Abundant Yoga Teacher Podcast

Over 5 days Laura Petrie and I are teaming up to bring you a week of inspiration, guidance, tips and insights to bring your dream business or your side hustle into fulfilling fullness. As coaches, counselors and passionate small business owners we’re going to support you to get clear on your vision and the next steps to launch your dream business! Today we share three things to bear in mind when p...

Over 5 days Laura Petrie and I are teaming up to bring you a week of inspiration, guidance, tips and insights to bring your dream business or your side hustle into fulfilling fullness. As coaches, counselors and passionate small business owners we’re going to support you to get clear on your vision and the next steps to launch your dream business! In this episode you’ll get three important things...

Over 5 days Laura Petrie and I are teaming up to bring you a week of inspiration, guidance, tips and insights to bring your dream business or your side hustle into fulfilling fullness. As coaches, counselors and passionate small business owners we’re going to support you to get clear on your vision and the next steps to launch your dream business! Today you’ll discover why a clear focus is not onl...

Over 5 days Laura Petrie and I are teaming up to bring you a week of inspiration, guidance, tips and insights to bring your dream business or your side hustle into fulfilling fullness. As coaches, counselors and passionate small business owners we’re going to support you to get clear on your vision and the next steps to launch your dream business! This episode is all about creating your vision: wh...

This week celebrates the end of Season 12 of the show! I’ve got 3 mini pep talks for you, as well as a reminder to research before deciding to take part in International Yoga Day. Enjoy! Learn more about the Keep Growing Mastermind here: https://www.amymcdonald.com.au/keepgrowing Support the show by making a monthly $5 contribution here: www.patreon.com/AmyMcDonald

This week I’m speaking with Jessica Berg, the Founder of Moonrock Wellness, a business dedicated to helping women professionals connect back to themselves via online wellness classes and her signature 1:1 coaching program, Connect Back to You. Recently Jessica leapt from her 20-year corporate career to lean fully into her business. In this interview we discuss so many good things, including the ga...

This week I’m sharing three important takeaways from ‘The Ochre Robe: An Autobiography’ by Agehananda Bharati, published in 1970. This book is both beautifully written and opinionated and spicy. You should check it out (and also accept my challenge to read more broadly!) References: Bharati, Agehananda (1970) The Ochre Robe: An Autobiography, Doubleday Read it online here https://archive.org/detai...

This week is rest week for the main feed, but I’ve got a really good episode for you over on Patreon! Think confirmation bias, new age conflation and the difference a one-degree change in navigation can make to a lifetime journey. And all through the lens of the VBT. It’ll cost you $5 to listen, and you’l get loads of other goodies for your contribution. Unconvinced? Well, here’s the first twenty...

This week i’ve got a delight for you! Sage Rountree joins me to talk all things sequencing. You’ll LOVE it! Sage is a pioneer in yoga for athletes and a yoga teacher trainer whose ten books include Everyday Yoga, Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, and The Art of Yoga Sequencing, her most recent book which I COMPLETELY recommend. Sage speaks, teaches workshops, and leads trainings internationally and...

Do you offer Day Retreats? How do you price them? An average of what other teachers around you charge? What you think people might pay? And how do you estimate your profits? How much is left over after paying everyone else? You’re in for a treat, Lovely. Here’s the best way to figure out how much to charge, and how to earn what your time and energy is worth. Enjoy! If you’re interested in joining...

This week I’m speaking with the insightful and inspiring Heather Mason. Heather is the founder of both The Minded Institute and the Yoga in Health Care Alliance. She holds master’s degrees in Buddhist Studies, in Psychotherapy, Medical Physiology, and has extensive training in Neuroscience. Heather has been teaching yoga since 2001 and has specialized in the use of yoga therapy for mental health p...

There’s no new episode on the main feed this week, but I’ve got a long listen over on Patreon for you! It features an interview I did with an author back in 2017. And I need your feedback to formulate Part 2… Which camp are you in when it comes to this text? I can’t wait to hear your thoughts! If you’re interested in joining the Keep Growing Mastemrind and getting 2 extra months at no charge, DM m...

Patanjali lists 9 disturbances or Antarayas that can take us out of practice and Yoga. Today I’m addressing the 3 I think can be most problematic for Yoga Teachers when it comes to the business part of what it is that we do and suggesting my. own personal strategy for overcoming them. If you’re interested in joining the Keep Growing Mastemrind and getting 2 extra months at no charge, DM me on Inst...

