Malcolm McLean, RYT

 

Résumé of yoga teaching, teacher training and workshops (contact hours) practice, seva, reading. November 2005.

 

Teaching

 

YMCA Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal.

June 03-                                Two/three open hatha yoga classes per week

 

Mandala Yoga, 5513 Monkland Ave, Montreal. 514-369-8008

December 03-                       One open hatha yoga class per week

 

Yoga on the Park, Joy of Yoga studio, Institut de Yoga et meditation, Westmount YMCA

2003-                                      Replacement teaching.

 

Yogamonde, 5124 Boul St. Laurent, Studio 300, Ville Ste. Catherine, Quebec, Canada. 450-638-9050

April –June 2003:                  Teaching one hatha yoga class, assisting two other hatha yoga classes, per week.

 

Perle Yoga, Montreal

May 2002-Feb 2003             Teaching one hatha yoga class per week

 

 

Teacher Training, Workshops, Intensives, Retreats

 

(682 contact hrs) (descending chronological order)

 

Nov 11-12 05                       Asana Workshop with Gérard Arnaud. Om Yoga, New York City, NY.                                      12 hours

May 15 05/Oct 05                 Open Heart. Backbends and inversions workshops with Kelly McGrath, Joy of Yoga Studio.  9h

May 6-8 05 – June 05           Earth sky water… silence.  Yoga and meditation retreats with Mollie Lawson, Knowlton Qc.                                                                         36 h

Feb 27-28 05                        Acro Yoga workshop, Ashtanga Yoga Studio 5 h

Oct 16-17 04                         Anusara Yoga workshop with Robin Golt and Barrie Risman.                                              15 h

Feb 15 04                              Workshop on inversions with Brandee Sarid, Centre l’esprit, Montreal                                3 hours

Jan 9-10 04                           Workshop with Maxine and Michael Munro on Anatomy for yoga, and meditation. Joy of Yoga Studio, Montreal                           9 hours

June 2003-May04                 Workshops and practice with Dr. Ray Long (FRCS) on anatomy, application of resistance training and other techniques of  Iyengar yoga practice                                                                                  100 hours

June 14-15 2003                   Anusara workshop with Jimmy Bernaert, certified Anusara teacher.                               14 hours

May 3-4 2003                        Anusara yoga workshop, with Robin Golt, Anusara affiliated teacher.                              6 hours

March 23 2003.                     Ageless yoga workshop with Lila Osterman. Asana flow based on Anusara, Kripalu and Kum Nye (Tibetan), and pranayama.    7 hours

March 4-9 2003                     Anusara yoga teacher training with Suzie Hurley (Willow Street Yoga), Anusara certified teacher trainer, at the Albany Kripalu Yoga Centre.                                                                                   23.5 hours

November 23 2002               Anusara yoga workshop with Jimmy Bernaert, Anusara teacher trainer, in Montreal.

6 hours

Sept 30- Oct 4 2002             “Radiant Body, Awakened Mind and Open Heart”. Anusara yoga, meditation and chanting workshop with John Friend, Sharon Salzburg, and Krishna Das at the Omega Institute, New York. 35 hours

Sept 22 2002                        Anusara posture workshop with Robin Golt, Anusara affiliated teacher, Centre bien-etre, Montreal.                                                                               3 hours

Oct 2001- May 2002             Ashtanga teacher training program, Ashtanga Yoga Studio, Montreal. Postures, adjustments, teaching techniques, ethics, anatomy, Sanskrit, practicum. Friday PM and one weekend per month. With Mark Darby, Allison Ulan.                           180 hours

Aug 27-Sept 2 2001             Ashtanga teacher training workshop with David Swenson, at the Ashtanga yoga studio, Montreal.                                                                        40 hours

Feb 17 2001                          Alignment workshop with Hart Lazer, Ashtanga yoga studio, Montreal.                                                                                                                                3 hours

July 3-6 2000                         Yoga asana workshop for teachers with Dona Holleman, Calgary.                           25 hours

Apr 16 2000                          Iyengar yoga workshop with George Purvis and John Schumacher, at Unity Woods Yoga Centre, Washington DC                              3 hours

Jan 12 2000                          Ashtanga workshop with Allison Ulan, Ashtanga Yoga Studio, Montreal.                               6 hours

1988-99                                 Yoga and meditation retreats and workshops with Mollie Lawson, in Montreal, Sutton, and  Mont-Tremblant.                                          90 hours

Spring 1987                           Hatha yoga teacher training workshop with Mollie Lawson, La Rose Yoga.                   15 hours

1987-1990                             Siddha Yoga meditation intensives, South Fallsburgh NY and Montreal.                               36 hours

 

Practice

(ascending chronological order)

1973                                                      Began yoga practice: Sivananda yoga course, Algonquin College, Ottawa.

1986                                                      Resumed practice: classes at Westmount YMCA with Cathy Cozzens.

1986                           Hatha yoga, meditation and chanting classes with Mollie Lawson, La Rose Yoga, Montreal. Continued working with Mollie Lawson, to the present.  Home practice of asanas and meditation also started at this time (varying from intense and regular daily to non-existent for months).

1999                           Eclectic asana practice, 3-7 classes per week, supplemented by home asana and meditation practice.  Primarily Ashtanga and Bikram. Also Iyengar, Kripalu, various other hatha yoga, power yoga, Anusara, Sivananda, kriya, Jivamukti.

2002–                         Hatha yoga and meditation practice.

 

Seva

Seva project: webmaster for the Yogamontreal website at http://www.yogamontreal.com. Create and maintain a directory of yoga studios and teachers in the Montreal region, schedule of events and discussion pages on various yoga topics.

 

Reading

Some of the books about or closely related to yoga which I have read and found valuable over the years (in no particular order): Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda (which I read as a teenager and led me to my first class); Light on Yoga, BKS Iyengar (which I consult as the definitive reference on postures); The Heart of Yoga, TKV Desikachar (whose message about yoga adapting to the individual I hold dearly); Dancing the Body of Light, Dona Holleman, Orit Sen-Gupta (particularly for their emphasis on the value of the many postures as expressions of the intelligence of the body); Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chogyam Trungpa (about living yoga); Loving-Kindness, Sharon Salzburg (which has put structure into meditation); Power Yoga, Beryl Bender Birch; Ashtanga - The Practice Manual, David Swenson (both of the above 2 are excellent guides to ashtanga practice); Yoga – The Iyengar Way, Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta (an accessible reference to key postures); The Anatomy of Hatha Yoga, Coulter (the authority on what is happening in the body during yoga); The Yoga Tradition, Feurstein (a definitive encyclopedia); Interbeing, Thich Nat Hanh (advice from a great practitioner of Buddhism); Yoga – Maitriser les postures de base, Anderson and Savik; (Ten Principal Upanishads, translation by WB Yeats and Shree Purohit Swami (very readable version of the classic texts); Yoga Mala, K Pattabhi Jois (I learned much and fought much) …  also magazines, esp Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and Ascent