A Six Month Mentoring Program with Lisa Matthews + Lisa Allwell
Are you looking for ways to teach yoga classes that inspires students' evolution and growth?
Are you ready to upskill your teaching from good to great?
Are you ready to evolve personally?
Can you step into beginner’s mind?
Join senior yoga teachers Lisa Matthews and Lisa Allwell for a six month mentorship to deepen your offering and increase your capacity to inspire and serve your community. We’ll explore how to teach creatively and how to authentically layer in inspiring content and depth into your classes. You’ll go deep and find new ways to live authentically and yogically.
Over 6 Months you will:
Learn how to confidently balance content and holding space. You’ll learn when to speak and be quiet while teaching.
Explore sourcing creativity from your own life.
Experience a learning environment where ideas and resources are shared with a likeminded tribe.
Connect with a community of yogis who are also interested in elevating their teaching and their life.
Come away with a newfound confidence in your capacity to create a deep experience for students and yourself.
Cultivate ideas and resources to enrich your current teaching repertoire
You will be encouraged and supported to cultivate a personal sadhana to find your own steady ground and to teach from this grounded place, no matter what is thrown your way.
You will complete this mentorship feeling confident and empowered. You have all the inspiration you need to create unique and transformational yoga classes, and way more importantly, to live a confident, heart-centred yogic life.
Some fun facts: Nine of our 2023 Graduates who were not yet teaching, went on to start yoga teaching. One graduate opened her own studio. One graduate led her first successful retreat. Graduates who were already teaching, were inspired to teach with greater depth and creativity in the way they sequence and theme their classes.
Here’s what Vickie Liew said: “Attending the Evolve Your Teaching program with Lisa Allwell and Lisa Matthews was inspirational and self-empowering, I learnt so much with our amazing mentors. There was such a wealth of wisdom and experience we could all draw from. I especially loved the journey of discovering the Mahavidyas and how I could relate to each of these Wisdom Goddesses to inspire my personal practice and my teaching of others. Sharing and connecting with a group of teachers walking the same path as me was also very special and an invaluable part of the program.” Vickie is now teaching regular classes in two studios and runs her own retreats.
And Dr Wan Yi said: This 6-month mentorship program has been immensely helpful for my yoga and personal journey. The Lisas were generous in sharing their knowledge and wisdom. The program each week was well thought out and full of inspirational fun! It was a wonderful experience having the opportunity to meet so many beautiful people who are dedicated to teach yoga and cultivate wellbeing. I would highly recommend this program to anyone who is interested. Thank you so much Lisa Allwell and Lisa Matthews for your great work and for holding this special space for seeds to germinate and grow.
Who is this mentorship for:
This mentorship is for yoga teachers who are ready to take the next step to create classes that transform students and act as a portal for their own evolution and growth. Maybe you’ve done a 200 hour training, some yin and a few weekend and online workshops. You’re figuring out how integrate what you know, and bring it to your teaching. Or maybe you did some training but haven’t felt confident enough to step into your teaching boots. Are you are ready to be courageous and to claim your teaching career?
If you are a serious student of yoga and you’ve done some training here and there, reach out to us and we can chat about whether this might be right for you.
The framework:
The framework for this course is the 10 Wisdom Goddesses, the Dasha Mahavidyas and the Chakra System. We will explore kriya, breathwork and meditation practices through a tantric lens with ancient and sacred roots but with modern application.
The Mahavidya teachings, have been passed directly from student to teacher through a golden thread of ancient wisdom and are only available to those with a genuine inquiry and a desire to go deeper. Is that you?
We start with Bhairavi, whose siddhi is overcoming fear. She is intensity, raw energy. She inspires us to live fully and dynamically, without shame.
Kamala is next: She represents celebration, creativity, ecstasy and bliss.
Dhumavati is the chrone archetype in this linage, representing detachment, simplicity and humanity.
Kali is the fierce goddess of total freedom, the transcendence of ego.
Tara is the ruler of speech, harnessing the great values inherent in one's word. Our power to influence and impact, our capacity to listen.
Matangi represents transcendental knowledge.
Chinamasta whose form is naked and headless brings forth clarity and perception, moving beyond the ego mind.
Baglamukhi teaches the value of absolute stillness.
Lalita Tripura Sundari invites us to live a fulfilled life, awaking our capacity to experience beauty, and abundance in our internal and external worlds.
Bhuvanesvari is the goddess of radiance with spaciousness of conciousness.
Session Outlines
SESSION 1: Higher Ground: Let’s get ourselves set up to squeeze the juice from our six month mentorship. Learn to cultivate a deep grounded presence and feel empowered to move courageously into the unknown. Let go of expectations, judgments and limitations to be open to living from a place of steadiness and curiosity. We’ll remember the wisdom we already hold within us. Create a personal sadhana to bring the sacred into your everyday.
SESSION 2: Create: Explore flow state, as we use yogic practices to unlock creativity. Find new techniques to process emotions through mind body connection. Cultivate moving with bliss and freedom. Connect to your longing to express yourself uniquely through the vessel of the body mind and spirit.
