Why ongoing Mentoring:
L&E is more than a teacher mentoring, or a training - we believe it is a creative recovery for the individual.
We view teaching as an act of creativity and we help people understand where they might be blocked.
I have been teaching in London for fourteen years and mentoring yoga teachers for seven years.
Learning alignment, sequencing, practical and therapeutic ways of assisting students are just primary steps to get you to the point of delivering a class. Pretty much anyone can do this….and lots of people do.
The real art of teaching and what will set you apart from the great number of qualified teachers and why this mentoring is unique – is in learning how to sensitively balance and integrate our own necessary development, self-enquiry and reflection with the essential techniques for holding space for others in a powerful, yet non-intrusive way. It is this combination that builds resilient, robust and embodied teachers in the face of growing pressure, fierce competition and energetic pulls.
The programme is not an easy opt out as we understand that picking apart some very unhealthy patterns is central to essential clarity and growth. We will encourage you to find out who you really are and what motivated you to teach in the first place. We will support you in understanding how you best work, what inspires and sparks you. And we will pretty much insist that you drop some bad habits.
Newer teachers do not have the necessary experience to work at such depth, it can be confronting, their needs are different as they require more practical support and guidance.
For more experienced teachers this work is central to determining whether breakthroughs will occur.
I have now separated the programmes into two progressive offerings - we recommend everyone view what we do as a longterm endeavour and start at the beginning regardless of experience.
LIBERATE - L&E Foundation is for anyone currently teaching yoga for at least 6 months - we highly recommend every teacher’s mentoring journey to start here as it is the foundation for everything we offer.
ELEVATE - L&E Master is for teachers with a minimum 4 years teaching experience. (Do not be misguided by the 4 years bit. We do not recommend you start here, however in order to be considered for Elevate you must have at least 4 years teaching experience).
The two programmes work very well together and Elevate naturally springboards from the work we do in Liberate. Please give it the space it requires.
Excellent teachers are born from eternal students – deeper practices bring up different and important questions about teaching.