Author: sagerountree
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Set Your Intentions and Goals for 2023
Now’s the time to set your goals and intentions for 2023. The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook and Racing Wisely are here to help!
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Let’s Go, 2023
in YogaHere’s the work I’m looking forward to in 2023. I hope your year has great things ahead!
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How to Write a Yoga Bio That Stands Out
Whether you are building your yoga website or teaching at a gym, studio, or festival, you will need a good biography. Here’s how to start.
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Yoga Nidra Practice and Teacher Training
On Friday, November 18, I’ll lead a pop-up Yoga Nidra class at Carrboro Yoga. And next October, I’m leading a teacher training so you can learn to do the same.
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What’s the Difference Between Gentle, Yin, and Restorative Yoga?
If you have explored the softer side of yoga, you have probably encountered gentle, yin, and restorative yoga. But there’s often confusion around the differences between these three approaches, and not just for students, for teachers as well! While they can be combined in one class to great effect, understanding their goals and the differences…
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A Yoga Teacher’s Confession
in TeachingHere’s a true confession from most yoga teachers: we always go faster on the second side. This happens for a variety of reasons, prime among them that we have said all our best cues on the first side and haven’t grown comfortable with silence, or that we have mismanaged time and see the clock ticking.…
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Mark Your Calendars: Kripalu 2023
Mark your calendars now for two workshops Alexandra DeSiato and I will be co-leading at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts: Recharge: A Retreat for Yoga and Movement Teachers, Sunday–Friday, October 1–6 Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses: Create Inspiring Classes for All Students, Friday–Monday (holiday weekend = expanded three-day version!), October…
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Satisfaction Equals Perception Minus Expectations
One of our teachers at Carolina Yoga Company also teaches business classes at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. There, she told me, she tells her students that customer satisfaction follows this formula: Satisfaction = Perception − Expectations. Satisfaction is a result of what the consumer perceived they received minus what they expected…
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I’d Love to Chat with Your YTT
I wrote The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook to help teachers at every level—and to serve as a yoga teacher training manual. If you’re using the book as your YTT textbook, I’d love to offer a free Zoom Q&A with your cohort to talk about what you are learning, answer any outstanding questions, and help you…
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Nouveau: YOGA AU-DELÀ DES POSTURES
Aujourd’hui, YOGA AU-DELÀ DES POSTURES (TEACHING YOGA BEYOND THE POSES) est disponible en français ! Nous remercions Clémentine Erpicum pour la traduction. Alexandra et moi avons écrit ce livre pour que vous puissiez intégrer les élements de la philosophie de yoga à vos cours et à votre propre répétition et benéficiez d’une expérience plus profonde.…
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Last Days for Early Bird Rates: Designing and Teaching Gentle Yoga Sequences and Classes
The $50 early bird savings for my upcoming continuing education program for movement teachers, Designing and Teaching Gentle Yoga Sequences and Classes, is good through August 23, so now is the time to sign up. In addition, the workshop includes a preassignment that you’ll want to spend a few hours on, so this is the…
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Watch: Six Moves of the Spine, Supine, One Leg
One of my favorite sequences can work as a warmup, as an end-of-practice sequence, and as yoga to do in bed. Here’s a run-through; when you are practicing this on your own, take your time with each move, so that the whole sequence takes 15 minutes or more. Want to learn more gentle sequences? Join…