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 and expert insights to build (and maintain) your teaching business.
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 and expert insights to build (and maintain) your teaching business.
Balancing the business and spiritual sides of yoga has always been a delicate one. An article in Business Week broaches the scramble for yoga teachers to trademark their yoga styles, citing that "out of the 2,213 trademark applications containing the word...
Reach new students by selflessly giving with free and donation-based classes.
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Here are six tips to help your students tackle the poses that scare them most.
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You can increase the meditative benefits of Corpse Pose with a few simple additions to your instruction.
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Learn how you can extend your reach by teaching digitally with these tech-savvy tips for making web-friendly yoga videos
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Parent-baby yoga classes are much more than fun and games. Focus your asana sequences and help new families bond and grow together.
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Teaching students with sleep disorders can be difficult. This guide will give you some tools to combat even the toughest insomnia.
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Going on yoga service trips is challenging and knowing what to expect before you go on a service trip will help you get the most from your experience.
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Worried about taking time off from your teaching schedule? A few easy preparations before a sabbatical can help you make a graceful exit and earn a welcome return.
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Enrolling in a yoga teacher training may come with both excitement and its shadow—anxiety. Totally normal. Here's are how to get ready.
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Not sure if it’s pronounced cha-kra or “sha”-kra? Everything you learned about how to pronounce Sanskrit may be wrong. Here’s how to get this surprisingly simple language right, plus how it can deepen your practice.
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Preparation and clear intent will help you keep a class on track when students have questions.
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Trying to live up to unrealistic expectations won't serve you or your students. Balance being a role model with real life.
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Set the mood and pace for your class with music playlists.
The key to teaching those who approach yoga for weight loss is opening them up to the mind and spirit benefits as well.
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Subbing for a regular yoga teacher can be a little scary, but it can help you hone your teaching skills and boost your career. Here are 8 secrets to becoming a successful sub.
Yoga educator Leslie Kaminoff believes that the breath and the lab of the human body are our greatest teachers.
Learn how to create a distance-learning class for your students and expand your client base.
Opening a new yoga studio (or any business for that matter) in this economy is risky. So when landlords approached a Memphis studio owner about expanding to a new location in their apartment building, the studio owner had reservations. The...
Proficiency in differing approaches to yoga can deepen your understanding.
A yoga instructor who teaches at Yoga Workshop, a Boulder, Colorado yoga studio founded by Ashtanga Yoga teacher Richard Freeman, has been named in a lawsuit brought on by a former student who claims he was injured during an "unwanted...
Gaining confidence as a teacher is imperative to building students' trust. Learn how to build your self-esteem.
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It can be hard to find a teacher willing to take you under his or her wing. Find out how teacher mentoring can fill the gaps in teacher training programs.
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Yoga fosters connection, including between teachers and students. But sharing too much personal information can damage the classroom dynamic.
Empower your students by teaching them to adjust their own poses.
At $18 a class in some cities, it's no surprise that yoga studios are often a hub for financially secure spiritual seekers. It's the high price tags associated with yoga classes, retreats, and trendy yoga clothes that has some folks...
By YJ correspondent Nancy O'Brien. Normal 0 Yoga Journal, tracking down furtive reports that a yoga teacher had been arrested in a Michigan crackdown on yoga teacher training programs, has learned that state police appeared at Dancing Feet Yoga in...
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It's not news that states are cracking down on yoga teacher training programs and asking (in some instances demanding) that yoga schools pay the same licensing fees vocational schools like hairdressing and massage therapy schools pay. After Michigan gave yoga...
Senior teachers recommend yoga books to bolster your knowledge base and grow your teaching skills.
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