Yoga Teacher Resource Podcast

This episode is a collaboration with 25 yoga teachers who have come together to support and celebrate new yoga teachers. Listen as they share their personal experience and favorite advice for new teachers. Episode Highlights: The importance of personal practice and self care for new teachers Expectations around making money in the beginning  Advice on where to teach and who to teach when you’re st...

How do you teach yoga during a crisis? Whether the crisis is personal or political, local or universal, what is the best way to show up for your students? This episode contains advice for yoga teachers on how to teach classes and serve your students during times of turmoil.  Episode Highlights: 7 tips for teaching during a crisis. How crisis can bring greater purpose and clarity  What to do if you...

Mado coaches Amber about whether or not she should begin teaching privates and how to get ready to add them to her yoga offerings.  Episode Highlights: Finding a balance with weekly group classes, family obligations, wanting to be of service, and building a sustainable business  The connection between payment for service and being of service  How to get started teaching private yoga lessons  How t...

If you are looking to create an online yoga course, this is the episode for you. Kelly McHugh, founder of Digital Yoga Academy, joins Mado to share helpful tips and strategies for launching online yoga courses. Kelly breaks down the steps you need to take in a simple and completely do-able way.  Episode Highlights  Different ways yoga teachers can structure their business online  Examples of diffe...

In this special anniversary episode, Mado answers lots of audience questions. She is joined by friends and former guests Amanda McKinney, Amanda Kingsmith, and Shannon Crow to celebrate two years of the Yoga Teacher Resource Podcast.  Some of the questions asked and answered: What does a day in the life look like for you?  How do you balance your personal practice, professional development, and wo...

Is the online yoga world saturated? Author and host of the popular podcast, The Yogahealer Show, Cate Stillman joins Mado for a conversation about the unique world of online business and how yoga teachers can stand out and make money despite all of the free content out there.  Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a chance to win a copy of Cate’s new book, Master of You.  Episode highlights: Ch...

In this on-air coaching call, Laura receives guidance on the foundations of growing an audience online. She and Mado cover a lot of ground including priority setting, conducting market research, email lists, and networking.  Episode highlights: How taking online trainings yourself can help you be a better online educator  How understanding your ideal client can help determine the best price point...

If you aren’t teaching online (or even if you are) here are some ideas and actions you can take during this time of social isolation that will continue to move your yoga business forward. Episode highlights: How to use this time to reinforce and reconnect to the foundations of your teaching business. What are the foundational pieces of success as a yoga teacher that you may have been avoiding (or...

Kristine Weber is a leading authority on the neuro-scientific benefits of slow, mindful movement. She joins Mado on the podcast for an in-depth conversation about what happens physiologically when you experience anxiety and the science behind why yoga is helpful for anxiety. Episode highlights: How we experience and process trauma, our behavior, and when anxiety can show up.  What is going on phys...

Cory Sterling, author of The Yoga Law Book, sheds light on important legal considerations and  perspectives for online yoga teaching and how they differ from when you’re teaching in person.  Episode highlights: The elements of a good waiver of liability for online yoga classes. The legal issues emerging as online yoga teaching grows. Special considerations for yoga studio owners.  Live Q & A with...

Are you doing everything you know how to do to market your yoga classes, workshops, and events but not getting the results you were hoping for? Listen to this episode to learn what you’re missing and how to make your marketing infinitely more effective.  Highlights from this episode: What it means to have clear and compelling marketing.  The difference between a target market and a niche.  How to...

Have you ever had ‘problem’ students in your classes? This on-air coaching call covers how to maintain boundaries with students when they insist on testing them during class.   Highlights from this episode: Maintaining structure and boundaries while meeting the group dynamic.  Whether jokes appropriate in a yoga class or not.  How to set clear expectations around what the class experience will be....

