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Uplifted Featured Member: Rebecca Hilton
Name: Rebecca Hilton From: Hawaii, Oahu Current Profession: SAHM (Stay-at-home-mum of 2-boys 4.5 and 2.5 years old) and Yoga Teacher specializing in Children’s Yoga. Brett: What's Your Big Dream? Rebecca: Ahhh this question typically stirs anxiety in me, as I’m not...
Uplifted Featured Member: Angie Litzen
Your Name: Angie Litzen Where You Live: Alma, ON Your Current Profession: special education secondary school teacher Brett : What's Your Big Dream? Angie : To walk in every ocean and do yoga around the world while travelling with my family Brett : What Brought You to...
Uplifted Featured Member: Robin
Your Name: Robin Koogle Where You Live: Miami, FL Your Current Profession: Elementary School Counselor Brett: What's Your Big Dream? Robin: I’d like to get my mental health license and start my own online counseling business for moms/women. Brett: What Brought You to...
How to Take Photos of Your Yoga Poses for Uplifted Live Calls: Tips & Gear
Hi Upliftee, Hopefully, you know by now from watching a past live call (or joining one yourself) that taking photos of your yoga poses is an awesome part of Uplifted. This enables you to receive personal feedback from me on your practice. You can post 30-second videos...
Yoga Cultural Appropriation: How To Respect Yoga’s Origin
Let’s try and sail the murky waters of what yoga cultural appropriation is and how you can avoid it.
Practicing Kundalini For Anxiety: Move Energy To Feel Balanced
Practicing Kundalini for Anxiety: Move Energy to Feel Balanced—discover simple, body-based tools to calm your nervous system and reconnect with your center today.
Understanding the 5 Kleshas: Yoga’s Roadmap to Overcoming Suffering
Understanding the 5 Kleshas: Yoga’s Roadmap to Overcoming Suffering—these teachings completely reframed how I see anxiety, ego, and what yoga is really for.
Ziva Magic Review: Emily Fletcher’s Manifesting Meditation Course Changed How I Call In What I Want
Ziva Magic Review: Emily Fletcher’s Manifesting Meditation Course Changed How I Call In What I Want—peek inside the course that helped me manifest differently.
7 Top Somatic Yoga Books to Regulate Your Nervous System
Explore the top somatic yoga books to deepen your practice, support trauma healing, and teach with confidence—start your embodied journey today.
5 Best Somatic Yoga Apps for Nervous System Regulation
Discover the best somatic yoga apps for healing, stress relief, and nervous system support—including the Uplifted™ Membership, our top pick for embodied transformation.
Trauma-Informed Kundalini Yoga: A Heart-Centered Approach to Healing
Explore how trauma-informed Kundalini Yoga can help you heal gently, reconnect with your body, and reclaim your power—one breath, one choice at a time.
Top Somatic Coaching Programs And How To Choose One
Having a hard time finding the top somatic coaching programs? Us too. That’s why we made this list.
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 To Build a Thriving Virtual Community with an Online Yoga Membership
What would it take to create an online yoga membership? And is it a smart move? Here’s what you need to know: Over 38.4 million people in the United States, 10% of the population, practice yoga regularly. The online yoga market is set to grow at 9.4% each year.1...
Best Yoga Business Podcast For Entrepreneurs: Listen To Our Top 15 Podcast Episodes
Starting any business can be daunting, and the yoga business world can be just as confusing as any other. It's not always as simple as go to the yoga studio and teach, or film a couple of YouTube videos and boom you've got a profitable online yoga business. Part of my...
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 Alliance
There are many benefits to having a regular yoga practice. Even science has shown that those who practice yoga have noticeable stress reduction. A consistent yoga practice brings your mind and body into the present, increasing your mind/body awareness....
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...
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.
Advanced Pelvic Floor Breathing: A Somatic Approach to Healing
Discover essential pelvic floor breathing techniques that address the root cause of your emotional turmoil.
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!
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.
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
Ziva Magic Review: Emily Fletcher’s Manifesting Meditation Course Changed How I Call In What I Want
Pleasure. Place the order. Place the order. Pleasure. Pleasure. Pleasure. Place the order. Place the order. Pleasure. This loop — and the way Emily Fletcher teaches you to seal pleasure together with desire — has completely shifted the way I think about manifesting. I...
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...
Prenatal Yoga
There are many benefits to having a regular yoga practice. Even science has shown that those who practice yoga have noticeable stress reduction. A consistent yoga practice brings your mind and body into the present, increasing your mind/body awareness....
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!...