Sunday 14th August 6-8pm
Sunday evening singing circle in Pickering Kīrtan and songs of spirit at: Friends Meeting House, 19 Castlegate, Pickering, YO18 7AX by donation, suggestions £5 - £12 - £20 give what works for you. 
Live, in-person programs in Scotland and Czech Republic:
Aberdeen, 26-28 August Glasgow, 1-3 September Prague, 9-11 September Freedom, Joy, Beauty, Sovereignty, Discernment Tools, principles and practices to nourish, tonify and fortify the whole human being for fluency and resilience, adaptability, responsiveness. longevity Experiential learning to shift our vibration, recalibrate our outlook and refine our means of expression Sound and song - movement and meditation - inquiry and exploration What people say: ‘It was so much more than I expected’ ‘Working with James reminds me why I love yoga and why I love life!’ More details below Yoga: Back to School
A Yoga Empowerment weekend with James Boag at: Love Yoga Aberdeen 26-28 August Friday 26th: 5:00-6:45pm Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th 10:00am-12:30pm and 2:00-4:30pm and at: Yoga Moves Glasgow 1-3 September Thursday 1st September, 6:00-8:00pm Friday 2nd September, 9:00-11:30am and 1:00-3:30pm Saturday 3rd September, 9:30am-12noon and 1:00-3:30pm Course fees: Full program, all five sessions: £198 Single day: £96 Single session: £48 Booking details: For Yogamoves Glasgow book here For Love Yoga Aberdeen: send email to james@jamesboagyoga.com and payment transfer to secure your place. Bank Transfer: Account Name: Mr James R Boag Sort Code: 40-36-20 Account Number: 41050796 BIC: HBUKGB4149C IBAN: GB58HBUK40362041050796 Paypal: to account jamesrboag@gmail.com The workshop needs a minimum number of participants registered by 12th August to run. If the workshop does not run, all payments will be fully refunded minus any transaction/transfer fees, so if you can, use an option that avoids fees: using paypal, be sure to select paying friends and family option. About the weekend immersion: The true sense of education is to draw out and bring forth what is inside. Yogic education seeks to draw out and bring forth our unique gifts and the whole of who we are. Unfortunately, a significant part of conventional education seeks to cram in, to train to conform and to squeeze uniquely rounded beings into restrictive little boxes. Thankfully we have access to a time proven rehabilitation and recovery program: yoga. What is it? An immersive, experiential exploration of the holistic yogic education model. The sessions seek to engage different learning styles: active, pragmatic, theoretic and reflective, and work with multiple learning itelligences. This is yoga, so we’ll seek to join these different aspects, to bring them into mutual support. And this is yoga, so practical, active, whole system learning will be the emphasis. Who is it for? Anyone who wants to expand their toolkit for lifelong learning. We will draw on the rich, time-proven principles of the yoga tradition and apply them to foster harmony, skilfulness and empowerment in our lives now. It does not matter if your ‘yoga experience’ is zero or many thousands of hours, this is about being human, you already have a body of practice behind you. Why? We live in and have grown up in times where there is a bombardment of disempowering influences. Yoga seeks to empower each individual to recognise and recover sovereignty for our own life, actions and experience. The aim of the weekend is to empower participants with practical, experiential understanding of principles you can then make your own and apply in your own life and practice to cultivate greater mastery, discernment, self-trust, cohesion, steadiness and joy. What will we do? We will work holistically, with practices of movement, meditation and song, with games of inquiry and relating. Movement/Embodiment/Yogāsana: We will explore and deepen our understanding of the foundational principles of haṭha yoga in relation to classic modern yogāsana practice and broader movement. In particular we will learn and explore: - Principles for longevity and collaborating with the nature of our bodies: warm ups/tune ups to tonify the organs, activate and harmonise the bodily system. Learn efficient and scalable techniques to keep the body balanced, connected and regenerative, and principles for nourishing, lifelong practice. - Haṭha yoga 108 (like haṭha yoga 101 but next level): ha and ṭha, sun and moon, yin and yang: marrying structural integrity and resilience with space and relaxation. Learn how to work in yogāsana-s to foster the type of balance you are looking for, including how to use āsana to develop strength to protect the spine and joints and facilitate freedom of movement all life long. This will include exploring the principle of bandha and how we can harness it to facilitate nourishing circulation and flow through not just the skeletal joints, but all the junction points of the body. - Practising for life - using haṭha yoga principles in broader movement applications, training the senses and the reflexes as part of yoga practice. Preparing to be spontaneous. Inquiry: We will explore principles that can help us look in ways that reach beyond our habitual ways of looking, and that can help us navigate a world of information overload and propaganda bombardment with greater ease, discernment and power. What we can do to invite a different type of conversation and deeper communication, that can actually foster connection and recognition and lead us away from scapegoating, blamegaming and perpetuating sufferering? Relationship - yoga happens in the junction, it is all about our relationship, to ourselves, to others and to our environment. We will play powerful authentic relating games. Meditation - the foundational yoga