Dee first began practising yoga in 1985, while working as a Secretary, and found it to be an uplifting experience for her.
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About Dee Cammack
Dee first began practising yoga in 1985, while working as a Secretary, and found it to be an uplifting experience for her. In 1986 her life took a different path when she began teaching Life Skills and Personal Development at the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce Training Centre. In 1992, following redundancy, she became a full time student at The College of St Mark and St John (Marjon) in Plymouth, studying Public Relations, Sociology and Social Psychology. She graduated in 1995 with a BA Hons awarded by Exeter University.
In 1997, while studying for a Certificate in Education (Post 16) with the University of Plymouth, she visited India and was there inspired to deepen her experience of yoga, as a result of which she took the decision to study for the British Wheel of Yoga Teaching Diploma. Dee has been teaching yoga classes in and around Plymouth since 1997.
Dee’s life and yoga practice have been greatly influenced by the late Swami Neel Kamal who taught in the village of Wembury, prior to taking up residence at the Mandala Ashram. Dee’s yoga practice and teaching has also been influenced by several other local yoga teachers including: Roma Thomas; Mira Love; Barbara Cooper; Rob Barnes; Sophie Richmond and Nic Sharpe, all of whose classes she has attended over a period of 20 years or so. Then of course, the time she spent studying for her Diploma with Black Feather Moon (Frances Taylor) has been an invaluable experience from which she has learned so much more about Life the Universe and everything! More recently Dee has been studying with Ranju Roy (Yoga Mala) and her yoga practice has, she feels been greatly enhanced by the influence of the Vi Niyoga style. There are many others too numerous to mention who have helped Dee on her journey this far, students, colleagues and teachers, both from inside and outside of the world of yoga. Dee wishes to thank them all for their support.
Dee's Yoga Style
I am often asked what kind of yoga I practice and I am sometimes unsure of the correct answer to give to this question. The simple answer is ‘Hatha Yoga’ but that does not really cover the whole answer and I am aware that some of my yoga practices are not strictly Hatha and also that I do not use some practices that are part of the Hatha regime.
Yoga for me has evolved and continues to do so – as I believe it should for all students of yoga.
My original training was with teachers who were British Wheel trained and I myself have been trained by the British Wheel of Yoga as a Teacher of yoga. But there is far more to it than that. Both my own personal practice of yoga and my teaching of yoga are influenced by every new teacher that I come across in some way. Sometimes negatively and sometimes positively.
My body evolves, ages (unfortunately), changes physically and my abilities change, my mental and emotional life changes are also a part of this evolution – all these things affect and influence the style of yoga that I practice and teach.
I do not teach yoga practices that I have not practised myself, so this does limit my teaching but also enables me to teach safely and with personal awareness.
Attendance at various yoga seminars and my visit to the Mandala Yoga Ashram have given me insight to the Bihar School of Yoga and its practices. I use their book Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha as my main point of reference for yoga practices. And recently my physical body has been unwilling to allow me to do everything that I am asking my students to do. This has meant that I have learned to teach by description and learned to limit the amount of demonstration and “do with me”.
However, a few months ago, my voice became a problem and I had to rely on demonstrations and “do with me” teaching to enable my yoga classes to continue. Another interesting learning experience.
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