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The Best Kundalini Yoga for Pregnancy: How to Practice Safely
Discover essential tips and guidelines for practicing Kundalini Yoga during pregnancy. Enhance your wellness journey—read the article for valuable insights!
Kundalini Yoga for Chakras: An Uplifted Guide to Energy Balance
Discover how Kundalini Yoga can enhance your chakra energy balance. Explore techniques, benefits, and practices to harmonize your mind and body. Read more!
How to Teach Somatic Yoga: A Practical Guide for Instructors
Want to know how to teach somatic yoga? Here’s a practical guide for developing the expertise you need to teach somatic yoga.
The Best Somatic Exercises for Grief: Find Healing Through Movement
Explore effective somatic exercises to help process grief and foster healing through movement. Discover practical steps to support your journey. Read more.
How Much to Charge for Zoom Yoga Class: A Practical Pricing Guide
Discover practical tips for setting the right price for your Zoom yoga classes. Learn strategies to attract clients and maximize your earnings. Read more!
Comprehensive Guide to Your Yoga Service Agreement
Create a solid foundation for your yoga teaching with an essential service agreement. Here’s what I’ve learned after over a decade in the yoga industry.
#352 – Redefining Feminine Energy in Yoga & Ayurveda with Katie Silcox
One of my dearest friends, and founder of Shakti School, Katie Silcox is back!! Today Katie and I are talking all things feminine. What is feminine energy? How does it appear and how do we embody it in yoga and ayurveda?
The Best Somatic Exercises for Anger Management and Emotional Release
Discover effective somatic exercises for managing anger and releasing emotions. Take control of your feelings—read the article now for practical techniques.
Discover the Benefits of the Gobinday Mukunday Mantra for Well-Being
Explore the benefits of the Gobinday Mukunday mantra for enhancing your well-being. Discover how it can promote peace and balance in your life. Read more!
How to Teach Somatic Yoga to Beginners
Somatic practices are increasing in popularity (yay!) and somatic yoga is no exception. If you’re a yoga teacher curious to bring somatic movement into your classes but unsure how… let me help. A lot of your students may not be familiar with this style of...
Best Somatic Yoga Poses for Emotional Release and Healing
Do you ever feel like you are just full of pent up emotions? And no matter how much "self-care" you do or how often you come to your yoga practice certain feelings just seem to linger? This could be because you aren't addressing the physical body or physical tension...
Understanding What is Divine Love: Key Insights and Perspectives
Explore the meaning of divine love, its transformative power, and how to cultivate it in your life—click to awaken a deeper connection to yourself and the universe!
How To Become A Yoga Teacher
If you want to become a yoga instructor, then start here. These are my most helpful articles to get you started.
Yoga Teacher Resources
If you’re already a yoga instructor and you’re looking for resources on how to choose your advanced training or to improve your career, then you’ll love this section of the blog. From how to write the perfect resume to how to find a job, I’ve got you covered.
Yoga Business and Marketing
How Much to Charge for Zoom Yoga Class: A Practical Pricing Guide
When it comes to how much to charge for Zoom yoga class, it can feel tricky to strike the right balance between affordability and value. This is an issue that arises with all online yoga classes. Luckily, I've been teaching online yoga classes for years—and I can help...
Comprehensive Guide to Your Yoga Service Agreement
When you first start working as a yoga instructor, it can be easy to focus on the joy of teaching. But every yoga business and yoga studio needs a yoga instructor service agreement. Essentially, when you start to teach yoga, you want a formal document that will set...
What Is Mindset Coaching? A Complete Breakdown
Mindset shifting is a pretty popular concept in wellness circles since the last decade. Mindset coaching is a way to learn actionable ways to bring those mindset principles into your daily life. And if you want to become a mindset coach, then you’ll want to learn ways...
Yoga Alliance
How Long Does Yoga Alliance Certification Last? 5 Steps to Maintain It
There are sooo many good reasons to become a yoga teacher! To name a few... Help people embody their fullest potentialInvest in a truly fulfilling careerDrink more smoothiesetc. I can tell you honestly that when I ask my teachers in training why becoming a yoga...
What Topics Does a Yoga Alliance-Certified Training Cover?
Just like studying at university where lectures follow a certain curriculum, a Yoga Alliance (YA) certified Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) offered by a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS) is required to cover specific topics. There is freedom within these...
How Many Hours Do You Need to be Certified by the Yoga Alliance?
Timing is everything. Especially when it comes to YTT! With literally thousands of yoga teacher trainings to choose from with all of the confusing standards, travel options, and formats, you might be wondering, how long is a yoga alliance certified training, really?...
