Circle Holding Fundamentals
Date: Wednesday 3 July 2024
Time: 0930-1230 BST (UK Time) Replays & Support Material
Cost: £57 EARLY BIRD - Book by 30 April 2024 (Full price £67)
Course Outline:
- Setting your intention for running your circle and finding your audience
- Understanding the fundamental guidelines of circle
- Preparation, welcoming, opening & settling
- Addressing the challenges and managing circle dynamics
- deepening connection with listening partnerships
- Practical considerations of in person and online circles
- Closing your circle
- Embodiment circles and special groups
By the end of this training you will have:
- experienced the benefits of sitting in circle
- gained practice in circle holding
- understood how to manage some of the major challenges of circle holding
Tessa has run online women's circles throughout the lockdowns and this format can work very well, including the use of breakout rooms. She has been running her women's circles for 8+ years, mostly in person, and girls / mother and daughter circles for 5 years.
Julia is an experience circle facilitator running in person and online circles. She has expertise in integrating circle into yoga classes, workshops and retreats.
Tessa & Julia will be sharing exclusive content from their forthcoming book "Circle Holding: A Practical Guide to Talking & Listening Circles"
"Thank you for your care and thoughtfulness. It was so helpful to be with a group of women that I could feel safe with and your space holding is perfect." Kailash
"It was wonderful to be held in a safe space with other likeminded women. You and your home are so welcoming. That has been my best circle so far." Billy
This workshop will give you skills you can use to confidently plan and hold your first circle or reflect on and grow your circle-holding skills.
These brave spaces are so necessary and appreciated.
At the end of the training, you will receive Certificate of Attendance from Yoga Teachers Forum.
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About the facilitator - Tessa Sanderson:
Tessa has run online women's circles throughout the lockdowns and this format can work very well, including the use of breakout rooms. She has been running her women's circles for 7+ years, mostly in person, and girls / mother and daughter circles for 4 years.
She has also taught Pregnancy Yoga for 15 years and has 12,000+ teaching hours under her belt, including Well Woman and Mother & Baby Yoga, Restorative and Birth Preparation workshops. She has taught yoga in four diverse cities: London, Southampton, Bristol and Reading. She is the author of Pearls of Birth Wisdom: An Inner Journey with Stories, Insights and Practices.
About the facilitator - Julia Davis:
Julia has hosted and run online Yoga Teachers Circles throughout and after the lockdowns. She integrates circle holding into all of the trainings that she runs and also into the classes she runs from her Finchley Yoga studio. Her circle holding skills originated in the youth groups she facilitated as a teenager.
She has taught yoga for over 20 years with specialisation in Women's Health Therapy.
She is founder of Yoga Teachers Forum & The State of Birth Symposium and runs the Perimenopause Training & Mentoring programmes. She is an experienced mentor having worked with many yoga teachers who have taken the step from teacher to specialist trainer.