Stay ConnectedThis down-to-earth podcast by Andrea Ferretti (former executive editor of Yoga Journal) will keep informed and inspired to practice yoga. Topics run the gamut from nitty gritty technique (her yoga teacher husband Jason Crandell often joins to help with this) to down-to-earth conversations about how to apply yoga’s lessons and tools to help craft a happy, balanced life.
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Katie Brauer joins us this week for some straight talk. She shares about her background as a professional snowboarder turned yoga teacher, money mindset, and how she's using her insights to help other teachers bust through their money blocks and create sustainable businesses.
Here are some highlights:
* Katie talks about her time as a professional snowboarder, what she learned from her experiences, and how she's using that to help other yoga teachers
* How she overcame several injuries to come back to snowboarding and why she finally decided to retire from that life and become a yoga teacher
* The lessons she applied from her time as a athlete that helped her have a successful yoga business
* The biggest mistakes new yoga teachers make when they're building a business.
* How to overcome the money blocks that many teachers struggle with.
Go to the shownotes for Katie's free download on skillful leadership: yogalandpodcast.com/episode142
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My husband, Jason Crandell, is back this week, and he's sharing practical tips for teaching beginning students when they come to a mixed-level class.
Here are a few things you'll learn:
* How to keep a new student safe without making them feel singled out (and when to just let things go!)
* Strategies for helping beginners (and everyone else, too!) through the Chaturanga/Up Dog/Down Dog transition and alternatives
* Tips for helping students step from Down Dog to a Lunge in Sun Salutations
* Teaching the details of Down Dog
- Troubleshooting for tight students
- How to find the appropriate distance between the feet and hands
* How to help students find the right distance between their feet in standing poses
Show notes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode139/
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We all start out as beginners. But that doesn't mean that teaching beginning yoga students is intuitive. In this episode in our Begin Again series, Jason tackles the specifics of teaching asana to beginning students. Jason shares:
* Why it's important to help students pay attention to their whole experience in a particular pose, not just the muscle or muscle groups that they're stretching
* How to help students avoid comparing themselves to other students (or to what they were able to do in the past if they're beginning again after stepping away for a while)
* A skillful way to teach breath and movement in a vinyasa-based class
* Why power, precision, and mindfulness are the three elements Jason focuses on most when he teaches beginners
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode138
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Yoga and meditation teacher Tias Little returns to the podcast this week. (Tias joined me on episode 102 to talk about perfectionism). On today's episode, we talk about how our culture of speed affects us holistically and why it’s important--but also challenging--to slow down.
We discuss:
*The new book that Tias is working on and how it's different from other projects he's worked on
*Why, from a spiritual perspective, moving fast and checking things off of a to-do list is the opposite of progress
*Which parts of the body are most impacted by our go-go-go culture
*What we need to do to feel like we have more time, both on a personal level and as a collective
*How Tias applies the lessons of slowing down to his asana practice
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode137
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In this second episode of our Begin Again series, we talk about what keeps us motivated to practice when yoga is feeling stagnant and Jason offers useful tips for teachers who are faced with the difficult (but rewarding!) task of teaching yoga to beginners.
He also talks about how to introduce philosophy to beginning students and how to motivate students to keep coming back to their mats.
Here’s an overview of the episode:
* Why beginning again can be a great thing even for experienced yoga practitioners
* Some common mistakes yoga teachers make when they teach beginners
* How to approach teaching philosophy to beginners in a way that doesn’t confuse or overwhelm
* How he navigates sharing the philosophical dimensions of yoga so that they are useful to everyone regardless of their cultural and ideological belief systems
* Tips for being a good host to new students and why he thinks that’s a key component to keeping students motivated
*BONUS: Jason explains some of the yamas and niyamas and puts them into a modern context
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode136
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With a new year comes a flood of new students into yoga classes everywhere. Many of those students will be brand new to yoga, while others have re-committed to their yoga practice.
In this first episode of our series on yoga beginners, Jason shares some tips for how to welcome these new students and make them feel "supported, but not hounded" in the yoga room.
While the series will be geared toward teachers, it's important info for those yoga students who will be seeing lots of new faces in their classes, too.
We discuss:
* Why it's so important to put yourself back into the mindset of a beginner if you're teaching new yoga students
* Jason's principles for teaching asanas, or yoga poses, to beginners--and how he keeps his classes consistent without letting them get too boring or stale
* A few strategies for making beginning students feel more comfortable in a new environment and how to be a good host to all of your students
* How yoga teachers can keep their beginning students safe without making them feel called out or inadequate
* More on how the beginning of the year can be an opportunity for yoga teachers to reflect, learn something new, and make tweaks to their teaching approach, too
Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode135/
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For the last interview of 2018, I am so excited to share an interview with Insight Yoga founder Sarah Powers. Sarah has been a huge influence on my yoga practice, my meditation practice, and my life.
Here's what we talk about:
* Yoga and parenting: How Sarah introduced her daughter to yoga and what impact she believes growing up in a yoga family had on her daughter
* How Sarah and Ty came to the decision to home school their daughter and how that decision made Sarah a better yoga teacher
* Why continuing to make time to attend workshops and retreats as a student is still an essential part of Sarah's life
* She talks about the amount of time it took for her to feel confident as a yoga teacher, especially since she brings so many different elements of yoga, meditation, Buddhism, and psychology into her teaching
* Plus, she offers some practical advice for yoga teachers
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode134
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This week, I talk with Ty Powers. You might know Ty as the husband an influential yoga teacher for me (and many others!) -- Sarah Powers. He's also an incredibly insightful teacher in his own right, a meditation teacher, and coach. Recently, he's also been leading workshops called Changes and Transitions in Midlife--something that is of particular interest to me now that I'm in my 40s.
Here are some highlights from our conversation:
*Ty talks briefly about parenting and race and how both of those things have impacted his life
*We commiserate about the challenges of having a spouse who's an international yoga teacher
*We talk about how things change once a person gets into their 40s and 50s, the process of aging and how to make sense of the changes to your body. And Ty shares why he thinks people are beginning to ask the big questions about life and spirituality earlier today than ever before.
*How culturally, we're missing the mark in preparing for all of life's transitions, and how practices like yoga and meditation can help us to prepare ourselves for that process
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode133
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1. LOLA is a female-founded company offering 100 organic cotton tampons, pads, and liners. For every purchase, LOLA donates feminine care products to homeless shelters across the U.S. For 40% off all subscriptions, visit mylola.com and enter the code YOGALAND40 when you subscribe.
2. Care/of is a monthly subscription vitamin service made from high, quality ingredients personally tailored to your exact needs. Their short quiz asks you about your diet, health goals, and lifestyle choices and uses these answers to create personalized vitamin packs just for you. For 25% off your first month of personalized care/of vitamins, visit takecareof.com and enter promo code YOGALAND.
3. Storyworth makes it easy and fun for loved ones to tell their stories. Simply purchase a subscription for someone you love and each week Storyworth will send them a question about their life. After a year, stories are bound in a beautiful book. For $20 off, visit storyworth.com/yogaland when you subscribe.
4. Away is a new kind of luggage that is designed to be resilient resourceful and essential to the way you travel today. They use high-quality materials at a lower price point than other brands because they sell directly on the Internet. For $20 off a suitcase, visit awaytravel.com/yogaland and use promo code YOGALAND at checkout.
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