Sustainability & Self Care for Yoga Teachers
with Anna Taylor & Norman Blair
Why self-care?
Teaching yoga is deeply rewarding, but also comes with challenges. We often work alone, juggle unpaid hours of planning, travel, marketing and admin. Burn out is common.
Prioritising self-care helps create a more sustainable way of teaching through the natural ups and downs of the profession. It’s about making small, meaningful changes that support you without adding more pressure or cost.
“If we are to bring light and wisdom and compassion into this world, we must first begin with ourselves.”
Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart
Who is this for?
These courses are open to all yoga teachers (both new and experience ) and teachers in training.
How will this support you in your yoga teaching?
Through these courses, you will have time to put self-care and self-compassion centre-stage to:
gather in person with other yoga teachers to share openly and honestly in a non-judgmental space
explore what self-care and self-compassion mean and the barriers we can face within yoga teaching
learn practical tools to feel more grounded, resourced and resilient through the ups and downs of teaching
discover ways to weave self-care into your working life, including scheduling, finances, managing the inner critic, and building supportive connections
experience restorative practices that nourish and nurture, and reconnect you with what you love about teaching
reflect on your own needs
create a personal self-care action plan
receive a workbook with practical suggestions, reflection space, and guidance to support your long-term sustainability and wellbeing
Self-care is about more the resting on bolsters and soaking in bubble baths.
It is a courageous commitment to ensuring that our own needs aren’t sidelined by teaching.
What yoga teachers say …
Course
Facilitators
Norman Blair
Norman began regularly practising yoga in 1993 and his first meditation retreat was December 2000. In October 2001, he started teaching yoga. Particularly inspirational teachers include Judith Hanson Lasater, Paul Grilley, Richard Freeman and Sarah Powers. He believes that through regular yoga and meditation practices we can experience profound changes in our mind and body.
Norman teaches Yin yoga courses, workshops and retreats in London and around the UK. His Yin yoga training courses are highly respected and popular. He is one of the leading teachers of Yin yoga in the UK and has been teaching Yin yoga trainings since 2013. He has been mentoring yoga teachers for more than twelve years.
His first book – Brightening Our Inner Skies: yin and yoga – was published in 2016. In July 2025 he published a book of yin wisdom; his next book will be published soon – Everything We Do Matters: poems and prose about yoga and life.
Norman has been actively involved in social justice campaigns since the early 1980s. He believes that it is crucial that we connect inward work with outward work – personal transformation in the service of societal transformation. As practitioners, we know that we have the capacity for positive change. We can be catalysts for change: we can look up, raise our aspirations, be less reactive and more creative.
In the words of Bernie Clark: “Norman Blair is a highly experienced Yin Yoga teacher whose decades of practice are reflected in both his teachings and his writings. His book on Yin Yoga, 'Brightening Our Inner Skies', is thoughtful, clear, and deeply grounded in lived experience rather than theory alone. Having known him for over 15 years, I can confidently recommend Norman as a teacher of integrity, depth, and genuine insight”
Find out more about Norman’s teaching at
Anna Taylor
Anna Taylor is a Senior Yoga Teacher, IAYT Accredited Yoga Therapist and Mindfulness & Compassion Instructor based in London. She is the author of Weaving Mindfulness and Compassion into Yoga Teaching – a resource for yoga teachers and teachers in training.
Having been teaching since 2008, Anna is passionate about helping people understand the interplay between their physical, mental and emotional well-being, and offer practices to find balance amidst the busyness. She teaches mindful, therapeutic, restorative and yin yoga both in person and online.
In addition to being passionate about sharing these practices with others, Anna is also a human being who understands that life can be wonderful, complicated and challenging, but that yoga, mindfulness and compassion helps us in finding greater balance, ease (and joy!) within it.
Anna has been on the teaching faculty of a number of yoga and mindfulness teacher trainings including Yoga On The Lane, Imogen North Yoga and MindfulnessUK. She is a supervisor to trainee yoga therapists via Yoga Campus and Orange Yoga.
Anna offer supervision and mentoring to yoga teachers, yoga therapists and mindfulness teachers.
Find out more about Anna’s teaching at
Upcoming Courses
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1 Day Course
London
The Shala, West Norwood
Sun 29 Nov 2026
10.00 - 17.00
Bookings opening shortly
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2 Day Course
London
Zolder Studio
Wed 17 - Thursday 18 Feb 2027
10.00 - 17.00
£275 (bursaries available)
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Teachers' Retreat
Yorkshire (residential)
The Tree Relaxation Retreat
Mon 21 - Thur 24 June 2027
See Schedule
From £550
Weaving Mindfulness & Compassion into Yoga Teaching
Anna’s book Weaving Mindfulness and Compassion into Yoga Teaching dedicates a whole chapter to how we can use mindfulness and compassion to support both our wellbeing and the sustainability of our teaching.
It includes reflection points and practical tips on ways to stay resourced and supported within your teaching journey.
