mentoring for yoga teachers

Are you a yoga teacher in training, or a newly qualified yoga teacher who wants to hone your skills? Have you completed a standard 200 Hour yoga teacher training and realised its not actually enough training to prepare you to stand up and teach? Have you been teaching for some time but want to up your game?

Experienced yoga teachers make teaching look easy, but there is much more than meets the eye to creating and delivering a great yoga class. Yoga teaching requires an extensive, varied skillset and in todays over saturated yoga marketplace you need to stand out from the crowd. Victoria has been teaching yoga professionally and successfully for over 20 years and knows how to structure, theme, sequence and deliver a safe, enjoyable and effective class.

Example areas I cover:

Lesson Planning - how to structure a safe and effective class; options & variations; working towards a peak pose or sequencing on a more subtle level

Intelligent Sequencing - warming up, building intensity, how, why and where to place poses in a sequence, cooling down; ladders; motifs; safe transitions; how to counterpose economically and with skill

Class Management & Mirroring - managing the room and the group; mastering right and left; the art of successful mirroring

Theming & Inspiration - choosing a theme that means something to you; how to articulate it; how to successfully weave it through a class

Cueing - why, when and how to cue; the vocabulary of cueing; avoiding unnecessary cueing; critical thinking around standard and stock cueing

Use of language - positive, direct, encouraging language and skilful, economic use of instruction; NLP

Use of Voice - tone, appropriateness, modulation, expression, pace, variation and volume; how to avoid using the monotone homogenous ‘‘yoga teachers voice’’

Use of Silence - when to give students space and quiet

Use of music - to help students go deeper rather than distract them

Authenticity - honesty; not stealing other teachers lesson plans; teaching from where you are at/your own level; teaching only what you have direct experience of yourself; being yourself (instead of trying to appear like or imitate a yoga teacher); teaching as an expression of your own experience; admitting you don’t know all the answers; staying within your remit; imposter syndrome

Balancing Power - encouraging agency and autonomy

The Ethics of Teaching Yoga & Difficult Students

How to teach Private Clients - how to teach one to one sessions

How to Run Retreats - how to create, host and teach successful yoga retreats

These are just a few ideas. There maybe something else you wish to explore - get in touch!

mentoring pricing

Price £295 for a 3 hour session

To discuss mentoring please contact Victoria info@yoga-tastic.co.uk