Challenges and rewards of teaching yoga in big cities
Are you teaching yoga in a city, or thinking about moving to an urban center to teach? Would you like to work one-on-one with individual students and clients for yoga[…]
Category: teacher’s stories
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Don’t Quit Your Day Job…Yet! How to Chart a Course for Working Full-time as a Yoga Professional
“I’d love to quit my job and just teach yoga,” says a teacher-in-training or newly certified yoga teacher or yoga therapist. “You need a plan. And don’t quit your day[…]
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The pros and cons of teaching yoga online
About twelve years ago my most reliable and consistent yoga client decided to move to New York to be closer to her family. The news hit me hard because I[…]
The Pros and Cons of Teaching Yoga in an Integrative Medicine Center
I’ve had the chance to work on great projects as a yoga teacher involved with research— to study whether and how yoga can help with heart health, chronic back pain,[…]
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Have mat, will travel: Yoga and yoga therapy in rural communities
Are you attracted to natural spaces as the place to live and work? Do you find comfort in mountains, forests, lake country, an island or farm fields? Whether you’ve always[…]
What does it take to open a yoga studio
Over the holidays I got hooked on the NPR podcast called “How I Built This” that interviews the founders of some big companies about how they got started. Some of[…]
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Yoga as a complement to your desk job
The tale goes…long, long ago, before asana was a thing, Yogis meditated for hours and hours and as they complained to their teachers about aches and pains from sitting so[…]
Insta-yoga-studio: practice wherever possible
Recently I had the opportunity to teach Yoga in a studio. Like, in a room that’s made for Yoga…where the floors are clean…the blankets are folded and plenty…the temperature is[…]
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How to sequence classes for Office Yoga (use the gunas!)
I remember one of my first Yoga classes – I had raced to the studio from work. Frantic and running late, the whole drive I was creating to-do lists in[…]
Who benefits from yoga at the workplace?
Sometimes Yoga is for those who practice it…and for us, we know that familiar feeling of arriving on the mat. It changes us. We instantly breathe a little better and[…]
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What you think while balancing matters
We don’t know why a particular class or practice stays with us. I think of it as being part of the big mystery. One, in particular, that stays with me[…]
Should yoga teachers be concerned about “cultural appropriation” of yoga?
In the last couple of weeks there has been a lot of talk about a controversial decision made by University of Ottawa to cancel a popular ongoing yoga class because[…]
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Leaning into the sharp points: How yoga can help with the grief process
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.” – Pema Chödrön: The Places that Scare[…]
Check out these yoga articles
Every day many articles are written on the subject of yoga. Here is a selection of several articles that caught my eye in the past few weeks that I think[…]
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The dance of the Royal Serpent – symbolism of the Cobra pose
As a small child, I was often haunted by snakes. I remember running wildly through the rugged terrain near my home in the Los Angeles hills with the raw anticipation[…]
Discovering the yoga of writing, Part 2
Part 1 of Aggie’s post Discovering the Common Ground between Yoga Practice and the Writing Process Shortly after my relationship to writing begand to mend, I found another yoga teacher[…]
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Discovering the Yoga of Writing, Part 1
In the Beginning was the Word I was an experienced, professional writer when I began practicing yoga. In those days, it never occurred to me that yoga and writing could[…]
Guidelines for Partner Yoga
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog article about partner yoga, or more accurately, everything I don’t like about it. Even if I think it’s unwise, however, my yoga teacher[…]
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Case study: What we can learn from working with complicated cases
A new client showed up to our first appointment few years ago with a long list of serious health issues. It included things like sleep apnea, fibromyalgia, atrial fibrillation, vein[…]
The Yoga Therapist and Cancer Care: Special Cautions
Read Part 1 of this post > The health status of a person with cancer can change frequently, particularly for those in active treatment, so it is critical to assess[…]
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