The aim is to reflect the fundamentals of Śrī Krishnamacharya’s teaching, namely, transmission occurs through the direct experience of the teacher with the students personal practice and study Sādhana.
This page lists Paul Harvey’s ‘On the Road’ Teaching Schedule with Yoga Workshops, Seminars, Retreats and Training Courses within the UK, Ireland and Overseas travel further afield. Though preferring not to be too involved in the Yoga Seminar Circuit, Paul is available to teach for a limited number of dates each year.
If you are interested in Paul running a Workshop, Course or Retreat in your Locale please do Contact him.
Upcoming ‘On the Road’ Yoga Events are listed below:
ISRAELI YOGA TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION
Friday/Saturday January 10/11th 2020
The Art of Haṭha Energetics
Vitalize your Energy Understanding Nāḍī, Prāṇa, Agni, Cakra, Bhūta
Through practice, presentation, study and discussion we will explore the role and purpose of Haṭha Yoga drawing on traditional and contemporary Yoga teachings and practices.
– Unpacking Primary Haṭha concepts such as:
Prāṇa, Apāna, Amṛtam, Candra, Sūrya, Agni, Mūla, Mala,
Tridoṣa, Dvadasa Nādī, Kuṇḍalinī, Avidyā, Ṣat Cakra, Bhūta
– Exploring how the primary concepts are linked
– Learning skills from Haṭha Yoga to refine our Practice
– Linking the concepts of Haṭha Yoga to refine our Teaching
This teaching will be linked to the energetic principles underpinning Haṭha Yoga and Āyurveda and how they can be applied in terms of recovery, support or developmental roles for the students starting point, potential and goals.
The two days will suit Teachers and Students interested in how Haṭha Yoga theory and practice can be applied within 121 and group teaching situations whilst still integrating the deeper potentials of Rāja Yoga theory and practice into both the student’s short term and longer term needs and goals.
Follow Link to Read or Download a PDF of the Course
BRITISH WHEEL OF YOGA – LONDON REGION
Sunday 1st December 2018
IST Day – BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ – YOGA IN ACTIONS
In India people from every sphere of life, from physicians to politicians and religious teachers to shopkeepers, consider the Bhagavad Gītā to be a source of inspiration.
What is it that makes this great text a teaching for all these situations and what is its relationship to Yoga and with Western students?
Open to teachers/student teachers and serious yoga practicioners wishing to enhance their own understanding and if relevant, professional skills.
The Art of Hatha Energetics
Two day workshop Sat/Sun 29/30th September 2018
G25, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh
To book please contact maria@yogascotland.org.uk
Vitalize your Energy Understanding Nāḍī Prāṇa Agni Cakra Bhūta
Through practice, presentation, study and discussion we will explore the role and purpose of Haṭha Yoga drawing on traditional and contemporary Yoga teachings and practices.
• Unpacking Primary Haṭha concepts such as: Prāṇa, Apāna, Amṛtam, Candra, Sūrya, Agni, Mūla, Mala, Tridoṣa, Dvadasa Nādī, Kuṇḍalinī, Avidyā, Ṣat Cakra, Bhūta
• Exploring how the primary concepts are linked
• Learning skills from Haṭha Yoga to refine our Practice
• Linking the concepts of Haṭha Yoga to refine our Teaching T
his teaching will be linked to the energetic principles underpinning Haṭha Yoga and Āyurveda and how they can be applied in terms of recovery, support or developmental roles for the students starting point, potential and goals.
The day will suit Teachers and Students interested in how Haṭha Yoga can be applied within a group teaching curriculum whilst still integrating the deeper potentials of Rāja Yoga theory and practice into both short term and longer term needs and goals.
Follow Link to Read or Download a PDF of the Course
Yoga Workshops in Reykjavik, Iceland with Paul Harvey
on Yoga Practice and Theory over 3 days
31st August to 2nd September 2018
Friday: Sound Health – An evening of Nāda Yoga
The evening will offer an introduction to Sound, Mantra and Yoga Chanting practice within postural movement and meditational stillness. The focus will be the role of sound and chanting as a tool for health, positive well being and enhanced awareness.
Saturday: Yoga as a View, a Practice and a Tool
A day of Yoga to explore the relationship between the Goals of Yoga, the Principles of Practice and the many Yoga styles around today in the West. We will be working with the Tools in the viniyoga of Yoga utilising the Practice principles of Haṭha Yoga and the View of the Yoga Sūtra in cultivating awareness and supporting our journey towards Yoga’s Goal.
Sunday: The Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali – The A-Y of Yoga
A day of Yoga study and practice to explore the four chapters of the Yoga Sūtra as – The Map, the Vehicle, the Journey and the Goal – to help guide the Art of Personal Yoga Practice into greater depth, subtlety and relevance to daily life.
