mentorship program

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 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; posture profiles; vulnerable areas; 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; mandalas; safe transitions; controversial transitions; how to counterpose economically and skillfully

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

Theming & Inspiration - how to come up with a theme and skilfully weave it through a class

Cueing - why, when and how to cue; critical thinking around historical, standard and stock cueing

Use of language - skilful use of words; NLP

Use of Voice - tone, appropriateness, modulation; avoiding the dreaded monotone homogenous ‘‘yoga teachers voice’’

Authenticity - honesty; not copying other teachers sequences and lesson plans; teaching from where you are at/your own level; teaching only what you have direct experience of/understand 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; avoiding using meaningless ‘yoga speak’

Balancing Power - encouraging choice, agency and autonomy within students

The Ethics of Teaching Yoga & Difficult Students

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

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

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