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Teaching Through Tough Times

By Sara Avant Stover

Learn how to use your personal challenges to find your authentic voice, fortify your teachings, and inspire your students.

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Flexibility of Mind

Teaching students--not poses--can be a spiritual practice that requires the teacher to understand truth in all of its complexity.

Secrets of Sanskrit

By learning the ins and outs of the Sanskrit language, you can transmit the teachings of yoga on a deeper level.

Forgive Your Flaws

Trying to live up to unrealistic expectations won't serve you or your students. Here's how to balance being a role model and a normal person with imperfections.

Teaching Dharma

Discovering our dharma--life purpose--is one of the most important steps we can take along our spiritual path. As teachers, it is our responsibility to help each of our students uncover her individual dharma. Here's how to start.

Teaching Yoga without Chanting

Learn how to create a beneficial class without mantras, kirtan, or Oms.

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For many, the most important part of teaching is serving as a spiritual guide-or at least a spiritual educator-for their students. Articles in this channel address the more spiritual side of being a yoga teacher and give tips for how to best share knowledge of yoga philosophy, history, and spirituality on to their students.

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