The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 225: Yoga for Hip Pain with Shannon Crow   Description: Do you have students who come to you complaining of "hip pain"? Or have you experienced pain in the hips, lower back, abdomen or pelvic area yourself? Many people experience acute or persistent pain in their hip and pelvic area, and in this episode, Shannon Crow does a mini-training to address these pains.  ...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 224: 8 Yoga Business Lessons with Manu Molina de la Torre   Description: Being a yoga entrepreneur can be tough. Our typical YTTs focus more on how to teach asana and yoga philosophy, but hardly cover anything about what it really means to run a sustainable yoga business. Manu Molina de la Torre has 8 important lessons to share about things he has learned in star...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 223: Make Your Yoga Website Stand Out with Danbee Shin   Description: Not too long ago, online yoga teachers were pretty rare and unique, but everyone has had to move their yoga online because of the pandemic. Now, it feels like being an online yoga teacher is so common. How can you make your yoga website stand out from the rest, and really make an impact in the...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 222: How to Craft a Great Sales Page with Sarah Guilliot   Description: Do you have a sales page to promote your yoga offerings? An important part of sharing the work that you are doing with the world, is marketing and selling - and there are ways to do it without being salesy! Sarah Guilliot has some tips on how to craft a great sales page so that you can share...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 221: Choosing to Teach Online Yoga with Colin Hall   Description: Teaching yoga online is not something most of us want to do, and for many people around the world where lockdowns are still in effect or are in place again after being briefly lifted, they don't really have an option. However, despite being able to teach yoga in person, Colin Hall decided to close...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 220: Alternatives to Namaste with Shannon Crow   Description: How do you close out your yoga classes? Many yoga teachers say "namaste" to end a yoga class, but maybe you've learned more about cultural appropriation in yoga and the teachings of yoga, and are no longer comfortable using "namaste" to end a class. Or, maybe your usual closing is starting to feel stal...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 219: Yoga for Abundant Bodies with Dianne Bondy   Description: In recent times, yoga has become a very exclusionary practice that's limited to the privileged few - wealthy, thin, young, flexible, white and able-bodied people. However, yoga has benefits for people in all bodies, regardless of shape, size, age, ethnicity or ability. In this episode, Dianne Bondy sh...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 218: Body Positive Yoga with Gillian McCollum   Description: Body positivity as a social movement has been gaining traction in recent years. In yoga, we aim to empower individuals regardless of their physical weight or size, and focus on accepting all bodies, regardless of their physical ability, their size, their gender, their race, their appearance, as well as...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 217: The Yoga of Trans* Affirmation with Avery Kalapa & Maygen Nicholson   Description: The trans and gender non-binary community is one that has often been marginalized and made to feel unwelcome in many places, including yoga spaces and communities. Back in March 2021, a prominent podcaster and yoga teacher, J Brown, released an episode that contained some harm...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 216: Corporate Yoga [Part 2] with Samantha Harrison   Description: Is corporate yoga still relevant now that many businesses have moved online because of the pandemic? Absolutely! What's more - there are even more opportunities available for yoga teachers in this space. In Part 2 of this series on teaching corporate yoga, Samantha Harrison shares how being virtua...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 215: Corporate Yoga [Part 1] with Samantha Harrison   Description: If you have been teaching yoga for a while and are wondering how you can start teaching corporate yoga, and how you can get in front of different businesses, especially now that a lot of businesses have moved online - Samantha Harrison has the answers for you.   Samantha Harrison is the founder of...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 214: Yoga Class Bloopers with Shannon & Sinead   Description: As yoga teachers, we've all had those moments while teaching a class. When we get our left and right mixed up, or our brain thinks of something to say but our mouth gets it all wrong, or you get completely confused with your sequence, or any other number of awkward, embarrassing, and often absolutely h...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 213: Work Life Balance with Dawn Vason   Description: Almost everybody struggles with work-life balance. We have so many things to do in our yoga business, our personal life, our community and more, in addition to dealing with a pandemic. We may find ourselves wondering if work-life balance is a myth and an unattainable goal. Should we even be striving for balanc...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 212: Menopause Myths and Facts with Shirley Weir   Description: A topic some people might not feel comfortable talking about is menopause, yet this is something that concerns not just people who menstruate (about half the world's population!) Chances are, even people who don't menstruate live with or support people who do. However, a lot of menstruating people of...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 211: How to Draw Yoga Stick Figures with Eva-Lotta Lamm   Description: As a yoga teacher, how do you plan your classes? When it comes to planning the actual sequences, poses, and themes, do you go with the flow with little or no planning, or have a mental plan, or refer to detailed notes? In this episode, Eva-Lotta Lamm shares another technique you can use to pla...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 210: The Future of Yoga with Amber Karnes   Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down, and the yoga industry has changed dramatically. Studios have closed, some permanently, classes and YTTs are online, and for many of us in-person classes and trainings are not possible. All of these changes have a lot of yoga teachers asking - What does...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 209: Online Yoga Teacher Training with Jivana Heyman   Description: One of the things yoga teachers all around the world have had to navigate recently is the shift to sharing yoga online because of the coronavirus pandemic. A lot of yoga teacher trainings have also moved online, as well as conferences, seminars and other aspects of continuing education for yoga t...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 208: Four Years of Podcasting with Shannon Crow   Description: The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast is celebrating its fourth anniversary! In this special episode, host Shannon Crow answers questions inspired by listeners and members of The Connected Yoga Teacher community.    Shannon opens up about her inspiration for starting the podcast and what her journey has...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 207: Biopsychosocial Model & Yoga with Carolyn Vandyken   Description: Many people come to yoga to seek relief for a specific pain or to regain strength and mobility after recovering from an injury. The biopsychosocial model of care is a great way to look at how we're using yoga to help our students. By adopting a whole-person approach to health and wellness, the...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 206: Get More Private Yoga Clients with Megan Spears   Description: A common question among yoga teachers is "How can I get more private yoga clients?". Many of us feel like we lack the confidence and knowledge to teach private yoga, but that shouldn't stop us from diving in. In this episode, Megan Spears shares how she felt the same, but eventually took the plun...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 205: Tech Guide for Online Yoga with Dominique Gauthier   Description: The pandemic has forced all of us to adapt and change how we share yoga with our students, and for many of us, that has been a shift to teaching yoga online. Figuring out the tech and equipment to teach online has been a steep learning curve for many of us. In this episode, Dominique Gauthier...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 204: What to Charge for Online Yoga with Shannon Crow   Description: As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many yoga teachers have moved their offerings online. With this shift from in-person to virtual yoga classes, a question that often came up is – how much should I charge for online yoga classes?   To answer this question, Shannon Crow shares her thoughts and...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 203: Do Politics Belong in Yoga? with Chara Caruthers & Maria Kirsten   Description: Politics can be a sensitive and divisive topic, and we may avoid talking about it even with our most trusted friends and family because it is often controversial or uncomfortable to talk about. However, in light of the current political and social landscape, it is important for u...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 202: Yoga and Masks with Clare Kelley   Description: One of the things we've had to adapt to recently in our yoga businesses is the COVID-19 pandemic. As public spaces like our yoga studios open up again and we transition back into in-person yoga classes, you may be wondering about how to approach using masks in your classes. Clare Kelley shares her expertise in...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 201: Leaning Into Hope Happy New Year with Shannon Crow   Description: Happy New Year, Connected Yoga Teachers!   What a year 2020 has been for all of us, as people, as yoga teachers and as business owners. All of us have been profoundly impacted by everything that 2020 has brought. At a business level, we've had to completely reimagine our yoga businesses - by m...