Contact Yogātma for Further details
Southampton Yoga Association
Saturday May 19th 2018
The Art of Setting Priorities in Āsana Practice
This practice focused workshop will explore through practice and reflection
how to set priorities when establishing a core Āsana practice.
We will look at short and long term choices in choosing postures
to focus and develop within our practice.
It is offered for all Yoga students, teachers or trainee teachers from any background
interested in the core principles in Haṭha Yoga and how we can:
- Appreciate the Role of Primary Āsana
- Appreciate the Role of Secondary Āsana
- Appreciate the Role of Link Āsana
- Choose Short Term and Long Term Goals
- Appreciate Developmental, Support or Therapeutic Choices
From this we can facilitate a deeper and more effective practice
through developing insight into how structural postural and practice patterns may be:
- Unhelpful in terms of health, well being and attitude
- Inadequate in that they reinforce existing postural patterns
Finally we will explore integrating our Āsana practice with the principles within Haṭha Yoga,
into the goals and potentials of Yoga for our personal Yoga Journey.
BRITISH WHEEL OF YOGA – SOUTH WEST REGION
Sunday March 25th 2018 in Bristol
IST Day – Observations in Āsana
Aims of the Morning
1. To provide an introduction to observation in Āsana
2. To show its relevance to both group and individual teaching today
3. To illustrate its relevance to appropriate application of a range of Āsana
Objectives
1. To develop further skills in assessing students bodies, breath and attitude
2. To develop skills in primary and secondary observation points in Āsana
3. To develop skills in primary and secondary observation points in the student
Aims of the Afternoon
1. To demonstrate the relevance of observation in supporting the teacher in more effective lesson planning
2. To link observation in asana to development and refinement of the students Āsana practice
3. To offer the idea of adapting the asana to the student rather than the student to the Āsana
Objectives
1. To develop further skills in choosing appropriate Āsana for today’s student and their potential
2. To develop skills in using observation in assessing the long term development of a students Āsana potential
3. To develop skills in adapting Āsana more effectively within a group class setting
The day will suit BWY Teachers and Students interested in how Yoga can be applied
within a teaching curriculum whilst still integrating the deeper potentials of Yoga theory and practice into both short term and longer term needs and goals.
Follow Link to Read or Download a PDF of the Course
Four Days of Training in Yoga Practice & Study
January 10th-13th 2018 with Paul Harvey
Three Tools in the Application of Yoga
Āsana – Sūtra – Cikitsā
Practice – Inquiry – Therapy
Theme 1. Teaching Intermediate Āsana
Theme 2. Exploring Yoga Sūtra as a Spiritual Inquiry
Theme 3. Applying Yoga for Cikitsā Conditions
Our time together will explore the above three themes from an Application perspective and its application to Yoga teaching within a variety of situations for a variety of students.
We will spend our mornings focused around the Study of the Yoga Sūtra as a Spiritual Inquiry and Teaching Intermediate Āsana within a range of situations.
Our afternoons will again focus on Teaching Āsana Practice within 121 situations and Exploring Yoga as Cikitsā .
We will immerse ourselves in the teachings of
T Krishnamacharya on the viniyoga of Yoga within 121 situations, as well as his understanding of Haṭha, Rāja and Āyurveda from my 23 years of study with TKV Desikachar.
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ISRAELI YOGA TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION
Tuesday January 9th 2018
Sound Health Workshop on
A Half Day of Yoga Chanting with Paul Harvey,
student of TKV Desikachar
A half day open to all Yoga students and teachers interested in Sound and Chanting,
irrespective of experience and ability.
We will explore Yoga Chanting focussed on the Viniyoga or application of Sound within Practice,
with discussion and question time.
The emphasis will be the application of Yoga chanting in practice and
the role of sound as a tool for health, well being and awareness.
Follow Link to Read or Download a PDF of the Course
ISRAELI YOGA TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION
Two Day Yoga Intensive January 5/6th 2018
Āsana, Prāṇāyāma, Mantra and Sūtra
The Art of the Application of Yoga Practice & Study
Body Postures or Āsana
Yoga as a Physiological Practice
Seated Breathing or Prāṇāyāma
Yoga as an Energetic Practice
Chanting Sacred Sounds or Mantra
Yoga as a Devotional Practice
Personal Sādhana as Āsana, Prāṇāyāma & Mantra
Yoga as a Physiological-Energetic-Devotional Practice
Textual Study or Yoga Sūtra
Yoga as a Spiritual Inquiry
We will look at Yoga Practice through the Physiological and Energetic aims underpinning Āsana and Prāṇāyāma and Devotional aims underpinning Mantra. Plus how these tools are vital aids to the Spiritual Inquiry within the Yoga Sūtra.
We will explore their potential as tools to recover, support or transform within short term or long term situations, given the students starting point, potentials and personal goals.
