The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 105: Insurance for Yoga Teachers with Beth McVeigh   Description:   As a yoga teacher or yoga studio owner, do you have insurance that protects you if a lawsuit arises? How much coverage is enough? Beth McVeigh, a specialist in liability insurance for yoga instructors and yoga studio owners, joins Shannon in the last episode of the 5-part mini-series, Yoga Studio...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 104: Legal Answers for Your Yoga Business with Saerin Ally Cho   Description:   Should your yoga business be an LLC? Do you need to trademark your business name? What kind of permits and licenses do you need to legally run your yoga business? Saerin Ally Cho, founder of Love Light Law joins Shannon in the fourth episode of the 5-part mini-series, Yoga Studio Busi...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 103: Hiring and Nurturing Your Team with Shelli Warren   Description:   Do you have a team supporting you in your business? Are you thinking about hiring, because some parts of your business seem just too overwhelming? Do you need help in hiring, building, and nurturing your team? Shelli Warren, Team and Leadership Coach, joins Shannon in the third episode of the...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 102 Yoga Studio: Mission Statements & Core Values with Steve Hart   Description:   What does your yoga business stand for? Who are you serving? And what do you hope to achieve? Steve Hart, founder of Riffs Studio, joins Shannon in the second of this 5-part mini-series, Yoga Studio Business 101, to share more, not just about mission statements and core values, but...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 101: What I Learned as a Yoga Studio Manager with Shannon Crow   Description:   What does it really take to run a successful yoga studio business? Join Shannon in the first of this 5-part mini-series, Yoga Studio Business 101, to find out more about the different aspects of building and running a yoga studio business.   Shannon shares what she has learned as a yo...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 100: Cultivating a Community of Professional Peers with Linda Sparrowe   Description:   How can we, as yoga teachers, build and maintain a professional peer community? Whether it's taking ownership of our yoga, overcoming isolation, or dealing with the competition we feel as yoga teachers - we have all faced these challenges. Linda Sparrow shares some of her insi...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 099: Branding Your Yoga Website with Kali Edwards   Description:   Have you been wanting to design and launch a professional website for your yoga business but don't know where to start? Perhaps you are struggling with clarifying and communicating your brand and message on your website. Kali Edwards, founder of June Mango LLC, is just the expert you need to hear...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 098: Many Layers of Fascia with Gil Hedley   Description:   How often have we said that we can't do certain movements because of old age? What if that's not a result of old age, but "fuzz" - a by-product of not enough movement in our bodies? Gil Hedley of The Fuzz Speech fame joins Shannon to bring the concepts of fascia, anatomy, movement and scar tissue to a wh...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 097: Focusing In On Your Niche [Consultation Call] with Susan Hopkinson   Description:   Do you have trouble finding your niche and communicating your unique offering as a yoga teacher to your audience? The niche work that you do in your business is an ongoing process, and it can be difficult to clarify that in your messaging. On this consultation call, Shannon g...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 096: How to Create a Yoga Practice Habit with Matt Kowald   Description:   How can you form a yoga practice habit? Do you want to do more in your yoga practice but find it hard to form a routine around it? Perhaps you've formed an unwanted habit you'd like to remove. Matt Kowald, co-author and co-founder of Yogis Journal, joins Shannon to discuss what it takes to...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 095: Making a CEO Business Plan with Shannon Crow   Description: Do you feel like the CEO of your yoga business now? If you don't, you're not alone. It is easy to get caught up in doing the "Worker Bee" activities and lose focus of the "Queen Bee" activities you should be doing to keep your business going and growing.   On this episode, Shannon shares some things...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 94: Instagram Content Strategy and Stories with Tyler McCall   Description: Are you on Instagram? How are you using Instagram as a yoga teacher to market and grow your yoga business with intention? Tyler McCall, social media marketer, strategist, and coach for creatives joins Shannon on this episode to tell you how you can be using Instagram to generate profit...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 093: How to Build a Home Studio with Jo Stewart and Rane Bowen   Description:   Have you thought of building a home-based studio? What does it really take to get a home yoga studio up and running? What are the challenges you might face, and the biggest pros? Jo Stewart and Rane Bowen are yoga teachers who not only had a home studio, but also built a new one, a...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 92: Accessible Yoga Language with Kesse, Chantel and Katie   As yoga teachers, we'd all like to reach as many people as possible with our practice and share yoga with them. However, what we may not realize is that we may be inadvertently be excluding or even offending people - through something as simple (but powerful) as our language.   I met Chantel Ehler, K...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 091: 100 Conversations with Yoga Teachers with Mado Hesselink   Description: What would it be like to talk to 100 yoga teachers and find out what their challenges are, and what they've learned so far? When Mado Hesselink decided she wanted to increase the work she was doing with yoga teachers, she did just that and personally interviewed 100 yoga teachers - th...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 090: Teaching Baby and Me Yoga with Shannon Crow   Description: How can a yoga niche help to grow a profitable and sustainable yoga business? In this episode, Shannon shares about a popular area of yoga - Baby and Me yoga, and how this can be a niche to build your yoga business.   Very often, postnatal parents are wanting to get back to yoga and bring baby alo...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 089: Yoga for Stress Management with Courtney Butler-Robinson   Description: You can't deny it - we live in a stressful world. Everyone knows yoga is useful when it comes to stress management, but Courtney Butler-Robinson has focused her practice exclusively around dealing with stress and more specifically, heart health.   Courtney has had a long and illustrio...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 088: Creating Professional Yoga Videos with Kira Sloane   Description: Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could connect with your yoga students in the comfort of their own home? With Yoga Anytime, Kira Sloane not only teaches yoga online but also helps other yoga teachers share their yoga online.   Kira was drawn to teaching yoga from her very first savasana . After...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 087: Yoga for Fertility with Beth Heller   The journey of infertility is a difficult one. Beth Heller joins Shannon on this episode to share her own story and experiences with infertility, and how that led her to become the co-founder and co-director of Pulling Down the Moon.   Beth is a mother and a yoga teacher whose niche and passion is yoga for fertility....

