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What Is The Ajai Alai Mantra In Kundalini Yoga?
What is the Ajai Alai Mantra in Kundalini yoga? This powerful mantra is a potent fixer-upper whenever you feel depressed or angry.
108 Meaning: Why Is It So Sacred?
There is a lot of history behind the 108 meaning, especially in yoga. Here’s what 108 means and why it’s a sacred number.
The Healer Archetype: Characteristics & Challenges
Explore the characteristics, challenges, and transformative potential of the Healer archetype, and learn how it shapes your identity and empowers you to positively impact the world.
The Mother Archetype: Characteristics & Challenges
Which feminine archetype you? The mother archetype is nurturing, caring, and wise.
Integrating Mind and Body: The Benefits of Somatic Bodywork
Explore somatic bodywork techniques that reduce stress, alleviate pain, and foster emotional release for a deeper sense of wellness.
Somatic Stretching: A Gentle Approach to Flexibility and Stress Relief
Explore somatic stretching to transform your flexibility and mindfulness, promoting relaxation and reducing stress through intuitive movement.
Somatic Workouts: A Guide to Healing and Connection
Discover the transformative power of somatic workouts—learn how mindful movement and breathwork can soothe your nervous system, enhance body awareness, and promote holistic healing.
What Is Sat Nam Rasayan? How And When To Practice
Discover the healing power of Sat Nam Rasayan, a meditative practice rooted in Kundalini yoga that brings relaxation, clarity, and vitality by connecting to the source of all things.
The Wild Woman Archetype: Characteristics & Challenges
Learn how to identify the wild woman feminine archetype in YOU. Take this feminine archetype quiz!
The Lover Archetype: Characteristics & Challenges
Learn how to identify the lover feminine archetype in YOU. Take this feminine archetype quiz!
The Mystic Archetype: Characteristics & Challenges
Learn how to identify the mystic feminine archetype in YOU. Take this feminine archetype quiz!
The Huntress Archetype: Characteristics & Challenges
Learn how to identify the huntress feminine archetype in YOU. Take this feminine archetype quiz!
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
What Is Mindset Coaching? A Complete Breakdown
Mindset shifting is a pretty popular concept in wellness circles since the last decade. Mindset coaching is a way to learn actionable ways to bring those mindset principles into your daily life. And if you want to become a mindset coach, then you’ll want to learn ways...
5 Affordable Yoga Teacher Insurance Plans (Updated 2024)
Whether you’re teaching yoga online or in person, as an independent contractor or as a part-time yoga instructor with a yoga studio, investing in yoga liability insurance is always a good idea. In addition to providing insurance for teachers, most insurance companies...
7 Steps To Start A Life Coaching Business
Maybe you are looking for a new side hustle. Maybe you are trying to determine if becoming a life coach is something that would be a good fit for you. Maybe you are already a life coach, but not quite sure how to actually start a life coaching business. Well, it is...
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
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...
How to Easily Modify 6 Common Yoga Poses [+VIDEO]
https://youtu.be/biPpCkzCC9A There's nothing worse than finally getting yourself to yoga class and then your yoga instructor calls out certain yoga poses that you just.can't.do. Rather than grunting through them and shifting your weight awkwardly as you try to balance...
Creating Inclusive Yoga Spaces: Here’s What To Avoid Saying
Have you ever gone to a yoga class where you couldn’t keep up? Maybe you were asked to contort your body into shapes that just weren’t attainable for you. Did you leave feeling defeated instead of confident? Yoga isn’t one-size-fits-all, and it’s not a competitive...
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.
How To Fall In Love With Yourself: 7 Daily Practices
Learn how to fall in love with yourself with these daily self love practices!
How To Increase Feminine Energy And Reclaim Your Power
Learn how to increase feminine energy with rituals and practices that connect you to the earth, your body, and the flow of life’s rhythms.
Dark Feminine Energy: Unleashing Your Intuitive and Creative Power
Uncover the gifts of dark feminine energy and harness your rage, sensuality, and creative force to navigate life with authenticity and resilience.
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
The Meaning Of Ang Sang Wahe Guru Mantra in Kundalini Yoga
We all go through hard times. Maybe you find yourself in one now? Invite Ang Sang Wahe Guru to be your balm. This mantra from the Kundalini yoga tradition re-connects and synchronizes your finite sense of self to your sacred essence as part of the Infinite Oneness....
Meaning of Ra Ma Da Sa: The Healing Siri Gaitri Mantra
Kundalini Yoga has a mantra that is known for its healing powers. Known as the ‘Siri Gaitri Mantra’ or popularly called the ‘Ra Ma Da Sa‘, this kriya, when practiced right, these eight basic sounds can fine-tune your soul to the rhythm of the Universe; a healing...
Surya Mudra: What Is It And How Do You Use It?
One of the most important lessons for yogis to learn is that yoga is much more than asana classes. As you dive deeper into your practice, you’ll find scores of philosophy, breathing techniques, cleanses, meditations and other wellness practices. All of these are...
Prenatal Yoga
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
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Yoga For Nausea: 7 Yoga Poses For A Sore Stomach
How often do you feel sick to your stomach? For me, it can be pretty often...which is no fun. So many things can cause nausea! Anxiety, excitement, anger, intense pain, morning sickness, motion sickness, food poisoning, the list could go on and on! With nausea...