About The Tutor

Qualifications

In 1988, Michael McFadden was awarded a BA Degree in Drama, Film, TV, Art & Creative Writing by York St.John University. In 2005 he successfully completed The British Wheel Of Yoga Foundation Course

Michael has been a Professional Yoga Teacher since 2008 (British Wheel Of Yoga Diploma). This sits alongside his certificates in Indian Head Massage & Neurolinguistics from Richmond College, and subesquently completed internationally recognised courses in hand & foot massage

Influences

In the 1980s, Michael became passionately interested in the teachings of Constantin Stanislavski and his deeply inspirational and experiential insight into how we can inhabit space by working with gravity and the breath

Since then, Michael has furthered his studies and over recent years developed his understanding of a much more integrative form of Yoga, inspired by the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli

He is fascinated by the healing effects of a more grounded, contemporary, movement-based style of Yoga. This dovetails somewhat logically with his Drama Degree studies as outlined above

Michael has been, and continues to be, influenced heavily by the teachings of many eminent professionals in the field of modern therapy and neuroscience:

"In a sense, I feel as though my work has only just begun..."