Amanda Kingsmith shares her unconventional journey traveling as a yoga teacher, and how’s she created an online yoga offering.  DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * Gaining experience and building a career while you travel * Different career paths a traveling teacher can take* Why it takes more than just being a good teacher to be “successful”* Components of an online yoga offering * Teaching on Skype * Developing a YouTube yoga channel RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS (www.loveteachingyoga.com/70)* OfferingTree (www.offeringtree.com/lty) Build your website, start your email list and collect payments today!* The Yoga Teachers’ Guidebook to Income Taxes (www.loveteachingyoga.com/the-yoga-teachers-guidebook-to-income-taxes/) GUEST RECOMMENDATIONS & CONNECTIONS: * Amanda Kingsmith & M.B.Om. Podcast (www.mbomyoga.com/)* Yoga Business Badasses Facebook Group with Amanda * Brea Johnson & Lauren Rudick

If you’ve ever thought about starting a yoga program for a special population with unique needs, this episode is for you. Shannon McQuaide, founder of FireFlex Yoga, shares advice and tips for creating yoga programs as she takes us down her own journey of serving firefighters. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * Using a population’s pain-points to identify and address a need* Using yoga as a solution to those pain-points* Developing curriculum* Using assessments to demonstrate program effectiveness* Growing a yoga program* How Shannon shifted from a primarily physical yoga offering to addressing the mental and emotional needs of firefighters* Tips for working with special populations RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS (www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode069)* OfferingTree (www.offeringtree.com/lty) Build your website, start your email list and collect payments today! GUEST RECOMMENDATIONS & CONNECTIONS: * Shannon McQuaide and FireFlex Yoga (www.fireflexyoga.com)* FireFlex Yoga Teacher Training (www.fireflexyoga.com/training)

This conversation is about the soul’s journey from fear, lamentation and confusion to sacred love. Based on the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, Simon Haas shows us how to overcome life’s greatest challenges AND how teachers can integrate this wisdom in their asana classes. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * Honoring crisis and challenge (aka the dark night of the soul) as a right of passage * What the Gita and other Indian texts tell us about pain and suffering * Why pain is something you can’t control, but suffering is optional * How to identify if you or someone you know is experiencing a dark night of the soul * Why we should think of yoga teachings as life wisdom instead of philosophy * Tips for integrating life wisdom into your asana classes * How to make your work as a yoga teacher an offering * How to re-frame your class opening and closing practices and language to be more inclusive RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS (www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode068) * OfferingTree (www.offeringtree.com/lty) Build your website, start your email list and collect payments today! GUEST RECOMMENDATIONS & CONNECTIONS: * Simon Haas (www.simonhaas.com) * Food For Live Vrindavan (www.fflv.org) * Pedro Catena

What does to mean to thrive as a yoga teacher? Michelle addresses this question as she reads the opening chapters of her book, The Thriving Yoga Teacher: How to Create A Sustainable Career Doing What You Love. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * Knowing your path and values * Teaching yoga full-time vs. part time * The commercialization of yoga * The missing ingredients to a thriving career * Dreaming big and manifesting your desires * Overcoming fear RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS (www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode067) * The Thriving Yoga Teacher: How to Create a Sustainable Career Doing What You Love (www.loveteachingyoga.com/thriving-yoga-teacher) * OfferingTree (www.offeringtree.com/lty) Build your website, start your email list and collect payments today!

