What Are Some Alternatives or Additions to Weekly Yoga Classes?
Whether you are a yoga teacher or a yoga student, it can be a challenge to commit to a weekly yoga class due to a variety of factors, including shift work, child/family care, chronic illness or disability, travel, regular access to transport, or perhaps you just don’t wish to commit to being somewhere e..read more
Practicing Equanimity at Winter’s End
It snowed again today when I hoped for signs of spring, and I was all set to get grumpy about it and shift into (madness) complaints after such a long winter but decided instead to take some time to explore my mindset and apply some yoga philosophy to my lifelong habit of arguing with the weather. This is likely (oh please!) ..read more
What Does Groundhog Day Have to Do With Yoga Philosophy?
Groundhog Day and the Bhagavad Gita
That's right, woodchuck-chuckers - it's...GROUNDHOG DAY! Today we celebrate the prognosticator of prognosticators, the groundhog, and every year on Feb 2 I like to rewatch one of my favorite metaphysical movies, Groundhog Day. If you haven’t seen this movie y..read more
10 Minute Podcast Excerpt - Teaching Yoga: Sometimes What Seems Like an Obstacle is Actually a Pathway
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFUTg2tWTFA[/embedyt]Sometimes an obstacle is actually a pathway
Sometimes what we think of as obstacles or challenges, what causes us to doubt ourselves as yoga teachers or do..read more
What's Trending in Yoga? Accessibility!
Watch a short video with E-RYT500 and senior teacher Heather Agnew on why accessibility in yoga is a most hopeful trend. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4OvorKnoBw[/embedyt] What trends do I see in yoga right now? For me, the biggest and most hopeful trend is accessibility. Making yoga more access..read more
What Kind of People Take Yoga Teacher Training? (video)
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX70c4h2oms[/embedyt] [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8HAXrfqBAs[/embedyt]What kind of people take yoga teacher training?
We’ve got a yoga teacher training coming up soon in Adelaide and that means I’m answering ..read more
Is Vinyasa Flow Yoga Accessible and Adaptable? (video) [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7z0ySIOqk[/embedyt] Is Vinyasa Flow yoga an accessible or adaptable practice? The thing about Vinyasa Flow is that it’s already an adapted practiced, borrowing from other yoga forms, primarily Ashtanga Vinyasa. The way we study in yoga teacher training, every student ha..read more
Transitioning from yoga student to yoga teacher (video) [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0dkpHRfc68[/embedyt] One of the cool things about the transition from yoga student to yoga teacher is starting to experience yoga through other people’s bodies and minds. When you begin practicing yoga your focus is on your own direct experience – what the poses feel ..read more
Dispelling Yoga Myths
Listen in to a short introduction to a recent discussion I shared with yoga teachers and teachers-in-training on some of the most common myths and misconceptions in yoga. [s3audio s3url="Dispelling Yoga Myths.mp3" /] Or, read a transcript and a few extra notes on dispelling common yoga myths and misconceptions: Today we’re go..read more
Expose yourself to ideas outside your lineage
Seek out a variety of yoga styles, philosophies, teachers, and environments Seek out resources, viewpoints, and practices outside of your usual range It won’t all resonate, but it’s wonderful to nurture curiosity about yoga in all its forms Exposure to a wider range of yoga forms and philosophies can reduce te..read more