Your Mentoring Membership

  • Masterful Guidance

    Be guided by senior yoga teacher and teacher trainer Amelia Disspain and yoga therapist and Physiotherapist Liz Bennet to build your teaching skills, find your own authentic voice and style whilst continuing to grow and progress in your own yoga practice.

  • Engaged Mentorship

    Fortnightly Live sessions on different topics related to teaching yoga, remaining inspired in your own practice, building your business and community with integrity. Plus personalised feedback on monthly mini classes.

  • Supportive Community

    Be supported by your fellow yoga teachers in our ongoing private community forum. Ask questions, share inspiration, resources and challenges and remember you are connected through each other to this precious lineage of yoga.

What is included?

how we support you to find your authentic teaching voice and build your confidence

  • Fortnightly Zoom Sessions - lectures and teaching practice

    Every two weeks we will meet live on Zoom and address different topics related to teaching yoga, practicing yoga and building your business. You will also have the opportunity to prepare and present a short example of your teaching to the group. We provide a relaxed and supportive container for you to develop your teaching skills and receive personalised feedback The zoom sessions will be recorded and stored on your online membership library. Each session will last one hour 15 mins and have time for questions. Fridays at 2pm- 3.15pm

  • Community Forum

    Ongoing access to a private community discussion forum via WhatsApp - share inspiration and challenges in a supportive community of like minded friends

  • Private WhatsApp communication

    From time to time you will have personal questions related to your own practice and teaching that you do not want to share in a group. Your mentoring also includes access to private WhatsApp communication with both of your mentors, Liz and Amelia.

  • Private coaching sessions

    Two 30 min private coaching sessions - personalised coaching on your yoga career, teaching or practice.

  • Access to Amelia Disspain Yoga online yoga studio

    an on demand library of yoga classes to support your personal practice and inspire your teaching.

  • Full length class review

    Submit a video of yourself teaching a full length class that you have planned for detailed feedback

  • Mentoring Duration and Pricing

    Your mentoring membership is a four month supported journey with the option to extend.

  • Continuing education points

    As Amelia and Liz are senior teachers and Yoga Australia mentors your course participation hours can be used as CPD points

Are you looking for guidance and support from experienced teachers and business owners?

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Zoom Gatherings

FRIDAYS 2PM-3.15PM Our monthly 75min Zoom sessions will include a presentation on a particular theme or topic relevant to your teaching and time for questions and answers The Zoom sessions may also include practice, journalling and discussion .If you cant make the allocated time the session will be recorded and uploaded to your course platform

  • Friday September 20th

  • Friday October 11th

  • Friday November 8th

  • Friday December 6th

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be supported by masterful teachers and build a new community of yoga friends whilst developing your own teaching and practice

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Zoom teaching practice and feedback

Once a month you will have the opportunity to prepare and present a short example of your teaching to the group. We provide a relaxed and supportive container for you to develop your teaching skills and receive personalised feedback Fridays at 2pm- 3.15pm

  • September 27th

  • October 25th

  • November 22nd

  • December 13th

Your Mentors

Your journey to becoming a masterful yoga teacher will be led by senior Yoga Teacher Amelia Disspain and Yoga Therapist and Physiotherapist Liz Bennett. As teachers with a combined experience of over 40 years we will support you to build the skills to clearly and confidently share the practice of yoga with your community

Yoga Therapist and Physiotherapist

Liz Bennett

Liz Bennett is the founder of Balanced Practice Yoga and A Balanced Practice Physiotherapy. Liz is one of the handful of physiotherapists in Australia who is also a specialised yoga therapist and a long term yoga teacher and practitioner of over 20 years. Bringing together studies in eastern medicine and modern science, her classes are guided by her ability to apply an anatomical focus to the practice of yoga in an accessible and relevant way. As a therapist, Liz integrates assessment and therapy with education and lifestyle changes, applying principles of individualised yoga, Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Liz began training with Simon Borg Oliver and Bianca Machliss before she finished her physiotherapy degree in 1999. She completed a three year yoga teaching apprenticeship with Yoga Synergy in 2006, then a further 500 hours of teacher training at the Yoga Institute, where she delivered Leslie Kaminoff’s Yoga Anatomy course for several years. A Vipassana practitioner, and initiate of Vedic meditation, with Certificates in Shiatsu and Acupuncture and extensive Yoga Therapy studies with Ganesh Mohan of Svastha Yoga. Liz's Yoga Anatomy Labs are sourced by Yoga Teachers Training courses around Australia. Liz runs Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Trainings Amelia Disspain and together, they co-host popular yoga retreats in Australia and abroad.

Senior Yoga Teacher

Amelia Disspain

Director and senior yoga teacher at Yoga Bellingen Co founder of Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Training and Retreats Yoga Australia Senior Member, Yoga Alliance International Expert registered teacher 1500+ Amelia was first introduced to yoga in 1999. Inspired by the joy and serenity it brought her, Amelia began a regular practice before going on to complete her teacher training with Katie Manitsis (now Katie Rose)at Samadhi Bliss Yoga, Sydney in 2002. Amelia taught Yoga full time at Samadhi Bliss until she was selected to undertake a one-on-one apprenticeship in 2006 with Simon Borg Olivier and Bianca Machliss of Yoga Synergy Sydney, one of the few schools left in Australia still instructing teachers in this traditional way.Both Bianca and Simon are members of the Australian Physiotherapists Association, and as such Amelias teaching integrates modern medical knowledge with the traditional forms and practices of Yoga. Amelia taught as a senior level teacher at Yoga Synergy Sydney, instructing group classes from brand new beginners to advanced practitioners as well as private lessons, working with students with injuries and also training yoga instructors, until 2013 when she relocated to Bellingen There she opened her own studio, Yoga Bellingen. Amelia’s classes are informed by her many years of yoga practice, teaching and study, her classes are inclusive and always incorporate the deeper teachings of Yoga. Amelia has continued to study Yoga philosophy, particularly concentrating on how we can integrate the tools of meditation and inner focus to recognize the patterns of our individual mind, and in so doing experience the joy hidden in everyday life. Amelia is currently enrolled in the Svastha Yoga Therapy Course In 2015 Amelia co-founded Balanced Practice Yoga and co-teaches Yoga Teacher Training Courses and international retreats with her sister in Yoga, Liz Bennett a physiotherapist and yoga therapist and director of YogaEssentia in Warriewood.

Pricing options

Your mentoring membership progresses over four months beginning September 20th through to December 13th . Choose between a one off payment or a monthly payment plan

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