Jerome Smith brings his authentic and down to earth approach to yoga and 30+ years of study in the Himalayan Tradition to this conversation with Mado about yoga’s internal practices and how to integrate them into your life.  Highlights from this episode: How to transition from external/body based practices to internal practices The value of self-guided home practice  The four aspects of the mind W...

Yoga offers some essential tools for reducing anxiety and making skillful decisions. These are my thoughts on how yoga teachers can tap into their practice to be a positive force during this time of unprecedented uncertainty.

Faria had been feeling a shift in her mindset when she reached out to Mado for coaching. She was sensing it was time to stop treating yoga like a hobby and start taking her teaching career more seriously. But she didn’t know how exactly to do that. In this on-air coaching call, Faria talks about how her teaching has changed since completing the Foundations of a Yoga Business program and catches Ma...

Michelle Marchildon joins Mado on the podcast to discuss how yoga teachers can incorporate themes into their classes in a way that feels authentic and inspiring. Highlights from this episode: Michelle’s definition of a yoga class theme The part of theming that most yoga teachers struggle with and Michelle’s formula to help overcome it Different approaches to finding inspiration and how to stay ins...

Ever wonder what’s actually happening in the transition from downward facing dog to lunge? Why is it so challenging for some? Is it an essential transition to master?  Listen to learn how you can help your students navigate this common movement while still offering them an empowering yoga class experience. Highlights from this episode: Understanding the mechanics of this particular movement and wh...

Shannon Crow is a yoga teacher who specializes in yoga for pelvic health and trains other yoga teachers to do the same. In her conversation with Mado, she shares the basics of what every yoga teacher should know about pelvic health, information for yoga teachers interested in focusing on pelvic health, and also how she built her one to one pelvic health consultation business. Episode highlights: H...

Kim is in the process of opening a yoga studio in an up-and-coming neighborhood in New York City. While she waits for her permits and paperwork to go through, she takes the opportunity to get some one-on-one coaching from Mado about her unique vision. In addition to being in an owner/administrative role, Kim wants to be a practitioner at her own studio. Listen as Mado offers some reflections and s...

Mado shares her top 5 tips for sequencing a 20 minute demo class to audition for a teaching position. Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a special freebie for listeners. Episode highlights:  Why yoga studios ask for a 20 minute audition. How to do research for the teaching job you are hoping to get.  What to focus on when you don’t have enough time to sequence a full class experience.  Teach...

Health psychologist, Stanford University lecturer, and author Kelly McGonigal joins Mado for a  closer look at understanding the science behind the Joy of Movement from the perspective of a yoga teacher and yoga practitioner. The two also discuss how yoga teachers can use the information provided by the science to improve their classes and bring more joy to their students.  Episode highlights:  Ke...

Amanda McKinney is a Marketing Coach with a passion for empowering yoga teachers to earn more money doing what they love. In this episode, Mado picks Amanda’s brain about the 3 steps you can take right now to get more people in your yoga classes.  Episode highlights: Approaches for brand new teachers as well as experienced teachers who are ready to niche down. What to do when you feel the pressure...

Miranda Peterson has had an impressive 2019: she more than tripled her yoga business revenue from the year before. But that’s not the only result she’s seen from hiring Mado as her coach and mentor. In this special episode, you get a behind the scenes glimpse of what it’s like to work with a coach long term including: The process and what happens when you narrow down your niche. Addressing major c...

Cari Moskow is a yoga teacher from Atlanta, GA who loves teaching workshops, but feels overwhelmed by the task of promoting them. In this on-air coaching call, Cari and Mado talk through her intended audience and how to create simple systems for marketing her workshops that will be more efficient and effective.  Episode highlights:  Marketing on the fly vs. having a marketing plan.  The value of h...

There are four basic types of yoga workshops that have a proven track record for consistently attracting students anywhere in the world. In this episode, Mado explains each type in detail including why you might choose one over the other and the upsides and downsides each.   New freebie for listeners: Get a free download of 100 yoga workshop ideas when you sign up for Mado’s email list.    Episode...