Private Teacher Training
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Learn to teach — in a course built around you
Private Yoga Teacher Training offers a very different way to develop as a teacher.
Rather than moving through a large-group programme at somebody else’s pace, the course is prepared around your experience, your interests and the areas in which you most need to develop.
Before you arrive, we talk about your existing yoga practice, any teaching experience you may already have and what you hope to gain from the course. We can then give more time to the subjects that will be most useful to you.
The aim is not simply to learn a collection of postures or memorise a class sequence.
It is to understand how to teach another person well.
What can we explore?
Your training can include:
Hatha • Vinyasa • Yin • somatic yoga • natural movement
Alongside the physical practices, we can work with:
• sequencing and intelligent class construction
• verbal instruction and clear cueing
• demonstration
• physical adjustments and when not to adjust
• adapting practices for different bodies and levels of experience
• anatomy, alignment and natural movement
• strength, mobility and balance
• pranayama and breathing practices
• meditation
• yoga philosophy
• teaching confidence and communication
• observing students
• supervised teaching practice
• individual feedback
Because the training is private, we do not need to give equal time to everything.
If sequencing is already a strength but you feel uncertain about adjustments, we can spend more time there.
If you are confident teaching physical yoga but less comfortable guiding meditation or philosophy, those areas can become a greater part of your course.
The training follows your development rather than asking your development to follow a fixed syllabus.
Different ways of practising — and teaching
Hatha
Slower, clearly structured practice gives us time to explore alignment, breathing, stability and how individual postures are taught.
Vinyasa
We look at how movement can be linked intelligently through sequencing, transitions, rhythm and breath — without simply creating movement for movement’s sake.
Yin
Yin provides an opportunity to explore stillness, longer-held postures, appropriate use of sensation, use of props and the very different skills involved in teaching a quieter practice.
Somatic yoga
Somatic yoga places greater emphasis on internal sensation, awareness and exploration.
Rather than asking everybody to reproduce a fixed external shape, the practice can encourage students to notice how movement feels from within and develop greater sensitivity to their own experience.
Natural movement
Natural movement is explored separately.
Here we look more directly at fundamental human movement patterns such as:
squatting • hinging • lunging • pushing • pulling • gait • rotation
These patterns can help us understand how yoga relates to everyday movement and how practice can develop useful strength, mobility, balance and coordination beyond the yoga mat.
Learning to sequence
Good sequencing involves much more than choosing a list of poses.
We can explore how to create a class with a clear purpose and progression:
• where to begin
• how to prepare the body
• how movements relate to one another
• when to build intensity
• how to transition between practices
• how to work towards a particular posture, movement pattern or theme
• how to bring a class towards stillness
• how to adapt the sequence when the person in front of you needs something different
You will have opportunities to create sequences yourself and discuss the thinking behind them.
Adjustments and individual guidance
Physical adjustment can be useful, but it should never be automatic.
We explore when an adjustment may help, when verbal guidance may be better and how to work respectfully with different bodies, levels of mobility and individual preferences.
Private training gives us the time to examine these details carefully rather than rushing through a catalogue of adjustments.
Meditation and philosophy
Teaching yoga can also extend beyond physical practice.
Meditation may include approaches such as:
• breath awareness
• observing thoughts and emotions
• Atma Vichara — self-enquiry
• Metta — loving-kindness meditation
Philosophy can include themes from:
• classical yoga philosophy
• Vedanta and non-duality
• self-enquiry
• Lila — the idea of life as play
• chakras and subtle-body philosophy
• applying philosophical ideas to ordinary life
You can explore these simply for your own development or learn how to introduce them naturally within your teaching.
A Typical Training Day
The exact content is personalised, but a typical day might look like this:
Morning
8:10am — Pranayama, Tai Chi or Qi Gong
Breathing practice and mindful movement to begin the day.
8:25–9:25am — Yoga & Movement Practice
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, somatic yoga, natural movement or a combination, depending on the focus of the day.
9:30–10:15am — Sequencing & Class Construction
Exploring how to build intelligent, balanced classes — including progression, transitions, pacing, preparation, peak work, recovery and how to adapt a sequence to the person or group in front of you.
10:15–10:45am — Adjustments & Individual Guidance
Practical work with physical adjustments, verbal guidance, demonstration, alternatives and when it may be better not to adjust at all.
Long Break
There is then a substantial break to eat, rest, study, swim, explore Pego or simply step away from the course for a few hours.
