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Combining sound business strategy, introspection and yoga philosophy to help yoga teachers teach with passion, earn a fair living and avoid burn out.
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In today’s episode, we’re looking six important things to check when you start working at a yoga studio: ✅ What is the policy if someone comes to your class with an injury ✅ What is the policy if someone comes to your class when pregnant ✅ The invoicing and payment terms ✅ How to get cover for your classes ✅ How to get consent for physical adjustments ✅ What’s the policy on promoting your own yoga offerings? At the risk of stating the obvious, this doesn’t include things like checking when yo...
Being a yoga teacher is a funny thing. It is rewarding beyond words, no doubt about that. But it can be lonely. Yes, you spend a lot of time with people. These people are your yoga students, your customers, your yogis. But we don’t have colleagues, not really. We don’t have a line manager for advice and guidance, or a HR department. But we are people, we are workers, we are small business owners and sometimes we just need some advice, some guidance, or someone to bounce idea...
Expect to explore the fascinating connection between fascia and emotions, diving into theories, studies, and ancient yogic wisdom. From the physiological underpinnings of emotional storage in the body to the healing potential of mindful movement, this episode unravels how fascia might hold the key to understanding and releasing pent-up emotions. We discuss: 🤯 How fascia may store emotional experiences, particularly stress and trauma 🌿 The role of the vagus nerve and interoception in...
This episode is amazing definitions of fascia for yoga teachers. *But* the plural; definitions, is a little confusing right!? Well, there is still an element of confusion and an element of evolution of exactly what the terms fascia and the fascial system mean. That aside, this episode looks at definitions and explanations of fascia according to some extremely wise experts, and we briefly explore why these are important to bear in mind as yoga teachers. Useful resources and lin...
If building your private yoga offering is something that you want to work on in 2025, then starting with people who already come to your classes; people who already know and like your style of teaching is an absolute no-brainer. But, approaching and asking people who attend your group classes if they’d like a one to one with you can be a bit of a minefield, well no more! This is your step-by-step guide to getting private yoga bookings from your group yoga classes. See the shownotes here...
Private yoga sessions are unique in that you can use your time, knowledge and focus all on one person. You don’t have to keep the rest of a class running while you help one person with their alignment or their pain. Next week, we’ll look at how to get private yoga bookings from your group classes, in a way that’s not susceptible to imposter syndrome and totally beneficial to both you and the potential client, so tune in next week for that. But anyway, back to the koshas. This is whe...
Last week’s episode was all about understanding the koshas, and today, we’re taking that up a level, looking at layering your yoga asana classes with this understanding of the koshas. This is where we’re going; - A review of what the koshas are - How to work with each kosha in your yoga asana classes Make sure you bookmark this episode, as it’ll serve as a guide for anytime you’re low on inspiration, or looking for a way to work with someone who’s struggling a bit with asana, ...
Understanding the koshas can be totally transformative to your yoga teaching. If you've been put off the koshas before, concerned that they don't really make sense, or they don't really offer anything concrete to actually work with... this episode is for you! Expect to understand a) what the koshas are and b) how they can help you, as a person and as a yoga teacher. Enjoy! See the shownotes here Oh and by the way, if you liked this, you'll LOVE our Myofascial Release, Energetic Anatomy...
This powerful practice is taken from our recent Yoga Nidra & Yoga Wisdom training, and is inspired by the incomparable Tracee Stanley. Grab anything you need to get comfortable, and grab your journal and a pen too as there's optional journal prompts at the end. And above all, enjoy! See the shownotes here Join our next Yoga Nidra & Yoga Wisdom training here! -- 📚 Training for yoga teachers 300 hour yoga teacher training, starts April 26 Yoga Nidra with Yoga Wisdom, Sept ...
"Any intervention on the fascia is also an intervention on the autonomic nervous system" - Staubesand in 2003 This podcast episode is inspired by a yoga research session held this week on The Base, which looked at studies investigating the nature of the relationships between fascia and how the nervous system reads stress and pain, which was really interesting from a whole-person holistic perspective; in that someone’s pain or chronic stress can potentially be altered through working wi...
