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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 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.
Learn Sanskrit: What Yoga Students and Teachers Need to Know
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.
For Success . . . or Sanity
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4 Ways to Keep Your Class on Track
Preparation and clear intent will help you keep a class on track when students have questions.
Giving Away My Teaching
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Nerves and Namaste
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Help for Low Back Pain
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Teaching with Plantar Fasciitis
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Senior with Scoliosis
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Forgive Your Flaws
Trying to live up to unrealistic expectations won't serve you or your students. Balance being a role model with real life.
Boston Family
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How to Set the Right Tone with Music
Set the mood and pace for your class with music playlists.
How to Teach Students Seeking Weight Loss
The key to teaching those who approach yoga for weight loss is opening them up to the mind and spirit benefits as well.
How to Help Heal a Knee Injury
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Teaching Non-English Speakers
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Students with Scoliosis
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Identify Imbalances + Help Your Students Avoid Injuries
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8 Things Yoga Teachers Need to Know About Subbing
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.
YJ Interviews Leslie Kaminoff: The Accidental Anatomist
Yoga educator Leslie Kaminoff believes that the breath and the lab of the human body are our greatest teachers.
Increase Your Reach: Distance-Learning Classes
Learn how to create a distance-learning class for your students and expand your client base.
Use Other Yoga Styles to Enhance Your Teaching
Proficiency in differing approaches to yoga can deepen your understanding.
Man Sues Teacher over Unwanted Adjustment
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...
The Keys to Confident Teaching
Gaining confidence as a teacher is imperative to building students' trust. Learn how to build your self-esteem.
Planning with Purpose
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Teaching with a Partner
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Something Borrowed
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Continue Your Yoga Education With Teacher Mentoring
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.
Licensed to Teach
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Balance Professionalism + Personality in Yoga Classes
Yoga fosters connection, including between teachers and students. But sharing too much personal information can damage the classroom dynamic.
With Their Own Two Hands: Teach Self-Adjustments
Empower your students by teaching them to adjust their own poses.
YJ Exclusive: Michigan Yoga Teacher Charged with Criminal Misdemeanor
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...
Catching a Studio’s Attention
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Summer Reading List for Yoga Teachers
Senior teachers recommend yoga books to bolster your knowledge base and grow your teaching skills.
Back to Nature: Taking Yoga Outdoors
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Whether to Slow Down an Impatient Student
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Teaching Students Who Ignore Instruction
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The Importance of Bandhas
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Yes, You Can Teach Yoga Without Chanting
So you think you can't chant...Learn how you can create a spiritual class without mantras, kirtan, or Oms.
Teaching Twists
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What to Do When Arthritis Affects Poses
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Half Moon Help
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Wrist Pain Remedy
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How to Integrate New Students
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4 Mistakes Yoga Teachers Make Describing Anatomy (And How to Avoid Them)
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Coping with Burnout
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Time to Slow Down
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How to Deal with Unsolicited Advice
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How to Avoid Yoga Injuries
How do you know when you should push your students to work harder and when to back off?
The Yoga-Wellness Connection
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Lead by Example
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Wasting Away
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How to Choose a Path
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Planning a Syllabus
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When It’s Legit to Quit
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Heavy Burden
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Hone Your Tone
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Finding Your Dharma as a Path to Yogic Healing, Part 2
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Gym Membership
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Finding Your Dharma as a Path to Yogic Healing, Part 1
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From Asana to Action
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Should I Train Teachers?
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Teaching Cancer Patients
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Teaching Competitive Students
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3 Tips for Teaching Anatomy to Yoga Students
Skillfully incorporating anatomical language into your classes can increase your students' awareness of their bodies and their asanas.
Getting from Um to Om
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Improve Your Teaching Skills By Asking For Constructive Criticism
Learn how to ask for constructive criticism and use it to improve your teaching ability.
Working with Students Who Have Yoga Injuries, Part 4
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Advanced Moves
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Does Stretching Matter?
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The Royal Asana Couple
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How to Promote Yourself as a Yoga Teacher
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Yoga with an Accent
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Putting New Students at Ease
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Getting a Late Start?
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Working with Students Who Have Yoga Injuries, Part 3
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Beware of Germs
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Working with Students Who Have Yoga Injuries, Part 2
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12 Strategies for a Booming Yoga Retail Business
Adding retail sales to your studio or private business can boost sales—or create headaches. Experts weigh in on retail success strategies.
5 Best Adductor Exercises for Hip Strength and Flexibility
These muscles are the target of all those hip-openers you do. But they need more than just stretching.
Strengthening Flow
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