Maintaining a Personal Practice
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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.
Ask The Expert: Ana Forrest
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Yoga to Cultivate Compassion, Gratitude, and Joy—Part I
While the asanas are a great place to start, adding other yogic tools may help deepen spiritual growth and well-being.
Maintaining Interest
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Headaches during Asana
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Once upon a Time
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Ask Our Expert: David Swenson
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Hand-Positioning Tips to Prevent Injury in Weight-Bearing Poses
Learn how to guide your students to bear weight on their hands with mindfulness and hand positioning tips so they avoid injury and gain upper-body strength.
Finding a Mentor
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Speed Limits
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Help Students with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Hitting the Right Note
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Yoga for Depression, Part II
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Pelvic Floor Strenghteners
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Silence as a Teaching Tool
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Finding the Answers
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Beginner’s Mind
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When to Teach Jumping
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Bandhas for Beginners
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Yoga for Depression, Part I
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The Difference Between “Tadasana” and “Samasthiti”
Tadasana (Mountain Pose) is the posture that invokes Samasthiti. These poses are not different. They are the same.
Lost in Translation: Tips for Teaching Yoga to Nonnative English Speakers
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Playing the Gender Game
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Help Your Students Build Strength
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Something for Nothing?
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Teaching Sattva
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Yoga Teacher or Referee?
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Yoga for Anxiety and Panic Attacks
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Creating Your Niche
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Teaching Ujjayi Pranayama Versus “Belly Breathing”
Are belly breathing and Ujjayi the same? And can the have the opposite of their intended effect on some students?
Breathing Easy
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Easing Back Pain
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Vipassana: A Simple Mindfulness Meditation
Enhance your yoga practice and go deeper in your meditation with this vipassana meditation tutorial.
Weighty Problems
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Savasana Dreaming
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The Anatomy of Safe, Effective Stretching
Important as it is, stretching is easy to misunderstand or overdo. Help your students—and yourself—learn the basics behind this crucial element of yoga.
The Art of Verbal Communication
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Getting Creative with the Competition
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Enliven Your Teaching: From Routine to Animated
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Tips for Teaching Yoga to Teenagers
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The Yoga of Connection
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Teaching an Aging Population
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Yoga for Psychological and Emotional Problems
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Kinesthetic Clarity
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When Yoga Becomes Psychotherapy
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The Pros and Cons of Lengthy Bones
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Noncommittal Students
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Make Light of Tight Hips
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When a Pose Is Shaky
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Aligning Hips and Knees
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Opening the Heart
Just as you can practice heart opening in your thoughts and emotions, you can also experience opening the heart space in your physical body.
Inspiring Your Students to Practice
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How to Firm Feet for Balance Poses
A footloose approach isn't always for the best. Teach your students to firm up their feet for strong balance poses.
Does Size Matter?
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Does Music Belong in Your Yoga Class?
Consider the pros and cons of using music to complement your teaching.
The Role of Diet in Yoga Therapy
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Online Yogis: Expanding Your Teaching into Cyberspace
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Create a Theme-Centered Yoga Class
Discover how using themes can turn your yoga classes from mundane to memorable.
Understanding Synovial Fluid: How Yoga Can Prevent Inflamed Joints
Yoga helps circulate the synovial fluid inside your joints, but too much fluid is a sign of inflammation. Here’s how your yoga practice can both prevent and heal inflamed joints.
The Gift of Mentoring
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Sequencing Meditation into Your Class
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Guiding Students with Osteoporosis
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Beyond Asana: Other Yoga Therapy Tools
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Teaching Hearing-Impaired Students
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When is It Stealing?
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Breathe Easy
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When to Slow a Student Down
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The Joyand Challengeof Teaching Beginners
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Defining “Vinyasa”
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Does Weight Matter?
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Learning from Injury
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How to Structure a Yoga Therapy Session
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Inverted and in Trouble
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When Your Students Become Your Teachers
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3 Ways to Know You’re Ready to Teach Yoga
Whether you've practiced for years or just found yoga recently, there are a few things to think about before you start teaching yoga.
Teaching during Medical TreatmentsOr Not?
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Yoga Sutra Study
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Yoga for Sinusitis
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How to Plan a Basic Class
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