TEACHERS
5 tips to enhance your yoga teacher training
and enjoy powerfully your yoga teacher training Regardless of whether you’ve been practicing yoga for three years or twenty, if you are enrolled in a...
five tips for spicing up your sequences
Looking to remodel your same-old yoga routine? Here are five easy ways to change things up. 1. Break away from a traditional class structure. Pick a...
getting rid of compassion fatigue through yoga
Our life is so full of travesties that it makes us bounded in it and no matter how much we try to overcome it, we find...
we are all yoga teachers
I am currently about halfway through a 250-hour yoga teacher-training program in Asheville, North Carolina. While I have practiced yoga fairly regularly for the last...
finding my path to yoga
Yoga has and will always be a practice that has introduced me to an incredible assortment of people. A large majority of the people I’ve...
kino macgregor: legs behind the head {video}
a beginner’s guide to advanced poses Placing your legs behind your head is a foundation for many asanas. Once you get this principle fully established,...
the poetry of the yoga sutras of patanjali 1.2
sutra 1.2 yoga citta vritti nirodhaha* This article is part of a series. With each specific Yoga Sutra of focus, I offer poetic insight into the verse....
4 ways to teach a calm, confident yoga class, even when you are nervous
tips ways teach calm confident yoga class when nervous What, yoga teachers get nervous? You mean they aren’t always tranquil, floaty gurus? Of course they...
overcoming the fear of teaching yoga
tips on teaching your first yoga class I’m sitting at a local tea shop, Zen Zoo enjoying my green boba tea as my cell phone...
why are you searching?
the illusion of universal consciousness How often have I asked yoga students to feel their connection to Universal Consciousness, Source and even God? I now...
designing a yoga class
the art of teaching When entering a yoga studio, there are a few things, which make a big difference between a teacher-student relationship. One of...
iyengar, the practice and the teacher
Iyengar, The Practice and The Teacher Yoga B.K.S. Iyengar died at the age of 95 on August 20, 2014. He said, “Yoga teaches us to...
5 alignment tips
It is sometimes challenging to stop the endless journey that leads to cultivating a better feeling physically, energetically, and eventually spiritually. 1. Let’s think of...
teaching people, not poses
an interview with jay fields Jay Fields started teaching yoga when she was a teenager. Now, 14 years later and in her early 30s, she...
yogi roots festival in portland
gathering yoga’s lineages Anyone who tries out a few yoga classes soon realizes that styles can vary. A lot. Kundalini and ashtanga don’t even seem...