The Yoga

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. Working with the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita, we will cultivate balancing stability with ease, and skill in action to uncover a yoga practice that is soothing for the nervous system and honours the inner felt sense of the individual.

All forms of yoga can be taught somatically, so the principles you will learn on this course will enable you to teach any style of yoga safely, skilfully and somatically. We collaborate with some of the best yoga teacher trainers in the country, from different styles of yoga, to bring you a well rounded course, that honours your inner felt sense.

Our Tutors

Guest Tutors

Our Graduates

Debbie has trained over 100 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 Trainees

Many yogis come to this course as a further training to bolt on to their existing 200 hour qualification, deepening their understanding of yoga philosophy, anatomy and refining their teaching skills.

Some join us for their own personal development as they want to refine their practice and this course is also suitable for dedicated first time yoga teacher trainees. Although our final weekend together is in November 2026, and our final Friday session is in December, 2026 you have until 31 January 2027 to complete your 3000 word research project, and you will be given as much guidance as you require.

Even though the course does not finish until the end of 2026, you will be able to start teaching much sooner. Once you have passed your first internal teaching assessment in March 2026, you can register with Yoga Teachers Together as a student teacher and get your student teacher insurance, which will enable you to start teaching your own classes. This means you will still be supported in your teaching development for the first 9 months of your new yoga teaching career. This is the time when most people need the most support, so its really helpful to still have the support of us, and your peer group at this time.

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)

Accreditation

Debbie is a Yoga Elder with Yoga Teachers Together CIC, and this course is registered with YTT. YTT registration gives our graduate teachers a supportive community to join when they finish their course. YTT Yoga Elders provide 4 free online CPD trainings a year for their members and opportunities to gather with other yoga teachers online and at yoga days and weekends throughout the UK. For more information about YTT see: https://yogateacherstogether.org/

The Venue

For our 11th course we are keeping it local and holding the 6 in person weekends of our Teacher Training in our own village of Hallbankgate. I can’t quite believe I have lived here for 4 years now and hadn’t been inside Hallbankgate Village Hall until recently! It’s a beautiful historic building that is run as a charity and it feels so good to support it with our course. The postcode is CA8 2NJ.

For the in person weekends of the course, our village hall is opposite the amazing Hallbankgate Hub, known by some of the locals as ‘the Hippy Shop’. Yup, there’s a reason why we live in this village! The Hub is our local co-operative; a social enterprise run by volunteers. As well as selling hippy food which is handy when you are gluten and dairy free, The Hub has a small cafe where we can get great coffee at lunchtime. There is also accommodation available next door to the village hall at The Belted Will, where Alyson will give you a warm welcome and we can enjoy a hearty meal on Saturday evening. Or if you want luxury, Farlam Hall is a only a short walk or drive away.

We are blessed to have Geltsdale RSPB reserve at the back of our village, so after we have fuelled up with Hub coffee, we can have a walk to one of our nearby Tarns, bird hides or fells. We have a mini Lake District at our doorstep, only not as busy. Our in person weekends are all in the warmer months, so the right time of year to enjoy some outdoor time.

For those of you relying on public transport, there is a train station at Brampton Junction, 2 miles away, or Carlisle, a 20 minute taxi ride away. We can usually pick people up from either station no problem.

Time Investment

This 300 hour course has 225 contact hours . As well as the course dates above, this includes 15 hours of live online classes with Debbie. To make up the 300 hours, you are required to do some home study, which forms the basis of your written assessment for the course.

• 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. 

• 15 hours of live online or in person classes with other Yoga Elders or Senior Teachers. E.g. Debbie’s partner Ross, or your own local yoga teacher who has been teaching for a minimum of 5 years.

• 30 hours - Self practice diary - 2 hours of self practice a month, or 30 mins a week.

• 15 hours - 5 presentations: 2 anatomy, 2 philosophy & 1 on your research project.

• 6 hours - 3 Class observations (live online or in person classes only)

• 6 hours - 3 Evaluations of your own teaching

• 6 hours - External Teaching Assessment

Assessment

• Attend at least 90% of the contact hours (202.5 hours) in person or live online. This equates to your being able to miss 3 full days.

• Submit all the coursework described above.

• Successfully deliver 5 presentations; 2 anatomy, 2 philosophy & 1 on your research project topic.

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

• Pass your internal teaching assessment on the July 2026 weekend of the course.

• Pass your external teaching assessment between September and December 2026.

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

Course End Date is 31st December 2026 - all assessed work is to be handed in by 31st January 2027.

Financial Investment

Once you have been offered a place, you can enrol on the course & pay your deposit or the full course fees. Both ways of paying include a £600 non-refundable deposit.

The preferred method of payment is bank transfer. Details of how to do this will be emailed to you in your course acceptance letter. You can also pay by clicking the enrol button on this page, but this will incur a 1.5% service charge from stripe which unfortunately adds up to £34.50 on payments in full, and £9 on the deposit. The benefit of doing this is that you can use your credit card to pay. However, we recommend taking advantage of the installment option below to avoid paying interest and other fees.

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.

INSTALLMENTS: £600 non-refundable deposit & 10 monthly instalments of £200 payable between Oct 2025 & July 2026 by standing order. Total cost = £2600.

PAYING IN FULL: Early bird payment in full option: £2300. (£300 discount available if you pay in full within 2 weeks of being offered a place on the course. £600 of this constitutes a non-refundable deposit.)

Got Questions? 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 is successful, you will be contacted with 2 days and invited to attend a practical evaluation session. The evaluations are held online on the following Fridays in 2025: 21st March, 16th May, 20th June from 6-8pm.

If you can’t make any of those, we can arrange your evaluation to take place in an online yoga class with Debbie. Please specify which evaluation option you prefer on the online application form below. You will be contacted by email a few days after the evaluation to let you know whether or not your application has been successful.

If you do not hear back from us within 2 days of submitting your application form, please email debbiefarraryoga@gmail.com. Sometimes forms do go missing, so please take a screenshot of your completed form just in case. You can email that to the above email address if you haven’t heard from us within 2 days of submitting the form.

If the form is not working for you, or you just prefer writing these things on paper, email us and we will send you out a paper copy, or a pdf version that you can print out, complete and forward to us by post.

APPLICATION FORM

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)