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Volunteer Yoga Teacher

Hours
Wedensdays 10:30-13:00
Responsible to
Community and Integration Manager
Ideal time commitment
Weekly rota (shared with 1–2 other teachers, so leading 1 in every 2 or 3 weeks). After an initial trial period, we are asking for a minimum 1-year commitment.
Team
Community and Integration
Location
Helen Bamber Foundation Offices, Old Street, London
Closing date
Benefits
Expenses covered

We are looking for two new volunteer yoga teachers to join our small team of teachers delivering weekly yoga sessions to our clients. This role involves taking over two regular classes on a Wednesday and joining a rota with one or two other teachers, therefore leading the sessions on 1 out of every 2 or 3 weeks.

Yoga at the Foundation is offered as a gentle, supportive practice to help clients reconnect with their bodies, build regulation, and experience moments of calm and empowerment.

Session Details

Day: Wednesdays

Time: 10.30am – 1.00pm

Classes:

Two 1-hour classes with a 30-minute break in between (1 women-only class, 1 mixed-gender class)

Location: A beautiful, calm studio space within the Helen Bamber Foundation offices near Old Street

Commitment: Weekly rota (shared with 1–2 other teachers, so leading 1 in every 2 or 3 weeks). After an initial trial period, we are asking for a minimum 1-year commitment.

Skills and Experience

 

We welcome teachers from all yoga traditions and lineages, provided your approach is inclusive, sensitive, and adaptable.

Needed:

  • Minimum 2 years’ yoga teaching experience OR a relevant professional background working with refugees, survivors of trauma, or similar client groups
  • Ability to teach in a calm, accessible, non-directive way
  • Reliability, flexibility and commitment to the rota
  • Warm, compassionate, and grounded presence

 

Desired:

  • Experience working with refugees, asylum seekers, or survivors of trauma (useful but not mandatory)
  • Trauma-informed training (highly desirable)
  • Interest in or willingness to learn trauma-sensitive yoga approaches

 

What you will get out of the role:

  • The opportunity to be part of a deeply meaningful programme supporting survivors of torture and human rights abuses
  • Teaching in a welcoming, supportive environment
  • Expenses paid
  • Support from staff and fellow teachers
  • A chance to develop experience in trauma-informed, community-based yoga teaching

 

To apply, please attach your CV and a brief cover letter below, including an overview of your teaching experience, any relevant training, and why you’re interested in working with the Helen Bamber Foundation.

Equal Opportunities

Our commitment to principles of equity, diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our approach to our clients, our volunteers and our staff, and we are an equal opportunities and Living Wage employer. We are committed to attracting and recruiting diverse candidates because we are keen to make sure that all our staff, trustees, volunteers and ambassadors reflect the communities we serve and the wider community we work in.

We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from a range of backgrounds, especially people of colour, people with disabilities, people from low socio-economic backgrounds, refugees, stateless people and others with lived experience of forced migration or trauma.

Download full job description here.

​To apply, please add your details and upload your CV and cover letter and CV, and press submit to answer some short questions.

The personal information that you provide to us this application will be stored on our database. We will process the personal information that we collect (apart from equal opportunities data) for the purposes of the charity’s legitimate interests, as follows: (1) to assess your application to work for the charity; (2) to organise interviews, or other recruitment activities; (3) for the purpose of communicating with you about your application; (4) to provide a record of our recruitment process for audit purposes and to respond to queries. We will only retain your personal information in our own database for as long as necessary in order to fulfil the purposes for which we need it, as described above. You have the right to access, correct or delete a copy of the data we hold about you at any time. If you would like to do any of these things, or if you have any concerns, please contact jobs@helenbamber.org.

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