ACQUAVIVA - Online
Transforming Yoga Practice
£ 50/m
Acquaviva Student Support (AV students only)
Ongoing support with Marc, Abigail and Jane (Tuesdays 11:30am GMT). And access to Course Videos. Acquaviva Students & Graduates only
1 Lesson included in this course
Unlimited Seats
£ 47
Embodied Living 1 - the Principles of Practice
A 7-week online course to change your life.
7 Lessons included in this course
Unlimited Seats
Real Yoga for Real People
Originally inspired by the work of Vanda Scaravelli and by those that worked directly with her, Marc J Acquaviva (formerly known as Marc Woolford) has developed a unique approach to practice that has been inspiring people since 1999 when he started sharing his work.
The Acquaviva School of Yoga has been changing the face of yoga since 2011, when he began running intensive full immersion courses and teacher training programs for dedicated practitioners, teachers and body workers from all traditions.
The approach is capable of transforming people's lives, by redefining relationships to their bodies. Longterm joint issues, spinal problems, even injury and post-surgical issues are often simply released within the practice, and Marc is highly skilled at helping people directly with their diagnosable issues. Those that work with Marc directly for a good length of time also gain this skill.
More recently Marc (and his longest-term student, partner and co-founder of the School, Abigail) have been running free online classes on Facebook (Yoga with Marc group, and Nature & Nurture - Yoga with Abigail).
Marc's weekly broadcast is entitled 'Yoga Solutions', and he offers direct responses to people's questions and requests. The answer is inevitably something to do with finding better/more natural relationships in simple functional actions, and he uses an investigative approach to a few key yoga postures as a framework for exploration of potential solutions.
The online courses give Marc a way of structuring content of his teaching, so that over each course, you will be guided through an experience that re-awakens the whole body - in relationship to itself, to the earth below, the space you occupy and to the very centre of your being, through movement, breath and rhythmic release into centrally supported expansion.
If you are interested in Acquaviva intensive short courses, full immersion retreats, or training programs, visit www.acquaviva.yoga.
I think the videos that I’ve practiced up to now are your best work to date – they encapsulate the approach in a way that is clear, concise and completely manageable and I’m pretty sure they’re universally accessible, whether someone is familiar with how you teach or not.
Tuesday McNeill (Senior Yoga Teacher Trainer, British Wheel of Yoga)
I loved the class last night Marc, I really enjoyed the hip opening and especially your approach to shoulder stand. I couldn’t believe the amount of space I could find and the freedom of breath . Through all my years of practice, I can honestly say this was truly remarkable experience for me. Thank you ! 
Gail Caldwell (Yoga Teacher, Yoga Scotland)
Just to say thank you for today’s session. That was quite profound for me, and my practice this evening has been totally authentic. I just quietly listened and responded to the structural relationship you shined some light on earlier and it’s been blissful! I just did a wheel and I literally flew up like a pop-up tent. When I grounded as a whole I went flying – boom! Thank you again.
Helen Eadie (Yoga Teacher Brighton)
I think the videos that I’ve practiced up to now are your best work to date – they encapsulate the approach in a way that is clear, concise and completely manageable and I’m pretty sure they’re universally accessible, whether someone is familiar with how you teach or not.
Tuesday McNeill (Senior Yoga Teacher Trainer, British Wheel of Yoga, and founder of Heart Twickenham - www.urbanyogi.co.uk )
Just to say thank you for today’s session. That was quite profound for me, and my practice this evening has been totally authentic. I just quietly listened and responded to the structural relationship you shined some light on earlier and it’s been blissful! I just did a wheel and I literally flew up like a pop-up tent. When I grounded as a whole I went flying – boom! Thank you again.
Helen Eadie (Yoga Teacher, Cranial Sacral Therapist and Acquaviva Training Graduate)
The online class tonight was fantastic Marc ! The work was a bit too deep for 'my other half' atm which says something about how powerful what you offer is and how it comes over and radiates out through the screen. Your language was particularly focused this evening and I glimpsed something in myself underneath a lifetime of habit. More than glimpsed actually. Inhabited briefly something other than the norm. Intriguing. Create the conditions and transform for sure. Thank you!
