by Amanda Kingsmith | Apr 15, 2019 | Advanced Yoga Teacher, Show Notes
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This week on the podcast, I am very excited to be catching up with Jules Mitchell. Jules was a guest on season one of the show and we talked about her background in biomechanics, how she incorporated biomechanics into her yoga teaching, and how to find your specialty as a yoga teacher.
In this episode Jules shares how her yoga business has evolved over the past three years to focus more on workshops & trainings around the world, the process of writing and publishing her book, and the challenges facing the yoga industry when it comes to money.
by Amanda Kingsmith | Jul 16, 2018 | Niching, Show Notes
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This week on the podcast I am joined by the co-founder of Yoga Trade, Erica Hartnick. Erica discovered yoga after spending years as an athlete, and after slowly falling in love with the practice, Erica decided to teach. Soon after she become a yoga teacher, she started pitching companies, and hotels around the world to see if she could do a trade. In return for accommodation, she would teach yoga!
Erica did this for a number of years before the idea for Yoga Trade was a born! Why not create a platform where people can find traveling and teaching opportunities around the world? Fast forward 5 years, and Yoga Trade is the most popular online platform to find traveling yoga teaching opportunities.
On this episode, Erica shares how the idea for Yoga Trade was born and how she actually got it started with her co-founders. She talks about the struggles of creating an online platform and membership site, tips for other people who want to travel and teach or create an online business, as well as what she’s learned through the process.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Feb 5, 2018 | Niching, Show Notes
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On this episode of the podcast, I’m joined by Brytta Byers from Xanadu Yoga. Brytta is a traveling yoga teacher, who is currently based in Chicago.
Brytta came to yoga from an acting background, and fell in love with teaching in Greece. Since then, she has combined her love of yoga and travel and formed her company Xanadu Yoga, where she helps yoga teachers get jobs teaching around the world. She has taught and studied yoga around the world, traveling to Ireland, Greece, Aruba, and many other places. Brytta is passionate about helping refugees, and she also just helped a yoga studio open in Chicago, called Studios FUZE.
On this episode, Brytta shares about her love of travel and yoga, tips for getting an international teaching job, what it’s like to teach yoga to refugees, what she’s learned through helping open a yoga studio, and more.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Apr 17, 2017 | Niching, Show Notes
This is Carolyn’s second time on the podcast, and I’m super excited to be chatting with her all the way from Livingstone, Zambia near Victoria Falls. Since the last time that Carolyn was on the podcast, she’s taught yoga in India, Angola and now she’s in Zambia teaching yoga and running yoga retreats.
One of the many things I love about Carolyn is her sense of adventure, and how with each move that she makes, she gets one step closer to her goal of opening a yoga and dance retreat. Her choice to move to Zambia is no different.
On this episode, Carolyn shares how she found yoga teaching jobs in Luanda, Angola, how she chooses where to travel to find teaching jobs, and what brought her to Zambia. She also shares how she has been able to set up up a continuous yoga retreat in Zambia, and what she has learned through this experience.
If you are considering starting a yoga retreat, and especially one in an international country, you don’t want to miss this episode!
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog, Business
For us new yoga teachers, traveling & teaching yoga around the world may be our ultimate goal or adventure.
I know, I know, traveling while teaching yoga (as a new teacher) sounds crazy. But I promise that if many yoga teachers, including myself, can do it, so can you.
I graduated from YTT at the end of 2015. I felt overwhelmed and puzzled about how to make my dream of becoming a traveling yoga teacher, a reality. If you want to become a traveling yoga teacher and aren’t sure where to start, continue reading. Please don’t continue reading if you’re not willing to challenge yourself, increase your self-confidence, and experience rejection.
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