Conversations for Yoga Teachers

Teaching yoga is in part a skill and in part a mindset skill as well. We need to have a clear mind and a positive outlook in order to effectively teach. But we can also hold negative beliefs about our abilities and think that people are judging us. This can get in the way of feeling confident. Enter Diana Sofia, Subconscious Reprogramming Coach. Diana works with clients to help them uncover negati...

When you look at the work you do as a yoga teacher, what results do you want? Most teachers tell me they want to feel more confident. That’s a result. But there are a number of steps that happen to ALLOW you to FEEL confident. In this episode, you’ll hear more about the kinds of results you can strive for, so that you can FEEL more confident. You’ll also hear from a yoga teacher in my program and...

Sometimes you may feel it’s a mystery how to be a confident, authentic yoga teacher. Maybe you’re having problems with sharing cues, you feel nervous, you spend more than an hour a week prepping for your classes and you don’t understand anatomy. You want to feel confident but you’re not sure how to do it. Listen to this week’s show and I’ll walk you through the step by step way to get your dream o...

Quick- what’s your dream outcome as a yoga teacher? Do you know? Do you feel like you’re on the right path to get there? When will you get there? Sooner or later? In this week’s episode, I’ll walk you through creating a plan to get you to your dream outcome sooner. We’ll talk about how to make good decisions and how to be more in the driver’s seat when it comes to getting where you want as a teach...

This episode will help you to discover how to operate from your higher self. Once you do this, anything is possible!

In this conversation with Anna, she shares how she created her business and all about her mission to reach as many people as possible and share the benefits of daily meditation. We also dive into some of the details of how she transitioned to working for herself from a corporate position in finance and also how she started her business. This is a great episode for yoga teachers who are looking for...

I’ve been getting a few requests to discuss yoga business as a topic so today’s show will give you some tips on how to grow your classes and keep students coming back.

What would it be like if you followed your dreams and created the life you wanted to live? Lauren Dunne and Molly Casto are doing just that and as the Founders of On Point Yoga Adventures, they’ve created a travel/tour/yoga company that takes people on adventures to amazing locations all over the world. I recently joined them on their trip to Italy and knew that I had to have them on the show once...

You’re teaching poses but are you highlighting key movements you’re students are doing AND finding ways to integrate other functional movements in your classes so that your students get even MORE benefit than they expected? Join me for this episode where I’ll share key functional movements you should be including in your classes and why.

Are you teaching a style of yoga that resonates with you and feels easy and fun? In today’s episode, I tackle this question and share tips and ideas for how to help you if you’re finding the style of yoga you’re teaching is not a good match.

In this episode, you’ll learn about pain and pain management, the definition of pain, how it effects people and the work that Dr. Kross is doing with patients in this area. We also talk about pain as it relates to teaching yoga and conversations we might have with our students about pain and how they can practice while feeling pain of some kind. You can find Dr. Kross on Instagram at dr.tawny.kros...

In this episode, I’ll share a number of ways you can find teaching jobs outside of yoga studios. This all comes from my book, “Stretched: Build Your Yoga Business, Grow Your Teaching Techniques” which you can find on Amazon.

In today’s episode, learn some new and fresh approaches to cueing in restorative poses. Several approaches and techniques are shared and some can be used by any teacher, regardless of anatomy knowledge and experience. Others will require more anatomy knowledge and can be used once that knowledge base is more developed so that you can feel more confident in sharing them.

Josh is an Integrated Bodyworker and Movement Coach with Denver Pain and Performance Solutions. His approach to client care one of looking at the client in an embodied way, not just through the lens of functional movement. In this conversation he shares his approach to working with clients, how he helps them and share his approach to helping clients get to the underlying cause of their pain or lim...

In today’s episode, I share my framework for cueing and take a deep dive on anatomy based cues, giving you ways to share them with your students.

After a short intro with a quick review of a few topics, I share a short lesson on assisting your students.

What kind of teacher type are you and what challenges might you be facing as a result? Listen to this episode all the way to the end because I share how you fix the problem too!

In the framework I teach for “types of cues” we have action, alignment, anatomy and feeling based. In  today’s episode we take a deeper look at the somatic based/ feeling based cues. This can be an interesting area for you to explore with your students and I share it, not necessarily in the context of teaching just restorative yoga, but instead, ways you can seamlessly blend somatic cues into any...

What makes one feel momentum? Why does it feel so magical when we’re making progress? Find out more in this episode where I share lots of ways to gain momentum in different areas of your teaching so that you can feel confident and help more people.

I start this episode out with a short conversation about some things yoga teachers do to try to fix some of the teaching problems they have and in an effort to save you the time, I share them so you can recognize them if you’re doing them. I then get into a discussion about types of stretching.

Listen to this short guided meditation to help you tap into your most powerful authentic self so that you can teach from that powerful place.

Discover some key muscles you need to know for yoga teaching. I share the details of each along with an easy format to learn them.

In today’s episode, I interview Jill Foubister, an intuition coach, yoga teacher and Reiki Master. Jill leads a program called “Raise Your Vibration” and she helps people do just that- raise their vibration so they can do more, be more and enjoy life to the fullest. This conversation takes us into some of the “woo-woo” world, as they say, and out of the “3-D” what you can see and touch. If you can...

Based on the numerous conversations I have every week, I find that teachers fall into one of four categories. When you listen, you’ll hear some of the challenges and tips for each. Also, listen for the free download that goes with each and DM me on Instagram to get your free guide- the one that you’d find most helpful for where you’re at now.

Listen in as I review the muscles of the shoulder and cues you can use that speak to shoulder anatomy. As always, DM me any questions to my Instagram.