About RYE
Micheline Flak founded RYE – Research on Yoga in Education - in 1978. She taught English in a Parisian middle school and was also a yoga practitioner and teacher. Her experience of yoga began to influence her English lessons and through various experiments of incorporating yoga instruction in the classroom she became deeply interested in the way yoga enhanced the whole learning process. Micheline’s experience of yoga comes from the Satyananda tradition - a holistic approach, integrating all aspects of being; here she learned the systematic relaxation of Yoga Nidra™, developed from and ancient practice by Swami Satyananda to make it accessible and useful for modern man.
RYE has its roots in ancient yogic tradition, and its basis is centred on 6 principles that are relevant and effective tools for the modern classroom. RYE uses simple yoga techniques – postures, breathing, relaxation and concentration in small amounts throughout the lesson to improve learning, by unifying the body with the mind, creating amity within the class, amongst both peers and teacher.
More and more research is constantly being explored on the complexity of how individuals learn and schools are often implementing new methods. This in itself can often be draining for teachers who already have a multitude of tasks to perform. The key to RYE is that the teacher experiences yoga and RYE techniques for themselves to help harmonise both body and mind, enabling them to use the techniques more effectively.
RYE UK and EURYE
RYE UK was set up in July 2005 and since then we have conducted the Foundation Module in London, at Bath Spa University and in Bulgaria. We have run sessions at the international seminar that is conducted by EURYE and held every 2 years in different countries. EURYE gives teachers from different countries an opportunity to connect with other teachers and to share ideas and techniques. EURYE is an international organisation with branches in France, Italy, Belgium, Uruguay, Israel and Greece to name but a few. Each country runs their own RYE training according to the needs of participants. See: www.eurye.eu
Meet the RYE UK trainers
Lynn Parrott - London
Lynn
Parrott is a director of RYE UK and completed her RYE training with Micheline
Flak, the founder of RYE, in 2007. She has co-devised the RYE UK Foundation
Module with Kerry Gallagher and has run the Foundation Module at Bath
Spa University and in Bulgaria. She has also taught RYE sessions at the
EURYE International Yoga at School seminars in Evian and Sicily.
Lynn is a qualified primary school teacher with experience in early years and Key Stage 1. She is a qualified yoga teacher (BWY/Satyananda) and has been teaching yoga since 2000. She has also completed the BWY Yoga for Children Module. She teaches adult and children’s yoga classes at the Satyananda Yoga Centre in London (see www.syclondon.com) and runs a yoga class for teenagers.
Lynn is available to conduct taster days on RYE.
Contact her on info@ryeuk.org for RYE bookings or lynnparrott2@yahoo.co.uk for yoga classes for children or adults.
Kerry Gallagher - London
Kerry
Gallagher is a director of RYE UK and completed her RYE training with
Micheline Flak, the founder of RYE, in 2007. She has co-devised the RYE
UK Foundation Module with Lynn Parrott and has run the Foundation Module
at Bath Spa University and in Bulgaria. She has also taught RYE sessions
at the EURYE international seminars in Evian and Sicily.
Kerry is a qualified secondary art teacher and also has a lot of experience teaching children with special needs. She is a qualified yoga teacher (BWY/Satyananda) and has been teaching yoga since 2003. She has also completed the BWY Yoga for Children Module and conducted days of yoga for children in school. She teaches adult yoga classes at the Satyananda Yoga Centre in London (see www.syclondon.com).
Kerry is available to conduct taster days on RYE. Contact her on info@ryeuk.org for RYE bookings or kerrygallagher@care2.com for yoga classes for children or adults.
Kathy North - Devon
Kathy
North B. Ed. is a former primary school teacher with over 30 years experience
of working with children. She is a qualified yoga teacher (BWY/Mandala
Yoga Ashram) and has been teaching yoga since 2003. Kathy’s first
contact with RYE was at Micheline Flak’s seminar at the Botanical
Gardens in Wales in 2004. She completed the RYE training with Micheline
Flak in 2007 and has since become a trained facilitator for RYE UK. Kathy
has run Day 2 on the Foundation Module, bringing to it her wealth of experience
as a primary teacher and her comprehensive knowledge of yoga.
Kathy currently runs yoga classes and 1:1 sessions in Bovey Tracey, Devon and is available to run taster days of RYE. For class enquiries and RYE sessions please contact her on kathynorth28@hotmail.com
Susie Honnor - Devon
Susie Honnor
is a teacher of music and drama and has been working in secondary schools
for over twenty years. She qualified as a yoga teacher with The British
Wheel of Yoga in 2007 and since then has taught yoga to adults, teenagers
and younger children. Susie attended the RYE international seminar in
Venice in 2005 and then went on to complete the RYE diploma in London.
She regularly incorporates RYE techniques in her teaching.
Susie lives in Devon and has worked with Kathy North delivering RYE taster days and day 2 of the RYE diploma. She is available for more of the same and can be contacted at susiehonnor@gmail.com