by Amanda Kingsmith | Apr 18, 2016 | New Yoga Teacher, Show Notes
Do you want to become a full-time yoga teacher? Run your own retreats? Design your own teacher training? Maybe even write a book? Tova Payne shares how she did it on this episode!
Tova Payne is the business teacher for The Vancouver School of Yoga and The Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. She’s been teaching yoga for 10 years, and in that time she has ran her own yoga retreats, designed her own yoga teacher training, and has written and published a book (and is currently working on her second!). Tova shares the business lessons she’s learned over the years, and how you, too, can become an entrepreneurial yogi!
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Apr 15, 2016 | Blog, Business
As a yogi and a firm believer in taking personal responsibility, living with integrity, and karma, I want to trust the other yogis, yoginis, and yoga teachers that I work with. At the end of the day though, yoga, like anything, is business. And for this very reason, you should never teacher for a “maybe”.
What exactly does this mean?
This means that when you enter into a verbal agreement to teach for someone or at someone’s studio, you know exactly what you’re teaching for. You are teaching for x amount of dollars, x gift, x number of classes in return, etc. You are not teaching for anything with the word “maybe” in it.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Apr 11, 2016 | Niching, Show Notes
Do you want to learn about various different types of yoga? Do you want to become an expert in more than one area of yoga? Well, you can!
On this episode of the podcast, Andrea Peloso shares her journey as a yoga teacher. She went from an ashtanga practitioner and teacher, to a restorative yoga teacher, to developing teacher training for restorative yoga, and workshops and training on spinal immersion. Andrea shares how she has expanded her learning as a yoga teacher and become a teacher of many styles and types of yoga, and what she learned along the way.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Apr 10, 2016 | Blog, Lifestyle
From time to time we can reach a bit of a ‘stalemate’ with our fitness routine or our yoga practice. And when we’re getting a little tired or bored, it isn’t going to happen as often as we would like (or we’re likely to lack putting in all of the effort that we normally would). Our progression can halt a little when we feel like this too, as our body reaches a plateau. So pushing yourself further or trying something new can be a good idea from time to time.
If this sounds like you, and you need to shift your training slightly, then here are some innovative fitness routines to try out when you’re next ready to mix things up. (more…)
by Amanda Kingsmith | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Business
Do you dream of teaching other people your passion? Do you want to inspire other yogis to become teachers?
Erin did too, and over a year ago she made this dream a reality.
“I had so many doubts and worries that I wasn’t good enough,” she confided in me.
Erin Evans is a badass yogi, mother, and member of the community in Banff, Alberta. She seems to balance just as well on her hands as she does on her feet, and since I met her in the summer of 2014, I’ve been in awe of her ability to both practice and teach yoga. So, naturally, I was surprised to hear that she had ever doubted her ability to teach other yogis how to be teachers.
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