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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.
Maintaining Interest
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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.
Once upon a Time
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Headaches during Asana
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Finding a Mentor
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Speed Limits
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Hitting the Right Note
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Help Students with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Finding the Answers
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Yoga for Depression, Part II
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Silence as a Teaching Tool
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Beginner’s Mind
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Pelvic Floor Strenghteners
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When to Teach Jumping
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Bandhas for Beginners
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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.
Yoga for Depression, Part I
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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 for Anxiety and Panic Attacks
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Yoga Teacher or Referee?
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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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Enliven Your Teaching: From Routine to Animated
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The Art of Verbal Communication
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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.
Getting Creative with the Competition
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Tips for Teaching Yoga to Teenagers
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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.
Kinesthetic Clarity
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Make Light of Tight Hips
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The Yoga of Connection
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Aligning Hips and Knees
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Noncommittal Students
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Teaching an Aging Population
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The Pros and Cons of Lengthy Bones
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When a Pose Is Shaky
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When Yoga Becomes Psychotherapy
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Yoga for Psychological and Emotional Problems
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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.
Inspiring Your Students to Practice
Check out Timothy McCall MD's author page.
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.
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.
Teaching Hearing-Impaired Students
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Guiding Students with Osteoporosis
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The Gift of Mentoring
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Beyond Asana: Other Yoga Therapy Tools
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Breathe Easy
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Sequencing Meditation into Your Class
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When is It Stealing?
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When to Slow a Student Down
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The Joyand Challengeof Teaching Beginners
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Does Weight Matter?
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Defining “Vinyasa”
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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.
Learning from Injury
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When Your Students Become Your Teachers
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How to Structure a Yoga Therapy Session
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Inverted and in Trouble
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Teaching during Medical TreatmentsOr Not?
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Yoga Sutra Study
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How to Plan a Basic Class
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The Nature and Use of Yoga Props
The use of props in Iyengar Yoga has been one of the fruits of Mr. Iyengar's innovative genius—and also the object of jokes.
Yoga in Schools
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Teaching Students with Insomnia
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How to Exit Savasana
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