In today’s episode, we’re looking six important things to check when you start working at a yoga studio:

✅ What is the policy if someone comes to your class with an injury

✅ What is the policy if someone comes to your class when pregnant

✅ The invoicing and payment terms

✅ How to get cover for your classes

✅ How to get consent for physical adjustments

✅ What’s the policy on promoting your own yoga offerings?

At the risk of stating the obvious, this doesn’t include things like checking when your classes are, if there’s a notice period etc etc. Those things are for a contract, which is a legal document and not really fit for a podcast. 

However, I do believe that the six things on this list are really important to check to help you in your quest for stress free teaching, and they are often overlooked. 

Oh and guess what, you lucky thing, we’ve created a free checklist so you don’t have to keep all of this in your head! You’re welcome! Get yours here. 

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Useful resources

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Episode 22 - Adjustments: some useful considerations - listen here

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Being a yoga teacher is a funny thing. It is rewarding beyond words, no doubt about that. But it can be lonely. 

Yes, you spend a lot of time with people. These people are your yoga students, your customers, your yogis. 

But we don’t have colleagues, not really. We don’t have a line manager for advice and guidance, or a HR department.

But we are people, we are workers, we are small business owners and sometimes we just need some advice, some guidance, or someone to bounce ideas off! 

So, introducing: daft questions. 

Ask us what you would ask your line manager, your HR department or your best work buddy if you had one. Ask us the things you wished you’d asked in your teacher training, or that you’d ask your coach if you could afford one on an ongoing basis.

There’s two golden rules for each and every question:

- it’ll be answered to the best of our ability 

- there’s never any judgement

So simply make a note or your qs when they come to mind and join us on Instagram on the first Wednesday morning of each month to ask your daft questions

Oh and just a heads up - there’s really no such thing as a daft question.

See you Wednesday 5th Feb! 

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If you’ve ever wondered whether emotions affect your fascial matrix, or whether tension in the matrix can affect your emotions… then this is the episode for you!


This is a thought-provoking look at fascia through the lens of just being a human; briefly looking at theories behind the mechanisms of emotional release, stress, stuck emotions and more.

Accompanying this episode is a free journal prompt sheet, to help you understand your thoughts, your personal experiences and views around the relationship between fascia and emotions, you can get yours here.

See the shownotes here  

And don’t forget to let us know what you think!
 
 Happy teaching, wonderful yoga teachers.

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This episode is amazing definitions of fascia for yoga teachers.

*But* the plural; definitions, is a little confusing right!? Well, there is still an element of confusion and an element of evolution of exactly what the terms fascia and the fascial system mean. 

That aside, this episode looks at definitions and explanations of fascia according to some extremely wise experts, and we briefly explore why these are important to bear in mind as yoga teachers. 

See the shownotes here 

There’s two very useful resources for diving deeper:

* Fascia and the Nervous System, yoga research session on The Base: catch it here - use code COMMUNITY for 25% off your first three months.

* Training: Myofascial release, energetic anatomy and yin yoga

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Myofascial Release, Energetic Anatomy and Yoga, Apr 26

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If building your private yoga offering is something that you want to work on in 2025, then starting with people who already come to your classes; people who already know and like your style of teaching is an absolute no-brainer.

But, approaching and asking people who attend your group classes if they’d like a one to one with you can be a bit of a minefield, well no more!

This is your step-by-step guide to getting private yoga bookings from your group yoga classes.

See the shownotes here

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Useful episodes: 

Episode 52 - How much to charge for private yoga lessons

Episode 53 - How to build a solid private yoga client base

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Private yoga sessions are unique in that you can use your time, knowledge and focus all on one person. You don’t have to keep the rest of a class running while you help one person with their alignment or their pain.

Next week, we’ll look at how to get private yoga bookings from your group classes, in a way that’s not susceptible to imposter syndrome and totally beneficial to both you and the potential client, so tune in next week for that.

