Monthly Mentorship for Yoga Teachers
HOW DO YOU HOLD SPACE, FOR YOURSELF AND FOR OTHERS, IN A WAY THAT GROWS YOUR POTENTIAL WITHOUT BURNING OUT, AND WITH TOOLS THAT ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR CORE VALUES?
What this is:
An ongoing community for teachers who want somewhere to hold the whole of it, together.
The mentorship opens in February 2027. And as much as that seems far away right now, I can promise you it will be worth it.
Teaching yoga can be a very lonely career. You are holding a room full of people and yourself. You make so many decisions in a single class; you read the air, the tone, the feeling of everyone in front of you, and adjust yourself to it. And then you run everything else yourself too.
Most of us are responsible for all of it. The teaching, the marketing, the website, filling the classes, the workshops and the trainings. Maybe you have one-to-one clients with additional needs, or you want to build that side of your work but aren’t sure where to start. On top of all of this, you are keeping your own practice alive, or at least trying to. Honing your craft, trying to create a space people want to return to and feel seen in, and holding your own life and the money side of it together at the same time.
That is a great deal to carry on your own. The mentorship is a place to stop that, to give you a space where you are no longer on your own.
A group of working teachers who meet with me twice a month on Zoom. We study together, we practise together, and we talk about the real work of what it means to teach: the students in our yoga space, the questions our own practice keeps raising, and how to keep a teaching life going without losing ourselves in it.
It is an ongoing working relationship, not a course. There is no end; there is simply a steady place to keep deepening how you teach, month after month, with a teacher and a group who come to know your teaching and what you are working with.
It draws on everything I have been studying and teaching since 2011: Yin, Ashtanga, adaptive practice, the nervous system, the classical texts. And its shaped month by month by what members bring.
Who this is for:
This is for teachers who want a place to keep learning and somewhere to hold the whole of it.
You do not need years behind you. Newly qualified or long established, what matters is that you are teaching, or working towards that, and that you want more than technique.
Because being a yoga teacher is rarely only about technique. You might be a mother, or hold a full-time job alongside your teaching, or have come to this from another life entirely. You bring a whole range of skills and a whole life with you, and that is not a distraction from the work of teaching; so much of that is housed within your teaching and is the work.
If you are interested in a pull towards slower, nervous system-aware teaching, have a willingness to be seen, and an interest in the depth of what it means to be a yoga teacher, then this is for you. If you have a quiet readiness to accept that you will not be for everyone, that narrowing yourself to a single niche is not the only way, and that all of this is more manageable in a room with others rather than alone. Then this is for you.
How it works:
Two live calls a month, on Zoom, ninety minutes each. That is the container. What happens inside it is the whole of a teaching life, not only the teaching of yoga.
The first call is where we go deep on the month’s theme together, with room for discussion and your questions. Some months, that is the craft of teaching: the nervous system in the room, the breath, the honest state of the research. Some months it is you, your own practice, your rest, the burnout nobody told you may happen. Some months is the business of it, the website, your pricing, the parts of running a teaching life that no training prepared you for.
The second call is quieter and closer. We practise together, and then we hold the real questions you walk in with. The student you were unsure how to teach. The class you are teaching that is not filling up as you had hoped. The business partnership that isn't aligned with how you want to move forward. The week you taught from an empty place. This is the room where the one who holds space all weeks is, for once, the one held.
Between the call, you have:
Recordings of both calls, with twelve months’ access
A community space for questions and quiet exchange
A short monthly practice brief
An optional month reading or listening pack
Continuing education credits through Yoga Alliance (YACEP)
What we explore:
This mentorship holds more than the client in front of you. It holds you and the whole working life around your teaching.
Across a year, the calls move through the nervous system in the room, cueing and co-regulation, and the honest state of the research, polyvagal theory included, all held as the working map of teaching yoga today. We move through your own practice and rest, keeping your own alignment at the centre, and what to do when you are already burnt out, because you are the one holding space all week, and your space needs holding too. And we move through the physical business of it all: getting off the ground, website and marketing, filling your classes and keeping people, working with one-to-one clients, pricing and money, and the harder realities of teaching life. The pressure to cut your prices to compete, and what happens when a business partnership isn't aligned with what you want to build.
Because it is not only about our students' nervous systems. It is about your nervous system too, and the management of everything you want to hold, and the whole of that.
That is roughly half of it. The other half is led by what you bring. This is the difference between the mentorship and a course. A course has a syllabus; this is a room full of real teaching lives.
WHEN WE MEET:
We begin with an opening session on Tuesday 23rd February 2027 at 19:00 UK time.
From there, the calls settle into the first and third Thursday of each month, 19:00 to 20:30 UK. The time suits the UK and Europe, and every call is recorded, so a missed evening is never a missed month.
Investment:
Membership is £45 a month. One rate, kept deliberately low to stay within reach. There is no minimum term, and you can leave at any time with one month’s notice.
Available separately, if you would like: 1:1 yoga therapy and sessions with me, my YACEP trainings, and any retreats or workshops I run.
One-to-one, later on
Once the community is established, I will open a small number of 1:1 mentoring places for teachers who want focused, individual time with me.
This is not open yet. If it is the something you may want, the community is the place to start, and you will hear about it there first.
HOW TO JOIN:
The mentorship opens in February 2027.
For now, the thing to do is join the list. It costs nothing, it puts you first in line, and in the meantime I will send the occasional note alongside new classes and writing.
When the doors open, joining is simple. You choose the monthly membership and you are in. No application and no call to schedule.
in the meantime:
While you wait, the best way to get a feel for how I teach and think is to spend time with the work I already have here.
The free library holds more than sixty ad-free classes, from Yin and restorative to nervous-system-aware practice.
If you're after the thinking, the writing lives on the blog, where I work through many of the questions this mentorship is built around.
And you can find the classes, and me, on YouTube.
What students say about working with Gem
FAQs
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Yes, while there is space. It is open and ongoing, and once it opens in February 2027, you can join whenever you are ready, up to the point the group is full. After that, a waitlist opens. For now, the waitlist is where to start.
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The mentorship is capped so it stays a room you can actually be held in, rather than a crowd. When it is full, a waitlist opens, and I welcome new members as spots become available.
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Yes. The mentorship is open to teachers at any stage, from newly qualified to long-established.
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Life happens to us all. All the calls are recorded, and you have twelve months’ access. The mentorship is built around live attendance most months, because that is where the relationships form, but the occasional miss is part of being human and is honoured.
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Yes. Calls are held at a time that suits the UK and European time zones, usually early evening UK time. From further afield, the recordings and the community space are there for you.
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Not quite. Yoga therapy is its own formal path of study, with its own training and certification (IAYT). The mentorship is nervous-system aware and therapeutically informed, and it deepens how you teach yoga, but is teacher development rather than yoga therapy training.
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Not yet. A small number of 1:1 places will open later, by application. The community is where you will hear about it first.