Find balance in your yoga practice and your life by connecting with nature and the cycle of the seasons. Work with the prevalent energy of each season and develop an authentic practice that makes you happier and healthier. Learn how to best work with the challenges and opportunities present throughout the wheel of the year. Explore mindfulness exercises, visualizations, meditations, and yoga poses and sequences that are specially designed for each season.
Hi, I’m Jilly Shipway
I’m a writer and qualified yoga teacher with over thirty years teaching experience. I’m the author of Yoga Through the Year, Yoga by the Stars, and most recently, Chakras for Creativity.
I’ve created this online school to provide courses and workbooks that will empower you to creatively integrate seasonal wisdom into your yoga practice and life. I am also offering year-round yoga resources for yoga teachers.
I also offer a self-paced online coursebook for people who want to write about yoga. The course helps writers to establish good foundations for their writing, enhance their wellbeing, and acquire the skills that can lead to publication.
I'm always adding yoga workbooks & resources. So, do come back often to check out what’s new. Or sign up for my newsletter on my Yoga Through the Year website and get fantastic discounts on courses.
Yoga and the Elements, Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether
In our fast-paced modern world it's easy to feel cut off from Nature and your own natural rhythms. This self-paced, online course will help you to connect with the five elements and so feel more in harmony with the natural world.
Earth will help you to feel a sense of stability, rootedness and at home with your surroundings.
Water will help you to live your life at a more human pace as you learn to go with the ebb and flow of life.
Fire will ignite the passion in your life and energise you.
Air will help you to breathe more easily and to feel inspired.
Ether, or spirit, will bring a sense of spaciousness, unity and freedom into your life.
On this self-paced online course you will learn how to connect with your inner wisdom and how to generate limitless ideas for enlivening and enriching your yoga practice with the wisdom of the elements, earth, water, fire, air and ether.
Your Tutor
Jilly Shipway is a writer and a qualified yoga teacher with over thirty years teaching experience. Jilly is the author of Yoga Through the Year, Yoga by the Stars, and most recently, Chakras for Creativity: Meditations & Yoga-Based Practices to Awaken Your Creative Potential. She regularly contributes to various magazines and yoga publications.
Praise for Jilly's Online Workbooks
“Having read the brilliant 'Yoga Through the Year' book I was intrigued to try out the Summer Solstice unit of Jilly's online Seasonal Yoga course. What appealed particularly was the self-study aspect - I love learning, always have my nose in a yoga book and was keen to enrich my experience of seasonal yoga. This flexibility means that I can access the course when it suits me and for as much or as little time as I have available - I'll often pause part-way through a unit, make a note of the meditation questions and mull them over for a few days before coming back to the course later. The short, carefully crafted modules will fit into the smallest of windows and there is plenty of new material which is not included in the 'Yoga Through the Year' book.
The layout is visually beautiful and very appealing - the lovely illustrations, colourful photos and short video clips really draw you in. I treated myself to a pretty notebook in which I record nuggets from the course, alongside my own observations, reflections and ideas. I'll often come back to these during the week to remind myself of what I have written or to include the suggestions in my home practice... I have found the course both stimulating and therapeutic and it has enabled me to become my own life coach by using Jilly's wise and gentle prompts. If you have been considering trying the course, I would say don't hesitate! I am sure you will love it as much as I do.”
Judy Brenan, British Wheel of Yoga Teacher
Yoga Through the Year
Study with the author
Here's what people had to say about my Yoga Through the Year book:
"I found this book so inspiring and it has had a big impact on me. It has helped me to bring my daily yoga practice into a more integrated and balanced practice that is inclusive of the Earth and the seasonal flow of life. Reading this book has empowered me to approach my yoga practice more creatively, with sensitivity to how I am feeling and in alignment with the season. It brings me into greater harmony with myself and into greater balance with the Earth around me."
Glennie Kindred, author of Earth Wisdom
Yoga & the Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, & Ether
In our fast-paced modern world it's easy to feel cut off from Nature and your own natural rhythms. This self-paced, online course will help you to connect with the five elements and so feel more in harmony with the natural world. Learn how to connect with your inner wisdom and how to generate limitless ideas for enlivening and enriching your yoga practice with the wisdom of the elements, earth, water, fire, air and ether.
Love Yoga, Love Writing?
This Coursebook is For You!
Learn how to establish good self-care habits to support you in your writing life. Free up your creativity through mindful walking and writing meditations. Learn how to write more sensually by mindfully bringing the five senses into your writing. Acquire skills that enable you to write in a more inclusive way that engages your reader. Free up your imagination so that you write in a way that surprises your reader and keeps them turning the page. Learn how to edit your work and build your confidence to submit a finished piece of work for publication. Deepen your understanding of yoga and fall in love with the writing life!
Walking Meditation & the 7 Chakras
Walk Your Way to Happiness!
Walking Meditation is one of the best ways I know to relieve stress and calm an anxious mind. It’s ideally suited for those times when you want to meditate but don’t want to spend more time sitting still. It’s also a way of getting some gentle exercise and getting outside to enjoy the beauty of the season. Many people find it’s a way of freeing up their ideas and of magically finding creative solutions to difficult problems.
Winter Solstice & Yoga Teaching Notes
Inspire your Winter Solstice yoga teaching and home yoga practice
Yoga Through the Year author, Jilly Shipway, share her teaching notes for an inspired Winter Solstice Yoga Day. You will find yoga practices, meditations, affirmations, relaxations, and inspiring quotes. This resource will take the strain out of your Winter Solstice yoga course planning. Get Inspired!
Although this resource is aimed at yoga teachers, it would also be a source of inspiration for any yoga enthusiast.
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