SESSION 3: Authentic You: In this session we’ll let go of the need for external validation. Surrendering our desire to to be cookie cutter and conform. You’ll move forward to teach with individuality and confidence.
SESSION 4: Heart: Living a whole hearted life, so we can teach from that space. Explore compassion, self-care practices. and cultivate self-belief.
SESSION 5: Speak Your Truth: Understand the Power of the Word. Communicate with wisdom and love. Learn to hold space with humility and deep listening. Cultivate freedom through creativity.
SESSION 6: Clarity: See the world from a different perspective and personal mastery, transcendence of ego. We will explore the power of non-verbal communication, through the body.
Threaded through the course you will develop the skills to:
Create a authentic teaching tool kit.
Teach with confidence.
Use language and sequencing to create classes that touch people deeply.
Understand how to hold space for students and to ‘read the room”.
Mindfully market your yoga business and yourself.
Evolve Your Teaching
When:
Saturday 7th February, 12noon-5pm
Saturday 28th February, 12noon-5pm
Saturday 28th March, 12noon-5pm
Saturday 2nd May, 12noon-5pm
Saturday 30th May, 12noon-5pm
Saturday 13th June, 12noon-5pm
Venue: Seed Yoga, 1A Salisbury Ave, Blackburn
Investment: $1395
This Mentorship is 50 hours of accredited training by Yoga Alliance. This equates to just $27 per training hour; excellent value for you to upskill, feel confident and to create a teaching toolkit to support you for years to come. You will access the wisdom of two experienced teachers, both registered as Level 3 Senior Teachers with Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance. Expect an intimate training experience with personalised support and facilitators who truly care. We mentor between sessions by either phone or zoom upon request, as you step into teaching and other opportunties and require support, with us as your cheer squad.
In addition to your 50 Hour Certification, you will receive:
A handmade crystal + sandalwood mala (Value $45) to support you to cultivate a japa practice.
A beautiful cloth bound journal to support you to reflect on your training experiences.
6 x Evolve Your Teaching Handbooks with comprehensive training notes.
Payment plans are available upon request.
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Lisa Allwell and Lisa Matthews are senior yoga teachers, collaborators and dear friends. They create and facilitate retreats, teacher trainings, workshops and mentoring programs. Their students are drawn to their creative and inspiring teaching style. They’ll share some of their secrets in this mentorship.
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Lisa has been a dedicated student of yoga for the past 20 years and a yoga teacher for 13 years. Initially introduced to yoga through meditation, philosophy, chanting and seva (selfless service) her practice expanded to incorporate a fluid yet grounded asana practice. Lisa served as a manager of international ashrams both in Sydney and Ganeshpuri India, then owned and operated The Bhava Centre boutique studio in Warrandyte, directing student progress and supporting 300-hour Teacher Training programs.
Specializing in trauma-informed yoga, Lisa completed Off The Mat into the World's Yoga for Purpose Social Change training in New York with Sean Corne, Hala Khouri, and Suzanne Sterling. She served as Director of Yogahood Australia, co-creating and delivering Trauma Informed Teacher Training for volunteers in specialized settings.
Qualifications:
Yoga Alliance RYT 1500 Senior Teacher, EYRT 500+
Bhava Centre Hatha Yoga Teacher Training (300hrs)
Creative Dance Teacher Training, Mangala Studios (300hrs)
Light Space Yoga 200hr Teacher Training Program Faculty; Yoga philosophy lecturer
Director, Yogahood Australia
Certificates: Holistic Counselling, Life Coaching, Chair Yoga, Meditation Teaching
Trauma Informed Certificate Training, Sounds True
Lisa studied under renowned teachers with over 1000 hours of meditation and philosophy training in India, including Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (Siddha Yoga tradition), Anusara Yoga, Embodied Flow, and Sarah Powers' Yin yoga training. Currently advancing her Holistic Counselling studies, she dedicates her continuous learning to serve her beloved students with deeper wisdom and compassion.
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Lisa is a health professional who unexpectedly fell in love with yoga. She held senior public health roles in mental health, cancer, stroke and chronic illness, but traded up a focus on evidence, research and evaluation to teach yoga. Now, she encourages her students to run the yoga experiment in their own body and mind, with a sample size of one, and richly reap the rewards of their own personal research program.
Lisa established her studio, Seed Yoga + Wellness in 2017. She has created a flourishing yoga community in Blackburn. Far too many of her students to count, have gone on to study and teach yoga. This led to her mentoring emerging yoga teachers one-on-one, giving them the confidence to teach and to establish their own yoga related businesses.
Lisa has completed over 1000 hours of yoga training in a variety of yoga traditions and lineages, including Vitality Yoga, Yoga Pranala, Sattva Yoga Academy and Embodied Flow. She considers herself to be a lifelong student of yoga who continues to participate in trainings; there’s so much to be curious about in this incredible tradition of yoga!
Lisa is a former Board member of Yoga Australia (the national peak body for yoga) and has twice been nominated the Australian Ambassador to the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh, India. She is a former Board member of Health Issues Centre at La Trobe University. She is a Level 3 Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Australia. She holds two bachelor degrees, in health science and arts and a post-graduate degree in education.