Background of FinY Course
In August 1991, Cherry Ray, a yoga teacher trained with the IYTA held a yoga day, at which she invited the participants to join her in forming a yoga group, whose sole purpose was to promote yoga (any branch, style) by whatever means was appropriate. In this aim she was encouraged and supported by her friends. This was the beginning of a group, which was known throughout Perth. The organisation had two ‘branches’. We ran regular yoga weekends with both our locally trained teachers and interstate presenters; we held yoga days, as well as supporting our local Integral Yoga Centre with its days. Every month or two we enjoyed social activities, open to all (not just members), which ranged from picnics to cinema outings to winery visits.
The other ‘branch’ was and still is concerned with the running of a Teacher Training Course (since 1993), which was started (at the prompting of Isobel Kerley) by Joanna Wakefield, Heather Drayton, Isobel and Cherry Ray. A number of teachers over the years have been involved in running the monthly workshops; presenting workshop sessions; setting assignments and marking them; overseeing practical work and helping to open the ‘door of knowledge’, just a crack, enabling students to feel confident by the end of the course, when they start teaching their own classes. The course was and is still Perth based. The Correspondence Course, organised and taught solely by Cherry started in 2003, prompted by a real need for remote and rural yogis to access teacher training. The Perth based course was continued by Michele Hendarwin.
At the FinY AGM in February 2009 it was decided to wind up the organisation, but to continue with teacher training. The Correspondence Course has now been melded into the Perth course with exactly the same content but slightly changed delivery. Joanna Wakefield ran the course from Jan 2013 until July 2016, and it is now being overseen by Cherry and Michele
The training course is now the only part of FinY still operating and successfully “spreading the word”, and it is registered as a 350 hour course with Yoga Australia.
The other ‘branch’ was and still is concerned with the running of a Teacher Training Course (since 1993), which was started (at the prompting of Isobel Kerley) by Joanna Wakefield, Heather Drayton, Isobel and Cherry Ray. A number of teachers over the years have been involved in running the monthly workshops; presenting workshop sessions; setting assignments and marking them; overseeing practical work and helping to open the ‘door of knowledge’, just a crack, enabling students to feel confident by the end of the course, when they start teaching their own classes. The course was and is still Perth based. The Correspondence Course, organised and taught solely by Cherry started in 2003, prompted by a real need for remote and rural yogis to access teacher training. The Perth based course was continued by Michele Hendarwin.
At the FinY AGM in February 2009 it was decided to wind up the organisation, but to continue with teacher training. The Correspondence Course has now been melded into the Perth course with exactly the same content but slightly changed delivery. Joanna Wakefield ran the course from Jan 2013 until July 2016, and it is now being overseen by Cherry and Michele
The training course is now the only part of FinY still operating and successfully “spreading the word”, and it is registered as a 350 hour course with Yoga Australia.
