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Pick up practical advice from top teachers on how to improve your yoga teaching career—from in-depth information on yoga anatomy to smart sequencing tips to expert insights on building (and maintaining) your teaching business.

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So You Finished Your Yoga Teacher Training… Now What?

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How to Land Your First Job Teaching Yoga

Ingrid Yang MD

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5 Common Sequencing Mistakes Yoga Teachers Make

Amy Ippoliti

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9 Tips for Adjusting Your Online Yoga Students

Bria Tavakoli

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How to Best Address Your Students’ Needs When Teaching Online

Amy Ippoliti

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10 Tips for Building Real Yoga Community While Teaching in the Virtual World

Bria Tavakoli

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5 Ways to Modify Your Teaching When Class is Crowded

Here's how to ensure your students have the space they need for their practice.

Sarah Ezrin

8 Terms to (Re)Consider Using When You’re Teaching Yoga

Donna Noble

The One Thing I Learned That Helped Me Better Understand All My Students

Sarah Ezrin

Ask the Teacher: Can I Do Yoga If I’m In A Wheelchair?

Afi-Odelia Scruggs

What to Do When No Students Show Up at Your Class

Sarah Ezrin

Ask the Teacher: “My Student Feels Dizzy. Should She Stay in My Class?”

15 Ways to Make Yoga Accessible to Beginners

Abbie Mood

Yoga Teachers, This Is a Travel Hack You Need to Know

K. Anoa Monsho

Ask the Teacher: What Yoga Poses Are Safe for People with Glaucoma?

How to Sequence a Yoga Class in a Way That Feels Complete

Abbie Mood

How to Keep Your Calm When a “VIP” Shows Up at Your Class

Sarah Ezrin

Ask the Teacher: “What Can I Do if My Student Feels Nauseous?”

What to Do When a Student Gets Hurt in Your Yoga Class

Holly Fiske

Think You’re Funny? Here’s How to Harness Your Humor as a Yoga Teacher

Jack Workman

This Poem by Lucille Clifton Reminds Us That Change is Inevitable

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Posting to Instagram Was Taking Over My Life

Kimberlee Morrison

Yes, You Can Still Practice Yoga With Lower Back Pain. Here’s How

Meagan McCrary, YJ Editors

How Pay-What-You-Can Classes Are Making Yoga More Accessible

Tamika Caston-Miller

I’m a Yoga Teacher and This is Why I Don’t Share Everything I Know in Each Class

Adam Husler

The Beauty and Challenge of Teaching Outdoor Yoga

Mark Saferstein

Ask the Teacher: Can I Practice Yoga with a Pacemaker?

Carol Krucoff

4 Common Misalignments in Half Splits

Ashlee McDougall

17 Cues for Reverse Warrior That You’ve Probably Never Heard Before

Crystal Fenton

What is Myofascial Release?

Tiffany Cruikshank

15 Health Benefits of Yoga For Aging Adults That Will Make You Want to Start Practicing Now

Sage Rountree

It’s Time to Get to Know Your Abdominal Muscles

Gina Tomaine

Yoga Cues Deconstructed: Align Your Body as if You’re Between Two Panes of Glass

Jennifer Chang

The One Thing You Need to Know if You Experience Low Back Pain in Yoga

Jenny Clise

How Long Should a Yoga Class Last?

