Celebrating 20 Years of Yoga Teacher Training!
It feels incredible to say this, but today I am celebrating 20 years of teaching yoga teacher training! I look back and can’t believe I had the audacity to even start this journey. Teacher training is so much more than I though it would be – more challenging, more transformative, and more fulfillin..read more
How to Make Yoga Props More Appealing and Encourage our Yoga Students to Make the Most of Yoga Props
Watch the video discussion, or scroll down to read the transcript notes and practical strategies to add to your yoga classes. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSemaw5Mq8[/embedyt]How to Make Yoga Props More Appealing and Encourage our Yoga ..read more
Yoga Ethics and Community Action
How Can Our Yoga Community Contribute to A Better World?
Let's talk about how community action can fit into our yoga practice, teaching, and yoga spaces. Watch the video below, or scroll down for the transcript notes. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aKZY1r__o8[/embedyt]How can our yoga community contrib..read more
Yoga Amidst the Messiness of Life
Thoughts on yoga life, teaching yoga, and yoga class management
We were talking in a group coaching session the other day about the challenges of teaching in-home sessions where kids and pets are interrupting, phones are ringing, and there is in an air of general household chaos while we are trying to guide a yoga practice..read more
Mapping Your Dream Yoga Teaching Practice
As yoga teachers in training, it can be easy to focus only on getting through our studies and assessments or teaching our next class. But it’s also useful to pause and zoom out. What might your teaching practice look like in the real world - not just in theory, but in a way that fits your life, your values, and your capacity..read more
New Gentle Yoga Online Course
50-Hour Gentle Yoga Training Course
After years of faster-paced, higher-intensity yoga dominating the modern postural yoga landscape, there is a growing trend towards gentler, more accessible forms of practice. Gentle Yoga has emerged in response to busy lives, changing bodies, chronic pain, aging, and a deep..read more
Your Year of Yoga - Guided Journaling Practice
As we enter this new year, I want to invite you into a pause. Not a rush to plan or fix or improve anything - but a pause to reflect on your year of yoga. What you’ve practiced. What you’ve learned. What challenged you. And what quietly changed along the way. This is a guided journal..read more
Yoga for a Reason, Season, or Lifetime
There’s a saying that some people - or things - come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. I think this applies beautifully to yoga, too. In this discussion we reflect on yoga styles and trends past, present, and emerging and to connect trends back to the fundamentals and timeless..read more
That Time I Learned The Secret to Enlightenment
(Which Wasn’t a Secret at All)
This week I thought I'd tell you about the time I learned the secret to enlightenment (that wasn't a secret at all). Watch the video below, or scroll down for the full transcript. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZxOZOGduME[/embedyt] Let me tell you ..read more
From Yoga Student to Yoga Teacher: The Fundamental Shifts
When you begin your yoga teacher training journey, one of the most important things you learn is that not everyone is like you. Today we’re talking about one of the most important transformations you’ll experience in your yoga teacher training — the shift from yoga student to yoga teac..read more
Yoga, Ritual, and the Seasons: Reflections on Hallowe’en It’s Hallowe’en weekend here in Canada, and it’s just the most perfect spooky weather - the wind is whipping orange and red leaves around the street, pumpkins and ghouls decorate front yards, and families are busy preparing costumes, finding the biggest pillowcases to collect candy, and plannin..read more