Teacher Training Mentoring Programme | LIVESTREAM
Melanie Cooper | 02 Nov 2025 - 5 Feb 2026 | 15 hours | Price: £195
Are you a new yoga teacher seeking support and insights from an experienced mentor to help navigate the challenges of launching your career? It’s natural to feel both excitement and uncertainty at the beginning of your teaching journey, and having someone to guide you can be invaluable as you find your way.
Or perhaps you’re an experienced teacher who feels like you’ve hit a plateau—your creativity feels blocked, and your classes lack the spark they once had. You might be searching for fresh inspiration, renewed motivation, and practical strategies to elevate your teaching and reconnect with your passion.
This course can be attended as a stand-alone course or as an mandatory module on our 300-hour programme.
Why Mentoring?
Mentoring provides a unique space for both personal and professional growth. Whether you’re new to teaching or have years of experience, a mentor offers support in your corner, giving you a fresh perspective, expert guidance, and consistent encouragement when you need it most. Teaching yoga can be incredibly rewarding but also challenging, and mentoring helps ensure you stay connected to your passion, energy, and purpose.
What Mentoring Offers You
- Guidance: Sometimes all it takes is an outside perspective to help you reveal your true potential more clearly and address any obstacles in your path.
- Support: Teaching yoga can be a solitary path, and it’s easy to feel isolated, especially when you’re dealing with frustration or self-doubt. A mentor offers the emotional support needed to keep you moving forward.
- Personal Growth: Mentoring isn’t just about improving your teaching—it’s about helping you grow as an individual, allowing you to step more fully into your role as a teacher and leader.
- Inspiration and Motivation: When you’re feeling stuck or uninspired, a mentor can help you reignite your passion for teaching, offering fresh ideas to bring creativity and purpose to your classes.
- Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Many teachers, no matter how experienced, struggle with feeling not “good enough.” A mentor helps you recognize and dismantle these limiting beliefs, empowering you to teach with more confidence.
- Work-Life Balance: Teaching, especially alongside family and other commitments, can be exhausting. Mentoring supports you in creating a sustainable practice that balances your personal life with your professional aspirations.
How it Works
- Flexible Options: We offer sessions in supportive groups or get in touch to set up 1-to-1 sessions for personalized guidance.
- Confidentiality: Everything discussed in mentoring remains strictly confidential, creating a safe and trusting environment for you to express yourself fully.
- Online Access: All sessions are conducted over Zoom, so you can receive support wherever you are.
Take the Next Step Whether you’re feeling unsure of your abilities, looking for creative inspiration, or simply needing someone to talk to about the realities of being a yoga teacher, mentoring offers the opportunity to grow and evolve – both as a teacher and as an individual.
Are you interested in this Course?
Melanie Cooper Biography
(E-RYT 500)
Melanie Cooper is passionate about Pranayama & how simple techniques and the magic of the breath can give us such amazing benefits physically but also mentally and emotionally. Her approach to Pranayama is grounded in science and a trauma sensitivity to make sure that we teach in a way that is safe, accessible and positive for all. As well as the physical benefits, Pranayama can help us to deepen our meditation and bring states of profound stillness and silence.
Melanie studied in Goa, India with Emil Wendle and taught nightly Pranayama classes in India for many years. Melanie also worked for 10 years in a mental health setting sharing simple powerful breath techniques to support and nourish. Her approach is grounded in experience and science – she shares this knowledge in a structured and accessible way that meets each person where they are and makes the practice right for them
Working as a yoga teacher is amazing – but it also takes a lot of energy – and can be very draining if you do not look after yourself. It’s very easy to not give ourselves that time/attention/self care – so in the training we will also place emphasis on how to create space for your own health and practice: to stay balanced and mentally strong.
You can visit Melanie’s website here
Course Dates
The course has the following modules scheduled:
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Thursday 20 Nov 2025 Session 1
6-9 pm VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM
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Thursday 11 Dec 2025 Session 2
6-9 pm VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM
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Thursday 8 Jan 2026 Session 3
6-9 pm VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM
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Thursday 5 Feb 2026 Session 3
6-9 pm VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM
Pricing
- £195 for the full training LIVESTREAM ONLINE
- A non-refundable deposit of £60 is required on booking.
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- 300 hour students get a 10% discount on this training if they have booked three trainings with us including the core. Email us if this is the case and the discount will be applied when the balance is taken
- Students who have already completed this course who want to study again as a refresher pay 50% of the full price cost
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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.