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The Mother of All Backbends: Urdhva Dhanurasana
Urdvha Dhanurasana is such an iconic pose, teachers around the world simply call it “backbend.” There’s no other posture like this. If your teacher said

How to Teach Yoga Transitions
Transitions in yoga—and life—can be choppy, unstable, and erratic. Below, you’ll find five essential concepts that make all transitions in yoga more smooth and skillful.

Abs Reboot: Four Creative Core Yoga Poses
When you regularly practice poses that strengthen your core, you’ll feel more stable in your practice and more at ease in your everyday life. When

How to Survive the Worst Yoga Class You’ve Ever Taught
We’ve all had the same gut-wrenching, heart-breaking thought at some point while teaching a class, ‘This is not only the worst class that I’ve taught,

A Shoulder Opening Sequence to Forearm Balance
WHY THIS FOREARM STAND SEQUENCE WORKS This sequence leading to Forearm Stand focuses on creating greater range of movement in your shoulders. Tightness in the

5 Ways to Stay Healthy, Safe, and Grounded While You’re Teaching
As yoga teachers, we’re committed to the wellbeing of our students. After all, our bottom line is to help people reduce their suffering. We even

30-Minute Morning Sequence
Practicing first thing in the morning has never been easy for me. But, I’ve adapted to the early hours by creating a simple, brief morning

7 Ways to Use Mindfulness to Navigate the Holidays
Learn several mindfulness practices for the holidays so that you can experience more ease, self-awareness, and connection to your loved ones.

Move Before You Meditate: A Yoga Sequence to Prepare for Meditation
I typically meditate first thing in the morning and a short yoga sequence helps me shake off sleepiness before I settle in to meditation. This

Run — don’t walk — away from Zoom-only teacher trainings
If you’re considering doing a yoga teacher training online, you probably have a laundry list of attributes that you are looking for in the training.

7 Ways Repurposing is Vital to Your Content Strategy
Most yoga teachers I know feel that coming up with content is consistently is daunting at best, completely depleting and ego-crushing at worst. I get

How to Copyedit Your Own Yoga Blog Content
This post comes to you from a student, Zethyn McKinley, who took Content Blueprint for Yoga Teachers. She posted it in our private Facebook group