Master Your Yoga Teaching with MaKenzie Fly

CONFIDENT & CAPTIVATING NOW ON SALE! BECOME THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER TEACHER ON THE SCHEDULE Want to expand your offers and add Yoga Nidra to your teaching toolbox? Today’s guest, Indu Arora, takes us through a deeper understanding of Yoga Nidra and reveals nuances that aren’t often talked about. With Indu’s calming energy and beautiful insight, we dive into questions like: 📙  A fascinating hist...

CONFIDENT & CAPTIVATING NOW ON SALE! BECOME THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER TEACHER ON THE SCHEDULE You’ve built your online yoga course, but now what? How do you continually share about what you’ve created in a way that feels natural…but also converts? Today’s guest, Gwen, is here to help!  She wants to give us the inside track on how to boost visibility and engagement with less posts that mean more.  ...

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP FOR MAT TO MAT: FREE 5 DAY CHALLENGE FOR YOGA TEACHERS FEB 10TH-14TH. Today, we have a super special episode for you. It is a BTS look at how my life works with my amazing partner, Colin!   🥰  How did it happen?   A quick timeline of our meet cute and how we ended up in Las Vegas.   🌞  How does it work having a non-practicing partner? The different effects and new ex...

SIGN UP FOR MAT TO MAT: FREE 5 DAY CHALLENGE FOR YOGA TEACHERS FEB 10TH-14TH. Have you ever wanted to leverage skillful storytelling, thread meaningful messages, life lessons and inspiring ideas throughout your class’s yoga experience?  Then this episode is for you!  Check out the way to make your class the most sought after class on the schedule.   Today is all about: 🎢  What is theme weaving? F...

SIGN UP FOR MAT TO MAT: FREE 5 DAY CHALLENGE FOR YOGA TEACHERS FEB 10TH-14TH, 2025. The dynamic co-hosts from The Funny Thing About Yoga podcast join us today to share their strategies about how to become the most sought after teacher on the schedule. We talk about:  🎙️ Is it wrong to want full classes? We explore whether it’s egotistical or empowering to desire packed yoga classes. 💡 Are full cl...

Can you show up without a class plan and confidently create on the fly? If not, today’s guest - Liana - offers insight and inspiration on the foundations needed to teach to the bodies in front of you.     We talk about:  🧬  How her mission - creating community, education, mentorship and inspiration for yoga teachers - came into being and how it’s evolved.  💲💲 Problems with pay structure & w...

Is your copy of Light on Yoga collecting dust on your shelf? Well grab it, dust it off, and dive into this interesting chat with Pat Sperry all about what makes Iyengar Yoga unique, beneficial, and beautiful.    We talk about: ⚽  Transitioning from a division one soccer player to Hollywood body double, and Pat’s unique path to finding yoga  🔮  An insider’s look at Iyengar Yoga and what makes it...

Wow, we have had incredible guests and conversations! A few in particular jump out as impactful, hilarious, and unforgettable. If you haven't had a chance to listen to everything, today’s compilation will be the perfect recap and roadmap of which episode title & topic to revisit.    Sit back, relax and enjoy the moments.   ⭐  Get featured on the podcast! Submit Your True Story! 🧡  Snag your...

New Year, New You(ga)! This episode takes a different spin on resolutions to help you feel fresh walking into 2025.  We talk about: 🏅  Why silence is golden, and boredom is a blessing.  💕  Aparigraha everything in your life and MaKenzie’s aparigraha challenge for you 🧘  Why a blindfolded flow a must- add in your home practice.  ⭐  The best way to find inspiration in the basics 🔍  The keys to...

How do the chakras and koshas relate?  Today’s guest, Belinda Totino, gives us a super awesome explanation.  Today we talk about  🥳  How she started as a trendsetter on social media  📵  Why social media detoxes are important 💭  The best way to find meaning in your social media sharing 🤣  Why laughter is key to social media and being a great yoga teacher 🧘  A quick lesson in finding the embodi...

What is theming in the context of teaching yoga? Today’s guest, Sage Rountree, literally co-wrote the book on it!    We chat about: 🔥  Top tips; what works well and what feels forced 🤯  An easy to follow template for theming and where to find done-for-you themes ☝️   How to reiterate your main point without sounding like a broken record ✍️  The writing process behind her 11 books 📖  Sneak peek...

Do you feel out of sorts in your body and want to understand what is happening? Today’s guest, Nelly Kalla, had that same feeling; until she took the time to understand her hormones and gut health. She gives amazing insight on what she learned and how to use it in your yoga classes. We talk about: 💯  Nelly’s backstory, her mysterious ailments, and the underwhelming “solutions” suggested by doctor...

