Mentoring Programs

This program is designed for teachers seeking more personal, one-to-one mentoring with Sarcha and a select group of specialist trainers. It builds on skills gained in foundational teacher training through learning that is both immersive and meaningful — empowering graduates with an intellectually integrated and embodied knowledge of yoga that can be applied in both teaching and practice.

Mentoring with Sarcha is for teachers who are seeking to grow on the path of yoga as both a practitioner and teacher. Over 6 to 12 months, we will work closely together to refine your teaching and hands-on adjusting skills, deepen your personal practice, and develop a more grounded understanding of yoga from both a classical and modern perspective.

Trainees work with real students alongside Sarcha in classes that are not led, but comprised of individual practice and teaching in a group setting. This gives trainees the opportunity to ask questions, practice teaching and adjusting under direct guidance, working with bodies of varying age and ability. Teaching is client-catered — progressing and modifying practice in the best interests of each student’s health and wellbeing. Trainees are guided, observed, and encouraged to teach and adjust within the range and scope of their own skills and confidence. 

It’s the kind of guidance that’s hard to find. Sarcha will work with you to build confidence, deepen your relationship with your own practice, and develop a clearer sense of your own unique teaching voice. She has a great deal of knowledge to share, and she shares it with generosity, kindness and care.

Yogahub’s Mentoring Program is registered with Yoga Australia and counts towards your professional standing. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year — you can apply any time.

Available to a small number of teachers each year.

Instructors

Teacher

Sarcha Thurston

“The teacher is no more than a friend and no less than a friend” – Mark Whitwell.

Meet Sarcha

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Teacher

Sarcha Thurston

Sarcha is an advanced practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga yoga. She began her journey in yoga in the Iyengar in 1990 under the instruction of John Leebold and later Linda Healey. She has practiced Ashtanga yoga daily in the Mysore tradition since 1997.

As our principal Ashtanga and Mysore teacher Sarcha focuses on helping her students develop breath integration with functional movement and alignment patterns. Off the mat her wish is that this translates to more grace, stability and compassion in her students’ lives.

Her own lifelong commitment to yoga includes maintaining a steady daily practice through injury, life’s ups and downs, raising children and adapting to ageing. Sarcha teaches with a humility that comes from many years of dedicated practice and she infuses her teaching with kindness and humour. Grounded and highly knowledgeable in the Ashtanga yoga tradition, Sarcha’s approach welcomes both beginners and advanced students alike.

Sarcha began her yoga journey as one of the original students of Monica Gauci and Gregor Maehle in 1997. She completed a 3 year (500 hours) teacher training in 2009 and an additional year of senior training which allowed her to teach advanced postures and assume the lead teaching role in the early morning Mysore classes, as well as undertake teacher training roles. After 18 years with her beloved teachers and with many additional trainings under belt, Sarcha embarked on a new adventure, opening Yogahub in Mount Hawthorn.

Sarcha holds a Level 3 Senior Teacher Qualification with Yoga Australia. Her formal qualifications include a Psychology Degree from the University of Western Australia; a Post Graduate Diploma in Couples and Family Therapy: and Sanskrit language studies at the Australian National University.

Sarcha practices and is competent to teach the Primary, Intermediate and Advanced A Series of Ashtanga Yoga, and also teaches pranayama, yoga meditation and yoga philosophy. Much of her time these days is dedicated to training and mentoring yoga teachers through her various training programs.

Sarcha is dedicated to mentoring her students through unhurried and deep learning of the whole system of yoga. She remains a curious student of yoga and is committed to sharing the gifts of yoga with everyone.

“Yoga is both my anchor and my sail, the discipline of daily practice provides a grounding to life’s challenges and triumphs. The spiritual practice helps to illuminate the path ahead and keeps me growing in the right direction. To develop a sincere and consistent practice over time brings yoga’s gifts of a strong and healthy body, the ability to focus the mind, and a place where I can turn inwards towards my true nature. Teaching is a joyful experience for me. My approach is warm and inclusive, catering to the individual’s capabilities with a strong focus on correct technique. It’s a real highlight helping to connect my students with the practice and then seeing them embrace their own journey along the yogic path.”

Read more about Sarcha and her approach to teaching at http://perthashtangayoga.com.au

August 2026 to July 2027.

Applications now open.

Yoga as science of living, offers a wonderful system to the individual in navigating, and perhaps even healing one’s life. Every individual that can heal themselves then has something to offer others. Whatever brings you the point of considering teacher training, the more people that practice and teach yoga the better the world will be.

The training is suitable for any yoga teacher holding a minimum 200hr qualification.

We do accept applications from yoga teachers who have trained outside of our organisation. As our training is highly personal, and  we only mentor small numbers of student’s applicants are invited to meet up in person with Sarcha so both parties can assess suitability  for working together.

Next steps

Step 1

Let’s meet up

Request a training overview with all the information you will need about the course content, and training dates.

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Step 2

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Places are limited. We select trainees who are committed, curious, and ready to embark on a year of genuine transformation.

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