Enhanced Skills | Core Module for 300-hour Teacher Training Programme | HYBRID
Gingi Lee, Melanie Cooper | 27 Sep - 19 Oct 2025| 60 hours | Price: £595
This 60-hour core module is central to our exciting 300-hour programme providing a practical and inspiring foundation to the programme. It is one of two compulsory modules on our level 2 programme. You are free to choose your other modules to make up your 300-hours, effectively creating your own tailor-made course based on your own passions – find out more about the entire programme here.
You can do the Enhanced Skills at any stage of your training, so if you want to start with any of the other modules you can. We do recommend that you do this module early on in your training journey with us, especially if you are a new teacher as it can help you navigate through what you may wish to study as part of the programme.
Course Overview
The Enhanced Skills core module is broad in scope, touching on a wide range of topics to help solidify your teachings, as well as spark new areas of interests. The course is designed to deepen your knowledge, inspire you, elevate you, support you to evolve as a teacher and help you choose your path for further specialist training. Many of the topics we offer within this core module are subjects that you may then choose to study in more depth as modules on our 300-hr training. We generally recommend doing this module module early on, but it is possible to opt to complete this module at any point.
The course is led by Melanie Cooper and Gingi Lee, with appearances from numerous other teachers from our teaching faculty including Barrie Risman, Daniel Simpson, David Behrens and Jennie Wadsten
Please click the pink button below if you are would like to apply for the 300-hour programme and it will take you to a short application form. A 200-hour accredited Level 1 training is a requirement to applying for the Level 2, 300-hour course.
Course Content
The mandatory Enhanced Skills Core Module is designed to be extensive in its scope, covering aspects of teaching that are relevant to all, whatever your focus. It will include subjects such as:
- Modern Philosophy & Dharma
- Pranayama
- Anatomy
- Yoga Ethics
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Intelligent Sequencing
- Theming
- Teaching Online
- Yoga History & Philosophy
- Authentic Marketing
- Challenges of Teaching
- Teaching Beginners
You will receive supporting resources in the form of PDFs, recorded content, workbooks and some presentation slides.
Brief Overview of the Core Module
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Lead Teachers
The course is led by Gingi Lee and Melanie Cooper with a number of guest specialist teachers.
Gingi Lee
Co-director of the Shala, Gingi founded the Shala in 1997 as one of London’s first dedicated yoga centres. Gingi began studying and teaching martial arts in the 1980s and he has been teaching yoga for over 25 years. He is one of the country’s most senior ashtanga yoga teachers and he has played a key role in popularising ashtanga yoga in the UK, having taught, trained and inspired many British yoga teachers.
In 2016 he established the Shala School of Yoga teacher training programme. Read Gingi full Biography here.
Melanie Cooper (E-RYT 500)
Melanie has also been teaching yoga since 1997 and teaching on a wide variety of teacher trainings since 2010. She is passionate about the ability of yoga to heal and transform peoples’ lives and her deep connection to and love of yoga is evident in her teachings.
Melanie divides her time between the UK and Goa running teacher trainings and retreats in UK, Sweden, Crete and India. She is the author of ‘Teaching Yoga Adjusting Asana’. Read Melanie’s full biography here.
Course Dates
The course has the following modules scheduled:
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Saturday 27 September 2025 DAY 1 | IN STUDIO OR LIVESTREAM
10-6pm
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Sunday 28 September 2025 DAY 2 | IN STUDIO OR LIVESTREAM
10-6pm
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Mondy 29 September 2025 DAY 3 | IN STUDIO OR LIVESTREAM
10-6pm
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Sunday 5 October 2025 DAY 4 | VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM
9am-5pm
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Sunday 12 October 2025 DAY 5 | VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM
9am-5pm
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Sunday 19 October 2025 DAY 6 | VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM
9am-5pm
Pricing
- The cost is £595
- A non-refundable deposit of £200 is required on booking.
- If you book the IN STUDIO option but wish to have flexibility to attend via VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM you can pay an admin fee of £25 by clicking on the FLEXIBLE HYBRID ADMIN FEE orange button. This will hold your IN STUDIO place but also gives you access to the LIVESTREAM links. You can request this at any point during the course but since this needs to be activated manually, it will only be processed during our admin team's working hours Monday to Friday (7am-4pm).
- To reserve your place, please >>click one of the BOOK buttons below >> sign in or input your details and choose payment method. Note you have two options 1) 3 days in studio and 3 days online 2) do all days online.
- If you do not pay in full, please ensure that you save your credit card details so we can process the final payments. This will happen in 2 parts, half will be taken 21 days before the start of the course and the second half 14 days before the start of the course. A receipt will be sent to you when the payment has been taken
- In order for the balance to be processed, please ensure that you save your card details and opt for the direct debit option. If you prefer to pay by the credit card option then this incurs a 2.4% charge. Receipts will be sent to you when the payments are taken.
- 300 hour students get a 10% discount on trainings after they have booked this Enhanced Skills core module plus two other modules (priced at £395 or more). Email us if this is the case and the discount will be applied when the balance is taken.
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Terms & Conditions
- Trainings at the Shala School of Yoga are independently run by the teachers, and all payments for training services are processed by the Shala School of Yoga on behalf of the individual teachers hosting the course.