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Imogen North Yoga, Teacher Training (2025 cohort)

Do you run a Yoga TTC?

Enhance your offerings by including teachings on:

  • Mindful, Compassionate Yoga Practice

  • Mindful, Compassion Yoga Teaching

  • Self-care for Yoga Teachers

Modules are tailored to meet the needs of your course and cohort.

Available both in-person and live online.

Join a number of trainings including Weaving Mindfulness & Compassion into Yoga Teaching in their recommended reading list.

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  • "Integrating Anna’s work on mindfulness and compassion into my yoga teacher training has been an absolute must."

    — Imogen North Yoga

  • "When we first agreed to weave these subjects into the training, I don’t think I fully realised the depth of impact they would have."

    Imogen North Yoga

  • "Giving trainees genuine permission to shift from a competitive mindset into one rooted in support, kindness, and compassion transformed the entire experience."

    Imogen North Yoga

  • "This shift showed up not only in how the group supported one another through the inevitable ups and downs of the training, but also in how they now step into their roles as new yoga teachers. "

    Imogen North Yoga

  • "Anna’s work has been absolutely crucial to the success and integrity of this training."

    Imogen North Yoga

  • "I couldn’t recommend working with Anna more highly for anyone running a teacher training program—this is not an add-on, it’s an absolute must."

    Imogen North Yoga

Why mindful, compassionate yoga?

Skilful teaching goes beyond guiding students into poses. It involves supporting students to practice with care and awareness.

While mindfulness awareness and compassionate action lie at the heart of yoga, it is easy to both practice and teach with the absence of them.

Bringing these components into your teacher training will enable students to:

  • understanding what mindfulness and compassion are and how they are inherent within yoga.

  • bring mindfulness and compassionate to the foreground of their personal practice (enabling it to feel like a refuge that sustains and supports them rather than getting caught in notions of how it ‘should’ look as a teacher).

  • embody and model mindfulness and compassion when teaching

  • hold space in such a way that creates an environment of care and safety

  • feel equipped in guiding students into embodied presence (as much as pose), while understanding both the benefits and challenges of doing so.

  • feel more confident teaching open level classes (offering options, guiding students to adapt to needs and practice with care and attention).

  • understand the benefits of compassion (for self and others) and practical tools to weave it within a teaching setting.

  • incorporate space for self-reflection and inquiry within a teaching setting.

  • experience ways of weaving mindfulness and compassion within their teaching in both movement and stillness

Mindful, Compassionate Yoga Modules

Mindful, Compassionate Yoga

This session focusses on: 

  • understanding what mindfulness and compassion are and how they relate to yoga. 

  • the importance and impact of placing presence at the foreground of our practice 

  • barriers and challenges to presence (e.g. distractions, distortions of the mind, how we respond to different 'feeling tones' of experience). 

  • attitudes of mindful awareness and how we can bring them into our yoga practice. 

  • a guided practice enabling students to have an embodied experience of mindful, compassionate yoga 

  • time for reflection and Q&As. 

This session can be followed by a period of reflective practice and a follow up session (live online) exploring the impact on practice and teaching.

Teaching Mindful Yoga

This session focusses on:

  • what it means to teaching mindful yoga (shifting from 'doing' to being, from performance to exploration)

  • pathways to presence in our practice (environment, body, breath, thoughts / feelings) 

  • the importance of 'holding space'  (modelling mindfulness & compassion to enable sense of care and safety)

  • weaving the attitudes of mindful awareness within our teaching 

  • language use (invitational, explorative)  / pacing / pausing 

  • teaching practice  

Teaching Compassionate Yoga

This session focusses on: 

  • the relationship between mindfulness and compassion

  • the nature of duhkha, suffering. 

  • meeting pain (emotional and physical) in our practice

  • compassion for self and others

  • a guided practice enabling students to have an embodied experience of compassion within yoga

  • the core components of self-compassion (mindfulness, common humanity, self-kindness) 

  • language use and self-soothing within teaching 

  • teaching practice 

Ami, Imogen North Teacher Training (2025)

“Anna's beautiful session on mindfulness and compassion was definitely a positive sparkle moment for me. I realised during and after the session that I can 100% do this YTT by showing up for me. The mindfulness & compassion part of the YTT is what I want to sprinkle on my future students. Imposter syndrome 0 Ami 1.”

Reflections on Mindful, Compassionate Practice

  • “Practicing with a ‘beginners’ mind’ encouraged me to approach sessions with curiosity rather than expectation.”

    — Doireann, Teacher in Training

  • “In bringing compassion into my practice I felt at ease and relaxed, like I was giving a hug to myself.”

    — Jenn, Teacher in Training

  • “I’ve learnt to trust my body more and listen to what it needs.”

    — Janet, Teacher in Training

  • “Bringing qualities of mindfulness and compassion into my self practice has been both grounding and transformative. It has become a mirror to how I relate to myself off the mat, with more acceptance, curiosity and care.”

    — Zahra, Teacher in Training

  • “I discovered a way of self-soothing where I stroked my arms and chest. It felt great!”

    — Angelina, Teacher in Training

  • “Meeting my edges with curiosity grew a sense of gentle resilience and awe of my body.”

    — Victoria, Teacher in Training

  • “I noticed I was tight in my jaw and body and suffering self doubt. I concentrated on my breath and hand on mat heart and felt more acceptance and love for myself.”

    — Ami, Teacher in Training

Self-care for Yoga Teachers Module

Teaching yoga is hugely rewarding but also comes with challenges. Teachers often work alone, juggle unpaid hours of planning, travel, marketing and admin. Burn out is common.