Teaching Yoga
How to Teach Somatic Yoga: A Practical Guide for Instructors
Adding somatic techniques into my teaching has been one of the most rewarding parts of my teaching journey. Not because it increased revenue or brought me new clients, but because seeing the messages from my students on how my somatic classes led to profound shifts in...
How Much to Charge for Zoom Yoga Class: A Practical Pricing Guide
When it comes to how much to charge for Zoom yoga class, it can feel tricky to strike the right balance between affordability and value. This is an issue that arises with all online yoga classes. Luckily, I've been teaching online yoga classes for years—and I can help...
Yoga Cues 101: Everything You Need To Teach Yoga
Congratulations you’ve gotten your yoga teacher certification and you’re ready to get out into the world and start teaching yoga! But…. maybe, as a new yoga teacher, you’re not feeling very confident as a yoga instructor yet. Maybe you're worried that your verbal cues...
Chakras and Kundalini
Wanna know about the chakras colors, how they work, and how to balance them? Then check out these posts all about the chakras and Kundalini Yoga. See all of my posts about chakras and Kundalini Yoga here.
Yoga Pose Directory
Explore different yoga postures, alignment, and yogic philosophy behind the poses.
Product Reviews
Check out my honest opinion on yoga mats, yoga props, books, and clothing in these helpful product reviews.
Yoga By Benefit
Find the yoga sequence right for you.
Somatic Yoga for Stress: Effective Techniques to Find Calm and Relief
Learn how somatic yoga can help release stress, reduce tension, and promote healing through mindful movement and increased body awareness.
The Perfect Yoga Practice For Your Menstrual Cycle Energy Levels
Discover how your energy levels fluctuate throughout the menstrual cycle and learn what to expect in each phase. Read more to optimize your wellness.
How Somatic Shaking Can Release Tension and Reset Your Nervous System
Discover the healing power of somatic shaking to release tension, reduce stress, and reset your nervous system!
Yoga Philosophy
Learn yogic philosophy, practices, and postures for a deep dive into traditional yoga.
Pranayama
How to Do Sitali Pranayama: The Cooling Breath
https://youtu.be/vthtFd3BUCc In yoga, we often talk about stoking our internal fire to awaken prana. This is in part why people love vinyasa flow so much. You know - the same people who love a daily 5-mile jog and core work. We -(yes, I am one of you) love to feel the...
What Are Nadis? Your Guide to Energy Channels In Your Body.
Ah! The beautiful journey of becoming a yogi! You’ve been practicing asanas, doing breathing exercises, and chanting mantras. But you’re not there yet. The physical aspect of yoga is just the tip of the iceberg. Now, you’re learning all this stuff about your astral...
How To Do Pyramid Pose
(Parsovtannasana): Techniques, Benefits, Variations Level – Intermediate Pyramid Pose (Parsovtannasana) Pyramid Pose Prep & Practice 1 Beginning in Warrior I (Virabhadrasana I), right leg forward, left leg back, hands on hips. Right toes (front foot)...
Meditation
Discover the Benefits of the Gobinday Mukunday Mantra for Well-Being
Do you feel disconnected? Maybe everything you do just isn’t syncing up. It’s all juuust missing the mark? There is a well loved mantra in Kundalini yoga called Guru Gaitri (also referred to as Guru Gayatri, Gobinday Mukunday, Gobinday Mukanday, or Gobinde...
Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad: Kundalini Mantra For Manifestation
Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad is a mantra sure to make you feel empowered. There's a reason it's often called the Magic Mantra! The sound vibrations created when you chant this mantra are said to be healing, remove mental obstacles, and elevate your consciousness. Through...
Tantric Har Chant: How It Fuels Prosperity and Inner Power
Does chanting feel weird to you? Maybe you feel vulnerable using your voice in your yoga practice? I’ll be honest, it took me many years before I felt comfortable chanting. Once I began, I never looked back. Chanting mantras, like Tantric Har, are powerful because...
Prenatal Yoga
The Best Kundalini Yoga for Pregnancy: How to Practice Safely
Pregnancy is a time of transformation—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And if you’re already practicing yoga, you probably know how powerful it can be for easing discomfort, reducing stress, and helping you connect with your baby. But did you know that...
Yoga For Third Trimester: My Favorite Poses
Your bags are packed... you’re ready to go... HAVE A BABY! What a magical time in your life. You are in the home stretch of your pregnancy journey. You are probably feeling excited, nervous, and maybe some back pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Good news!...
10 Yoga Poses That Will Strengthen The Pelvic Floor
Raise your hand if you’ve ever peed a little when you sneeze, cough, laugh, or jump. Or maybe you have some unexplained pelvic pain you're embarrassed to ask your doctor about. As a mother of 4, I can tell you I have and it's not fun! Perhaps you think this is to be...