The training is designed to be focused and substantial without filling every hour of the day with classes.
Afternoon
3:45–4:35pm — Philosophy & Meditation
Time to explore meditation, pranayama, yoga philosophy, Vedanta, self-enquiry or another contemplative theme according to your interests.
4:45–5:30pm — Teaching Practice & Feedback
You teach part of a class, a sequence, a meditation, pranayama or another aspect of practice, followed by direct individual feedback and discussion.
The content can change from day to day according to what you most need to develop.
Teaching — and receiving feedback
One of the most valuable parts of private training is having the opportunity to teach.
You may begin with individual postures or short sections, then gradually progress towards longer sequences or fuller classes.
We can then look together at:
• clarity of instruction
• pacing
• cueing
• demonstration
• observation
• use of silence
• how you adapt to the student in front of you
• what worked well
• what could become clearer or more effective
Feedback is individual, practical and intended to help you develop rather than perform.
A teacher training built around you
Private training does not mean simply taking a standard syllabus and teaching it to one person.
The essential skills of teaching still matter, but where we go deeper can be shaped around you.
You love Vinyasa but want to understand sequencing
The course can place much more emphasis on how a class is constructed.
Morning practices can demonstrate different sequencing strategies, while the sequencing sessions examine why they work: how to prepare the body, build intensity progressively, choose transitions, work towards a particular movement or theme and then bring the practice towards stillness.
During afternoon teaching practice, you begin by teaching shorter sequences and gradually work towards longer sections of a class.
You know yoga well but feel nervous about actually teaching
The emphasis can shift towards voice, cueing, observation and confidence.
You might begin by teaching one posture, progress to a short sequence and then gradually teach longer sections.
We can work on how much information to give, when demonstration helps, how to use silence and how to look at the student rather than becoming dependent on memorised instructions.
You particularly want to teach Yin
Your training can spend more time exploring the skills involved in teaching a quieter practice.
This may include Yin sequencing, appropriate language around sensation, use of props, transitions, stillness and meditation, as well as understanding how teaching Yin differs from teaching Hatha or Vinyasa.
You can then design and teach your own Yin sequence and receive individual feedback.
You are especially interested in somatic yoga
We can spend more time exploring internal sensation, slower movement, curiosity and the difference between guiding exploration and asking everybody to reproduce the same physical shape.
You can then practise creating and teaching somatic sequences yourself.
You want to understand natural movement
The course can give greater attention to fundamental movement patterns such as squatting, hinging, lunging, pushing, pulling, gait and rotation.
We can explore where these patterns appear within yoga, how they relate to everyday movement and how they can help you teach in a way that develops useful movement capacity rather than simply a collection of postures.
You would like to teach older adults
The emphasis can shift towards balance, functional strength, mobility, slower transitions, getting comfortably up and down from the floor and adapting practices to the individual.
Teaching practice can then focus on creating classes that remain meaningful and challenging without requiring advanced asana.
Meditation and pranayama particularly interest you
Physical yoga does not have to dominate the week.
We can spend more time developing your own pranayama and meditation practice and learning how to teach them clearly.
We can also explore how to introduce silence, how much guidance to offer and how meditation can sit naturally alongside physical yoga.
Philosophy is what drew you to yoga
Your course can give philosophy considerably more space.
We might explore yoga philosophy, Vedanta and non-duality, self-enquiry, Lila, the chakras or another area that particularly interests you.
Just as importantly, we explore how to communicate philosophical ideas simply and naturally, without turning a yoga class into a lecture.
Time to absorb what you are learning
Private training does not mean spending all day in the yoga shala.
There is generous free time between sessions to rest, study and enjoy Pego.
You can explore the old town, cafés and tapas bars, use the municipal swimming pool or simply enjoy some quiet time.
With a car, you can also visit the Mediterranean beaches, the Marjal de Pego-Oliva and the surrounding mountain valleys and villages.
The essential skills remain — the emphasis becomes yours
Personalisation does not mean important teaching skills are simply omitted.
Sequencing, adjustment, observation, communication and teaching practice remain central.
What changes is where we go deeper.
No two trainees arrive with exactly the same background.
That is precisely why private training can be so valuable.
Before your course begins, we talk about where you are now, where you would like to go and which areas would benefit most from individual attention.
And as the week progresses, the course can continue to evolve.
Your training. Your questions. Your development.