Sarah Ezrin

Yoga Cues Deconstructed: Align Your Knee Over Your Ankle

Jennifer Chang

You Signed Up to be a Yoga Teacher, Not a Therapist

Tasha Eichenseher

5 Ways to Transition into Half Moon Pose

Ashlee McDougall

24 Cues for Legs Up the Wall That You’ve Probably Never Heard Before

Sarah Herrington

Yoga Cues Deconstructed: Tuck Your Tailbone

Jennifer Chang

I Always Pause and Look at Students’ Feet Before I Teach Yoga. Here’s Why

MacDuff Perkins

Proximal Hamstring Tendonitis: How to Avoid This Common Yoga Injury

Dana Slamp

5 Ways to Practice (and Refine) Your Yoga Teaching

Neeti Narula

This Former Police Officer Built Denver’s First Black Woman-Run Yoga Studio

Victoria Carodine

How to Nail Your First Teaching Audition

Abbie Mood

5 Things You Can’t Learn in Yoga Teacher Training

Abbie Mood

The First Yoga Class I Ever Taught (And What I Learned): Holly Fiske

Holly Fiske

Yoga Teachers, Are You Making This Common Mistake With Your Cues?

Rachel Land

The One Question Everyone Asks Before Yoga Teacher Training

Miriam Indries

9 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started Teaching Yoga

Jack Workman

8 Tips for Tired Yoga Teachers When Class Must Go On

Sarah Ezrin

The 3 Ways You Need to Move Your Body Every Day

Sarah Ezrin

It’s Not About the Shape

Hiro Landazuri, Renee Marie Schettler

5 Tips on Marketing Yourself Authentically (From Yoga Teachers Who’ve Been There)

Sarah Ezrin

What Does It Mean When Your Teacher Cues “Breathe Into Your Belly”?

Rachel Land

What’s the Best Way to Transition Between Yin Yoga Poses?

Leta LaVigne

Yoga Teachers, You Will Disappoint Your Students. And That’s OK

Sarah Ezrin

Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Hip Opening?

Dana Slamp

Yoga Teachers: You Don’t Have to Learn It All On Your Own

Amy Ippoliti

You Might Be Modifying Chaturanga All Wrong. Here’s a Safer Option

Adam Husler

How to Get More Private Yoga Clients

Amy Ippoliti

The Case For Not Burning Incense In Yoga Studios

Ashlee McDougall

4 Underrated Yoga Poses You’re Overlooking In Your Practice

Rachel Land

5 Common Sequencing Mistakes Yoga Teachers Make

Amy Ippoliti

How to Do Eight-Angle Pose (Correctly)

Adam Husler

What You Need to Know About Your Knees

Elizabeth Marglin

17 Cues for Downward-Facing Dog You’ve Probably Never Heard Before

Sarah Herrington

How to Create Your Perfect Yoga Teaching Schedule

Amy Ippoliti

You Might Be Approaching Counter Poses All Wrong. Here’s Another Way

Amy Ippoliti

72 Ways to Say “Relax” in Yin Yoga

Leta LaVigne

6 Ways to Transition Into Triangle Pose

Shawn Radcliffe

What to Do When Students Behave “Badly” in Yoga Class

Katrina Kopeck

This Is the Secret to Getting More Out of Your Forward Bends

Bernadette Soler

What Should You Do When a Student Asks You a Question You Don’t Know?

Amy Ippoliti

Emotionally Exhausted After Teaching Yoga? Here’s Why—and How to Change It

Sarah Ezrin

Alignment Cues Decoded: “Lift Through The Arch Of Your Foot”

Jennifer Chang

14 Modifications For Common Yoga Poses That You’ve Probably Never Seen Before

Jenny Clise

Teachers, You Might Be Approaching Savasana All Wrong

Amy Ippoliti

Eagle Pose Made Easy

Abbie Mood

10 Things You Can Do to Keep Calm Each Time You Teach Yoga

Abbie Mood

Jivana Heyman Has a Revolutionary Idea: Make Yoga Accessible to Everyone

Dakota Kim

4 Holiday Class Themes You Haven’t Thought of Yet

Amy Ippoliti

This Poem Reminds Us to Slow Down & Connect with the Divine

As told to Elizabeth Marglin

The Myth and Magic of Pranayama

Judith Hanson Lasater

Alignment Cues Decoded: “Roll The Upper Arm Bones Back”

Rachel Krentzman

8 Common Yoga Poses That Are Easier to Teach (and Learn) at the Wall

Jenny Clise

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