An Introduction to Yoga Therapy
Yoga therapy utilizes poses, breathing techniques, and meditation to benefit and improve overall health.
Teach
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.
Teaching an Injured Student
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Overcome Your Obstacles When Teaching With Mirrors
Maty Ezraty gives advice on teaching with mirrors and how we should overcome these obstacles.
Teaching Motivation
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Breaking In: Why Can’t I Get A Teaching Job At A Studio?
Maty Ezarty breaks in on how to get a studio job after certification. Read on for crucial tips to jumpstart your career.
Ulterior Motives?
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Avoiding Knee Pain
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Finding Balance
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Reading the Room
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Staying Fresh
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Teach Mastery, Not Membership
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Rethinking Shoulderstand Scholarship
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Sock Police?
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So You Think You Want to Be a Yoga Teacher
Before you take the leap into becoming a yoga teacher or instructor, here are some serious factors to consider.
Uncontrollable Muscle Shaking
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Share the Greatest Gift of Yoga with Meditation and Children
Present your knowledge of yoga in a fun and creative way through meditation and children.
Yoga for Water
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Assessing Range of Motion in Downward Dog
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Yoga for Fuller Bodies
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Welcoming Pregnant Newcomers
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Q&A: How Do I Balance Motherhood and Teaching?
Gurmukh offers advice for balancing parenthood with teaching yoga.
Q&A: Do I Need to Make Changes for Prenatal Teaching?
Gurmukh answers how pregnant yoga teachers can modify their methods.
Ask Our Expert: Dean Lerner
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Headstand Hypochondria?
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Down Dog Rotation Remedy
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How to Build Contraindication Confidence?
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Mourning a Miscarriage
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Adjustments for Up Dog?
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Keeping Students Motivated
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Understanding Uttanasana
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Assessing Range of Motion in Squatting Poses
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Equanimity for the Ambitious
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Create a Yogic Holiday Season
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How to Teach Meditation for Grounding
Meditation encourages students to apply the strength and balance generated during asana practice to learn how to manage their minds.
When Religion and Yoga Are Confused
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Help Your Students with RSS
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Aadil Palkhivala Explains How to Teach Ujjayi Breath
Some students struggle to grasp the source of Ujjayi breathing, while others tend to exaggerate it. What's the best way to teach Ujjayi breath?
Ask Our Expert: Desiree Rumbaugh
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Ask Our Expert: Tony Sanchez
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Ask Our Expert: Leslie Peters
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How to Save a Class
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Teaching the Spiritual Essence of Yoga with Integrity
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Branding a Style of Yoga
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The Truth About Cracking + Popping Joints
There are many myths about joint cracking. Here's what you need to know.
Asana as the Foundation of Higher Living
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The Yoga Teacher’s Employment Contract – Part 3
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The Myth of the Ideal Neck
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Yoga Wanderlust for Teachers
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Forging a Powerful Mind
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The Yoga Teacher’s Employment Contract, Part 2
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Debunking the Tucked Pelvis
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One-on-One Time
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Two Layers of Stretch
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Using the Five Elements to Purify Our Being
How to use nature's five basic elements to find balance and harmony in the body.
The Yoga Teachers Employment Contract, Part 1
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Yoga in the Silver Years
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Ethics, Adjustments, and Cathartic Release
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Healthy Joint Stress: Through the Hands of a Yogi
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Karma: Facing our Destiny with Free Will
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Keeping the Joints Happy
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Yoga and Samkhya: Purifying the Elements of the Human Being
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Insurance and Dually Trained Yoga Teachers
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Child’s Play: Kickstart Your Imagination By Teaching Yoga To Kids
Teaching yoga to kids can be difficult - but if you can restart your imagination, you'll learn as much from them as they learn from you.
Yoga for Emotional Trauma
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Exercise and Sacrifice
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Teaching Context
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How Integrative Medicine May Affect Yoga Teaching and Business
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The Ethics and Liabilities of Touch
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Rework the Taoist Idea of Yin and Yang for the 3 Tissues of Your Body
Differentiate these tissues by understanding the Taoist yin and yang so you can help your students open their bodies appropriately.
How to Choose a Yoga Teacher Training Program
So you've decided you want to be a teacher. With so many excellent choices, how can you be sure you're picking the right one for you?
Yoga: The Path to Universal Being
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The Legal Implications of Health Advice, Part 2
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Teaching the Essence of Yoga
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How to Teach a Multi-Level Class
Learn how to teach an effective multi-level class that benefits students of all experience levels.
The Debate: Teach With English or Sanskrit Pose Names?
It's a central debate in the West: should we use the Sanskrit names when we teach? You may be surprised to learn just how many reasons there are to do so.
Lifting the Arms, Part 3: Lengthen Latissimus Dorsi for Higher Reach and Deeper Backbends
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Love, or Living Without Regret
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Speaking Mindfully: The Legal Implications of Health Advice, Part I
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The Energetic Effects of Pranayama
Changing the sequencing of your class changes your students' energetic experience. Create different energetic effects in your students with the careful use of breath control.