This two day intensive reflects the teachings of TKV Desikachar and his teacher T Krishnamacharya as taught to Paul Harvey. It is offered with respect for the vital source from which these Yoga teachings originated and their place in our age and culture.
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BRITISH WHEEL OF YOGA – SOUTH WEST REGION
Sunday 15th October 2017
IST Day – BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ – YOGA IN ACTIONS
In India people from every sphere of life, from physicians to politicians and religious teachers to shopkeepers, consider the Bhagavad Gītā to be a source of inspiration.
What is it that makes this great text a teaching for all these situations and what is its relationship to Yoga and with Western students?
Open to teachers/student teachers and serious yoga practicioners wishing to enhance their own understanding and if relevant, professional skills.
Three Tools in the Application of Yoga
Āsana – Sūtra – Āyurveda
Practice – Psychology – Lifestyle
Four Days of Yoga Teaching on Practice and Study
with Paul Harvey
January 11th – 14th 2017 in Herzliya, Israel
- Theme 1. Teaching Āsana as a Personal Practice
- Theme 2. Learning Sūtra as a Psychological Practice
- Theme 3. Exploring Āyurveda as a Lifestyle Practice
Our time together will explore the relationship of the above three themes in the personal application of Yoga to individual situations within 121 teaching relationships.
We will spend our mornings focused around the Study of Chapter One of the Yoga Sūtra and Teaching Āsana Practices for different students within 121 situations.
Our afternoons will again focus on Teaching Āsana Practice within 121 situations, as well as Exploring Āyurveda as a Lifestyle Practice.
We will immerse ourselves in the teachings of T Krishnamacharya on the viniyoga of Yoga within 121 situations, as well as exploring his understanding of Haṭha, Rāja and Āyurveda from my 23 years of study with TKV Desikachar.
Follow Link to Read or Download a PDF of the Course
Three Tools for the Application of Yoga
Āsana – Prāṇāyāma – Sūtra
Body – Breath – Mind
Four Days of Yoga Training
with Paul Harvey
January 13th – 16th 2016 in Herzliya, Israel
- Theme 1. Planning Āsana Practices
- Theme 2. Observing & Adapting Āsana
- Theme 3. Planning Prāṇāyāma Practices
- Theme 4. Chapter Two of the Yoga Sūtra
Our time together will explore the viniyoga or application of each of the above four themes.
We will spend our mornings focused on Yoga Sūtra Study and Planning Āsana Practices and our afternoons will be spent around Planning Prāṇāyāma Practices and Observation & Adaptation of Āsana.
We will immerse ourselves in the teachings of T Krishnamacharya on the viniyoga of Yoga as well as his study of Haṭha and Rāja texts drawn from my 23 years of study in Personal Lessons with TKV Desikachar.
Follow Link to Read or Download a PDF of the Course
ISRAELI YOGA TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION
Two Day Yoga Intensive January 8/9th 2016
The Art of Setting Priorities for Āsana and the Yoga Body
This two day intensive will explore how to set priorities when establishing a core Āsana practice.
We will look at short and long term goals in choosing postures to focus and develop within our practice.
It is for all interested in the structural and energetic principles that underpin the selection, application and practice of Āsana respecting the principles of Haṭha Yoga and their importance within Modern Postural Yoga.
We will explore Krishnamacharya and Desikachar’s teachings on Yoga and its relationship to and links with modern Kinesiological processes, as well as to its roots within the energetic principles underpinning Haṭha.
It is offered for all Yoga students, teachers and trainee teachers from any background interested in the core principles in the teachings of Haṭha Yoga that support refining and developing the body in our Āsana practice.
Each session will help us to develop, through presentation, textual contexting, and kinesiological examination, along with practical demonstration, small group interaction and personal practice experience, how we can:
- Appreciate the Role of Primary Āsana for the Yoga Body
- Appreciate the Role of Secondary Āsana for the Yoga Body
- Appreciate the Role in Linking Āsana for the Yoga Body
- Choose Short Term and Long Term Developmental Goals for the Yoga Body
- Appreciate Developmental, Support or Therapeutic Choices for the Yoga Body
- Appreciate the importance of the Energetic Structural Priorities within Haṭha Yoga
- Understand how to establish Kinesiological Structural Priorities for Modern Postural Yoga
- Appreciate the relationship between Energetic and Kinesiological Structural Priorities
From this we can facilitate a deeper, more effective and progressive practice through developing direct insight and appreciation into how structural postural and practice patterns may be:
- Unhelpful in terms of health, well being and attitude
- Inadequate in that they reinforce existing postural patterns
Finally we will explore how to integrate the Structural and Energetic aspects of Āsana practice within Haṭha Yoga into the goals and deeper potentials of Yoga within our lives and personal Yoga Journey.
