For Yoga Teachers

In today’s episode, we’re looking six important things to check when you start working at a yoga studio: ✅ What is the policy if someone comes to your class with an injury ✅ What is the policy if someone comes to your class when pregnant ✅ The invoicing and payment terms ✅ How to get cover for your classes ✅ How to get consent for physical adjustments ✅ What’s the policy on promoting your ow...

Being a yoga teacher is a funny thing. It is rewarding beyond words, no doubt about that. But it can be lonely.  Yes, you spend a lot of time with people. These people are your yoga students, your customers, your yogis.  But we don’t have colleagues, not really. We don’t have a line manager for advice and guidance, or a HR department. But we are people, we are workers, we are small business owners...

Expect to explore the fascinating connection between fascia and emotions, diving into theories, studies, and ancient yogic wisdom.  From the physiological underpinnings of emotional storage in the body to the healing potential of mindful movement, this episode unravels how fascia might hold the key to understanding and releasing pent-up emotions. We discuss: 🤯 How fascia may store emotional exper...

This episode is amazing definitions of fascia for yoga teachers. *But* the plural; definitions, is a little confusing right!? Well, there is still an element of confusion and an element of evolution of exactly what the terms fascia and the fascial system mean.  That aside, this episode looks at definitions and explanations of fascia according to some extremely wise experts, and we briefly explore...

If building your private yoga offering is something that you want to work on this year, then starting with people who already come to your classes; people who already know and like your style of teaching is an absolute no-brainer. But, approaching and asking people who attend your group classes if they’d like a one to one with you can be a bit of a minefield, well no more! This is your step-by-ste...

Private yoga sessions are unique in that you can use your time, knowledge and focus all on one person . You don’t have to keep the rest of a class running while you help one person with their alignment or their pain. Next week, we’ll look at how to get private yoga bookings from your group classes, in a way that’s not susceptible to imposter syndrome and totally beneficial to both you and the pote...

Last week’s episode was all about understanding the koshas, and today, we’re taking that up a level, looking at layering your yoga asana classes with this understanding of the koshas.  This is where we’re going;  - A review of what the koshas are - How to work with each kosha in your yoga asana classes Make sure you bookmark this episode, as it’ll serve as a guide for anytime you’re low on inspira...

Understanding the koshas can be totally transformative to your yoga teaching. If you've been put off the koshas before, concerned that they don't really make sense, or they don't really offer anything concrete to actually work with... this episode is for you! Expect to understand a) what the koshas are and b) how they can help you, as a person and as a yoga teacher. Enjoy! See the s...

This powerful practice is taken from our recent Yoga Nidra & Yoga Wisdom training, and is inspired by the incomparable Tracee Stanley. Grab anything you need to get comfortable, and grab your journal and a pen too as there's optional journal prompts at the end. And above all, enjoy! See the shownotes here Join our next Yoga Nidra & Yoga Wisdom training here !   Reflect on what came up...

What if working with the fascia was also working directly with the nervous system? In this episode, we explore one of the most fascinating and fast-evolving areas of yoga research: the relationship between the fascial system and the autonomic nervous system. As yoga teachers, we often see the effects of stress, tension and chronic pain in our students. But understanding why yoga helps - and what’s...

Stress is everywhere. In fact, according to the Mental Health Foundation, 60% of UK adults experienced anxiety that interfered with their daily lives in 2023. So if you’re teaching yoga, the chances are you’re teaching people who are living with stress and anxiety every single day. But here’s the important question: Do you actually understand what stress is doing to their brain? In this episode, w...

As yoga teachers, we know that stress is an epidemic; it affects almost everyone we meet, and it has a profound impact on their lives. We so often talk about the sympathetic nervous system; the fight or flight response and how that impacts physical and mental health, but we don’t often talk about the HPA axis, and its profound impact on health… It got me thinking - why is that? After some informal...

