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Mentoring 2025 - 2026
Kabir says
We need a spiritual recovery practice group for those addicted to the separate self.​​​
The mentoring /working group continues into 2025-2026. This is primarily an online program with two, two week meetings in retreat format.
This work of apprenticeship, teacher training, mentoring, work groups has been alive for many years. It began when I started teaching, even before there was such a thing as certification. I would return to Australia after each journey to Pune with so much fire in my belly to share, to pass on the teachings I had received from BKS Iyengar and the family. Students were keen and soon were asking to do more. So it all began. Quite simply. ​​
For all of us the learning takes time. The 'culturing' is slow and is based on practice, study, and the life we are living. The culture takes care of itself as the tenets of the practice, breath, body, mind awareness and our way of being is noticed and worked with in quite a direct way. We are changed as we practice, deep mind and physical habits are revealed. In time you learn how to live, eat, sleep, love, communicate . There is no magic, but a deep desire, often hidden within to do this work. Thus the slow unfolding of what might be called the 'deep' mind laying within. The soul. ​​​
The group continues each year, some new ones join, and some leave, and then continue later.
​The requirements are only that you come: with a genuine interest; a wish to put your heart and mind deeper into the subject; a commitment to attend the components of the year, including the two retreats; a willingness to join a practice groups, and practice what you learn.
Some will join wishing to become a teacher or take their certification level higher, and others to deepen their study and learning. Not everyone wishes to teach.
Times have moved on since those early days of big yoga studios. Then yoga was being introduced to many but now it has to refine. Everyone knows what yoga is and has some experience of doing it and many have done some sort of training. So the cart has stepped before the horse, and we have to become students of this subject. We don't do yoga to become a teacher, but to learn about the subject. Some have the desire to teach others which requires a bigger journey to become certified. Now many who want to learn are looking for not so much a new life or lifestyle, but a meaning in their life.
How to apply
The year includes two face-to-face retreats each of 6 days. ​
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1st - 8th March 2025 and
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7th - 14th March 2026
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Sunday afternoons 5 x 3.5 hour mentoring practice meetings.
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Friday evenings 8 x 1.5 hour classes
Applications are now open and close 17th January.
Apply by writing to caroline.coggins@icloud.com
Please include your personal details: age, physical health, and current situation, children, working? Who have been your main teachers? How long you have you studied yoga, and in what form? What do you hope to learn from the mentoring and why would you like to do it?
Overview of the year
The retreats are threaded with ongoing online practice classes:
Recommended listening/reading:
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ABC Radio interview: "Why Indy Johar doesn't want you to 'escape' to New Zealand
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I recommend you start to listen to the Bhagavad Gtita, which gives you an overview of the Indian Philosophy. This one is easy to listen to The Bhagavad Gita, By Eknath Easwaran, Narrated by Paul Bazely​​.
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All books by the Iyengar family. Particularly Light on lLfe.
2025 program dates
Friday evenings - Breath and Restore
4.30 - 6pm - online
Sunday afternoon - Mentoring practice
2.30pm - 6pm - online
February
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Friday 7th February - Breath and Restore class + Meet the 2025 cohort
March
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1st Retreat: Saturday 1st March - Saturday 8th March 2025 - Reflections, Nambucca Heads. ​​
This six-day retreat is a core component that starts the 2025 year and ends the 2024 year.
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Friday 14th March - Breath and Restore class
April
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Friday 4th April - Breath and Restore class
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Sunday 6th April - Mentoring practice
May
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Friday 2nd May - Breath and Restore
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Sunday 4th May - Mentoring practice
June
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No classes
July
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No classes
August
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Friday 1st August - Breath and Restore
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Sunday 3rd August - Mentoring practice
< Bali Retreat 17th August for one month - additional to program >
September
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No classes
October
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Friday 3rd October - Breath and Restore
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Sunday 5th October - Mentoring practice
November
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Friday 14th November - Breath and Restore
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Sunday 16th November - Mentoring practice
< Retreat 1-8 6 days Nambucca Heads - additional to program >
December
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Friday 5th December - Breath and Restore
March 2026
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2nd Retreat: Saturday 7th March - Saturday 14th March 2026 - Reflections, Nambucca Heads.
This six-day retreat completes the 2025 year program and is the component that starts the 2026 year. program.​​​
Practice face-to-face with the 2026 mentoring cohort
Attending classes. there will be a three day early morning series of classes monthly and a regular morning class
2025 program fees- inclusions and non-inclusions
The Mentoring Program includes:
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March 2025 - 6 Day Retreat (exclusive of travel, accommodation and food)
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8x Friday 1.5hr Breath and Restore Classes
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5x Sunday 3.5hr Mentoring Practice
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March 2026 - 6 Day Retreat (exclusive of travel, accommodation and food)
Total cost is $3470.
Full payment by 1st February attracts an early bird discount of $130
Part Payment of total cost is available with a $1000 deposit + 26 fortnightly payments of $95​​
Participants continuing on from 2024 will receive a code via email to apply at checkout. This will reduce the program fees by the amount already paid for the March 2025 retreat.
Everyone can have a conversation with me over the year. Send me a text and we will make a time.
Mentoring 2025 - $3340 - Pay in Full
3,340$ÂThis is the full program fee for 2025 and includes an early bird discount of $130 which is valid until the due date of 1st Feb 2025. Access begins 3rd Feb 2025 and goes through to 14th March 2026.Valid for 14 months- Early bird discount of $130
- March 2025 - 6 day Retreat
- March 2026 - 6 day Retreat
- 5x Sunday afternoon classes
- 8x Friday evening classes
- Discounts on other retreats through the 2025 year
Mentoring 2025 - Payment Plan
95$Every 2 weeks+$905 + for $1,000 DepositThis is the program fee structure for new participants. The $1,000 deposit is due 1st Feb 2025 and then 26 fortnightly payments of $95. Access begins 3rd Feb 2025 and goes through to 14th March 2026.Valid for 54 weeks- March 2025 - 6 day Retreat
- March 2026 - 6 day Retreat
- 5x Sunday afternoon classes
- 8x Friday afternoon classes
- Discounts to other retreats throughout the 2025 year