HUTCHINSON Michael (BWY – UK)  English/Français/ Morning Practice/Pratique du matin/ Lectures

Age: 60.  Qualifications: M.A. in Physics, Cambridge University, UK; BWY Teacher’s Diploma Course Tutor; KHYF Teacher.  I studied Viniyoga with Paul Harvey to Postgraduate

level; I have attended several courses with T.K.V. Desikachar in the UK and at the KYM in Chennai. I have studied Tantric chanting with Muz Murray attending his ‘Sharing the Quest’ mantra retreats annually 1991-2006.  I provide training and workshops for BWY teachers, individual yoga tuition and also teach Vedic chanting.  Central to my practice is the opening of the heart-space, something which I aim both to live and to inspire my students with, through the way I teach all aspects of Yoga. 

MP: Daily practice - daily life

Pratique quotidienne – vie quotidienne

L: The Yogi - Citizen or Recluse?

The practices, which apply yoga to the stages of life, and the lectures, which will consider how we learn yoga and from whom, are linked by the conviction that yoga is a life-long process of self-education.  It is not an academic pursuit, nor need it be one pursued in isolation from society.  Yoga is a process of learning by living, of gradually and patiently internalising both practice and theory, until we can quite naturally apply all aspects of yoga in our lives and convey this yoga to others in our communities.  We learn from our teachers, from the example of their teachers, the great yogis of the past, from patient study of the teachings those yogis have passed down and above all from our own experiences as we live and practice those teachings throughout the changing circumstances that affect both ourselves and society.