Phoene Cave (Voice and singing coach at www.singing-for.co.uk)
I am continually contemplating how much your devotion to what you explore and share is of such value... And what I want to say about this! I am so glad you are offering this kind of course. I am working with large numbers of women in private groups, which may not look like yoga but it is all yoga. I am developing a basic embodiment module to support all the inquiry for older women with odd symptoms like electric shocks and fibro type pain etc... and other confusions. All can be resolved by a basic practice... But we have to start so simply... no yoga mats even to begin with!! In chairs etc! Beginning to be the body! Love what you are evolving! xxx
Jeanette Kishori McKensie (Enlightenment facillitator @ www.beyourgenius.com & Acquaviva Training Graduate)
I think the videos that I’ve practiced up to now are your best work to date – they encapsulate the approach in a way that is clear, concise and completely manageable and I’m pretty sure they’re universally accessible, whether someone is familiar with how you teach or not.
Tuesday McNeill (Senior Yoga Teacher Trainer, British Wheel of Yoga, and founder of Heart Twickenham - www.urbanyogi.co.uk )
Just to say thank you for today’s session. That was quite profound for me, and my practice this evening has been totally authentic. I just quietly listened and responded to the structural relationship you shined some light on earlier and it’s been blissful! I just did a wheel and I literally flew up like a pop-up tent. When I grounded as a whole I went flying – boom! Thank you again.
Helen Eadie (Yoga Teacher, Cranial Sacral Therapist and Acquaviva Training Graduate)
The online class tonight was fantastic Marc ! The work was a bit too deep for 'my other half' atm which says something about how powerful what you offer is and how it comes over and radiates out through the screen. Your language was particularly focused this evening and I glimpsed something in myself underneath a lifetime of habit. More than glimpsed actually. Inhabited briefly something other than the norm. Intriguing. Create the conditions and transform for sure. Thank you!
Phoene Cave (Voice and singing coach at www.singing-for.co.uk)
I am continually contemplating how much your devotion to what you explore and share is of such value... And what I want to say about this! I am so glad you are offering this kind of course. I am working with large numbers of women in private groups, which may not look like yoga but it is all yoga. I am developing a basic embodiment module to support all the inquiry for older women with odd symptoms like electric shocks and fibro type pain etc... and other confusions. All can be resolved by a basic practice... But we have to start so simply... no yoga mats even to begin with!! In chairs etc! Beginning to be the body! Love what you are evolving! xxx
Jeanette Kishori McKensie (Enlightenment facillitator @ www.beyourgenius.com & Acquaviva Training Graduate)
I think the videos that I’ve practiced up to now are your best work to date – they encapsulate the approach in a way that is clear, concise and completely manageable and I’m pretty sure they’re universally accessible, whether someone is familiar with how you teach or not.
Tuesday McNeill (Senior Yoga Teacher Trainer, British Wheel of Yoga, and founder of Heart Twickenham - www.urbanyogi.co.uk )
Just to say thank you for today’s session. That was quite profound for me, and my practice this evening has been totally authentic. I just quietly listened and responded to the structural relationship you shined some light on earlier and it’s been blissful! I just did a wheel and I literally flew up like a pop-up tent. When I grounded as a whole I went flying – boom! Thank you again.
Helen Eadie (Yoga Teacher, Cranial Sacral Therapist and Acquaviva Training Graduate)
The online class tonight was fantastic Marc ! The work was a bit too deep for 'my other half' atm which says something about how powerful what you offer is and how it comes over and radiates out through the screen. Your language was particularly focused this evening and I glimpsed something in myself underneath a lifetime of habit. More than glimpsed actually. Inhabited briefly something other than the norm. Intriguing. Create the conditions and transform for sure. Thank you!
Phoene Cave (Voice and singing coach at www.singing-for.co.uk)
I am continually contemplating how much your devotion to what you explore and share is of such value... And what I want to say about this! I am so glad you are offering this kind of course. I am working with large numbers of women in private groups, which may not look like yoga but it is all yoga. I am developing a basic embodiment module to support all the inquiry for older women with odd symptoms like electric shocks and fibro type pain etc... and other confusions. All can be resolved by a basic practice... But we have to start so simply... no yoga mats even to begin with!! In chairs etc! Beginning to be the body! Love what you are evolving! xxx
Jeanette Kishori McKensie (Enlightenment facillitator @ www.beyourgenius.com & Acquaviva Training Graduate)