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If you’ve been really enjoying teaching private yoga lessons, but you’re finding that people will book 1, or maybe a block of 4 with you, and then they don’t really get back in touch to rebook, this is the episode for you!  And it might not be what you think… In this episode, we start with something that we seem to talk about a lot a lot - defining your ideal yogis. If you’ve heard us chatting on...

If you’ve ever received an enquiry for a private yoga lesson, and your first thought is ‘Oh no, how much am I going to charge?’, well, yoga teacher, you most certainly aren’t on your own.  “How much should I charge for….” must be the question I (Holly, hi by the way!) have been asked the most over the ten or so years that I have been working with yoga teachers, so you are most certainly not on you...

Yoga teacher, if you’ve been hoping to pick up reliable, repeating private yoga clients, but it’s not (yet) happening, this episode is for you. You’ve been posting about your services, you’ve mentioned them in classes you teach, you’ve even included it in a newsletter - but it’s not working.  Does that resonate with you?  The good news is that setting up private yoga clients is actually pretty sim...

Today,  we have a short but punchy episode to remind you:  Yoga teacher: you are doing a great job.  Honestly, you really are! You’re consistently turning up. You’re invested in making people feel better through yoga. And yoga teacher, they are - they really are!  So when you notice you’re thinking about the 'shoulds' and the 'have tos', can you refocus your attention to a nice...

One of the three values that underpin For Yoga Teachers is ‘avoiding burn out’; and there’s one key way to do that: Have a consistent personal yoga practice. However, when you’re a busy yoga teacher, and you have a busy life, sometimes there just isn’t the time for a consistent practice alongside everything else that you need to do! In this episode we look at:  What does a consistent yoga practice...

A few weeks ago now we launched The Base - a network and resource hub for yoga teachers.  This episode is an exciting audio tour around The Base to tell you everything that you need to know, because we’re closing the doors at midday on Thursday 13th June for a little while, to focus on giving all the Base members the best possible experience!  Expect a whistle stop tour around the network; the com...

If you could generate an extra £400 from your yoga teaching, what would you do Maybe it would ease some financial pressure, help pay for a training, or simply give you a bit more breathing space. In this episode, we break down four realistic, practical ways to boost your short-term yoga income - without committing to long-term projects or weekly obligations. These are income ideas you can set up o...

Before we dive in, let’s be clear that the only thing that will help you build your confidence offering physical adjustment in your classes is:  getting experience offering physical adjustments in your classes! There’s no shortcuts unfortunately! So this is where we’re going:  - We’re actually starting with a look at what confidence is, which might seem really obvious, but it’s actually quite inte...

Introducing Sanskrit in to your yoga classes can be daunting for all the reasons we talked about in episode 41, which was ‘Should yoga teachers use Sanskrit?’ However, it doesn’t have to be daunting. (Promise!) This episode is 7 simple ways to add Sanskrit in to your classes, let's take a look:  Go slow and steady - no need to rush Build confidence in your pronunciation Say the Sanskrit with...

This episode is looking at a niggle in the yoga teaching world; competition from other yoga teachers.  We’re looking at  why a bit of competition is a good thing how to not let it get the better of you - with practical, implementable tips here as always how to stay in your lane how yoga philosophy can help understanding that more than one yoga teacher can thrive at a time how we can build a networ...

One of the things that frustrates me endlessly about teaching yoga is: "Yoga is so beneficial, it should be accessible to absolutely everyone!" Vs "Don’t teach for free! You’ll undervalue yoga!" This episode  explores the question:  Should yoga teachers care about money?  We cover: Why yoga teachers often feel guilty about charging for classes Why there’s commonly an issue with...

This episode is exploring the answer, your individual answer, to the question: Should yoga teachers demo while teaching? We’ll look at some reasons to demo, some reasons not to demo, and a few things to bear in mind overall.  Demoing, for many yoga teachers, takes a lot of the fear around teaching. Your body does the pose and that facilitates how you find the language to guide your yogis in to the...