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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!
Discover Somatic Pilates: Enhance Your Body Awareness and Flexibility
Combine pilates with somatic yoga for a powerful practice! Here’s how to practice somatic pilates.
Understanding Fascial Tension: Causes and Effective Relief Strategies
Learn more about fascial tension, what causes it, and how to relieve it in this comprehensive blog post.
Kundalini for Feminine Energy: Ignite Your Creative Power and Passion
Ignite your creative power and passion with Kundalini for feminine energy. Here’s how.
6 Effective Somatic Yoga for Neck and Shoulders
Here are the best somatic yoga poses for neck and shoulders that are holding onto stress.
Mastering the Sufi Grind: Benefits and Techniques for All Levels
Discover effective techniques and benefits of the Sufi grind to enhance your Kundalini practice.
The Best Scholarship for Yoga Teacher Training: Your Path to Funding
Discover the top scholarship options for yoga teacher training and learn how to fund your journey.
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!
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
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...
7 Steps To Start A Life Coaching Business
Maybe you are looking for a new side hustle. Maybe you are trying to determine if becoming a life coach is something that would be a good fit for you. Maybe you are already a life coach, but not quite sure how to actually start a life coaching business. Well, it is...
Yoga Alliance
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...
How to Register Your YTT Certificate With Yoga Alliance (With Photos)
So you're officially a yoga instructor, yay! Now it's time to get out there and start teaching yoga. For many, that means registering your certificate with Yoga Alliance. While I'm writing this for my students who will be registering their YTT certificates with Yoga...
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
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...
Pregnant? To Teach or Not To Teach
Congratulations! You're pregnant! Your heart is probably overflowing with the joy of motherhood! ....Aaaaaand your mind is probably filled with at least a few oh crap types of thoughts as you embark on the most epic 40-week rollercoaster ride of your life!...