This Forrest Yoga Mentorship Programme spans 12 months and is designed to support yoga teachers improve their teaching skills as well as make a sustainable yoga career without burning out. You will learn how to use your voice, hands and unique, personal gifts to assist your students on a deep, healing journey. The program is open to graduates of any 200-hr yoga teacher training (not just Forrest Yoga graduates) and is suitable for both new teachers and experienced teachers.
This 1-year program comprises of in-person and online parts:
8-day retreat at the “domaine de la Licorne” (Licorne means Unicorn) centre in France. A place of calm, beauty and nature, April 26 - May 3, 2024.
Monthly online calls for 12 months, with last call on April 26th, 2025.
We will focus on developing you as a teacher — honing your skills, uniqueness and voice, as well as building your confidence in working with injuries and hands-on assists. AND because we're on retreat, we will have extra time to share our knowledge in bodywork, energetics, anatomy, ceremony etc with you in Q&A sessions. You also get to discover your relationship with Ceremony on this training and define your version of Ceremony.
What to expect in the mentorship program:
Plenty of opportunities to ask questions both in-person and online.
Teaching practicum and teaching feedback and coaching.
Learn a plethora of healing hands-on assists to bring healing touch to your students.
Learn how to touch your students in a safe and effective way that brings long-lasting change in their bodies.
Discover in a practical way what is the anatomical principles behind Forrest Yoga hands-on assists and why are they so healing and effective.
Discover your unique, authentic voice. Further develop it and learn how to use it as a healing tool for your students.
Discover your unique and beautiful personality traits that make you a unique, non-reproducible teacher and a blessing to this world.
Learn how to listen to your pain as a call for help from your body and how to bring healing to yourself.
Learn how to go deepen your own practice and unravel the emotional backlog that is linked to your physical pain as well as stress and reactive behaviours.
Learn to identify how your dysfunctional patterns and fears may be withholding you from living your life to the fullest.
Your Teachers:
Charlie Speller
Charlie Speller is a Forrest Yoga Guardian, authorised teacher of the Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training and the 3-Day and 5-day (40 hour) Poppy Perinatal Yoga Teacher Training. Charlie is a bodyworker, bodycoach, Medicine Person and pelvic health expert. Charlie’s trainings and workshops, combine her skill and interest in biomechanics and biochemistry with her innate desire to help people track and feel sensation in the body. Charlie teaches across the globe and for the past 10 years has also worked closely with Ana Forrest & Jose Calarco in various capacities — both as part of the Forrest Yoga business and as a teaching assistant. Charlie has a deep understanding of all aspects of Forrest Yoga and its healing qualities on and off the yoga mat. Her personal mission is to help people understand their body better, so that they can get out of pain, trust themselves and thrive. Charlie infuses her teaching with her sense of fun, curiosity, compassion, empathy and truth. For more info about Charlie visit: http://www.lumaia.life/about.html
Ilias Kousis
Ilias is a very passionate Forrest Yoga Guardian, who quit his academic career as a Geologist to immerse into teaching yoga full-time. He is currently based in Oslo, Norway, where he teaches group classes, privates, workshops, teacher trainings and yoga for companies. His rich educational background in yoga includes Vinyasa/Hatha/Yin Yoga, but Forrest Yoga is the one that captivated him the most. He works as Content Manager for Ana Forrest and Jose Calarco and contributes in the evolution of Forrest Yoga heritage so that it continues to accommodate the needs of today’s people. Ilias is also an Energy Medicine graduate from Light Body School from Four Winds Society, and practices Energy Medicine in individual and group levels. Ilias’s goal is to broadly share his unique blend of the healing tools of Forrest Yoga combined with his own expertise that has been developed over years of dedicated self-practice and working with people of various backgrounds. As a consequence, his good command of physical and energetic anatomy of the human body greatly enhances his sequencing skills to create harmonious, healing sequences that help his students’ bodies unwinding and free up from physical and emotional backlog. He is adept at seeing energy in his students’ bodies, which enables him to assist them in a precise and effective way. His hands-on assists are mindful, gentle and aim to induce healing and space in the joints. Ilias’s background as scientist makes him be robust, direct and succinct, and has helped him to weave spirituality with cutting-edge science and more importantly, share this in a comprehensive way to his students. He loves guiding his students how to open up new doors of possibilities by connecting to their Spirit instead of living on autopilot and making decisions based on fear and past trauma. More info: www.iliaskousis.com
Schedule:
Friday, April 26th:
16:00-19:00 (3 hr): Opening Ceremony, Yoga practice and Talking Circle
Saturday, April 27th – Thursday, May 2nd:
8:00-9:00 (1 hr): Breakfast and immersion into the calmness of the retreat center.
9:30-12:30 (3 hr): Ceremony and deeply nourishing Forrest Yoga practice.
12:30-14:30 (1,5 hr): Lunch and free time. Opportunity to soak up the goodness from the morning intensive practice.
14:30-18:00 (3,5 hrs): Afternoon session with Q&A, teaching practicum, sequencing, learning hands on assists, written emotional processing exercises, guided vision quests through meditation and ceremony.
18:00-19:00 (1 hr): Free time
19:00-20:00 (1 hr): Dinner
Friday, May 3rd:
8:00-10:00 (2 hr): Open Morning Practice
10:30: Check-out
Online meet-ups:
We will meet with you once per month until April 2025. You'll be given fun assignments and receive support and assistance on any challenges regarding teaching and life and how to overcome them. There will also be ample time for Q&A.
Prices:
Deposit 600€
Full price ranges from 2176€ to 2378€ depending on accommodation options (info on the link below)
The retreat part of the Mentorship including only the morning practices (optional to take part in the afternoons as well) is open for non-teachers as well at a reduced price. Contact us for info!
Register by clicking the link below or by bank transfer (contact us here: charlie@lumaia.life or ikousis90@gmail.com). Payment plans also available!
***All payments are non-refundable***
Included in the price:
8 days of in-person teacher training at a calm retreat setting in France.
Yoga Alliance continuing education hours.
Monthly group online sessions until April, 2025.
8x Ceremony, meditation and Forrest Yoga asana practices lead by Forrest Yoga Guardians Ilias & Charlie.
All food including breakfast, lunch, dinner. Food allergies are catered for.
Accommodation. For accommodation types check the link below.
Email support from Ilias & Charlie whenever you need it for 1 year.
During the mentorship and for the year after, Charlie and Ilias offer you 25% off their regular rates for private mentorship sessions, plus discounts on other events, products and initiatives.
By completing the mentorship the doors open for you to assist Ana Forrest & Jose Calarco, Ilias and Charlie at Forrest Yoga workshops, retreats and teacher trainings.
***Please note that the schedule can be subject to small changes***
You MUST bring your own:
Yoga mat
Block
Strap
Large bath towel to roll as a yoga prop
Travel:
Travel isn't included in the price, the nearest airports are Bergerac or Bordeaux and we'll be happy to help you figure out your journey to the retreat centre.