We cover the broad picture - how can we think about & express yoga so that “getting the pose right” is less important than an expansive experience of yoga.

We offer radical teachings on the nature of freedom, that we are all already home, loved, loveable. This teaching expresses itself in different ways in different bodies. We can still “work hard” but this isn’t the ultimate aim!

Then we fill in enough practical detail to deepen your teaching and learn the practical skills to make everyone feel safe. Often what we really need is to empower the student to show us what works for them!

We explore the nervous system and how yoga works to improve our mental health & adaptability, so that we become capable of coping with stress.

You will have ways to structure class for those who do feel really anxious, and for those who need more simple movement patterns.

But the underlying teaching remains the same- a practice that can be both challenging and easeful for everyone. A practice where the underlying philosophy of yoga sustains the whole class.

There are many ways to be inclusive and this course focuses on those we most often encounter:

• how to help anxious people feel safe
• trauma sensitive principles made simple
• asana for those in larger bodies
• how to adapt poses with props
• how to sequence a class which empowers everyone with options
• adaptable class planning

We cover theory, practical tips and a few bonus classes to see how it all comes together.

This is an online course with a closed group who work through the content together and support each other in their learning and practice.

In addition to the pre-recorded videos, I will record Q&A’s to answer your specific questions and concerns.

I would genuinely love to share this course with you.

• The course is registered with Yoga Alliance Professionals UK as a CPD course
• Laura Gilmore yoga is also in the process of creating a 200hr & 300hr online. The course will be a part of this recognised by Laura Gilmore yoga as a training.
• We are also applying to register the 200hr & 300hr with Yoga Alliance US.
• If it goes through we will retrospectively invite you to register the hours towards these courses with the YA US.

Pay in full: £297
OR
6 monthly payments: £49.50

I am committed to making the practice of yoga inclusive.

If you are in need of a bursary please apply via the bursary page or email me to say what fee is possible for you over the 6 months.

My work & personal life have centred around those with “disabilities”, mental health issues or those who have a felt sense of being “different”. Whilst I do not (yet) have a formal diagnosis, to those who know me well it is evident I have my own neuro-divergent ways. My family is all on the neuro-interesting side of things & I have spent the last 16 years advocating for my autistic - ADHD son. The difficulties with “disability” are often more from the environment- the education system or work place, the transport system etc. rather than necessarily from the person themselves.

My work prior to yoga was running a market garden in a Camphill community, and being an advocate there for those we work alongsidfe- including folks with differnt abilities. Such as Downs Syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, deafness etc. I had the blessed experience of working with men and women who enlightened me, as to the power of love and everything we have in common beyond appearances. They were beautiful times I am so happy to have had. Isobel a woman with Downs Syndrome, in her 40s and 50s when I was there was the heart of the community, and someone who changed everyone she met with her love.

From here I took an MA in sustainable environmental management and I studied access to food, which made it so clear to me that poverty and weight gain so often go together, because of the lack of political will to ensure equitable access to healthy food or nutrition education. Sugars & carbs are cheap; proteins & vegetables are comparatively expensive. Health suffers as a direct consequence of the way business and politics are organised.

Living in London I then worked with an organisation who support those who fled from wards & have been tortured. My work again was in the community garden in group psychotherapy and horticultural therapy projects.

I left this workplace to follow my love of yoga and had the privilege to travel in India and study intensively. I had started yoga some 10 years earlier while at uni. On my return to the UK I started teaching yoga, & continued to study. I offered yoga to those with different needs through day centres and loved the chance to share the yoga in this way.

Over time my own teaching practice evolved to be more trauma sensitive. I taught in Holloway women’s prison in London and saw how the effects of trauma had shaped the lives of women.

My awareness of anxiety grew through study and personal experience through lockdown & into my peri menopause.

I feel it now time to put together this lifetime of research, practice and knowledge- learning from when things went wrong as well as right!

The main thing that I see is that its so often we judge people from our differences rather than all we have in common. When we lean into yoga philosophy and add the fact as are all fundamentally the same, we can offer a genuinely compassionate and really joyful yoga. I am so happy to share this with you.
Laura