Apprenticeships
Over the past ten years, Sitaram has offered apprenticeship routes for:
- baby yoga teachers (including mobile babies and toddler)
- pregnancy yoga teachers
- postnatal yoga teachers
- family and children’s yoga teachers
During these ten years we have grown our portfolio of organised courses, so that now we advise anyone interested in training with us, to consider in the first instance attending the appropriate course.
The apprenticeship route to training in our specialist field is most appropriate to those teachers who are local to us (now in Stroud, Gloucestershire), or who are able to make regular commitments to attending classes with our course team of sitaram teachers in London. There is also an opening for a local live-in or regular apprentice at the new ashram site in the Cotswolds when it opens, and this would also involve attendance at courses with Uma as an assistant.
All our apprenticeships involve a period of application / induction that gives the apprentice time for reflection and analysis of their motives and aims in embarking on the apprenticeship. During this time apprentices sit in on classes, observing and participating. Depending upon prior experience and training, this sitting in period is of variable length. It culminates with a graduated introduction to teaching methods, teaching under close supervision and with feedback.
During the transition from observer and helper to teacher, the apprenticeships have full tutorial support from their mentor. The also have access to Sitaram’s programme of workshops and study days. Because we have a local team of committed teachers already working with us at Sitaram, apprenticeships also benefit from the close support of fellow apprentices and from teachers of varying levels of experience.
Once fully trained, apprentices often ‘cut their teeth’ by providing paid cover classes for other Sitaram teachers. Because of continued expansion in our field, Sitaram is also in a position to provide new and established classes for apprentices to teach once they become fully confident. The team structure and range of classes mean that flexible working and support for cover and childcare are the working reality for Sitaram teachers.
If you are interested in an apprenticeship, please do contact us to talk about it further. In the first instance please email yoga@sitaram.org