
All Yogaland Episodes

Yogaland Teacher’s Companion: 5 Creative Yoga Poses to Prep for Backbends
Mobilizing your hip-flexors and quadriceps is the most essential preparation for backbending. Learn Jason’s 5-favorite yoga poses to prep for backbends — and where you

Yogaland Teacher’s Companion: How should you tilt your pelvis in backbends?
On this episode of Yoga Teacher’s Companion, Jason answers the perennial questions that come up about backbends: First, should you tilt your pelvis toward your

Yogaland Teacher’s Companion: 5 Ways to Help Your Students in Wheel Pose
Yogaland Teacher’s Companion is here! Jason created this series to complement all of the teaching and talking we do on the audio podcast but with

Episode 248: “If I don’t slow down, I don’t do something new…”
That title of this episode is a direct quote from Jason. The truth is that the topic — Why it’s important to slow down (and

Episode 247: How to Keep Your Yoga Practice Consistent When Life Gets Busy
When the holiday mania hits, it’s all too easy for your yoga practice to fall by the wayside. This week Jason and I challenge you

Episode 246: The most wonderful time of the year?
Tis the season! It’s the official start of the holiday season in the United States this week. And while there is much to love about

Episode 245: How to Prevent Yoga Injuries
Jason likes to say that it’s more dangerous to be sedentary and not use your body than it is to use your body and risk

Episode 244: How to Help Students with Back Pain
According to the CDC, lower back pain causes more global disability than any other condition. In one study, 25% of U.S. adults reported back pain

Episode 243: Yoga for Breast Cancer with Marcia Mercier
Today, my guest is Marcia Mercier, a fellow breast cancer survivor and yoga teacher in the U.K. More than two decades ago, Marcia found that

Episode 242: Why we (still) practice yoga, Part 2
This week, we continue our conversation about the big picture WHY — that is, why we practice yoga. We muse over the magic of consistency,

Episode 241: Why we (still) practice yoga
In some ways, it’s hard to believe that Jason and I have been practicing yoga for about 25 years—that’s a quarter of a century! You’d

Episode 240: Will breaking with convention break your back?
“There’s more than one right.” This is something that Jason says often during his trainings. It applies to many different types of yoga postures (and