Liverpool-based business says it will provide live training and learning sessions from Monday, March 16, and is offering 250 free yoga class places. Tony McDonough reports

A training specialist Tapiit is launching a new venture offering yoga and mental wellbeing courses via live streamed online sessions.

Liverpool-based Tapiit, which has just won the International Trade Award at the Mersey Maritime Industry Awards, is a training platform which connects individuals and companies with training providers.

Now it is unveiling Tapiit Live, a way for training providers to offer live training and learning sessions without the need for travel. Its expert tutors host live sessions daily, streamed online to computers or devices.

Customers can choose the location, whether that be at home, in the office, or elsewhere. The two-way camera system means people can talk with their tutor in real time. Tapiit has teamed up with White Wolf Yoga and Francis Perry in Liverpool for yoga courses and a clinical psychologist and mental health specialist in Liverpool for mental health and wellbeing courses.

Dr Rachel Glynn-Williams holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Liverpool and is a Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a practitioner psychologist, registered with the Health Care Professions Council.

For the past 20 years she has been dedicated to improving the psychological well-being of others, providing a range of psychological assessment and treatment services within the NHS and private sector.

Prior to becoming fully independent, she was the clinical manager for an NHS Primary Care Psychological Therapies service of around 50 staff in Merseyside, ultimately responsible for the safety and effectiveness of therapy provided.

Louise Fitzsimmons is the owner of White Wolf Yoga, an award-winning yoga studio in Liverpool city centre. She has been practising yoga for 15 years, and teaching for eight years. She did most of her yoga training and studying across India.

Frank Perry has practised yoga for more than 25 years and first qualified with a Complementary Health Education Diploma in yoga teaching, then he moved on to training in Ashtanga yoga teaching before studying remedial yoga with the Yoga For Health Foundation and training with the British Wheel of Yoga.

He teaches a “non-dogmatic” style of yoga. He is a member of the Yoga Alliance as an experienced registered yoga teacher and principal yoga teacher trainer.

Anastasia Kohanuka, sales manager at Tapiit says Tapiit Live is an attempt to address the risk of a fall in quality when training is delivered online. She explained: “An increasing number of training is being delivered online. Companies like it because it is cheaper and less time-consuming.

“However, too often the process has simply become a box-ticking exercise where no meaningful training is delivered. Tapiit Live aims to deliver classroom-quality training to customers anywhere in the world without people having to travel.”

Although Tapiit specialises in providing training for the maritime sector, Tapiit Live will initially focus on mental wellbeing, something that is becoming more of a priority for organisations across many business sector, maritime included.

Anastasia added: “Tapiit Live will become a vehicle for the delivery of high quality training that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. It will be two-way and interactive with people able to ask questions in real time.”

Tapiit Live is being launched on Monday, March 16. To celebrate the launch TAPiit Live is offering 250 free places for yoga classes available. Click here to book.