A sanctuary for self nurture, growth and healing in South London, the Shala Yoga Centre is a well established yoga centre with a reputation for exceptional teaching. For over 20 years, our focus has been on enhancing well-being through yoga.
Our sister organisation The Shala School of Yoga offers 200 hour Level 1, 300-hour Level 2 and CPD yoga teacher trainings for personal and professional development.
An introduction to the Shala Yoga Centre and the yoga classes we have on offer.
The Shala School of Yoga’s 200-hour yoga teacher training programme has been described by past graduates as “transformational”, “life-changing” and “mind-blowing”. Our carefully curated Yoga Alliance accredited programme with an experienced and dedicated teaching faculty will take practitioners deeper into their yoga practice, instilling teaching skills and knowledge and nurturing a new generation of authentic teachers.
Strengthen your capacity to support yourself, as well as those you may teach or care for who have mental health challenges. This in-depth 8-week online course will take you on a journey of empowerment to optimize your mental health through breathwork, mindfulness & meditation.
The Enhanced Skills module lies at the heart of our YA accredited 300-hour Level 2 training and it is the only mandatory part of our programme. The course is designed to elevate, inspire and evolve you as a yoga teacher. It spans six days as a virtual livestream course, covering a broad spectrum of topics from ethics and inclusivity to sequencing, theming, self care, authentic marketing & much much more.
This sessional Pranayama Teacher Training course will give you a grounding in the philosophy and science of Pranayama. The training has a strong practical element of personal practice as well as learning how to teach others.
For anyone interested in studying with us, we warmly invite you to join us for this FREE event with our lead teacher trainers Gingi Lee, Melanie Cooper and Jennie Wadsten. This will be an opportunity to join us in person (or via livestream) for two evening practices (flow followed by nidra), and hear more about our training programmes, plus ask your questions.
Exploring inversions and building stability through the Second Series of the Ashtanga asana practice.
Delve deeper into the power of the breath as an easy-to-access transformational tool with profound and long-lasting health benefits. This 4-week virtual livestream course with Fini Cooper interweaves psychology, science and research with the practicalities of how to work with the breath to change your life.
An experiential aerial journey, where you will be guided through the foundations of aerial yoga to move, stretch & luxuriate in the swings.
A practice-based workshop to ‘rest’, to ‘relax’ and to ‘restore’ and, by ‘resting’ deeply – experience relaxation, where there is effortlessness, quietness and peace.
A ‘mood boosting’ workshop designed to increase your inner light and bring out the ‘snug’ element to yoga. Part of our “Living Yoga’ Alchemy Workshop Series.
Join internationally renowned restorative yoga teacher Adelene Cheong for a FREE webinar exploring the art and science of restorative yoga. Here she will discuss the intrinsic benefits of a restorative yoga practice and how to ‘rest’, to ‘relax’ and to ‘restore’ is a natural vital process in our lives, which supports optimal physiological functioning and promotes healing and growth.
Read more about Restorative Yoga Teacher Training HERE.
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.
An energising, grounding and flowing open level yoga class.
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 Qigong and yoga, two distinct and mutually enriching systems of practice, which both place an emphasis on moving meditatively to the breath.
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.
Special offers. Featured or new services. Plus a selection of news.
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.
Chair yoga is seeing a huge increase in popularity. It offers all the regular benefits of yoga (strength, flexibility, mental clarity, stress reduction) but what sets it apart is it makes yoga accessible to every body regardless of mobility or physical challenges.
Lack of sleep can often be linked to stress and anxiety but also the busyness of everyday modern life. If you are caught up in a perpetual cycle of sleep deprivation, the natural by-product of practicing yoga is a reduction in stress and often an improvement in sleep.
Contemporary stressors tend to linger in our stress system and therefore this system is either constantly activated or repeatedly activated. The constant high response of this system is a factor in some of the biggest health problems of our time, including diabetes and strokes as well as a myriad of other problems.
Those that are feeling exhausted and burnt out are likely to benefit less from a physically challenging yoga class, instead the focus is best placed on restoration and renewal to help reduce exhaustion.
Yoga can help with anxiety by inhibiting the chemical messenger in the brain that involves the fear-based pathways associated with anxiety. Find out more about yoga for anxiety on our latest wellness blog.
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