All Yogaland Episodes

3 Breathwork and Pranayama Techniques for Yoga Teachers Who Keep Putting It Off
If you’ve been meaning to teach pranayama in your classes but keep finding reasons to wait — this week’s podcast is for you. Most yoga

Boat Pose Is Not an Ab Exercise
Most yoga teachers cue Full Boat Pose as an abdominal exercise. It isn’t — and once you understand why, you’ll also discover Low Boat Pose:

The Real Reason Your Hamstrings Are Still Tight — A Mobility Breakdown for Teachers & Students
Most people assume tight hamstrings are a stretching problem. They’re not. Hamstring tightness is almost always multifactorial, which means the solution requires a broader range

Yoga Teachings That Have Endured — 10 Years and 8 Million Downloads Later
Wow wow wow — it’s been 10 years since the launch of Yogaland! It feels like it’s been a heartbeat and also a lifetime. There’s

Instability and Love: A Conversation About Family, Addiction, and Recovery
What does addiction look like from the outside? In this deeply personal conversation, yoga teacher Jason Crandell sits down with his brother Todd Crandell —

What Science Actually Says About Getting More Flexible — No Cherry Picking
As yogis, we’re certainly aware of the many benefits of stretching — but are you aware of what the research actually says about how to stretch

Yoga(ish): Moon Joy, the Overview Effect, and Why Astronauts Sound Like Meditators
What happens when two yoga teachers fall down a NASA rabbit hole and can’t stop thinking about non-duality, The Overview Effect, and Grandmother Moon? This

Why Community Matters for Yoga Teachers
If you’ve ever felt lonely as a yoga teacher — you’re not alone. And that’s exactly what this episode is about. Teaching yoga is one

The Four Factors That Actually Control Your Flexibility
You’ve been told to stretch more. You’ve tried the releases, the routines, the one weird trick. And you’re still not as flexible as you want

Why Flexibility & Mobility Matter
The yoga world has done important work questioning its obsession with extreme range of motion — and rightly so. But the pendulum has swung too

Why Yoga Philosophy Matters
Yoga philosophy gives context to the physical practices many of us experience first — postures, breathwork, and meditation. It connects modern yoga to its historical

5 Sequencing Myths That Keep Yoga Teachers Stuck
Do you feel pressure to make every yoga class creative, complex, and totally different? That pressure is one of the biggest things that keeps teachers stuck.