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Somatic Yoga Workshop Ideas for Teachers
If you’re a yoga teacher and you want to host a workshop that sells out FAST, then try one of these somatic yoga workshop ideas.
How to Read the Bhagavad Gita: A Modern Yogi’s Guide
Here is your personal guide to reading and understanding the Bhagavad Gita as the spiritual prompt that it is.
#365 – Launch Ugly! My Top 5 Business Tips for Yoga Entrepreneurs
We’re almost halfway through 2025, have you done a business check-in? The midpoint of the year is a great time to reflect on your business and your teaching.
Essential Kundalini Yoga for Beginners: Poses and Practices Explained
Discover essential Kundalini yoga poses and practices for beginners. Learn techniques to enhance your wellness journey. Read the article to get started!
Somatic Yoga for Cortisol Detox: A Gentle Path to Stress Relief and Nervous System Healing
Feeling wired and overwhelmed? Discover how somatic yoga can help you naturally detox cortisol, release stored tension, and return to a state of calm, balance, and ease.
Gentle Somatic Yoga: Heal Chronic Pain, Release Trauma, and Reclaim Your Bod
Learn how gentle somatic yoga helps you dissolve pain, release trauma, and reconnect with your body through slow, mindful movement.
Somatic Meditation: A Body-Based Approach to Healing Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma
Discover how somatic meditation helps calm the nervous system, release stored stress, and heal anxiety and trauma through body awareness and embodied mindfulness.
Harnessing the Power of Kundalini Divine Feminine for Transformation
Discover how to awaken your kundalini feminine energy through pleasure, intuition, and feminine embodiment—honoring your body’s cycles instead of forcing through them.
Advanced Pelvic Floor Breathing: A Somatic Approach to Healing
Discover essential pelvic floor breathing techniques that address the root cause of your emotional turmoil.
Best Yoga Business Podcast For Entrepreneurs: Listen To Our Top 15 Podcast Episodes
These are the BEST yoga business podcast episodes to listen to if you want to start and grow your yoga business.
Somatic Yoga For Yoga Teachers: Everything You Need to Know in 10 Steps
Whether you're a certified yoga therapist working in a clinic or teaching yoga at your local rec center, chances are you've heard the latest buzzword "somatic." You might have even seen somatic exercises or somatic techniques on Instagram and YouTube (hopefully from...
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!
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
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...
5 Affordable Yoga Teacher Insurance Plans (Updated 2024)
Whether you’re teaching yoga online or in person, as an independent contractor or as a part-time yoga instructor with a yoga studio, investing in yoga liability insurance is always a good idea. In addition to providing insurance for teachers, most insurance companies...
Yoga Alliance
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?...
Am I Qualified to Teach After Taking a 200 Hour YTT?
So, you're interested taking a yoga teacher training (yay!!)? Even if you're more than ready to dive into your YTT, you may still be wondering ... is 200 hours enough to teach yoga? As an expert teacher-trainer who has graduated thousands of students just like you,...
How to Upgrade Your Yoga Alliance Certification Designation to 300 / 500 RYT
Hey, graduate! You just finished your 300 / 500 hour RYT, freshly aglow with wisdom and energy to share with students. Before you continue your teaching journey, make sure to upgrade your Yoga Alliance certification designation to 300 / 500 RYT. This post will show...
Teaching Yoga
How to Easily Modify 6 Common Yoga Poses [+VIDEO]
https://youtu.be/biPpCkzCC9A There's nothing worse than finally getting yourself to yoga class and then your yoga instructor calls out certain yoga poses that you just.can't.do. Rather than grunting through them and shifting your weight awkwardly as you try to balance...
Creating Inclusive Yoga Spaces: Here’s What To Avoid Saying
Have you ever gone to a yoga class where you couldn’t keep up? Maybe you were asked to contort your body into shapes that just weren’t attainable for you. Did you leave feeling defeated instead of confident? Yoga isn’t one-size-fits-all, and it’s not a competitive...
Traditional Yoga Class Plan Template (Tips for Yoga Sequencing)
Using a yoga sequencing template can help you design transformative yoga classes, even more so than creating a sequence from scratch. How? Creating yoga sequences can be a time consuming process. So much energy is spent in the preparation that a lot of the inspiration...
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.
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.
Somatic Yoga Poses For Every Body And Mind
Discover the healing power of somatic yoga with mindful poses that enhance body awareness, release tension, and promote relaxation for all experience levels.
Wise Woman Archetype: Characteristics & Challenges
Unlock the wisdom of the Wise Woman archetype and discover how to embody her intuitive insight, profound strength, and deep knowledge in your own life.
Yoga Philosophy
Learn yogic philosophy, practices, and postures for a deep dive into traditional yoga.
Pranayama
10 Essential Types of Pranayama Breathing Techniques That You MUST Know
Breathing is part of our autonomic nervous system, the very basis by which our bodies survive… …so obviously we know it’s important. But many people might not know just how powerful it can be. The very act of inhalation and exhalation can help control your blood...
3 Tips to Master Ujjayi Breath (An Ancient Yogic Breathing Technique)
You know those yogic breathing exercises that your yoga instructor always talks about? Well, there's a big reason why they're incorporated into every yoga class. In fact, they are just as important as the 'yoga' that you're doing. It's true. Pranayama breathing is one...
6 Breathing Techniques for Stress and Anxiety Relief (That You Can Do Right Now)
Ever feel stressed or anxious? Yea, me too. While we may not be able to eliminate stress in our lives, we can learn how to respond to it more effectively. For me, one of the most direct ways to stay centered during times of stress and anxiety is by working with my...
Meditation
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...
Powerful Mantra for Protection Against Negative Energy and Harm
Mangala Charan Mantra is currently one of the most well known Kundalini mantras for protection. Many yoga teachers, like myself and Guru Singh, even include it as part of the Tune In before practicing Kundalini kriyas. As a member of the Uplifted community, you know...
The Power of Humee Hum Brahm Hum Mantra for Connection and Healing
To be human can be hard and you may find yourself at times feeling alone or isolated as you navigate tough choices and experiences. In times of stress like these, I find that my yoga practice, and especially chanting mantras, can guide me back to a place of grace and...
Prenatal Yoga
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...
Yoga For Nausea: 7 Yoga Poses For A Sore Stomach
How often do you feel sick to your stomach? For me, it can be pretty often...which is no fun. So many things can cause nausea! Anxiety, excitement, anger, intense pain, morning sickness, motion sickness, food poisoning, the list could go on and on! With nausea...
Home Birth vs Hospital Birth: Which is More Yogic?
Congratulations, you're having a baby! Now is the time for questions that lead to research that leads to... TA-DA! More questions. I've been there! You're probably here because you're caught between two worlds; you're considering a home birth, but you're not sure if...