The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 371: Organizing a Yoga Retreat with Checka Antifonario   Description: Have you thought about hosting a yoga retreat for a day, a week-end or longer? Retreats are a great way for yoga teachers to provide a new, more immersive experience to their students but planning and executing a yoga retreat can be challenging. Checka Antifonario shares her thoughts as an experienced retreat planner and host.    Checka Antifonario is the founder of Yogaway,...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 370: Is Email Marketing Dead? with Meg Sangimino   Description: Many of us are struggling with overflowing email inboxes and receive ever more emails daily. In this context, is email marketing still a relevant tool that can help your yoga business? How can yoga teachers use email marketing effectively? Meg Sangimino some insights.   Meg Sangimino is a yoga teacher and business expert. Her expertise is in helping wellness professionals implement...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 369: Struggling to Write Content is Normal with Billie Smith   Description: If you have ever sat staring at your blinking cursor and wondered how to write an email, social media caption, or blog post for your yoga business when more important things are happening in your personal life or the world – you are not alone. Billie Smith recently faced this same struggle and decided to share their honest thoughts instead of their usual messaging.   ...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 368: Moving to a New City & Marketing with Jennie MacGoy   Description: Have you recently moved or are you struggling to grow your yoga business? Have you been posting on social media and not seeing that time convert to students? Have you been thinking about switching your niche or taking a break? Jennie MacGoy has navigated a cross-country move and shares how she found success marketing her yoga business in a new city.   Jennie MacGoy...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 367: Money Matters & Budgeting with Jenifer Parker    Description: How do you feel about budgeting and money as a yoga teacher? What is your system for tracking income and expenses – is it working? How can you decrease your expenses and/or increase your income? These are some questions Jennifer Parker answers in this insightful money conversation.   Jenifer Parker has been a yoga teacher for more than 21 years and is a qualified instructor...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 366: Get Okay with Making Money with Chioma Njoku   Description: Is making money yoga-like? How is making money aligned with the principles of yoga? How do you balance making money as a yoga teacher with keeping your offerings financially accessible to people? Chioma Njoku shares her insights on these questions and more.   Chioma is the owner and Chief Mindful Operator at the Mindful Bookkeeper, and host of the Cheers to Your Prosperity podcast....

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 365: How to Teach Accessible Yoga with Jivana Heyman   Description: How can we make yoga more accessible? From financial accessibility to the language we use in teaching, from offering modifications to supporting students who don’t follow our lesson plans, making yoga accessible encompasses many different things. Jivana Heyman shares his insights.   Making yoga accessible is at the core of the work Jivana does. He is the founder and director of...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 364: 7 Years of Podcasting with Shannon Crow   Description: It has been 7 years of podcasts on the Connected Yoga Teacher podcast with Shannon Crow. While it is a time of celebrating the consistency and the amazing connections that have come from the podcast, Shannon shares some of her reflections about her recent situation, both personal and on a broader scale.   Shannon has been dealing with emotional heaviness, sadness, and heartbreak, on top...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 363: Build a Full-Time Yoga Career with Mary Reddinger   Description: Teaching private yoga is a topic that often comes among yoga teachers. Questions like about finding and retaining private students, the difference between group classes and private sessions, and how to make sure private students are getting what they need are common. Mary Reddinger shares her insights.   Mary is a full-time yoga teacher and mother to two boys, ages 9 and 5....