Maybe you already have a digital presence or perhaps you don’t even know what that entails. A website? Social media? Email list? What does it all mean and how can a digital presence help you fill your classes and spread the wisdom of yoga? In this episode Destinee Berman answers these questions and shares her expert strategies for teaching yoga in the digital age. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * What a digital presence consists of and where yoga teachers should focus their efforts * What various social media platforms have to offer and tips for using each one * Tips for designing a website * How yoga teachers utilize newsletters and email lists * Creating yoga related lead magnets (aka. free email opt-in gifts) * How your website, email list and social media channels work together * Tips for collaborating with influencers and widely known teachers RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS (www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode066) * OfferingTree (www.offeringtree.com/lty) Build your website, start your email list and collect payments today! * Episode 037: Yoga Psychology w/ Ashley Turner & Building Your Career * The Thriving Yoga Teacher: How to Create a Sustainable Career Doing What You Love (www.loveteachingyoga.com/thriving-yoga-teacher) GUEST RECOMMENDATIONS & CONNECTIONS: * Destinee Berman: www.destineeberman.com * Destinee on Instagram: @desberman * Canva

Do you have a website, but feel as if it&#8217;s not working for you? In this episode, yoga teacher and web designer, Risa Kawamoto, discusses strategies you can implement today to help your website convert visitors into students attending your classes, workshops and retreats. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * Why it&#8217;s important to have a website * How to make your site secure, relevant and trustworthy * How to improve your search engine ranking * Building your website with a simple design * How to get backlinks to your website * How to use keywords * Tools to help you improve your website function RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS (www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode065) * OfferingTree (www.offeringtree.com/lty) Build your website, start your email list and collect payments today! * The Thriving Yoga Teacher: How to Create a Sustainable Career Doing What You Love (www.loveteachingyoga.com/thriving-yoga-teacher) GUEST RECOMMENDATIONS &amp; CONNECTIONS: * Risa Kawamoto: Web Design Packages: https://reesawebdesign.com/ * Free Masterclass &#8220;The 5 Step Strategy to Consistently Book Your Dream Clients and build your profitable health &amp; wellness business online&#8221;: https://reesawebdesign.com/5-step-strategy-masterclass * Risa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reesadigital/ * Image Resizer: http://www.simpleimageresizer.com/upload#.WxqnQopKiUk * Setting up Google Analytics:  https://www.google.com/analytics * Yoast SEO Plugin: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ * Google My Business:  <a class="m_1924084688120352108m_8609449634637126226gmail-result-url m_1924084688120352108m_8609449634637126226gmail-js-result...

Yoga is for everyone, right? So why do we cringe at commercialized yoga when commercializing something means bringing it to the masses (i.e. everyone)? Or maybe you&#8217;ve experienced guilt charging $75+ for a private session? In this episode Michelle and guest Alex Haley discuss these topics and more as they explore the dynamic between money and yoga, and business models based on generosity and social good. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * The commercialization of yoga and how that relates to &#8220;yoga for everyone&#8221; * Why yoga doesn&#8217;t have to be defined by the commercial realm * Alternative frameworks to offering yoga as a fee for service * Gift economics, gift exchange and generosity-based business models * Integrating social benefit into your business * Donation-based yoga * How money changes the relationship between student and teacher * How to tech less, and teach more RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS (www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode064) * OfferingTree (www.offeringtree.com/lty) Build your website, start your email list and collect payments today! * The Thriving Yoga Teacher: How to Create a Sustainable Career Doing What You Love (www.loveteachingyoga.com/thriving-yoga-teacher) GUEST RECOMMENDATIONS &amp; CONNECTIONS: * Alex&#8217;s OfferingTree site with upcoming events (https://alexhaley.offeringtree.com/) * Alex is a contributing author to Still, in the City * OfferingTree referenced testimonial from Mountain Charisma Yoga Studio by Brittney * Daring Greatly by Brené Brown (original quote by Theodore Roosevelt about daringly greatly used by Dr. Brown) * Centers using a dana, gift-economy, donation model: * <a href="https://commongroundmeditation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.

