A 2 Day CPD Training for yoga teachers and teachers in training with Anna Taylor and Norman Blair
Why prioritise self-care?
While teaching yoga can be hugely rewarding, it also brings with it challenges that can feel draining. We often work alone, which can feel isolating. In addition to our direct teaching there are often many unpaid hours involved in marketing, planning, travel, and a range of other admin. Burn out is common.
As with any care-giving profession learning how to skilfully hold space for ourselves is as important as learning how to hold space for our students.
Doing so enables us to feel resourced and resilient as we ride the inevitable ups and downs of teaching. After all, as the saying goes “you can’t pour from an empty cup”.
Self-care is about so much more the resting on bolsters and soaking in a bubble bath (as lovely as these can be). It can be a courageous commitment to ensure that our own needs aren’t being sidelined through our teaching. It can be about creating small, impactful changes that don’t need to be costly.
About this course
This 2-day workshop offers you space to step out of the role of care-giver and shift focus to your own needs in care-receiving.
We will place self-care and self-compassion centre stage, exploring practical ways to weave it within our teaching including scheduling, finances, managing our inner critic, and the importance of creating supportive connections and communities.
The two days offers you the opportunity to:
Gather in-person with other teachers to share openly and honestly in a non-judgmental setting.
Step out of the role of care giving, to place our own self-care centre stage.
Explore what self-care means as well as the barriers we face within the context of yoga teaching.
Learn practical tools to feel more grounded, resourced and resilient through the ups and downs of teaching.
Soak up restoring practices to nourish and nurture ourselves and remind us to practice what we feel so passionately about teaching.
Reflect on your personal needs.
Create a self-care action plan.
Participants will receive a self-care workbook full of practical suggestions, space to log reflections as well as time to create a personal action plan that supports your sustainability and wellbeing.
And if a part of you feels a little self-indulgent, guilty, or unsure about offering yourself two full days to support your own wellbeing, here are some beautiful words from the meditation teacher Jack Kornfield to reminds us in a Path with Heart,
“If we are to bring light and wisdom and compassion into this world, we must first begin with ourselves.”
After all, when we show up to our teaching feeling more present, resourced, inspired, compassionate and resilient, it benefits ourselves and our students.
Testimonials from Past Participants
“This workshop I feel is a must experience for all teachers, as a way to continue to be re-empowered in your teaching journey and also be in an inclusive, safe, positive and non-judgmental open space with other teachers. It's rich in its content and also really impactful too. Highly recommend!”
“Led by two thoughtful, experienced and highly regarded teachers, this weekend offers important reflections, space and support to reflect on what it means to look after yourself as a yoga teacher. A must for all!”
“It was a much-needed opportunity to remember and reconnect with my own self-care needs. My takeaways are invaluable, and I’m actively taking steps to make simple changes that will support and sustain me both in the present and in the longer term.”
“I left feeling truly nourished, inspired and recharged. An invaluable two days!”
“A simple “thank you” doesn’t feel like enough, but I’m deeply grateful for your support and for the opportunity to be supported alongside my peers.”
“As teachers it is easy to spend time learning about how to improve or add on to our teaching skills. This course turns the focus inwards and provides plenty of ideas, tools and practices to take care of yourself as a teacher. After all, when we are in our best energy we can be there for others. Anna and Norman have years of experience teaching, they are great role models of self care and compassion.”
Price
Places are £250. 2 bursary places are available on application (£125)
Location
Orange Studio, Cheltenham
For more information about Norman and his teaching please visit www.yogawithnorman.co.uk