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 362: Yoga in Times of War & Violence with Molly Nixon   Description: Over 110 million individuals have been forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. As yoga teachers, we might be seeing people who are refugees in our yoga classes — and we need to know how we can support them, even if we don’t know their status. Molly Nixon shares her perspective and experience about how yoga can...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 361: Connect to Nature & Your Roots with Tracee Stanley   Description: What is our relationship with nature? How do we connect to our roots and our ancestors? Why is all of this important and relevant to yoga? Tracee Stanley shares her insights.   Tracee Stanley is the author of Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity and The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices & Rituals to Remember Who You Are. She is also...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 360: Nature Meditations with Ray Zott   Description: Meditation does not have to be just sitting down and being still. There are other ways to meditate, including being out in and connecting with nature. Ray Zott (she/her/they) talks about how nature offers her a sustainable mediation practice and how she helps others meditate in nature too.   Ray is a yoga therapist whose greatest joy in their work is connecting people to nature. She has worked...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 359: Ahimsa in Times of Conflict with Rula Wardeh   Description: One of the most important yoga teachings is ahimsa, usually translated as non-violence or non-harming. How do we practice this in times of conflict like the one we are witnessing now in Gaza, Palestine? What can we do to make a difference? Rula Wardeh shares her perspective on the obligations we all have to show up during times like these.   Rula is a Palestinian yoga teacher, who...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 358: Community and Communication with Shannon Crow   Description: Many yoga teachers are dealing with tiredness, overwhelm, sadness, and many other difficult emotions as we navigate living through the active genocide taking place in Palestine. Community and communication can be a good solution to dealing with these heavy emotions and the challenges of consistently showing up for causes we care about.   In this episode, Shannon reflects on what...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 357: Pay-What-You-Can is Working with Shannon Crow   Description: Have you tried using the pay-what-you-can model in your yoga business? Shannon recently implemented this model for an upcoming yoga series in Pelvic Health Professionals and was amazed that it has worked!   In this episode, Shannon shares more about why she decided to implement the pay-what-you-can model for the Yoga During a Pelvic Cancer Diagnosis: 6-Week Online Series with Tyla...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 356: How Silence Feels for a Yoga Student with Suzanne Miller   Description: Since October 7 2023, Israel has been retaliating to the attack by Hamas by indiscriminately bombing Gaza, resulting in thousands of Palestinians being killed, many more injured, and almost the entire population of Gaza being displaced. In light of this genocide, how are yoga teachers reacting? How are they holding space for their students? Suzanne Miller is a long-time...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 355: A Quick Niche Quiz with Shannon Crow   Description: Shannon Crow continues the theme of Niche November by sharing a quick niche quiz she has created to help you figure out what yoga niche you want to be serving! In this short quiz, Shannon goes through a list of “would you rather” questions that can help you get more clarity about what kind of yoga you want to teach.   In this series of 14 questions, Shannon invites you to consider your...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 354: Do I Need to Specialize with Shannon Crow   Description: Shannon Crow continues the theme of Niche November. In this episode, Shannon explores the question that everyone asks when it comes to niching down and finding a yoga specialty: do I need to specialize? Shannon shares a quick quiz she has created to help you figure out whether you need to niche down in your yoga business. She goes through a list of true-false questions that can...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast [BONUS] Yoga for Peace with Shannon Crow   Description: What place does yoga have in the context of the ongoing situation between Israel and Palestine, particularly in light of the current lethal bombardment and blockade in Gaza? What responsibility do yoga teachers have to advocate for a ceasefire, liberation and freedom of all peoples, and peace in the region? Shannon Crow tackles these big questions in a vulnerable and open live video.   ...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 353: Is Age a Yoga Niche? with Shannon Crow   Description: Shannon Crow continues the theme of Niche November by answering a question that two people asked in The Connected Yoga Teacher Facebook group - is age a yoga niche? Shout out to Barbara and Beatrix for posting their questions!   Shannon shares her insights about niching down. She invites you to consider if there is even a need for you to niche down at this time. She has a helpful PDF to...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 352: How to Niche with No Website with Shannon Crow   Description: Shannon Crow continues the theme of Niche November by tackling a question many yoga teachers have struggled with - how do you niche down and specialize without a website?   In this episode, Shannon answers a question from a podcast listener and community member, Amy who has been trying to niche down for the past three years. Shannon does some sleuthing to uncover Amy’s niche and...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 351: Water Yoga with Christa Fairbrother   Description: Water yoga (or aqua yoga) may not be widely known but it is a unique variation of yoga that has some amazing benefits. Christa Fairbrother shares her expertise on this uncommon variety of yoga.   Christa is an internationally recognized aqua yoga coach and trainer who makes yoga accessible through yoga in the water. She is passionate about helping people start an aqua yoga practice and she...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 350: Yoga for Autism & Special Needs with Shawnee Thornton Hardy    Description: Autism spectrum disorder affects about 1 in 100 children globally yet there is still a lot of misconception and misunderstanding about people with autism and other special needs. Shawnee Thornton Hardy shares more about how yoga can support people in this community.   Shawnee is the Founder of Asanas for Autism and Special Needs and the Founder/Director of Yoga...

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 349: Yoga Niche Success Story with Christine Jaureguiberry   Description: Niching down is a tried-and-tested method to grow your yoga business while allowing you to focus only on the things you love sharing. A guest from almost 5 years ago is back on the podcast to share her success story with niching down.   Christine Jaureguiberry specializes in teaching Yoga for those who live with Scoliosis. She is the founder of Move with Scoliosis, born...