Latest Yoga teachers Podcast Episodes
Cancer and Relationships
Peaceful Embodiment Podcast - March 10, 2022 05:06 - 49 minutesIn this episode Chandrika Gibson and Satyam Brown share some of their personal and professional experiences with cancer and the way in which life threatening illness can place strain on relationships. Their discussion touches on issues of body image and intimacy, communication, role changes, fea...
145: Implementation of Mantra as tool for Concentration (Nikita Ahuja Part #3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - February 01, 2022 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn our highly stimulating environments, mantra utilizes concrete words spoken aloud which serve as a very impactful tool to shift one's focus even among distraction. Nikita offers insight to to the implementation of this practice and even offers the additional (also very concrete) tool of Mala b...
145: Implementation of Mantra as tool for Concentration (Nikita Ahuja Part #3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - February 01, 2022 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn our highly stimulating environments, mantra utilizes concrete words spoken aloud which serve as a very impactful tool to shift one's focus even among distraction. Nikita offers insight to to the implementation of this practice and even offers the additional (also very concrete) tool of Mala b...
144: Sanskrit Mantra for Yoga Practice & teaching (Nikita Ahuja Part #2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - January 26, 2022 22:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWith upmost respect for the scientific and somatic elements of the yoga practice; Nikita brings to our attention that sanskrit mantra evokes deities of mythology. This practice carries a distinctly mystical (or even magical) element to it and she points out that perhaps there exist room for this...
144: Sanskrit Mantra for Yoga Practice & teaching (Nikita Ahuja Part #2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - January 26, 2022 22:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWith upmost respect for the scientific and somatic elements of the yoga practice; Nikita brings to our attention that sanskrit mantra evokes deities of mythology. This practice carries a distinctly mystical (or even magical) element to it and she points out that perhaps there exist room for this...
143: Mantra as a tool for Alignment & Awareness (Nikita Ahuja - Part #1)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - January 18, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsMeet Nikita Ahuja, yoga teacher and artist! Nikita's teaching practice is informed by a disciplined ashtanga practice combined with her upbringing in a traditional Indian household where yoga was introduced to her in the form of Sanskrit mantra, philosophy, pranayama, and Ayurveda. Her parents s...
142: Functional Movement meets Yoga (300-YTT - Part #3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - January 11, 2022 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsDid you know that there are 7 patterns of functional movement, all of which are easily identifiable in the postures (asanas) of yoga? Together we explore what functional movement is and just how beneficial it can be to mindfully integrate this information into our practice of teaching yoga. Thro...
141: How to support the WHOLE yoga student (300-YTT - Part #2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - January 04, 2022 14:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsEach yoga student is a unique and complex being, composed of mind, body and spirit. How do we support the WHOLE being in each one of our classes? This is an opportunity to reflect upon your classes with an analytical eye to evaluate the support you are offering the practitioners in your communit...
140: 5 Pillars of Accessible Asana in Community Classes (300-YTT Part #1)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - December 28, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsContrary to popular belief, creating accessible asana for community classes is much more than simply modifying poses to be "easier" for students. Accessibility, especially in yoga practice, is a complex & multi-faceted topic. In this episode, I outline a 5-point framework to begin creating clas...
140: 5 Pillars of Accessible Asana in Community Classes (300-YTT Part #1)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - December 28, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsContrary to popular belief, creating accessible asana for community classes is much more than simply modifying poses to be "easier" for students. Accessibility, especially in yoga practice, is a complex & multi-faceted topic. In this episode, I outline a 5-point framework to begin creating clas...
139: 300-YTT is NOW open for registration!
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - December 21, 2021 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe long awaited 300 Yoga Teacher Training is NOW open for registration! It was a slow & arduous journey of thoughtful curriculum development and credentialing process, but it is very satisfying to bring you such a comprehensive program. The curriculum for this registered yoga school is naturall...
139: 300-YTT is NOW open for registration!
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - December 21, 2021 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe long awaited 300 Yoga Teacher Training is NOW open for registration! It was a slow & arduous journey of thoughtful curriculum development and credentialing process, but it is very satisfying to bring you such a comprehensive program. The curriculum for this registered yoga school is naturall...
138: Tips to Avoid Exacerbating Existing Injuries in Yoga (Eric Finger of Move Empower - Part #3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - December 14, 2021 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsEspecially with the increase in students being referred to yoga practice, more often we see students with pre-existing injuries and problem areas in the body. Eric Finger (Austin- based physical therapist and yoga practitioner) discusses concepts such as regional interdependence, the path of lea...
137: Preventing versus Provoking injuries in Yoga Practice (Eric Finger of Move Empower - Part #2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - December 07, 2021 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsYoga should be a healing modality for body, mind and breath/spirit, but unfortunately sustaining injuries in practice is a reality. But why and when do injuries occur? In this episode, Eric Finger (Austin-based mobile physical therapist) and I explore this topic of provoking injuries. More imp...
136: Student's Sustaining injury in Yoga Practice (Eric Finger of Move Empower - Part #1)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - November 30, 2021 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsEric Finger (Mobile physical therapist, father of three, triathlete and yoga practitioner) speaks to his own personal injury in yoga when a well-intentioned teacher "assisted" him into a deeper range of motion in plow pose. Even so, Eric acknowledges the wealth of benefits that this practice has...
