The Shala London
Class Schedule
Uplifting, empowering and immersive, our wide range of daily yoga classes are taught by an exceptionally talented and experienced team of teachers. Join us for a diverse schedule, including Yin & Nidra, Dynamic Flow, Aerial Yoga, Ashtanga, Pregnancy Yoga, Meditative Flow, Flow Yoga & Bodyrolling and more!
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Inspire & Ignite your teaching series
Inspire & Ignite Your Teaching Path series led by Charli Van Ness. This exciting series of training days brings a variety of themes to inspire, refresh and refuel you as a teacher as well as give you a wealth of content from which to create workshops and retreats for your students.
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Trauma Informed Yoga | IN STUDIO
Support your clients in moving beyond stress, grief, trauma and burnout with embodied awareness and evidence-based yoga practices. A weekend-long training for yoga teachers wishing to deepen their understanding of trauma, the evidence basis for using yoga and how to teach with trauma-impacted students.
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Advanced Teaching Skills | 300 hour Teacher Training Core Module
This 4-day course with lead teachers Melanie Cooper and Gingi Lee is designed for yoga teachers who wish to take their teaching of asana to the next level. You will benefit from Gingi and Melanie’s 50+ combined years of teaching ashtanga, flow, vinyasa and yin classes.
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join our shala
We have two introductory offers to anyone who is new to our yoga centre.
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pregnancy yoga
Nourishing emotionally and physically, our pregnancy classes support, inform and empower women through pregnancy, towards a conscious and positive birth experience | In Studio and Virtual Livestream
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recharge, reconnect and restore
Gentler, slower, meditative yin and restorative classes calm the nervous system and allow you to tune inwards whilst opening up the body to alleviate stress and access deep relaxation.
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200-hour & 300-hour yoga teacher training
The Shala School of Yoga offers 200-hour and 300-hour teacher training programmes, featuring an inspiring line up of highly-experienced, well respected teachers.
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ashtanga yoga
Our Ashtanga classes explore yoga as a moving meditation connecting mind, body and soul through the rhythm of the breath. We also offer Mysore self-practice classes.
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the shala yoga studio in london

Yoga Teacher Trainings, Workshops & Classes

A South London sanctuary for self nurture, growth and healing, the Shala Yoga Centre is a well established yoga centre with a reputation for exceptional teaching. For over 25 years, our focus has been on enhancing well-being in our community through yoga and mind-body practices. We are committed to inclusivity, offering subsidised low-cost yoga classes from as a little as £5 to help make healing and wellness accessible to everyone regardless of financial circumstances

Our sister organisation The Shala School of Yoga offers Yoga Alliance accredited 200 hour Level 1, 300-hour Level 2 and CPD yoga teacher trainings for personal and professional development.

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An introduction to the Shala Yoga Centre and some of the yoga classes we have on offer.

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yoga workshops & events

Sound Bath, Nidra & Reiki | A Solstice Grace, Gratitude & Healing Evening

14 December 2024

A Winter Solstice celebration in grace & gratitude – be bathed, healed and nourished by sound, nidra and Reiki energy.

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yoga classes

Most classes at the Shala Yoga Centre are in studio and some memberships offer on demand recordings.

A liberating and versatile practice, which can decompress, strengthen and stretch the whole body, improve circulation, boost digestion and dramatically lift your mood.

A flowing, rhythmic practice with a strong focus on the breath and movement as a form of meditation.

A quiet focused Ashtanga “self-practice” class where yoga becomes a moving meditation connecting mind, body and soul through the breath.

Join us every Wednesday for this intimate session for mums & babies to learn and experience baby massage and yoga.

A beginners class to improve stamina, strength and flexibility, providing the foundations for a safe and beneficial yoga practice.

An energising, grounding and flowing open level yoga class.

A fun and challenging dynamic class to build strength, flexibility and get energy flowing.

A fusion of yoga & bodyrolling, a unique and profound form of yoga and therapeutic work, which reorganises the mechanics of the body, elongating muscles, releasing the spine and improving alignment, mobility and flexibility.

An integration of meditative practices with elements of yoga, qigong, free movement, meditation and breathwork to encourage a profound sense of well-being and connection to body and mind. 

Nourishing mind, body and soul, our pregnancy classes support, inform and empower women through pregnancy, towards a conscious and positive birth experience.

A soulful class to coax you into a deep state of rest and contemplation; unwinding, rebalancing and nourishing body, mind and spirit.

A gentle and meditative yoga class that blends yin, restorative and nidra practices in a slow, nourishing and deeply relaxing practice.

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Featured yoga Blogs

Pranayama as an essential daily support system

This article explains the benefit of this practice and how important and transformative as well as supportive Pranayama can be.  

Yoga Nidra and awareness of opposites

The practice of Yoga Nidra often starts with taking time to “arrive in the space” and then moving on to incorporate holding opposites within our awareness. The student may be encouraged to experience or imagine the body as hot then cold for example or first heavy and then light. But what is the purpose of this and how does this help us?

Introducing Charli Van Ness

An interview with lead teacher trainer Charli Van Ness on how she become interested in yoga, how it helped her in life and how will she supports others to improve their practice.

Benefits of 300 hrs Level 2 training

5 Benefits of expanding your Level 1 Teacher Training

Our 300-hour training is for teachers who have already completed their level 1 (200hour) training and offers a plethora of benefits as a working yoga teacher.

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Five Unexpected Reasons to do a Yoga Teacher Training

There are a plethora of reasons people join our 200-hour yoga teacher training. Here, in our view, are five of unexpected benefits to doing a teacher training course at the Shala.

What is Yoga Nidra

What is nidra and how can it help me?

What is yoga nidra and how can it help me? Yoga nidra is a fast-track method to switching off and accessing deep relaxation, but it is also so much more…..

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