Feeling overwhelmed with sequencing is one of the biggest challenges that most teachers face. Even worse, it leads to burnout and lack of confidence. On this episode, Jason breaks down the 5 essential keys to help you focus your sequences, build confidence, and feel greater joy teaching your classes.

Highlights:

1:08 -- Yoga Sequencing Template

8:45 -- The Importance of Consistency

15:56 -- Anchor with Focal Points

21:29 -- Simplify your Sequences

26:44 -- Trust Yourself

We have tons of free sequencing content, including past podcasts, YouTube tutorials, and home practice sequences on our web site here: jasonyoga.com/blog/yoga-sequences/

Jason also offers a self-paced online course, The Art of Yoga Sequencing, which you can learn about at: jasonyoga.com/sequencing

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When you go through challenging times in life, does your usual yoga practice go out the window? For most of us, the answer is a begrudging, "yep." And yet, we need our yoga and meditation and self-care practices the most when life gets tough. On this episode, Jason and I chat about how we adapt our practice (and add to it), to help create the support, awareness, and safety we need to move through the inevitable hard patches of life.

You can find shownotes with resources on this episode at: yogalandpodcast.com/episode337

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Dr. Gail Parker joins me on the podcast this week! Gail is a psychologist, yoga educator, and author of two companion books that center restorative yoga as a potent healing modality for ethnic and race-based trauma. These books are incredible and have taught me so much, which is why I wanted to share them with you. Here are a few things I learned from the books and this conversation with Gail:

• An understanding of what race-based trauma is, both from an historical perspective and from lived experience.
• How people who have experienced race-based trauma often feel like it's their fault (and how this is so often reinforced by society)
• The ways that restorative yoga works for race-based trauma: You are working with the nervous system not the traumatic event, which teaches you how to recognize relaxation, immobilize without fear, and supports feeling safe in stillness without hypervigilance.
• The benefits of understanding your nervous system and attempting to discern the difference between triggers and actual threats

When we attempt to learn about racism and race-based trauma, we can (hopefully) make our yoga spaces more welcoming and inclusive! Thank you for listening and go to the shownotes for Gail's books: yogalandpodcast.com/episode336

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Jason joins me on this episode, where we delve into the practice of letting go. We talk about the many instances where the concept of letting go appears in yoga philosophy, why it's beneficial, and what is required before we endeavor to let go. We also share our personal journeys toward cultivating emotional maturity, surrender, and resilience in the face of life's challenges.

Highlights:

02:37 The Art of Letting Go

03:08 Core Strength and Yoga Philosophy

10:48 The Concept of Surrender in Yoga

16:13 Practical Applications of Letting Go

22:42 The Importance of Inner Safety

25:31 Exploring the Sensation of Safety in Yoga

26:05 Meditation and Inner Resilience

26:50 Community and Mindfulness

28:20 The Mental Game in Yoga Poses

31:43 Present Moment Awareness

34:59 Letting Go of Future Worries

37:44 Personal Stories of Letting Go

43:24 Challenges of Aging and Physical Limitations

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On this solo podcast, Jason shares a roadmap for making a sustainable living as a yoga teacher. He breaks down the importance of yoga teacher training in your career development, the importance of learning to teach higher ticket offerings, and the best ways to develop and maintain a consistent student base.

Highlights:

• Internal success and contentment
• The role of yoga teacher training
• The 4 aspects of making a living
• Yoga Teacher Mindset
• Understanding the Yoga Economy
• Developing and Maintaining Students
• Embracing Change & Adaptation

Train with Jason's Yoga Alliance accredited trainings! Enroll in his 300-Hour YTT: jasonyoga.com/300

Hone your sequencing with Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing: jasonyoga.com/sequencing

The last yoga anatomy course you will need to take! Essential Yoga Anatomy: jasonyoga.com/anatomy

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Jason joins me on this episode to talk about the challenges of making a living as a yoga teacher and how he has managed those challenges over the past 30 years. There have been many twists and turns and even some failures. We give you a peek behind the curtain of his career, honing in on 6 pivotal moments and what Jason learned from them.

Related to this episode! Next week Jason is hosting a webinar where he shares his roadmap how to make it as a yoga teacher. You can sign up for this free webinar at www.jasonyoga.com/webinar

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Giana Gambino and Bradshaw Wish of CAYA Yoga School join me this week to talk all things yoga retreats! These two have come together to create a dream-team when it comes to retreats -- they offer several domestic and international retreats per year (look for their 2025 retreat in Italy) and they've honed their process. They generously share all of their secrets in this conversation. We cover:

• How they split the workload (and the payout)
• Planning itineraries vs. farming them out
• Their marketing/sales calendar
• What goes into pricing (and what you might be forgetting)
• The food! (the thing participants often complain about the most)
• Funny retreat snafus and how they handled them
• Why you should never put a charcuterie board out if Bradshaw is on retreat with you

You can get to know Giana and Bradshaw better on their podcast A Funny Thing About Yoga

I'll put links to their retreats and yoga school on the shownotes page here: yogalandpodcast.com/episode332

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Learn how to improve your Camel Pose (Ustrasana) and help your students go deeper. This episode breaks down how to make the lower back, knees, and neck more comfortable in this posture. It also outlines the best cues to help everyone feel stronger, more flexible, and more comfortable in this backbend.

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Practicing--and teaching--Down Dog the same way every time leads to diminishing returns and stale cues. This episode breaks down 5 ways to improve Downward Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) to focus on opening your shoulders, opening your hips, stretching your hamstrings, stretching your calves and more. Perfect for yoga students and yoga teachers alike.

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I love hearing how longtime yoga teachers make this career work. This week's guest, Erin Jorich, has figured out how to use her skillset as a yoga teacher and combine it with her love for dogs.

Along with her dog, Wallace, Erin works part-time for Canine Inspired Change, an organization that brings dogs into schools, juvenile detention centers, and other settings to improve the well being and social emotional skills of the people there.

On this episode, Erin talks about how her yoga skills are transferable to the dog therapy work she does: Her years of teaching yoga make it easy for her to communicate clearly and effectively with the dog/human "teams" she trains. Her trauma-informed yoga certification means she understands the importance of giving kids choice and agency when they're working with the dogs. 

Erin finds that splitting her time between Canine Inspired Change and working as a yoga teacher afford her balance and stability that she might not have if she chose one over the other. Most importantly, as the folks she works with gain a variety of skills -- from more confidence to self-compassion to self-regulation -- she gets to witness the healing power of dogs firsthand.

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