Advanced Practitioner Diploma Scotland 2023
Dru Yoga as you've never experienced it before.
How is it that Dru is so very, very effective in transforming emotions, shaping your mind to acheive your goals, healing your body..., and well, the list is impressive, isn't it?
This course shows you how. In depth. And with such remarkable clarity that your students and friends will be wondering how your teaching has suddenly become so transformative.
You'll travel along a magical journey of healing and fulfillment, working systematically through each kosha: in your physical body, your pranic field, your emotions, your knowings/attitudes, and eventually in the core life goals that inspire your journey through life. Within each kosha, the course takes you sequentially through the chakras, showing you yoga's main techniques for transforming these vital parts of your consciousness.
The Advanced Practitioner Diploma is the recommended next step for yoga graduates or senior students who want to be a more confident teacher, able to brilliantly share yoga's rich tradition of subtle energy and the holistic mind, based on the chakras and kosha system. It gives you two years' of CPD.
You're probably already familiar with the idea that the chakras are the parts of your mind that control the ways you relate to your world - abundance, relationships, empowerment, giving, the awareness of dharma and your life goals. But these are just words. This course enables you to explore these as living experiences, giving you yoga's techniques to master them at every level.
This course is open to Dru yoga teachers and senior students of the Dru Yoga teacher training course.
Read on for more details, and we are so looking forward to helping you lift your yoga and your life to magnificent new heights!
Watch Andrew Wells, instigator of the course describing how the course came to be, and how it delivers the remarkable benefits it promises.
Master an inner world of vivid transformational potential
An in-depth exploration of asana modification and the physical level
As you are aware each posture has an essence, an inner transformative power waiting to be discovered. During this session we will explore how to finely attune modifications to the needs of the individual, in doing this, we will discover keys to help us embrace the essence of every posture. We will then go on to explore the physical level, working through the chakras from base to top.
Sessions 2 - 3
Discovering your pranic body
We work through the chakras from base to top at the pranic layer. You’ll learn how to work with specific postures and sequences to strengthen or balance each chakra. We’ll explore how these postures and sequences affect your subtle energy, with remarkable exercises for expanding your capacity to master your subtle energy.
Sessions 4 - 5
Discovering the power of the motivational kosha
Working again through the chakras from base to top, we focus on the emotive layer, and how we can use the postures and sequences already previously explored at these more subtle levels. You'll learn how yoga techniques enable you to revolutionise your emotional landscape, and how to help your students (and friends and colleagues!) do the same. You'll also learn how each chakra is the part of our mind that controls crucial aspects of life (abundance/vitality, relating, achieving goals, building harmony, knowing the right thing to do, discerning your role in life, achieving unity).
Sessions 6 - 7
Harnessing the 'body of creation' - the vijnanamaya kosha
Exploring the chakras at an even more refined level, from base to top, we now reach the culmination of yoga's potential for designing every aspect of your life. This is the realm where you can effortlessly transform old habits and past conditioning, where you can reconfigure your heart and mind towards the success that is natively yours.
Graduation and assessment
This course will give you detailed guidance for exploring the principles and insights both in your home practice and in your classes. There will be some written reflective practices for you to record your experiences and discover the remarkable progress you are making. You will be asked to dedicate at least one hour per week towards this practice.
Course Structure
6 weekends
The sessions comprise: Saturday & Sunday 10am-5pm; There may be the odd day where we finish at 5.30pm.
See tab below for a full list of course dates.
On completion of the course and the written reflective practice, you will be awarded a Dru Diploma of Advanced Postgraduate Studies.
Can't make a session?
All teaching sessions are recorded so you will be able to catch up if you can't make a session.
More info or book a call:
For more information, or to book a call to explore the course with a tutor, please contact us at scotland@druworldwide.com
Our next Try-outs:
To be confirmed. Contact us if you would like to attend the next try out.
Payment Plan Options
Reserve Your Place
Reserve your place with a registration fee of £200.
Early Bird Registration fee £150 if booked by end of February!
Use the BOOK NOW button on this page to secure your place. You will receive an email with the link to the application form and setting up your payment option.
Please also fill in our application form >
Payment plan options
Payment plans, to cover the balance of fees, run between the start and end dates of the course and can be monthly or paid as a one-off payment - to suit your needs.
Option 1: Registration fee £200 + payment of £1000
Option 2: Registration fee £200 + 8 monthly payments of £125
You will receive a link to complete your payment schedule once you have paid your registration fee.
Dates
I have benefitted enormously from it.
I did the course during the covid pandemic lockdown. A time of anxiety and fear. The knowledge that I gained helped me to recognise and acknowledge my feelings and gave me tools to deal with them.
The yoga postures , sequences and breathing techniques that are already familiar can be used to change our emotional energy.
In the same way that we have learnt to scan our physical body for aches and pains and stiffness or injury and use yoga postures and stretches to ease ourselves , I have learnt to scan my emotional and energetic body and recognise negative thoughts and patterns and how to correct them. By doing this regularly I feel more self-confident and happy .
I remember a very powerful moment when we were doing the Eagle posture and imagining that we were looking down at ourselves and what we perceived. I thought ‘ I am cool ‘ ! That thought has stayed with me.
The course has helped me to integrate my practice into daily life - it has helped me to feel more relaxed about my experiences. I am able to now take my yoga off the mat by developing awareness on physical, pranic, emotional/motivational and knowings. I now feel I'm piecing together a toolkit to use in daily life; be it simply being able to witness something or in being able to do something to shift it.
As a yoga teacher I have been able to guide individual students on a one to one basis to help them remove some quite deep rooted blocks!
It has helped me to explore all aspects of myself. The course has taught me to slow down, observe and witness as I move, breathe and live. It has brought awareness to my true nature, feelings, thoughts and intentions.
It taught me to be kind to myself. The prana work brought attention to health concerns in a startling way. It then led the way in my healing, knowing that all is truly well – thank you!
As a teacher, I have become more aware on many levels of a person’s struggles, difficulties and of course their wellness and awesomeness!
