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 Seasonal 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.
Over the next few months, I will be adding workbooks for all the seasons and more resources for teachers. 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.
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
Summer Solstice & Yoga Online Workbook
The Summer Solstice is a fiery, passionate, creative time, when the Sun reaches the fullness of its waxing cycle. This course invites you to connect with your own inner sun, as you step over the threshold and into the second half of the year. During the course you will be given the opportunity to celebrate your outer achievements and to reflect upon which seeds failed to germinate, and how you would do things differently next time. You will integrate your Summer Solstice wisdom into creative explorations of yoga practices, meditations and visualizations. Summer Solstice meditation questions will enable you to connect with the prevailing energy of the season and anticipate how best to direct your energy in the coming season of fruitfulness.
Chakra Yoga Lesson Planning Just Got Easier!
Lesson planing doesn't have to be a chore! Rediscover what a joyful, creative experience working with the chakras can be. This workbook will help you to unlock your creative potential as a teacher and enable you to plan and teach magical, magnificent chakra-inspired yoga sessions! This self-paced, online course will deepen your understanding of the chakras and reveal to you the magical beauty of the chakras. And by the end of the course, you will feel confident to share your knowledge with your students and introduce them to the inspiring world of the rainbow-coloured chakras.
Beltane Yoga Resources for Teachers
Yoga course planning just got easier. Find inspiration for your Spring to Summer yoga classes and courses. Jilly shares her Beltane-inspired teaching notes, yoga sequences, meditations, visualisations, and inspirational quotes.
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!
This self-paced online coursebook is coming soon!
All Products Page
Can't find what you're looking for? Check out my All Products Page and get inspired by the wide range of Seasonal Yoga courses and resources.
Seasonal Yoga an Introduction
Connect with the cycle of the seasons to find balance in your life
This free mini-course gives you a comprehensive guide to the seasonal yoga approach and furnishes you with all the background information that you need to progress on to one of my Yoga Through the Year paid courses. I invite you, to take the first step towards increasing your seasonal awareness and empowering yourself to creatively integrate seasonal wisdom into your yoga practice and life.