technique. We will devote some time each day to meditation practice, working with simple, accessible principles and techniques that participants can then take home, work with and make their own. Sound - in a sense all yoga practice techniques are about sound, yogāsana is described classically as a space of sustainable good vibrations. We will dedicate time to practices of kīrtan and song, which reach the parts that other techniques are not always able to. The workshop will be five sessions of 2-2.5 hours. Sessions can involve any of the learning styles and activities, wear clothes you are ready to move in. Session overview: In keeping with our theme, all sessions may draw on multiple elements of practice and inquiry, so come ready to move, to listen, to share, to take notes, to play and explore. Opening evening session: Introduction: Yoga as a school of education. Inquiry, relationship, not knowing and Truth. The holistic model of yogic education, working with our strengths and weaknesses, bringing awareness into our shadow, appraising our partialities and inviting expansion of our perspectives. Morning session two: Haṭha yoga 108 part one: the body as the schoolroom. Harnessing the principles and techologies of haṭha yoga to deepen our understanding of our amazing bodily vehicle. Cultivating balance through the spectrum of ha ad ṭha, marrying structural integrity with spaciouness and adaptability. Afternoon session three: Inquiry, circle and authentic relating. Applying principles of yogic education to listening, conversation and our self-talk. Tools to appraise our use of language and our biases. Practice of listening, authentic relating and working/playing with others. Morning session four: Haṭha yoga 108 part two: the world as our playground, the elements as our teachers. Infusing our āsana practice with the spirit of inquiry, wonder and curiosity, training ourselves as lifelong learners. Using haṭha priciples to explore the world of possibility in familiar āsana-s and in recreational movement. Afternoon session five: satya, satsang and song. Using breath and sound to bring greater resonance and attunement to the field of our experience, practices of song, movement and kīrtan Online Programs via zoom
New online courses coming autumn 2022 
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Audio/Video Resources
James Boag Yoga Youtube channel James Boag Yoga Soundcloud Listen to James singing kirtan with his sister Elizabeth on Soundcloud Hear James in conversation about practical yoga philosophy with his colleague Paul Millage Yoga Anytime Online Courses
YOGA NOW themed practical philosophy talks filmed live spring 2021
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Recorded Februrary 2017. In-depth, practical exploration of Chapter One of this treasure text of the yoga tradition, with movement, meditation, and sound practices too. 
The Mythology Show
Recorded September 2015, exploring the practical riches of mythology in the yoga tradition, with episodes on Ganesa, Mother Divine and Hanuman. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 course 15+ hours of content, recorded June/July 2015, includes: introduction, series on recitation and series going through the practical teachings of Chapter Two, working from the original Sanskrit, with stories and songs along the way. Use code JAMESBOAG for 30 day free trial on yogaanytime.com 
Archive Videos on vimeo
Click on the link below to access a series of teaching and recitation videos of James made by Laura Lea Nalle in Mysore 2013 http://vimeo.com/channels/namaste Click here for recent blog article about James Contact email: james@jamesboagyoga.com |
James Boag Yoga
Yoga is balance, integration, skilfulness and efficiency. Yoga practice is about cultivating sustainable harmony.
Yoga is about the whole of our lives: everything we do, all we experience. It is about stretching our understanding of who we really are, strengthening our connection to the innate wisdom of our conscience and rehabilitating our broader human capacities while working respectfully with the realities of our individual natures and our diverse responsibilities.
Yoga practice is about training ourselves to be able to find joy in the everyday wonder of life and steadiness in the face of its inevitable challenges.
It is about meeting and refining our own patterns and habits and inviting ways of being that are conducive to sustainable, integrated health and wellbeing.
James works with a range of mutually complementary lenses to explore yoga principles in practical application, including: principle-based asana, natural movement, meditation, kirtan singing and chanting, storytelling and interpretation, satsang talks, discussion and inquiry, nourishing high quality food and time outdoors.
Yoga is about the whole of our lives: everything we do, all we experience. It is about stretching our understanding of who we really are, strengthening our connection to the innate wisdom of our conscience and rehabilitating our broader human capacities while working respectfully with the realities of our individual natures and our diverse responsibilities.
Yoga practice is about training ourselves to be able to find joy in the everyday wonder of life and steadiness in the face of its inevitable challenges.
It is about meeting and refining our own patterns and habits and inviting ways of being that are conducive to sustainable, integrated health and wellbeing.
James works with a range of mutually complementary lenses to explore yoga principles in practical application, including: principle-based asana, natural movement, meditation, kirtan singing and chanting, storytelling and interpretation, satsang talks, discussion and inquiry, nourishing high quality food and time outdoors.