For teaching to be sustainable it is important that we learn to hold space for ourselves as skilfully as we hold space for our students.

This session explores self-care in the context of yoga teaching from self-practice and supportive routines and rituals, to scheduling, finances, boundary setting and mentoring.

While these sessions are designed to support teachers in training, I also offer a range of more in depth courses for those who are already teaching.

Sustainability & Self-Care for Yoga Teachers Courses

Course Reading

Join a number of teacher training organisations including my book Weaving Mindfulness and Compassion into Yoga Teaching on their course reading list.

Weaving Mindfulness and Compassion into Yoga Teaching sits within Singing Dragon’s series of Yoga Teaching Guides. It explores the vital and often under-emphasised link between mindfulness, compassion, and yoga teaching. This deeply authentic exploration of mindfulness and compassion will allow yoga teachers to enrich and enhance both their practice and teaching.

  • Section 1 explores what mindfulness and compassion are and how they interlink with the teachings of yoga.

  • Section 2 considers how yoga teachers can use mindfulness and compassion within their own lives to support both their wellbeing and the sustainability of their teaching.

  • Section 3 explores ways of bringing mindfulness and compassion into the forefront of our yoga teaching in service of our students.

Guided by reflection points and practical tips and informed by a person-centred, holistic approach, this book provides an opening to a more intentional yoga practice grounded in the wisdom of compassionate presence.

Book Reviews

  • "What I love about this book is the warmth of the author's voice which makes the reading of this book feel like a warm balm for the soul. I highly recommend this accessible book, not only for yoga teachers, but for anyone interested in understanding yoga, themselves, and what a yoga practice can be when it is reconnected to the heart of a living tradition."

    — Donna Farhi, author of Bringing Yoga to Life

  • "This wonderful book is filled with guidance and directions for not only practicing yoga mindfully but also taking this skill into daily living. It is an excellent resource for teachers for their own practice and sharing this wisdom with their students."

    — Bernie Clark, author and creator of YinYoga.com

  • "I can’t recommend this beautiful book enough. Anna has created a ‘must have’ masterpiece for yoga teachers and yoga students alike. I am going to have it as part of my yoga teacher training course reading list from this year onwards. Thanks Anna, for reminding us that yoga practice goes way beyond the body!!!"

    Victoria Adamson, Apanaveda School of Yoga

  • "This is important. What you are holding in your hands is crucial reading for all yoga teachers and all committed yoga practitioners ... you will find jewels within these pages."

    — Norman Blair, author and yoga teacher trainer

  • "As the Foreword says, this book is important. Packed full of common sense advice, as well as wide-ranging and accessible practical tools for teachers and students, it is an essential reminder that yoga is not about performance, but about giving ourselves space and time really to get to know ourselves, and to meet what we find with compassion, non-judgment, and the willingness to change. An incredibly valuable resource for yoga teachers new and old."

    — Dr. Graham Burns, Yoga teacher and teacher trainer

  • "This book is a gift. Whether you've just qualified or you've decades of experience, you'll find insights on every page that will enrich and sustain your teaching practice. It's clear and inspiring and full of wisdom. I will be recommending it to every yoga teacher I know."

    — Naomi Annand, Yoga Teacher, Teacher Trainer and Author of Yoga: A Manual for Life, and Yoga for Motherhood.

  • “Reading the book felt like a warm hug and I have been going back to it again and again.”

    Katie Wheater, Yoga Teacher

  • "I'm blown away just reading the first few pages and flicking through it - such a calming and soulful voice shines through and I love it! This book should be on every yoga teacher training reading list!"

    Beth Wheeler, Yoga Teacher and Coach

  • "I finished reading your book and I thought it was brilliant. The writing is so accessible ... I read quite a few books for my yoga teacher training and one of the things that really differentiated your book from others is your deep dive on how to use language to create a kind and mindful class. In my cohort, we often found it difficult to find the right words to guide our class in an inclusive and kind way. Your book really sheds light on this."

    Manisha Patel - Yoga Teacher

  • "Although most yoga teachers do approach their students with compassion and kindness, the mindfulness can sometimes be assumed rather than addressed. This book allows us to examine techniques by which we can mindfully introduce ways of considering ourselves and others in ways which affect and transform us, as practitioners and teachers, on a deep level. … it should be obligatory reading for all teachers, whether they are trainees or already trained."

    Wendy Teasdill, Yoga Teacher and Author (click here for full review)

  • "This book is born of experience.  Centered around the transformation of self-critique and suffering into self-care and self-compassion, Anna Taylor draws equally on yoga and mindfulness practices and philosophy to knit together the methodologies and describe a body-heart-mind integrated approach to life.  The text is alive with her authentic voice sharing her experience and offering practice guidance to us readers on how to enliven physical practice with mindfulness and both with heart-felt curiosity and compassion.  Anna illumines a path toward wholeness in language that is easy to understand and a pleasure to read.   She leads us while standing right beside us."

    — Lisa Kaley-Isley, PhD, E-RYT-500, and C-IAYT Clinical Psychologist, Yoga Therapist, and Yoga Educator

Benefits

By including Mindfulness and Compassion into Yoga Teaching on your course reading list your students will gain:

  • a deeper understanding of mindfulness and compassion and their inherent relation to yoga

  • tools to support their sustainability and wellbeing within their yoga teaching journey

  • practical ways of weaving mindfulness and compassion within their teaching for the benefit of their students

  • a discount code to purchase the book at a reduced rate

Receive your free review copy

If you run a yoga teacher training / CPD course and are interested to see if the book would compliment your course, please get in touch and I will happily send you a review copy.

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