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Essential Kundalini Yoga for Beginners: Poses and Practices Explained
Discover essential Kundalini yoga poses and practices for beginners. Learn techniques to enhance your wellness journey. Read the article to get started!
Somatic Yoga for Cortisol Detox: A Gentle Path to Stress Relief and Nervous System Healing
Feeling wired and overwhelmed? Discover how somatic yoga can help you naturally detox cortisol, release stored tension, and return to a state of calm, balance, and ease.
Gentle Somatic Yoga: Heal Chronic Pain, Release Trauma, and Reclaim Your Bod
Learn how gentle somatic yoga helps you dissolve pain, release trauma, and reconnect with your body through slow, mindful movement.
Somatic Meditation: A Body-Based Approach to Healing Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma
Discover how somatic meditation helps calm the nervous system, release stored stress, and heal anxiety and trauma through body awareness and embodied mindfulness.
Harnessing the Power of Kundalini Divine Feminine for Transformation
Discover how to awaken your kundalini feminine energy through pleasure, intuition, and feminine embodiment—honoring your body’s cycles instead of forcing through them.
Advanced Pelvic Floor Breathing: A Somatic Approach to Healing
Discover essential pelvic floor breathing techniques that address the root cause of your emotional turmoil.
Best Yoga Business Podcast For Entrepreneurs: Listen To Our Top 15 Podcast Episodes
These are the BEST yoga business podcast episodes to listen to if you want to start and grow your yoga business.
Somatic Yoga For Yoga Teachers: Everything You Need to Know in 10 Steps
Whether you're a certified yoga therapist working in a clinic or teaching yoga at your local rec center, chances are you've heard the latest buzzword "somatic." You might have even seen somatic exercises or somatic techniques on Instagram and YouTube (hopefully from...
How Somatic Shaking Can Release Tension and Reset Your Nervous System
Discover the healing power of somatic shaking to release tension, reduce stress, and reset your nervous system!
Discover Somatic Pilates: Enhance Your Body Awareness and Flexibility
Combine pilates with somatic yoga for a powerful practice! Here’s how to practice somatic pilates.
Understanding Fascial Tension: Causes and Effective Relief Strategies
Learn more about fascial tension, what causes it, and how to relieve it in this comprehensive blog post.
Kundalini for Feminine Energy: Ignite Your Creative Power and Passion
Ignite your creative power and passion with Kundalini for feminine energy. Here’s how.
How To Become A Yoga Teacher
If you want to become a yoga instructor, then start here. These are my most helpful articles to get you started.
Yoga Teacher Resources
If you’re already a yoga instructor and you’re looking for resources on how to choose your advanced training or to improve your career, then you’ll love this section of the blog. From how to write the perfect resume to how to find a job, I’ve got you covered.
Yoga Business and Marketing
Best Yoga Business Podcast For Entrepreneurs: Listen To Our Top 15 Podcast Episodes
Starting any business can be daunting, and the yoga business world can be just as confusing as any other. It's not always as simple as go to the yoga studio and teach, or film a couple of YouTube videos and boom you've got a profitable online yoga business. Part of my...
How Much to Charge for Zoom Yoga Class: A Practical Pricing Guide
When it comes to how much to charge for Zoom yoga class, it can feel tricky to strike the right balance between affordability and value. This is an issue that arises with all online yoga classes. Luckily, I've been teaching online yoga classes for years—and I can help...
Comprehensive Guide to Your Yoga Service Agreement
When you first start working as a yoga instructor, it can be easy to focus on the joy of teaching. But every yoga business and yoga studio needs a yoga instructor service agreement. Essentially, when you start to teach yoga, you want a formal document that will set...
Yoga Alliance
How Long Does Yoga Alliance Certification Last? 5 Steps to Maintain It
There are sooo many good reasons to become a yoga teacher! To name a few... Help people embody their fullest potentialInvest in a truly fulfilling careerDrink more smoothiesetc. I can tell you honestly that when I ask my teachers in training why becoming a yoga...
What Topics Does a Yoga Alliance-Certified Training Cover?
Just like studying at university where lectures follow a certain curriculum, a Yoga Alliance (YA) certified Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) offered by a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS) is required to cover specific topics. There is freedom within these...
How Many Hours Do You Need to be Certified by the Yoga Alliance?
Timing is everything. Especially when it comes to YTT! With literally thousands of yoga teacher trainings to choose from with all of the confusing standards, travel options, and formats, you might be wondering, how long is a yoga alliance certified training, really?...
