The Shala London
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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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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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300-hour Yoga Teacher Training

Flexible Start dates

This diverse and flexible 300-hour level 2 Yoga Teacher Training programme gives you the opportunity to continue your education, expand your knowledge and delve deeper into specialist topics of your choice, creating an advanced portfolio to master yoga teaching as a life path, career and practice.

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Trauma Informed Yoga

7 December 2024

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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Inspire & Ignite Your Teaching Path Series

18 January 2025

Inspire & Ignite Your Teaching Path series led by Charli Van Ness. This series of training days brings to you 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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Inversions | Playfulness + Perspective Teacher Training Module

19 January 2025

Part of our Inspire & Ignite Your Teaching Path series, this 1-day training explores how to teach Inversion variations using the Wall, Props, Advanced Modifications, Counterposes & Hands on Adjustments.

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Advanced Teaching Skills: Core Module

24 January 2025

This rich 4-day course with lead teachers Melanie Cooper and Gingi Lee is designed for yoga teachers who wish to deepen their understanding of asana and refine how they teach asana based classes so that they are alive, multi-faceted, inspirational – and moving with modern times.

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300-hour Teacher Training Taster

31 January 2025

For yoga teachers who are interested in studying on our Level 2, 300-hour programme, we warmly invite you to join  our lead teacher trainers Melanie Cooper and Gingi Lee for this interactive event. This will be an opportunity to join us in the studio, hear more about our training programme, ask your questions and get a taste of what it is like to be on our Level 2 teacher training programme.

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Yin Yoga Teacher Training

1 January 2025

The slower practice of yin can be a gateway to your inner world, helping you to connect and go deep inside so you can truly rejuvenate. Adding yin to your skill base can significantly expand your horizons and potential as a teacher. On this blended course – 2 days in person or livestreamed plus a library of invaluable recorded content, you will learn how to teach yin in a way that is inclusive, safe and compassionate.

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Chair Yoga | IN STUDIO

30 January 2025

Chair Yoga is a versatile accessible practice for everyone. Ideal for seniors and the less able-bodied, it is also suited to those who would like to learn different ways to enjoy their yoga practice without rolling out a mat and getting up and down from the floor.

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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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Dream 2025 | New Year’s Day Flow into Cacao, Breathwork, Yin & Nidra

1 January 2025
A New Year’s Day retreat to intentionally dream and vision 2025 into being with a flow practice into sacred cacao infused with Blue Lotus flower, yin and yoga nidra. Start the year in sacred ceremony and celebration.
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Yin Yoga Workshop

5 January 2025

Still the body to still the mind with a deliciously relaxing and meditative afternoon of Yin Yoga. Long-holds of floor-based postures encourage the deeper muscles and connective tissue to release. As we slow down space is created for quiet self-reflection.

 

 

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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 (200–hour) 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…..

testimonials

“ A life changing experience. ”
SR
“ My deep heartfelt thanks for this beautiful haven you have created. As soon as I stepped through the doors I knew it would be okay. The whole atmosphere, attitude of teachers, teaching style, non egocentric caring ethos enveloped me. I felt safe and welcomed. Thank you for bringing me back to yoga. ”
BR
" The teachers you have at The Shala are wonderful, so supportive and positive, accepting of all of our different ‘places’ and directions of travel. It’s such a commendable achievement to have set up a place where this is possible – for everyone. I feel like finally I am myself again, such a powerful thing! "
BK
" Arriving here is like pressing the reset button...it is so tranquil and calming. "
SR
" Beautiful space, friendly atmosphere and passionate teachers. This is the true home of yoga! "
MC
" Gingi and Ella have created a special place – I have been with them for over a decade... they attract teachers and yogis with great spirits, with which I have been able to continue, return and develop with freedom and ease. Oh, and did I say the quality of teaching is just superb? "
" the whole experience at the Shala has been absolutely amazing. "
MP
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