Mentorships are a valuable way of growing as a teacher, gaining unique insider access to a senior teacher’s methodology, and accumulating a significant amount of contact hours towards your 300 hour certificate. The Nourishing Heart Yoga Mentorship Program is a chance to participate in and help build community in a sustainable way that allows you to walk away feeling confident in your teaching. Additionally, we want you to integrate the learning of your 200-hour or 300-hour teacher training–by bringing it onto the mat and into the studio.
You’ll join a group of five other aspiring teachers and receive a Senior Lead Teacher Training Mentor. Over the course of 6 weeks, you will meet to receive (and learn to offer) personalized, actionable feedback on the art of teaching yoga. You will practice, study, and complete homework assignments to help you cultivate and consistently offer your best, most authentic self. You’ll learn the skills of collaboration and leadership within your groups and as an honored part of the Nourishing Heart Yoga community. Commit to your teaching and join us today!
WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM SPECIAL?
It’s personal. The Nourishing Heart Yoga mentor and mentee work one-on-one to individually customize the mentorship to the mentee’s particular needs and wants. Everything you do will be customized to your group by your mentor. You’ll have the opportunity to learn exactly what you need to succeed and develop your own authentic, heart-led style.
It’s powerful. Becoming a great teacher requires talent and it requires training. But it also takes dedication, reflection, and lots of experience. Our program focuses directly on these important and oft-neglected elements of learning. Through observation, peer feedback, and personalized coaching, you’ll discover your strengths and challenges, develop strategies to evolve your instruction, and take decisive action.
It’s affordable. We believe that sharing yoga which nourishes the heart, body and mind can change the world, one student at at time. That’s why we’re committed to keeping our teacher development offerings as accessible as possible.
How It Works
Prerequisite:
This program is open to those who have completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training program with Nourishing Heart Yoga or with another training school.
Students must be actively taking at least one of Matece’s weekly classes for 2 months prior to the beginning of the mentorship. This allows Matece to assist you in your own practice, gives you the opportunity to experience various hands on assists, and assures Matece that you are rooted in your own personal yoga practice before undertaking the mentorship.
MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INCLUDES:
- Working with Matece Skow and an assigned accountability partner one-on-one through the consecutive and agreed upon 6 week period.
- Personal Yoga Practice: mentees are expected to continue their commitment to taking one class per week at Nourishing Heart Yoga Studio.
- Mentees will observe up to two Community Yoga classes per month, making notes and providing written feedback to the teacher and/or the mentor.
- Teach 2 one hour Community Yoga Classes within the 6 week period, and receive feedback from the mentee group about your teaching.
- Mentees are expected to commit to assist Matece Skow in one of her classes within the 6 week period, with a 10-minute minimum Q&A before or after class.
- Two one-hour private sessions with Matece; one at the beginning of the session to determine your particular interests and focus for the mentorship and one at the end to review and discuss what was learned and evaluate homework assignments as well as teaching feedback.
- Attend one hour group meetings once per month with all mentees to give and receive feedback regarding the Community Yoga classes. 2 meetings in total for the 6 week period.
- Three hours per month of homework with your chosen teacher to go over agreed-upon customized assignments such as:
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- Sequencing
- Adjustments
- Communications/Cueing
- Marketing, building community with students, social media, auditions and finding work
- Yoga Sutras: Understanding, chanting and transmitting their wisdom in classroom situations
- Yoga for everyone: Pre and postnatal, chair and seniors, gentle, and therapeutic yoga
- The development of your own home and studio practice with Sadhana Tracker
- Learn a chosen Sanskrit chant
- Review one part of your anatomy training and create a flow that you teach with that in mind.
- Possibilities are limitless
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Dates & Enrollment
DATES FOR 2023
Sunday, June 11
Sunday, June 18
Sunday, June 25
Sunday, July 2
Sunday, July 9
Sunday, July 23
We will meet at Nourishing Heart Yoga Studio from 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm.
SPACE IN THIS PROGRAM IS VERY LIMITED. WE ONLY HAVE TWO AVAILABLE SPOTS FOR 2023.
This program is included in the cost of the 300 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training and all students enrolled in that program are automatically enrolled in the Mentorship Program.
Investment:
$415 with a $40 discount for early bird registration by Friday, May 12, 2023. Early Bird Cost: $375
To apply for the Mentoring Program, click here to email our team. The application process will include a short video demonstrating your teaching skills. If you are a graduate of the Nourishing Heart Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training program, the video application is waived.