But anyway, back to the koshas.  This is where we’re going in today’s episode:
* A quick refresher of the five koshas
* Using the Koshas as a framework for your Private Sessions
* Using the kosha system to really help your private yoga clients

See the shownotes here

When working one-on-one, the kosha system gives you a framework to tailor your sessions to the student’s needs holistically, and this is something that you can work through methodically, making sure that your private yoga clients are always getting a hugely beneficial and well-rounded session. While we definitely don’t want people to be struggling to pay for sessions with us, it is nice to have a valid reason to keep clients coming back to you, and working with all the layers of the koshas can certainly be that very valid reason.

If you’d love to learn more about the overlaps between fascia and energetic anatomy, this training is for you

If you’d love to learn more about Yoga Nidra (or even just see what it’s like to practice two gorgeous Yoga Nidra’s a day), then this training is for you

Both of these gems are part of our fabulous 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, take a look at that here!

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Myofascial Release, Energetic Anatomy and Yoga, Apr 26

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Last week’s episode was all about understanding the koshas, and today, we’re taking that up a level, looking at layering your yoga asana classes with this understanding of the koshas. 

This is where we’re going; 

- A review of what the koshas are

- How to work with each kosha in your yoga asana classes

Make sure you bookmark this episode, as it’ll serve as a guide for anytime you’re low on inspiration, or looking for a way to work with someone who’s struggling a bit with asana, this is where working with the kosha model is so empowering and so full of potential, because you’ve got four other routes to be able to work with this person, and to help them. You could work with their breath and / or their energy. You could use a ‘top-down’ approach, working with the mental body, with intention, or mindfulness techniques. You could guide them to connect with their inner wisdom, and you could guide them to connect with a sense of their inner peace. SO much potential, SO much inspiration.
 
Enjoy, yoga teachers!

See the shownotes here 

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Understanding the koshas can be totally transformative to your yoga teaching.

If you've been put off the koshas before, concerned that they don't really make sense, or they don't really offer anything concrete to actually work with... this episode is for you!

Expect to understand a) what the koshas are and b) how they can help you, as a person and as a yoga teacher.

Enjoy!

See the shownotes here

Oh and by the way, if you liked this, you'll LOVE our Myofascial Release, Energetic Anatomy and Yin Yoga training, in March 2025 

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This powerful practice is taken from our recent Yoga Nidra & Yoga Wisdom training, and is inspired by the incomparable Tracee Stanley.

Grab anything you need to get comfortable, and grab your journal and a pen too as there's optional journal prompts at the end.

And above all, enjoy!

See the shownotes here

Join our next Yoga Nidra & Yoga Wisdom training here! 

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"Any intervention on the fascia is also an intervention on the autonomic nervous system"
- Staubesand in 2003

This podcast episode is  inspired by a yoga research session held this week on The Base, which looked at studies investigating the nature of the relationships between fascia and how the nervous system reads stress and pain, which was really interesting from a whole-person holistic perspective; in that someone’s pain or chronic stress can potentially be altered through working with the fascia - I mean wowza!

See the shownotes here

In this episode, we cover:
- A brief history of fascia
- What fascia actually is, even though it’s proving pretty difficult to define!
- How the nervous system and the fascia interact with each other and live alongside each other, and affect each other
- How this helps you, as a yoga teacher, teach yoga

If you want to watch the Yoga Research session on The Base, you can catch it here - use code COMMUNITY for 25% off your first three months.

This episode is a sliver taken from our super exciting 300-hour yoga teacher training module: Myofascial Release, Energetic Anatomy and Yin Yoga  is designed to deeply explore two important but often unexplored areas of yoga; the fascia and energetic anatomy, and the unique relationship these two share. 

Both fascial anatomy and energetic anatomy have a huge impact on our physical and mental wellbeing. This training will break down what fascia is, how it impacts our physical and mental health, and how to use this knowledge to create a rewarding and therapeutic practice for ourselves and our yogis, before exploring yoga’s subtle energy; prana, nadis, chakras and prana vayus and the role of prana in understanding holistic health.  We’ll then go on to understand the relationship between movement, myofascial release, energetic anatomy and how we feel. 

Expect to graduate with a whole host of options now at your disposal to layer on to your classes, feeling inspired and ready to teach what you’ve learned, and t

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