Follow Link to Read or Download a PDF of the Workshop
Postscript to 2016 Israel visit:
Posting this travel and teaching news evoked a reflection and realisation that this visit marks a 20 year anniversary since my first teaching visit to Israel in 1996.
The theme for that 1996 visit was “Prāṇa, Patañjali and Practice”.
A continuing and developing thread it seems to this day except that over this time a community of committed students has evolved so I find myself not just introducing, but being able to expand and deepen the exploration of these three primary Yoga themes. That of Haṭha, Rāja and Sādhana.
It is also a welcome aspect not just to be able to return and deepen teachings but also to be able to leave knowing there are home resources in place for interested students to be able to follow up with and from.
My gratitude, thanks and love around this to Ziva Kinrot for a friendship and studentship that stretches back to 1995 when we first met, curiously enough, in Switzerland.
The confidence that I feel in being able to visit and share more teachings, from the wellspring that Krishnamacharya tapped into and left available, knowing that I am able to leave students in the capable and respectful hands of Ziva, along with those who trained with her, is what draws me back here again and again.
Thus I look forward to this visit and to returning in 2017 and 2018, with dates in the diary and teaching themes already in place as part of a three year project.
BRITISH WHEEL OF YOGA – WEST MIDLANDS REGION
Saturday 10th October 2015 10:00am to 4:00pm
IST Day – BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ – YOGA IN ACTIONS
In India people from every sphere of life, from physicians to politicians and religious teachers to shopkeepers, consider the Bhagavad Gītā to be a source of inspiration.
What is it that makes this great text a teaching for all these situations and what is its relationship to Yoga and with Western students?
Open to teachers/student teachers and serious yoga practicioners wishing to enhance their own understanding.
British Wheel of Yoga National Congress
April 10th to 12th 2015
Venue: Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL
The Evolution of Yoga through the practices of Dhyāna, Prāṇāyāma, Mudrā and Āsana
Session A – Friday 15.00 – 16.30
Session D – Saturday 11.15 – 12.45 (Repeat)
Asana, Chanting, Discussion, Meditation, Philosophy, Pranayama, S
ound
An experiential practice and practice theory presentation exploring the unfolding of Yoga as a Sādhana through the four major areas of:
- Yoga Dhyāna or seated meditation
- Prāṇāyāma or seated breathing
- Mudrā or special postures
- Āsana or general postures
that embody Yoga practice as we know it today.
The Evolution of Yoga through the Teachings of the Upanisaṭ, Bhagavad Gītā, Yoga Sūtra and Haṭha Texts
Session C – Saturday 09.00 – 10.30
Session F – Sunday 10.00 – 11.30 (Repeat)
Discussion, Lecture, Philosophy
The Evolution of Yoga through the Teachings of the Upanisaṭ, Bhagavad Gītā, Yoga Sūtra and Haṭha Texts.
- Upanisaṭ – Exploration of spirit as a personal path
- Bhagavad Gītā – From confusion to clarity
- Yoga Sūtra – Path of Meditation towards Freedom
- Haṭha Texts – What good is the sword of knowledge to cut through the chains of illusion if the holder is too weak to bear it.
A lecture-discussion format exploring the unfolding of Yoga through the time frame linking the four major textual sources that embraced the teachings and practices that embody Yoga as we know it today.
CENTRE FOR YOGA STUDIES ISRAEL
February 4th – 7th 2015
The Art of the Application of Yoga – Four Days of Yoga Training
Venue: Tel Aviv
- Day 1. The Application of Āsana
- Day 2. The Application of Prāṇāyāma
- Day 3. The Application of Mudrā
- Day 4. The Application of Dhyāna
Our time together will be an exploration of the viniyoga or personal and professional application of each of the four themes.
We will draw from Haṭha and Rāja texts as well as ancient and contemporary teachings on body and mind from my 25 years of study with TKV Desikachar into the teachings of T Krishnamacharya.
ISRAELI YOGA TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION
Two Day Yoga Intensive January 30/31st 2015
Yoga Cikitsa and the Pañca Maya Yoga as Therapeutic Healthcare for different aspects of Being
The ancient model of the Pañca Maya from the Taittirīya Upaniṣad can be used as a skillful therapeutic paradigm in terms of its view of five aspects of the human being as Physical, Energetic, Mental, Personality and Emotional.
As well as applying this paradigm to the Western medical models for disease it will be linked to the common energetic principles underpinning Haṭha Yoga and Āyurveda and psychological principles inherent within the Yoga Sūtra.
We will explore the potential for applying these principles as diagnostic & prognostic tools in terms of recovery, lifestyle support or developmental modalities in considering the students starting point, potential and personal goals.
This two day intensive will suit Teachers and Trainee Teachers interested in how Yoga can be applied as Therapeutic Healthcare within our teaching, especially with individuals, whilst integrating the deeper potentials of Yoga theory and practice into both our short term and longer term work.
