that’s where it’s at.

Aiming for shapes? I’m not sure about that.

Slow, smooth, release and oil.

Appropriate support, no need for toil.

Back off, explore, or just let it be.

Don’t collapse and hurt, trying to be free.

Obvious to subtle, muscles big to the small.

Push through your feet, for space, to be tall.

Make your limbs work, to support your spine.

Maintain through the movement and you’ll be fine.

Quality not quantity, ease to breathe.

Let the ribs move, for the lungs underneath.

Neuromuscular pathways we need to improve.

Calm in the system, ready to move.

Ground, lengthen, and broaden what you can.

Sometimes, now-and-then, feel like Wonder Woman :)

2021-2022 BLENDED ONLINE / IN PERSON COURSE:

I feel it’s a privilege I found you. It was my Sankalpa. I kept asking in Nidra and I got the right course. Was it the right question? Who knows but the course has helped me on so many levels. It’s more than the asanas. It’s life changing. I am myself again, relaxed and full of beans. My confidence is back.

The classes I am teaching are helping my fellow village ladies.I have only taught two classes and the amount of emails about better sleep and feeling calmer make it all worthwhile. Just so nice to get them moving, relaxing and into yoga. Breathing properly! (JM 15/8/22)

2019-2020 BLENDED ONLINE / IN PERSON COURSE:

Final assessment and project completed in Nov... last bits and bobs completed in Dec. SOOoooo I can now say after 16 months of continuous study ... I am a fully qualified Yoga Teacher! Thank you Debbie Farrar for your continuing support, teaching and all round general fabulousness during COVID times...always finding new and valid ways to continue our yoga journey.

I have loved every minute of the course and so glad I chose you as my teacher.. the best decision. I still feel a complete novice but a novice with the best grounding possible. My plan is to attend as many of your Friday night immersions..very exciting..so much still to learn and so you haven't got rid of me yet! (SW 3/1/21)

2018-2019 IN PERSON COURSE:

After attending my first weekend on the yoga teacher training with Debbie, I knew I had picked the right course for me.

The conversations from this first weekend were profound; we talked about yoga (obviously) but there was no much more to the discussions which touched upon politics, capitalism, consumerism, feminism, psychology, and link between mind and body. Debbie is clearly a very intelligent person who draws upon a number of modalities to support her thinking. This is however, delivered in a way that is both accessible and engaging – a perfect combination.

I took so much from the Feel Now Yoga teacher training and I put this down to the well thought out timetable and contents. I certainly do not think I would have achieved the same level of insight and confidence from a shorter teacher training course.

As a psychologist I went into training with a specific agenda of developing tools to enhance my clinical practice but the well roundedness of the course helped me massively in a personal capacity as well as professionally.

I am excited about my continuing yoga journey and would like to thank Debbie and Ross for their input, compassion and valuable feedback which comprises this incredible teacher training course. Thank you! (HH 23/4/20)

Hi debbie. Thank you ever so much for facilitating that course for us. It must not have been easy. Thank you for your capacity for understanding and guidance for healing. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. It has brought me a lot of healing. It’s something I hope to be able to provide for people in the future. (RN 14/12/2020)