I’ve been experimenting with filming my own practice over the past few months and I’ve got some really useful insights to share. NOTE: filming your practice must not come at the expense of you being present and doing your Yoga for YOU. This is not about changing, modifying or performing for the camera. It IS about using something you’re already doing in 4 new ways. Enjoy! If you’re interested in j...

This week I’m trying something new: I’m unpacking an email exchange from my own Yoga business and drawing 2 tips out for you on how to better handle snarky customer service requests. Let me know what you think about this, and whether case studies should be a repeat event. Also diversions into Jay Shetty, becoming a monk and me accidentally hitting Ana Forrest in the face. Enjoy! The Abundant Yoga...

After teaching my Retreat for 15 years I’ve learned A LOT. This week I’m sharing 5 of the top lessons (spoiler: I only got through 3…) along with some stories and wild tangents. I know, shocker! The Abundant Yoga Teacher Retreat 2025 is now open for registrations! And this will be THE VERY LAST ONE. Learn more here: https://www.amymcdonald.com.au/retreats Support the show by making a monthly $5 co...

This week on the show I am speaking with special guest Amy Ippoliti. Amy is the co-author of  The Art & Business of Teaching Yoga  and cofounder of Vesselify (formerly 90 Monkeys), an online resource for yoga professionals. Amy teaches on  YogaInternational.com  and has been a presenter at the Omega Institute, Esalen, and Kripalu, as well as the Telluride Yoga Festival and...

The Abundant Yoga Teacher Retreat 2025 is now open for registrations! And this will be THE VERY LAST ONE. Learn more here: https://www.amymcdonald.com.au/retreats This week I’m challenging you to look for where the token has become the main thing. Where are you confusing the symbol for the real work? What is actually a token rather than an effective action? In this episode I’m asking you to spot S...

Today I’m speaking with long-term client, Danae Robinett about all things Yoga Retreats. Danae earned her BFA from Arizona State University in Dance; she continues to dance, choreograph and perform. Practicing yoga since 1999, teaching now for 19 years, she started leading retreats in 2012. She's been on faculty at San Francisco State University since 2015. Danae has taught at several corporate se...

No new episode in the main feed this week, but here is a teaser from the Patreon-only catalogue. I’m revisiting Sharon Gannon’s book, ‘Yoga and Vegetarianism’ from 2008, including some reflections on my time at the Manhattan studio. We’ll also chat through the book and how I’m feeling different these days on my attitude towards her argumment. Listen to the entire episode and loads of others by bec...

A client proposed this topic last week, and I love it! I’m sharing my journey to finding teachers I really value, look up to and work to be with in person, as well as some pitfalls on the journey to find them. Before we get into the main topic for the week, I’ve also recorded a bit of a ‘teaching’ (read: rant) about flop flopping, the amount of time and energy choosing to be indecisive actually ta...

In this replay of the Keep Growing Mastermind Information Session I’m joined by one of my long-term clients who has some things to say about her time working with me. If you’re ready to take the leap, there are just three places left in the Keep Growing Mastermind. If you’ve got more questions before signing up, email me at amy@amymcdonald.com.au or DM me on Insta at www.instagram.com/amyyogabizco...

Today I’m joined by Yoga Teacher, Retreat Host and Coach, Natalie Snooke. Natalie is known for her heart-centredness, peaceful presence and practical wisdom. And for over 20 years she has been helping others to shine. In this conversation we talk about knowing when to bring a studio to a close, how to continue to grow as a practitioner and about the joys, pitfalls and opportunities that heading to...

One of the biggest challenges Yoga teachers face is showing up consistently in their marketing. Oscillating between ‘full on’ and ‘crickets’ is not only hard on us mentally, its really hard on the bank balance! Here are a few things from my Retreat that might help you if pulsing between expansion and contraction is causing more friction and fewer results that you’d love to see in your biz! Get mor...

Last month I took things in a different direction to our normal Keep Growing Mastermind group calls. To help my Masterminders reach their December income goals I stepped them through the 4-step process I use to devise, strategise and ‘manifest’ my monthly income targets. I hope it’s useful for you, too! If you want MORE support and access to my tips and tricks to fill up your January classes, join...