135: Explaining Surrender to your Yoga Students (Pamela Seelig author of Threads of Yoga - Part #3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - November 23, 2021 14:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSurrender can be explained...or better said.....surrender can be experienced first at a somatic level. Being that the majority of students arrive to yoga practice for the physical benefits, but often stay practicing for the mental, emotional, & spiritual benefits; we can encourage our students t...
134: Weaving Witness Consciousness into Community Classes (Pamela Seelig author of Threads of Yoga - Part #2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - November 16, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings“When we practice and we quiet the mind and we get into that deeper state; we touch that part of ourself which is beneath or beyond the mind...it is called many things: the witness, the knower, consciousness…the seer” - Pamela Seelig, author of Threads of Yoga, Themes, Reflections and Meditation...
133: What's the Point of Yoga? (Pamela Seelig author of Threads of Yoga -Part #1)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - November 09, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWhat's the point of yoga? HINT: the point is not to hold a handstand! Pamela Seelig, author of “Threads of Yoga-Themes, reflections, and meditations to weave into your practice,” reminds us not only what yoga is but also what is the point. She reminds us with her encouraging words just what a gi...
132: DOs & DONTs to Support your Grieving Yoga Student (Jennifer, the Grief Medium - Part #3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - November 02, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsYoga has almost a magical way of evoking emotions from within us and if you are a yoga teacher you have likely experienced students cry during practice or some other form of emotional outburst. When we see one of our students grieving during practice, how do support them? Jennifer, the Grief Med...
131: How to Cope with Grief while Teaching Yoga (Jennifer, the Grief Medium - Part #2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - October 26, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIncreasingly, we are left with a decreased amount of time to grief after the loss of a loved one. As yoga teacher, how does grief our ability to show up and hold space for others? It is vital that we must hold space for ourselves first. Jennifer, the Grief Medium, provides us with 5 healthy acti...
131: How to Cope with Grief while Teaching Yoga (Jennifer, the Grief Medium - Part #2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - October 26, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIncreasingly, we are left with a decreased amount of time to grief after the loss of a loved one. As yoga teacher, how does grief our ability to show up and hold space for others? It is vital that we must hold space for ourselves first. Jennifer, the Grief Medium, provides us with 5 healthy acti...
130: An Introduction to Grief and Yoga (Jennifer, the Grief Medium - Part #1)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - October 19, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsMeet Jennifer, the grief medium. Jennifer is an an end of life and grief licensed therapist; helping people with anticipatory grief or grief in hospice, palliative care, ICU, and outpatient therapy. Jennifer is also certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and employs simple yoga practice such as ch...
129: Three Trauma-informed Yoga Teaching Techniques to start implementing (Sarah Kadel - Part #3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - October 12, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsTrauma-informed yoga teaching is a robust, multi-dimensional and complex topic. In this show, Sarah Kadel, wraps up her series on trauma-informed teaching by offering the listeners 3 techniques to implement in the community classroom. They are simple starting points, which by no means covers the...
128: Holding Space for All - Navigating Trauma Conscious Yoga (Sarah Kadel Part 2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - October 05, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis episode discusses how yoga is historically, a trauma informed practice, and how it has evolved with the times. We speak about how we can support our yoga students with the understanding that they are all coming to us with different levels of physical abilities, emotional, and possibly traum...
127: Recognizing Our Humanity - Navigating Trauma Conscious Yoga (Sarah Kadel Part 1)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - September 28, 2021 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWelcome, Sarah Kadel for today's episode on navigating through the changes of life. As our abilities change, as our priorities shift, as we mature within our own bodies...How can we, as yoga teachers be accepting of those transitions? Even if our personal practice has become more grounding & res...
I Love The Way You Love Yourself (Amber Hagberg Part 3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - September 21, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAmber Hagberg shares with us how loving herself in fullness was a process of learning to accept both the light and the darkness within herself. By doing this she is now able to lead by example for her students. That they can transform the parts of themselves they don't like to see, and taking aw...
126: I Love The Way You Love Yourself (Amber Hagberg Part 3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - September 21, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAmber Hagberg shares with us how loving herself in fullness was a process of learning to accept both the light and the darkness within herself. By doing this she is now able to lead by example for her students. That they can transform the parts of themselves they don't like to see, and taking aw...
125: Show up for Yourself, Show up for your Yoga Students (Amber Hagberg Part 2)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - September 14, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis episode with Amber Hagberg is about putting yourself first! Yoga teachers who show up for themselves, can show up in a greater way for their students. We are presented with many opportunities, to teach in different arenas. Stepping out of the studio and into teacher trainings, virtual teach...
124: Integrating Personal Practice to Our Daily Lives (Amber Hagberg Part 1)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - September 07, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsFor Amber, and most of us as yoga teachers it is our goal to have our students integrate what they learn on the mat and take it into their day-to-day lives. This is what this episode is all about. How can we, the teachers show up in the world? How can we give our students to something to leave ...
123: Resources & Inspiration for Building Your Yoga Business (Mado Hesselink of The Yoga Resource Podcast- Part #3)
Fresh Breath for Yoga Teachers - August 31, 2021 02:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWhether you're ready to start building your yoga business, or you're just wanting to expand your knowledge of teaching yoga there are endless resources available to you! A lot of them are free! Mado has plenty of them herself, from her podcast to affordable memberships that can help your start o...
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