  Live video is taking the online world by storm, and it's not a trend is going away soon. How can yoga teachers get on board and harness the power of video? Ian Gray of Seriously Social has tips, strategies, and advice on how you can use live video as a yoga teacher to share video content.   Ian is a man of many talents. Not only is he an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and...

085: A Discussion About Hands-On Assists with Amanda Kingsmith and Shannon Crow   Do you offer your students hands-on assists or adjustments or do you steer clear of touch in a yoga class?   Amanda Kingsmith invited Shannon back on the M.B.OM podcast to talk about hands-on assists (sometimes called adjustments).   Amanda is a yoga teacher with a business studies background. She works 1:1 with yoga...

084: Yoga for Scoliosis with Christine Jaureguiberry   Christine Jaureguiberry has niched down over the years as a yoga teacher. She now works mostly with individuals who have scoliosis. This is fueled by her own love of yoga. At the age of five, Christine was diagnosed with structural scoliosis. Her parents first put her in ballet. As she grew, she stayed active, but in her teen years, her pain s...

083: Instagram for Yoga Teachers with Daniel McIntire   As a yoga teacher have you thought about creating an Instagram account? Do you already have an Instagram presence and wonder if you're on the right path? Have you thought about creating a separate account for your yoga business? Today's guest, Daniel McIntire, the founder of Influncrrs helps to answer these and many more questions about Insta...

082: Yoga and Fibromyalgia with Pamela Crane   We are so grateful to welcome Pamela Crane, a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapist (IAYT) who is currently working towards her Masters in Yoga Therapy at Maryland University of Integrative Health.  She is a Yoga Alliance 200 RYT, a Reiki 1 and 2 practitioner, and a member of the National Dance Education Association (NDEO).   On to...

081: Set-Up to Teach Private Yoga [Consultation Call] with Stephanie Brunson   Do you or have you considered teaching private yoga classes as a way to set up or grow a yoga business? If so, this episode is for you!   Shannon shares a consultation call with the kind permission of Stephanie Brunson. Stephanie has been teaching yoga for 10 years and has recently come to the realization that teaching...