More Invitation, Less Regimentation in Vinyasa Flow Yoga Classes

Teaching Tips and Strategies for Yoga Teachers. Watch a quick video clip of a yoga coaching discussion and scroll down for a few tips and techniques to consider a more invitational, less regimented style of teaching yoga. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO1x_j23GhY[/embedyt] Lately I’m ..read more

Yoga Teaching Strategies: Mirroring Right and Left (Video)

Teaching Tips and Strategies for Yoga Teachers. Watch a quick video clip of a yoga coaching discussion and scroll down for a few tips and techniques to develop your skills in mirroring your left and right in your visual cuing and demonstrations in yoga classes. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1..read more

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

Discussion Excerpt: Keep Your Eyes on Your Own Yoga Mat (Video/Audio)

On Keeping Your Eyes on Your Own Yoga Mat – Discussion for Yoga Students and Teachers

Watch or listen to an excerpt of a yoga coaching discussion, or scroll down for a few transcript notes exploring the instruction to 'keep your eyes on your own yoga mat' with senior trainer Heather Agne..read more

Workshop Excerpt: Multiplanar Movement in Yoga Classes (video)

Watch a short excerpt of a yoga teacher training workshop exploring multiplanar movement in yoga classes with senior trainer Heather Agnew. So much of our yoga practice is on the Sagittal plane (flexion, extension), and we can get a bit confined in our movement on the mat. It just takes a little creativ..read more

10 Minute Podcast Excerpt - Teaching Yoga: Sometimes What Seems Like an Obstacle is Actually a Pathway

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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

Free 8 Limbs of Yoga Poster

Download, print, save, and share this PDF infographic yoga poster outlining the 8 limbs of Ashtanga Yoga to inspire your practice and studies. The 8 Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga, first outlined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali over 2,000 years ago, guide us through a logical framework of lifestyle strategies, movement, breathwork, and meditatio..read more

What Kind of People Take Yoga Teacher Training? (video)

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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

Sequencing and Theming Yoga Classes Around Transitions (video)

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxgEggZiqI[/embedyt] Something I’ve been interested in this past week is how we can make transitions an opportunity for greater conscious awareness in our practice and in our lives. We have all sorts of transitions in life, from childhood to adulthood, fro..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