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Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training in Cambridge

For more information, please contact
Sasha Perryman

[email protected]
Shaili Shafai
[email protected]

Visit the iyuk website for more information
https://iyengaryoga.org.uk/iy-uk/teacher-training/

Students who have attended Iyengar Yoga classes regularly for a minimum of 3 years and have a good standard of practice in the introductory asanas may be interested in becoming teachers.
Since 2020 the route to teaching is via mentorship. In Cambridge we have two qualified mentors approved by Iyengar Yoga (UK). Sasha Perryman and Shaili Shafai.

Students who are interested in training to teach should, in the first instance, discuss this with their own regular class teacher who will be able to put them in touch with a qualified mentor.
As a trainee, you will be expected to attend regular classes with your mentor and will progress to demonstrate and assist during class as well as undertaking various written assignments and attending peer-group sessions. The mentorship period will last at least 3 years. During which you will be expected to learn not only the Level 1 syllabus but that of Level 2 also. Before teaching the basics, one must be at an advanced level of learning. Candidates for teaching assessment, therefore, will have practised Iyengar Yoga regularly for a minimum of 6 years before presenting for Level 1 assessment. Candidates should not only have achieved a high standard in their personal practice in the asanas, but also have a preliminary awareness of the subtlety of Iyengar Yoga and its philosophy. Students must be members of the IY(UK) to apply to train as a teacher.
For more information please visit: https://iyengaryoga.org.uk/iy-uk/teacher-training/


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About our mentors

​Sasha has been a student of Yogacharya B.K.S Iyengar since 1971. At the age of 16yrs she was the youngest member to join the first Iyengar Yoga Teachers Training course run by Silva Mehta in Paddington, London where she also attended the annual classes given by B.K.S himself when he would visit England before his own Yoga institute in Pune was established.


In 1975 she attended the opening ceremony of the RIMYI (Ramamani Iyengar Yoga Institute) in Pune, India and the accompanying 3 week yoga Intensive.  Sasha subsequently attended the RIMYI institute on over 20 separate occasions both for intensive courses and joining daily classes for a month at a time with both Guruji and Geetaji .
Sasha is a Senior Level 3 teacher and was a Moderator for the Iyengar Yoga (UK) for many years.



Shaili is a Senior Level 3 teacher who took her first Iyengar yoga class more than twenty-five years ago in Tehran, Iran. Ever since, yoga has been a constant source of strength and inspiration in her life. Through yoga, Shaili has had opportunities to travel widely, including several trips to the RIMYI Centre in Pune, India, where she experienced first-hand the light of Guruji, B.K.S. Iyengar, and his family. Shaili received her first teaching certificate in France in 2007 and has since dedicated her life to growing as both a student and a teacher.

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