Established in the late 1990s, the Shala was one of the first yoga centres in London. For over two decades, The Shala has served a wide community in London and built a strong reputation for high-quality authentic yoga teaching. In 2016, The Shala School of Yoga, our sister organisation, was set up to enable our most experienced Senior teachers to pass on their considerable knowledge through more in-depth courses and trainings. These courses have been primarily designed for yoga teachers and other healthcare, wellbeing and caregiving professionals.

Since 2016, we have had nearly 1,000 students come through the Shala School of Yoga. Some have graduated from our 200-hour yoga teacher training programme as certified yoga teachers, others have gone on to gain advanced certification as 500-hour registered teachers from our 300-hour yoga teacher training programme, many others have attended our broad range of stand-alone CPD courses.

The Shala School of Yoga brings together an exceptionally experienced and gifted team of Senior teachers. Our lead teachers on the 200 and 300 hour programmes are Gingi Lee, Melanie Cooper and Kath Roberts, all of whom have a profound depth of knowledge plus over 25 years of teaching experience. Our faculty also includes the following teachers who have been teaching for many years and are experts in their own specific fields:

Dr Matthew Clark, Norman Blair, Jennie Wadsten, Adelene Cheong, Martin Aylward, Daniel Simpson, Dina Coen, David Behrens, Barrie Risman, Richard Holryd, Ayala Homossany, Alexa Dean and Anne Malone.