Teacher Training
Our 200 and 300 hour yoga teacher training programmes offer the perfect platform to develop your personal yoga practice whilst learning safe and effective teaching skills both at foundational and advanced levels.
On the 200 hour programme you will learn refined alignment of core yoga poses, effective verbal cueing, clear demonstrations, adjustment techniques, safe and effective sequencing. The 300 hour programme builds on these foundations and takes you on a deeper personal journey with yoga. Graduates gain the confidence to instruct multi-level classes in a wide variety of teaching settings.
Owner, teacher & co-creator of the Teacher Training Course.
E-RYT500, YACEP
In 2004, after four years of dedicated practice in a diversity of yoga lineages including Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Iyengar yoga, Tamsin completed her first teacher training with Louisa Sears at Yogarts. She subsequently completed an intensive two-year Bihar teacher training with Carly Louw at Yoga Connection in Pretoria, and travelled to Kerala, India to study Sivananda asana, chanting, puja and philosophy. In 2009 Tamsin completed additional teacher training with Shimon Ben Avi, and between November 2016 and March 2018 she completed her 300hr Advanced Yoga Teachers Training with Patrick Creelman and Rinat Perlman in Hong Kong.
She has a special interest in the role of yoga as a practice of healing and repair on all levels of Being. Her most inspiring work comes from teaching on The Shala’s Teacher Training programmes. The art of lymphology and digestion are key focus points for workshops and courses. Tamsin opened The Shala – Cape Town Yoga School in 2007.
Co-owner, teacher & anatomy teacher on the Teacher Training Course.
MSc, E-RYT500, YACEP
Thomas has taught yoga since 2008, alongside the study and practice of nutritional therapy and naturopathy.
Thomas completed MSc Advanced Complementary Medicine (Research & Practice) in 2021, writing his dissertation as a constructivist grounded theory exploration of yoga instructors’ understanding of eating disorders.
Thomas teaches group and individual yoga classes, anatomy and physiology modules on 200hr and 300hr yoga teacher training courses, and presents workshops on food science and digestive health.
Teacher & co-creator of the Teacher Training Course.
E-RYT200
Self enquiry and yoga philosophy teacher.
Adila originally studied in the Ashtanga yoga tradition with Africa Yoga and Shimon Ben Avi.
Her practice, study and learning has been enriched by many diverse spiritual traditions. In the yoga tradition, she has found a universal system of spiritual principles that, if applied to our lives, can support us to be more stable, happy and wise humans. It is her passion to bridge the gap between the experiences we have on our yoga mats and the reality of every day life. Teaching is her most fulfilling work, and her students and children, her biggest teachers.
Teacher & co-creator of the Teacher Training Course.
MA , RYT500
Firdose is a yoga teacher and researcher, a history nerd and a sports reporter and broadcaster, who studies the personal and physical as political. She holds a Masters in the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and is undertaking further research focused on lesser known developments in yoga history and exploring how the practice can be used in the cause of self-discovery and social justice. Firdose has taught asana classes since 2017 and yoga humanities on over 30 registered yoga teacher trainings since 2019. She also runs an ongoing yoga education program and encourages students to both act and think critically, curiously and creatively in the pursuit of greater understanding.
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