Understanding human anatomy and the biomechanics of yoga is vital to teaching safe and effective yoga classes. Yet, the quality of anatomy training varies drastically and anatomy is often hard for teachers to retain (especially if they don&#8217;t have natural knack or passion for it). In this episode, Gabby Delorenze brings 12 years of experience in orthopedic and musculoskeletal rehabilitation to this discussion about anatomy to help teachers expand their knowledge base. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * How Gabby bridges the gap between the physical and spiritual aspects of yoga * How anatomy knowledge influences safe sequencing and teaching * Anatomical concepts to understand as a yoga teacher * The SI joint and keeping joints healthy *  Instructing safe transitions * Tips for learning, retaining and applying anatomy knowledge * Cueing Chaturanga * Shoulder cues RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS: www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode063 * Get $10 off beYogi liability insurance (only $169) www.beyogiins.com/loveteachingyoga (Episode 057: Liability &amp; Protection for Yoga Teachers) * Free Yoga Contraindication Guide (www.loveteachingyoga.com/yoga-contraindications/) GUEST RECOMMENDATIONS &amp; CONNECTIONS: * Soul to Sole Wellness (https://soultosolewellness.com/) * Gabby&#8217;s book: Your Body is in Love with You * Instagram: @soultosolewellness (www.instagram.com/soultosolewellness/) The Key Muscles of Yoga: Scientific Keys, by Ray Long * How Yoga Works, by Michael Roach * Teachers: Tom Myers (the fascia guy), Jason Crandell,  Tiffany Cruikshank

Kids yoga is growing in popularity as the benefits of mindful practices becomes more apparent. In this episode, kids yoga teacher and author, Susan Verde, shares her best practices for teaching kids and creating programs in schools. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * Why it&#8217;s important to bring yoga and mindfulness practices to children * The best and most common setting to teach kids yoga * How to develop a kids yoga program for a school * How to format a kids yoga class * Tips for getting kids to engage * How to manage classroom behavior * How teachers are being paid to teach kids yoga RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes with ALL CLICKABLE LINKS: www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode062 * Get $10 off beYogi liability insurance (only $169) www.beyogiins.com/loveteachingyoga (Episode 057: Liability &amp; Protection for Yoga Teachers) CONNECT WITH SUSAN: * Website (https://www.susanverde.com/) * Books (https://www.susanverde.com/susans-books/) * Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/susanverde/) * Little Flower Yoga (http://littlefloweryoga.com/) * Susan&#8217;s music recommendations: Laurie Berkner, Kira Willey, Karma Kids

Trauma informed yoga teaches us to approach students with compassion, sensitivity and free of judgement. Yet, it&#8217;s an approach we should apply to everyone, not just students experiencing symptoms of trauma. After all, we&#8217;ve all been through some sort of trauma, big or small, and curiosity and compassion are the foundations for teaching yoga. Nonetheless, there are critical concepts, techniques and skills one should understand and apply when working in a trauma informed setting and with those currently working through trauma. In this episode, trauma informed specialist, Mims Driscoll, shares her best practices for teaching trauma informed yoga and being a compassionate teacher. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: * What trauma informed yoga is and how it help participants * Can you teach trauma-informed yoga if you&#8217;ve haven&#8217;t been through specific traumas yourself? * How to format trauma informed classes * How to keep participants engaged * What to do when a participant is triggered during class * Why assessments are vital * Tips for room orientation, assisting and cueing * Getting paid as a trauma informed yoga teacher RESOURCES MENTIONED: * Show notes: www.loveteachingyoga.com/episode061 * Get $10 off beYogi liability insurance (only $169) www.beyogiins.com/loveteachingyoga (Episode 057: Liability &amp; Protection for Yoga Teachers) * Free Guide to Teaching Private Yoga: www.loveteachingyoga.com/teaching-private-yoga-2/  * (Book) The Thriving Yoga Teacher: How to Create a Sustainable Career Doing What You Love, by Michelle Linane http://www.loveteachingyoga.com/thriving-yoga-teacher/ CONNECT WITH MIMS: * Mims Driscoll: http://www.livingmangaliso.com/ * Mim&#8217;s Client Assessment Form: http://www.livingmangaliso.com/assessment-intake-form/ * Jabberwocky, poem by Lewis Caroll * Mind Body Solutions with Matthew Stanford * Phoenix Rising