Sādhanā Mentorship for Yoga Teachers
Your teaching evolves as your practice deepens.
You may feel called inward - or ready to refine your outer expression.
The Sādhanā Mentorship is a space for yoga teachers and holistic practitioners to tend to their own practice as the foundation of their teaching.
Sādhanā is more than a routine or something we do on the mat. It is an ongoing relationship with practice, enquiry and experience ~ a way of continuing to learn, question and listen, and allowing what we discover to inform the way we teach and share with others.
Together, we can explore the questions that are alive for you, deepen your personal practice, and look honestly at your teaching ~ what is working, what wants attention, and what might be ready to evolve.
The way you rest in your own presence shapes the quality of space you offer and hold for others.
In the outpouring of your energy, what flows back to sustain you? Where is the exchange reciprocal ~ and where does it ask for tending?
Sādhanā Mentorship
Inner Evolution
For yoga teachers who want to continue developing their own practice, deepen their understanding and keep learning.
This is an opportunity to work with me one-to-one, drawing on the breadth of my studies and experience across Hatha Yoga, Tantra, pranayama, meditation, mantra, Yoga Nidra, Ayurveda, somatic enquiry and philosophy.
We might deepen and refine practices you already know, explore techniques and approaches that are new to you, or spend time with a particular area of study that is calling your attention.
Your own practice is at the heart of the work. Together, we will look at what interests you, what challenges you, what you want to understand more deeply and where you feel there is room to grow.
There is no set syllabus. The content is shaped around you, allowing us to follow a particular thread of practice or study, return to things again and again, and let your understanding develop over time.
Sādhanā Mentorship
Outer Expression
For yoga teachers who want to explore how their own practice finds expression through their teaching.
This pathway is about the craft of teaching ~ refining how you communicate, structure and share what you know, while staying connected to the practice and understanding that sits underneath it.
We can explore the things that make up your teaching: sequencing and theming, language and communication, demonstration and observation, adapting practices for different people, and finding ways to bring philosophy and other aspects of the tradition into your classes with clarity and integrity.
We can also look at the bigger picture of your teaching ~ your offerings, the students you are drawn to work with, how you want to develop, and what feels genuinely yours to share.
Rather than following a set curriculum, our work will be shaped around your experience, your questions and the places where you want to grow. The aim is not to develop a particular style of teaching, but to help you find greater clarity and confidence in your own.
Not Sure Which Pathway Is Right?
If your personal practice needs tending → begin with Inner Evolution.
If your practice is steady and you want to refine your teaching → choose Outer Expression.
Both pathways are shaped around you and where you are now.
They simply begin in different places.
Investment & Structure
Both pathways are offered as a 12-session mentorship, giving us the continuity and time to develop the work in a way that feels appropriate to you.
The rhythm is yours to choose:
12 - Session Sādhanā Mentorship
Weekly - 3 months, for greater continuity and momentum
60-minute sessions £700
Bi-weekly - 6 months, for a steady rhythm with more space between sessions
75-minute sessions £900
Monthly - 12 months, for a more spacious, long-term approach
90-minute sessions £1,080
Our sessions can take place in person at Happy Om Studio or Online via Zoom.
You will have access to the Svarūpa Online Library to support your practice throughout our time together.
How to Begin?
If you are interested, please send me an email and tell me a little about what you are looking for.
You are also very welcome to get in touch with any questions, or we can arrange a brief phone call or meet-up to explore whether the mentorship feels like the right fit for you.
One-Off Mentorship Session
Sometimes you don't need ongoing mentorship, perhaps just some dedicated time to explore something that's alive in your practice or teaching.
This 2.5-hour session offers space to bring a particular question, challenge or area of interest. We might look at your personal practice, explore a teaching situation, refine a class or sequence, work through a particular technique, or simply spend time being in the questions together.
Come with something specific, or come with a sense that something is asking for attention. We can follow what emerges and use the time in whatever way feels most useful to you.
Investment
2.5-hour session, £108
Strengthen your trust in the guidance that arises from within.
Ivana's offerings are simply beautiful & authentic, truly delivered from the heart, leaving you feeling fully nourished.
As a new teacher of Yoga myself, to be in the presence of Ivana and her teaching further develops & inspires my own continuous practice; her support has been invaluable. Ivana is incredibly knowledgeable about the teachings & philosophy of yoga, and I always leave her classes feeling full of gratitude. She has so much dedication and passion.
The' Alchemy of prana' sessions were presented beautifully and at a perfect pace with plenty of time in between to explore and digest the teachings. Ivana always welcomed questions and contemplation, which helped me further develop my skills in these practises.
~Mel Chesebrough, Yoga Teacher & Therapist
