THE SHALA YOGA

Bring resilience and peace into your home, workplace, neighborhood, and community. 

The Shala mentorship program is a great opportunity to deepen your study, enhance your teaching skills, and explore particular dimensions of yoga alongside esteemed senior Shala yoga teachers. 

We offer Individual and group mentorships, whether you have taken the Shala teacher trainings or have taken trainings elsewhere. The Shala Mentorship program can be a standalone program or a  supplement to a 200-hour or 300-hour teacher training. Mentorships are also open to students who have not done trainings but are interested in deepening their practice, delving into the philosophy or are curious about how to weave yoga into their lives and work. You do not need to be a yoga teacher, or interested in ever teaching yoga, to benefit from the focus, support, and one-on-one guidance a Shala Mentorship offers.

Students create their own mentorship “major” to suit their interests and goals. Potential areas of study include:

• Developing a signature teaching style
• Creating sequences for basic, all levels and/or int/adv students 
• Calling out asanas with clear transitions and alignment
• Assisting students safely (verbal and hands-on)
• Discussion of classical texts of the yoga canon 
• Writing and delivering effective dharma talks that support and illuminate asana practice
• Teaching to support differently-abled students
• Integrating yoga practices and ethics into your academic or professional field
• Applying yoga ethics to social justice work
• Yoga for children, adolescents or seniors
• Exploring bhakti yoga through chanting and harmonium
• Understanding the relationship between Ayurveda and yoga
• Alignment, therapy, and anatomy of asanas
• Develop a meditation program or teaching practice
• Pranayama practice and teaching