Yoga Teacher Mentoring
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Monthly sessions over six months, Jul – Dec 2018, Sundays 10am – 1pm

Teaching yoga can be a lonely and isolating job, but it is also incredibly enriching. Participating in a mentoring group will give yoga teachers the chance to have their anxieties and questions about teaching contained and thought about, while making connections with other teachers, and  feeling part of a community. In addition, every month's group meeting will have a theme where we will look at something specific about teaching. The objective will be to discuss, inquire and reflect, in order to refine and enhance your skills, to grow and develop your teaching style and you as a teacher. We will set goals and strategies to enhance your development between modules. The group will be limited to six participants.

*Open space to discuss teaching issues
*Themed modules
*Goal setting, strategies for development
*Community connection
*Teaching methodology
*Adjustments
*Teaching beginners
*Injuries

Sarai is a Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals UK. She has been teaching in London for sixteen years and practising for twenty years. She has taught in many capacities including workshops and retreats in London and worldwide, at yoga studios, gyms, from hired venues, within corporations, privately, to adults, children and special needs children. Sarai has an MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and is an honorary Psychotherapist within the NHS. This work has hugely enriched her yoga teaching and understanding of the dynamics of the teacher student relationship.
Summary of Dates
​Sundays 10am - 1pm
15 July, 12 August, 16 September, 14 October, 11 November, 2 December 2018.
Investment
£249 - Early bird offer, book before 30 May 2018
£280 - After 30 May 2018
 Includes ongoing mentoring support via email or phone.
We will start each week with a one hour open discussion on teaching issues that participants wish to discuss, followed by the module topics listed below.
We will set goals to work on between modules, and look at strategies to help move you to the next level and develop you as a teacher.
​Discussion topics could be anything from practical issues of how to manage a specific student to more broad questions of how to develop in one's practice or as a teacher. 

MODULE 1, 15 July 2018
​The Teacher Student Relationship: Transference/Countertransference.
Your Goals as a Yoga Teacher
Complexities and complications of relating

The aim of this workshop is to equip newly qualified teachers with a strong internal teacher from which to draw upon, and a clear ethical compass from which to contain classes and private client sessions. We will explore the importance of and how to set clear boundaries, and the essence of the teacher student relationship, the challenges and joys of holding a healing and spiritual space for students to transform. We will look different ethical questions and interpersonal relationships, and consider ways of teaching different personality types, including student behaviour such as teacher idealisation, acting out or provocative behaviour.
We will explore where you are at with your teaching, and what your hopes, aspirations and goals are. 

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MODULE 2, 12 August 2018
Adjustments + Alignment 1
Practice adjusting and learn about alignment for different body types

This module is part one of the two adjustments and alignment modules. Over the two modules we will cover adjustments for all the postures of the primary series, and some second series back bends and inversions.
We will look at alignment issues and common mistakes, and consider whether to align or not to align with concepts of biomechanics in mind.

MODULE 3, 16 September 2018
Adjustments + Alignment 2
Practice adjusting and learn about alignment for different body types

​This is part two of the two adjustment and alignment modules. We will continue working through the adjustments of the ashtanga primary series and beyond and will build on the concepts of alignment and biomechanics that were learnt in part one.

2017 Dates - Course underway
​Sundays 9.30am - 12.30pm
16 July, 13 August, 10 September, 8 October, 5 November, 3 December 2017.
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MODULE 4, 14 October 2018
Teaching Practice 1
Sequencing, class themes, beginners courses

Finding your niche as a teacher, and sharing what resonates with you. Teaching from a place of truth and authenticity. 
​How to weave in themes to your classes. Principles of sequencing. How to teach a beginners course.

MODULE 5, 11 November 2018
Teaching Practice 2
Modifications

 What to consider when teaching pregnant women, how to modify postures for pregnancy, and how 'pregnancy yoga' is different. Teaching post-natal women. Common injuries. How to accommodate beginners and advanced students in the same class. Managing different class sizes.
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MODULE 6, 2 December 2018
Business of yoga
Aspects of the business side of teaching yoga. Requests. Feedback

Setting up yoga classes, retreats and yoga holidays. How to attract private clients, students, and build a following. How to promote, optimise social media, and look after your accounts.
​VENUE
2 Richmond Road, London SW20 0PQ
Sarai's Home Studio

By train: 20 mins from Waterloo Station, 15 mins from Vauxhall Station (Victoria Line). 

By 57 bus: 3 min walk from Cambridge Rd bus stop. 10 mins from Wimbledon, 15 mins from Kingston.

​Lots of free on street parking.

Call Sarai on 07710 819 485 or email info@saraiharveysmith.com for any further info and booking.
INVESTMENT
£249 - Early bird offer, book before 30 May 2018
£280 - After 30 May 2018
 Includes ongoing mentoring support via email or phone.