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Ep 138: Teaching Tip: Getting Curious About Your Language
As yoga teachers, we inherit most of our classroom language the same way we inherit our cueing language: from other teachers, from studio culture, fr…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep 137: Yoga Cues That Need Updating & Why
Many of the cues yoga teachers use with students were built around helping students maneuver their bodies into what we think a pose is supposed to lo…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep 136: What 200-Hour YTTs Miss and Why Teachers Aren't Prepared
Most yoga teachers graduate from their 200-hour training with a solid foundation in philosophy, history, sequencing, and anatomy, and almost no prepa…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep 135: When Yoga Props Help And When They Don't
Yoga props are widely understood as tools for accessibility, but in practice they are often offered as an option rather than a tool to alter the biom…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Ep 134: How A Student's Neutral Alignment Should Affect The Cues You Use
Most of us inherited our cueing vocabulary from the teachers who trained us, and many of those cues have been repeated with so much confidence and so…
3 months ago
Ep 133: How Often Should Students Practice Yoga?
Answering the question of how often to practice yoga seems simple enough, but the full answer is more nuanced than most students expect. This episode…
3 months, 1 week ago
Ep 132: Savasana: Everything You Need to Know
Savasana is frequently treated as downtime near the end of class, but it deserves far more attention and intention than most teacher trainings give i…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep 131: How Breathing Helps the Nervous System
The breath is one of the only functions in the body that is both automatic and within our conscious control, which makes it one of the most accessibl…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep 130: Why Plow Pose Shouldn’t Be Taught in Group Classes
Plow Pose is a standard part of many yoga classes, and many teachers were trained to include it without much question. But in a group class setting, …
4 months ago
Ep 129: Should Chaturangas Be in Every Vinyasa Class?
Chaturanga is one of the most repeated movements in vinyasa yoga, and one of the most commonly practiced by students without having the foundational …
4 months, 1 week ago