Let me state upfront: This is all about YOU. My intention in sharing this "business of yoga" jazz is to simply offer you what's worked for me. Period. It is not to say what I'm doing will work for you, or is even right for you. In many ways I consider how I'm sharing these yoga biz tips to be similar to how I teach yoga to my private yoga students and corporate yoga clients...I'm just offering guidance through the process/class of yoga postures. It's up to you to dig deep and listen to … [Read more...]
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The Business of Yoga (part 1)
I'm sure you've heard it multiple times...when you're passionate about what you do professionally, it doesn't feel like work. I'm lucky to say I've been experiencing this for the last six plus years teaching yoga full-time in the vicinity of Washington, DC. When I left my last marketing gig, I realized I no longer thrived in the corporate atmosphere like I once had just a couple years prior. Already an Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), I wondered how I could possibly make a living doing … [Read more...]
Santosha – Discovered in a Bad Yoga Class
"By contentment, supreme joy is gained." sutra 2.42 "Niyama consists of purity, contentment, accepting but not causing pain, study, and self-surrender. sutra 2.32 Santosha is Sanskrit for contentment. The word contentment/santosha is first mentioned in The Yoga Sutras among the list of five niyamas (sutra 2.32). Side note: My take on the niyamas is they guide our internal compass. They're ethical principles (or observances) that strengthen our character and guide us to live life in the … [Read more...]
Yoga’s Little Secret: Pranayama
"...the movements of inhalation and exhalation should be controlled. This is pranayama." sutra 2.49 "Or that calm is retained by the controlled exhalation or retention of the breath." sutra 1.34 Pranayama is yoga's little secret. Outside of the yoga world, no one talks about fully dedicating attention to your breath unless you're hyperventilating or experience some other health issue like pneumonia or asthma. Even then, in my limited experience, the medical world rarely knows what the … [Read more...]
Are You a REAL Yoga Teacher?
As part of the 2012 Arts Festival Day at an elementary school in Alexandria, VA, my yoga teacher-friend Brittanie DeChino and I volunteered to do a few yoga demonstrations to third, fourth and fifth-graders. We taught them sound breathing (a breathing technique we learned from our teacher Sri Dharma Mittra), sun salutations, balancing poses, partner yoga and a few other fun things. It was a nice change from my daily office yoga gigs. At the end of each 20-minute presentation, we opened it up … [Read more...]
Being Yoga (sutra 2.2 – 2.9)
With yoga studios popping up on every corner in Washington, DC and Arlington, VA these days, there's definitely a lot of talk about going to yoga. Jump online or open a magazine and you are sure to find talk about doing yoga. Stand in the midst of voices buzzing at your local coffee shop and you'll hear people chatting "Do you do yoga? I do yoga. I'm going to yoga. I went to yoga." Blah, blah, blah. On my morning dog walk yesterday it hit me that I don't do yoga and I surely don't go to … [Read more...]
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