Do you want to stop teaching groups and start teaching one-on-one? Today’s guest, Amanda Paz, spills the tea on how she managed to maintain a full schedule of the same private yoga students for EIGHT years. Clearly, she was doing something right. In this episode, we chat about: ⛹️  How Amanda converted the pro athletes she was personal training into private yoga students 📥  How to not only delive...

💥🖤SHOP THE BLACK FRIDAY BLOWOUT 💥🖤 Tell me what it's reeeeaally like, you ask? This week, MaKenzie takes us on a walk down memory lane in an honest, raw, and vulnerable solo episode. In this episode, we chat about: 👋  How yoga found her 🗽   What it was like doing YTT at 20 years old in New York City 🌹   Juicy details into her love life & how she met her husband 🏫  How she got a full ri...

💥🖤SHOP THE BLACK FRIDAY BLOWOUT 💥🖤 Ever wonder what is the key to a long and successful yoga career?  Today Bryan Kest, the creator of Power Yoga and the father of donation-based yoga, joins us to shine some light on the answers.  In this episode, we chat about: 🔎  Insights into a 40 year teaching career and the perspective that comes from watching the evolution of the yoga industry. 💥  Clar...

💥🖤SHOP THE BLACK FRIDAY BLOWOUT 💥🖤 ***TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses the heartbreak of child loss and miscarriage. If you are not in the space to hear this, please skip this episode. Sending you love, from one who knows the pain.*** Are you currently pregnant or plan to be very soon? Maybe your partner is carrying your child? Either way, this episode is refreshingly honest about the j...

In this episode, we chat about: 🧊  Manifestation 101 and the can’t miss building blocks to success energetics 🔋   Hitting your stride and finding your energetic capacity 🔍  Why finding the bigger vision is the mission 🤯  Mind blowing similarities between manifestation and the Buddha's 4 Noble Truths 🎭  Understanding the difference of “fake it till you make” and “Act as if”   💞  How identity...

Have you ever wondered what makes the moments memorable on a retreat?  Come along with me today as we do a recap of our weekend retreat in Sedona. 💥  Must do activities your participants will love!. 🥺  Be a fly on the wall when my psychic calls me out in my first ever intuitive reading. ⏯️  Get a playback of one of the workshops during the weekend. 🆚  The importance of conversation vs. lectures...

Do you have the guts to not only hit the mat everyday, but also hit record and share too? Everytime I open my Instagram app, Aaron’s daily yoga reel is the first to pop up. I have learned so much from him and know you will too! In this episode, we chat about: 🎥  What’s it been like recording his practice and sharing it on socials everyday this year 🎤  Why voiceovers are so powerful 🧭  The strug...

Do you struggle to be authentic? Today’s guest, Diaz Chairullah, shows us how it’s done, even if that means poking fun at the thing we love most…yoga! You’ve probably reshared some of his hilarious reels on IG to your story.  We talk about: 🔎  BTS look at his creative process for making his hilarious yoga reels for IG that you’ve probably reshared to your story 🌏  What it takes to be a yoga teac...

Do you want to host an unforgettable yoga retreat?  You have mapped out an awesome itinerary and sold out your retreat, but the work isn’t over yet! Here’s some often forgotten advice for what to do before, during, and after your retreat to make it one to remember. We chat about:   🤪  How to prime yourself to be a great retreat leader.   💖  Getting your participants psyched and getting your vibe...

 Have you ever said, “Twists detox the liver?” Our guest today, Andrew McGonigle (known as @doctoryogi on IG), becomes our very own fact-checker on some of the click bait-y claims that have permeated the yoga teaching culture.  We chat about:  💥  What does it mean to critically think and how that informs our yoga teacher  🤪  Physiology defined and how studying it can enhance your yoga teaching a...

Have you ever heard the phrase “work to live don’t live to work” and laughed feeling like that can’t be possible?  Today’s guest speaks to why its important to embody that adage to avoid burnout.  🤯  What is Yoga Nidra and top resources to learn more   ❤️‍  How were all addicted to our emotions and the repercussions of this 🖼️  Reframing the relationship to stress 😰  The relationship between mon...

Do you feel “not enough” and “too much” at the same time? This week Erika Belanger, host of On and Off Your Mat Yoga Podcast, shares spiritual hygiene practices for the big feelers out there.    We chat about:  ⚡  What is an HSP? 😃  How, more often than not, yoga teachers are HSPs 📦  4 boxes of practices to maintain your spiritual hygiene. These boxes will make it easy to identify not only what...

Do you love Puzzles and putting the pieces together in just the right way?  Well, today Clair Thomas is joining us and she has found many different ways to put the pieces together. As a YTT creator, and co-founder of Solstice, not to mention that she lives right here in Las Vegas.  You are gonna love the insight she has today.  Today we talk about 😵‍  Professionalism for yoga teachers and how to...