This episode looks at some of the ways that stress can impact the brain. In the interests of full disclosure - this episode might seem a bit doom and gloom, as it focuses on the impacts on the brain of stress. However, if you join the free workshop: Understand WHY yoga works: Yoga's role in stress reduction - that’ll be the light at the end of the gloomy tunnel! In this episode, we cover: A brief recap of what stress isThen we’ll look at three main areas 1) the pre-frontal cortex 2) the amy...
As yoga teachers, we know that stress is an epidemic; it affects almost everyone we meet, and it has a profound impact on their lives. We so often talk about the sympathetic nervous system; the fight or flight response and how that impacts physical and mental health, but we don’t often talk about the HPA axis, and its profound impact on health… It got me thinking - why is that? After some informal research, I realised that this is because yoga teachers don’t really understand what the HP...
Our 300 hour training is underpinned by three golden rules: Everything you learn will be inherently useful, immediately usable, or bothAll bold claims will be backed by research The entire training will stay true to the roots of yoga Enjoy! Take a look: Yoga Hero's 300 hour yoga teacher training The Feral Fandoms PodcastWhy do some stories explode into global fandoms while others fade away? What makes...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify -- 📚 Training for yoga teachers ...
If you’ve been really enjoying teaching private yoga lessons, but you’re finding that people will book 1, or maybe a block of 4 with you, and then they don’t really get back in touch to rebook, this is the episode for you! And it might not be what you think… In this episode, we start with something that we seem to talk about a lot a lot - defining your ideal yogis. If you’ve heard us chatting on about this before and thought ‘well I just really don’t know where to start’ - this really...
If you’ve ever received an enquiry for a private yoga lesson, and your first thought is ‘Oh no, how much am I going to charge?’, well, yoga teacher, you most certainly aren’t on your own. “How much should I charge for….” must be the question I (Holly, hi by the way!) have been asked the most over the ten or so years that I have been working with yoga teachers, so you are most certainly not on your own! The good news is that defining a pricing structure is actually pretty simple, and o...
Yoga teacher, if you’ve been hoping to pick up reliable, repeating private yoga clients, but it’s not (yet) happening, this episode is for you. You’ve been posting about your services, you’ve mentioned them in classes you teach, you’ve even included it in a newsletter - but it’s not working. Does that resonate with you? The good news is that setting up private yoga clients is actually pretty simple, in-fact, in just five simple steps, you can be feeling totally confident about ...
Today, we have a short but punchy episode to remind you: Yoga teacher: you are doing a great job. Honestly, you really are! You’re consistently turning up. You’re invested in making people feel better through yoga. And yoga teacher, they are - they really are! So when you notice you’re thinking about the 'shoulds' and the 'have tos', can you refocus your attention to a nice thing someone said about your class or a testimonial someone wrote about your last workshop....
One of the three values that underpin For Yoga Teachers is ‘avoiding burn out’; and there’s one key way to do that: Have a consistent personal yoga practice. However, when you’re a busy yoga teacher, and you have a busy life, sometimes there just isn’t the time for a consistent practice alongside everything else that you need to do! BUT, having a consistent yoga practice is SO important that we’ve even created a whole retreat dedicated to nurturing your self-practice, which is being he...
A few weeks ago now we launched The Base - a network and resource hub for yoga teachers. This episode is an exciting audio tour around The Base to tell you everything that you need to know, because we’re closing the doors at midday on Thursday 13th June for a little while, to focus on giving all the Base members the best possible experience! Expect a whistle stop tour around the network; the community aspect of The Base, then the knowledge base, which is our resource hub and last...
This ep is taken from a super important masterclass held recently on The Base: How to boost your short term yoga income. Now many of our trainings for yoga teachers at Yoga Hero are £400... So I thought rather than talking about generating extra income in a hypothetical way, wouldn't it be great to have a figure to work towards, so, how about £400?! There's four suggested methods of boosting your short term yoga income. Within each of the four methods, we'll look at: - the general requi...
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