Teaching Yoga
How to Teach Somatic Yoga: A Practical Guide for Instructors
Adding somatic techniques into my teaching has been one of the most rewarding parts of my teaching journey. Not because it increased revenue or brought me new clients, but because seeing the messages from my students on how my somatic classes led to profound shifts in...
How Much to Charge for Zoom Yoga Class: A Practical Pricing Guide
When it comes to how much to charge for Zoom yoga class, it can feel tricky to strike the right balance between affordability and value. This is an issue that arises with all online yoga classes. Luckily, I've been teaching online yoga classes for years—and I can help...
Yoga Cues 101: Everything You Need To Teach Yoga
Congratulations you’ve gotten your yoga teacher certification and you’re ready to get out into the world and start teaching yoga! But…. maybe, as a new yoga teacher, you’re not feeling very confident as a yoga instructor yet. Maybe you're worried that your verbal cues...
Chakras and Kundalini
Wanna know about the chakras colors, how they work, and how to balance them? Then check out these posts all about the chakras and Kundalini Yoga. See all of my posts about chakras and Kundalini Yoga here.
Yoga Pose Directory
Explore different yoga postures, alignment, and yogic philosophy behind the poses.
Product Reviews
Check out my honest opinion on yoga mats, yoga props, books, and clothing in these helpful product reviews.
Yoga By Benefit
Find the yoga sequence right for you.
Advanced Pelvic Floor Breathing: A Somatic Approach to Healing
Discover essential pelvic floor breathing techniques that address the root cause of your emotional turmoil.
How Somatic Shaking Can Release Tension and Reset Your Nervous System
Discover the healing power of somatic shaking to release tension, reduce stress, and reset your nervous system!
Somatic Yoga for Stress: Effective Techniques to Find Calm and Relief
Learn how somatic yoga can help release stress, reduce tension, and promote healing through mindful movement and increased body awareness.
Yoga Philosophy
Learn yogic philosophy, practices, and postures for a deep dive into traditional yoga.
Pranayama
How to Do Sitali Pranayama: The Cooling Breath
https://youtu.be/vthtFd3BUCc In yoga, we often talk about stoking our internal fire to awaken prana. This is in part why people love vinyasa flow so much. You know - the same people who love a daily 5-mile jog and core work. We -(yes, I am one of you) love to feel the...
What Are Nadis? Your Guide to Energy Channels In Your Body.
Ah! The beautiful journey of becoming a yogi! You’ve been practicing asanas, doing breathing exercises, and chanting mantras. But you’re not there yet. The physical aspect of yoga is just the tip of the iceberg. Now, you’re learning all this stuff about your astral...
How To Do Pyramid Pose
(Parsovtannasana): Techniques, Benefits, Variations Level – Intermediate Pyramid Pose (Parsovtannasana) Pyramid Pose Prep & Practice 1 Beginning in Warrior I (Virabhadrasana I), right leg forward, left leg back, hands on hips. Right toes (front foot)...
Meditation
Discover the Benefits of the Gobinday Mukunday Mantra for Well-Being
Do you feel disconnected? Maybe everything you do just isn’t syncing up. It’s all juuust missing the mark? There is a well loved mantra in Kundalini yoga called Guru Gaitri (also referred to as Guru Gayatri, Gobinday Mukunday, Gobinday Mukanday, or Gobinde...
Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad: Kundalini Mantra For Manifestation
Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad is a mantra sure to make you feel empowered. There's a reason it's often called the Magic Mantra! The sound vibrations created when you chant this mantra are said to be healing, remove mental obstacles, and elevate your consciousness. Through...
Tantric Har Chant: How It Fuels Prosperity and Inner Power
Does chanting feel weird to you? Maybe you feel vulnerable using your voice in your yoga practice? I’ll be honest, it took me many years before I felt comfortable chanting. Once I began, I never looked back. Chanting mantras, like Tantric Har, are powerful because...
Prenatal Yoga
The Best Kundalini Yoga for Pregnancy: How to Practice Safely
Pregnancy is a time of transformation—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And if you’re already practicing yoga, you probably know how powerful it can be for easing discomfort, reducing stress, and helping you connect with your baby. But did you know that...
Yoga For Third Trimester: My Favorite Poses
Your bags are packed... you’re ready to go... HAVE A BABY! What a magical time in your life. You are in the home stretch of your pregnancy journey. You are probably feeling excited, nervous, and maybe some back pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Good news!...
10 Yoga Poses That Will Strengthen The Pelvic Floor
Raise your hand if you’ve ever peed a little when you sneeze, cough, laugh, or jump. Or maybe you have some unexplained pelvic pain you're embarrassed to ask your doctor about. As a mother of 4, I can tell you I have and it's not fun! Perhaps you think this is to be...