Beyond Yoga Teacher Training

Welcome to Episode 154: "From Grief to Growth: Embracing Change and Unveiling a Beautiful Story" with Host Sandy Raper. In this special episode, Sandy announces the release of her first book, Teaching from the Heart: Lessons on Developing Character, Confidence, and Leadership as a Yoga Teacher. Episode Highlights: - Insight into the journey of writing the Teaching From the Heart and the...

Welcome to Episode 153: Teaching Students How to Be Students with Host, Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insights through three specific lenses, understanding the importance of equipping and teaching students how to be students. Episode Marker Highlights: 04:17 - Prepare to Teach: Students of the Practice 09:03 - Enhance Understanding: Three Lenses for Teachers 13:03 - Create a Supportiv...

Welcome to Episode 152: "Slow Down: Give Students Time to Do What You're Cueing" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into how setting the "right" tempo significantly impacts the type of experience students will have in class. Episode Highlights: - The crucial role of setting the right pace to support achieving the flow state of being in a yoga class...

Welcome to Episode 151: "Spice Up Your Yoga Practice" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight about the importance of variety with a "cross-training" approach towards your yoga practice. Episode Highlights: - Two main needs for long-term fulfillment and satisfaction in life. - Exploring the concept of novelty and the importance of variety within your yoga p...

Welcome to Episode 150: Strategies for Enhancing Sequence Recall for Yoga Teachers with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy equips you with three specific strategies that will enhance your memory and recall function to craft confidence to lead and teach impactful yoga class experiences. Episode Highlights : - Three strategies for simplifying the recall process of yoga sequence plans. - How th...

Welcome to Episode 149: "How Anatomical Knowledge Creates Invisible Confidence for Yoga Teachers" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into how anatomical knowledge supports students and yoga teachers Episode Highlights: - Three areas where anatomical knowledge impacts the development of 'invisible' confidence. - How informed decision-making provides a lev...

Welcome to Episode 148: "Exercising Restraint in Sequencing Yoga Classes" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy, speaks to the vital aspect of sequencing and using restraint in organizing class sequences to reflect simplicity and symmetry. Episode Highlights: - Defining 'restraint' and a different perspective for organizing yoga class sequences. - How restraint offers fre...

Welcome to Episode 147: "Making Progress in the Process" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy expands on creating a growth and development plan and the ongoing planning that requires "trusting the process". EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: - The meaning and impact of "trusting the process". - How to make progress in the process of making appropriate choices. - Mindset and...

Welcome to Episode 146: "Plan and Planning: Why You Need Both" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into the importance of creating a plan and the impact of intentional planning to achieve the desired growth and development you seek as a yoga teacher and student. Episode Highlights: - The biggest fear with making decisions. - The difference between having a plan a...

Welcome to Episode 145: "Why Professionalism is Important for Yoga Teachers" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into the impact of including the development of professionalism within your growth strategy as a yoga teacher. Episode Highlights: - Understanding the qualities that characterize professionalism. - The concept of professional etiquette within teaching...

Welcome to Episode 144: "Three Essential Sequencing Principles with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares three over-arching principles to consider and apply to sequencing that produces flexibility of mind and body in the yoga practice. Episode Highlights: - Stability is the new flexibility. - A deeper understanding of flexibility. - Flexibility as a byproduct of weaving three essen...

Welcome to Episode 143: "What Happens When YTT Isn't What You Expected" with Host Sandy Raper. Episode Highlights: - What to do when your perspective shifts and the relationship you once had with yoga changes. - What the yoga sutras teach us in regard to seeing more clearly. - How a state of "ignorance" - or not seeing clearly - limits you from fulfilling what you desire. -...

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Welcome to Episode 142: "5 Factors That Make a Big Impact in Cueing" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares the important aspect and impact of choosing your words wisely to become a more effective communicator and yoga teacher. Episode Highlights: - 3 Key Words to Consider in Your Approach to Cueing - Why the effectiveness of teaching resides heavily in your ability to comm...

Welcome to Episode 140: "How Small Moments of Celebration Make a Difference" with Host Sandy Raper. Join Sandy in celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Podcast! Join the 3rd Anniversary Celebration of the BYTT Podcast by participating in the Podcast Review Give-a-way. Click this link for details on how you can register to win some pretty amazing prizes! Epis...

Welcome to Episode 139: "The Moment I Realized ____ it Radically Changed My Approach to Teaching" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares the pivotal moment of realization that changed her approach to teaching yoga...forever. Episode Highlights : - How people-pleasing impacts the creation of autonomy in the yoga practice. - The defining moment - and realization - that change...

Welcome to Episode 138: Why Transformation Can Seem So Elusive with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy digs into the meaning of transformation and shares insight into the subtle nature that helps to soften what can seem like a daunting and elusive state of being. Episode Highlights: - The difference between change and transformation. - Defining and understanding self-transformation. - How th...

Welcome to Episode 137: Becoming a R.A.R.E. Leader with host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into why it's important that yoga teachers develop strong leadership habits that support their ability to serve and connect with students and their communities making a bigger impact teaching yoga. Book Reference: Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits for Increasing Trust, Joy, and Enga...

Welcome to Episode 136: "Become an Agent of Change". Join Host, Sandy Raper as she shares and expands upon the methodology and approach to teaching yoga through a service-oriented lens by becoming an "agent of change" as a yoga teacher. Episode Highlights: - Understanding the nature of change. - The concept of returning to joy . - Developing the relational aspect of your teachi...

Welcome to Episode 135: "How to Turn Your Approach to Teaching Yoga into Service". Join Host, Sandy Raper as she shares insight into how you can shift your perspective and approach to teaching yoga into a service-oriented methodology. Episode Highlights: - How to approach teaching yoga through a service-oriented lens. - 3 Reasons Why It May Be Hard to Serve - 3 Requirements for Developin...

Welcome to Episode 134: "A Common Mistake When Teaching Yoga" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into how projection might show up in your yoga teaching approach. Episode Highlights: - What psychological projection is and how to notice when it shows up in yoga practice experience. - Understand how projection may be subtly infused into your teaching methodology....

Welcome to Episode 133: The Myth of Multitasking. In this episode, Sandy explores the concept of "doing less in order to accomplish more" and how that impacts our view towards productivity and how we teach yoga classes. Episode Highlights : - The difference between multitasking and switch-tasking. - How multitasking comes at a "switch cost". - How by "doing less" you...

Welcome to Episode 132: "How Tempo Impacts Teaching Yoga" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares how tempo is an important principle to develop as a yoga teacher. Tempo can quickly move students into a deep state of concentration within the yoga practice experience. Dig into how your focus in this area can make a big impact in the classes you teach. Episode Highlights: - Ho...

Welcome to Episode 131: When Sequencing Becomes Choreography with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy explains the similarities and differences between yoga and dance. Explore how the concept of approaching sequencing as choreography has the potential to distract and diminish students' ability to tap into the more subtle, internal experience of the yoga practice. Episode Highlights: - The...

Welcome to Episode 130: The Real Reason Students Come Back to Class with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into the reasoning behind the decision students make to come back to your class or to the studio...and it just might not be what you were thinking. Episode Highlights: - The importance of developing the relational aspect of teaching. - Yoga teacher, it's not about yo...