Rutu Chaudhari has been teaching mindfulness and yoga across Atlanta for over thirteen years. She holds a 2,000 hr teaching certification in Purna Yoga . Along with her extensive certification and teaching experience, Rutu has many additional hours of training in yoga therapeutics and meditation.

Rutu is the Director of Atlanta’s top yoga teacher certification program, through which she has certified over 60 teachers. She is the owner of a thriving yoga studio in Atlanta called All Life is Yoga.Rutu is also the Executive Director of The Dharma Project, whose mission is to bring self-care practices to public servants and the communities they serve. She is currently participating in the Civic Women’s Fellowship, awarded by Center for Civic Innovation and Sara Blakely, to receive mentorship and leadership training for The Dharma Project.

See more from Rutu on her website – A Life Is Yoga

Follow Rutu on IG @alllifeisyoga and Facebook Page

If you are in the Atlanta area stop in at All Life Is Yoga and take a class!

Also please take a look at the Dharma project, here is an amazing video they did for that project.

They have a fundraiser happening as well. If you can help in anyway, here is the link.

Using Walls To Build Bridges

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My brother and I have a ton of fun messing with our Dad, it comes from a higher love, like Steve Winwood 1983. This was recorded during Thanksgiving at my dads house and I was relentless with the yoga talk but think its starting to sink in, I could totally see my Dad trying a class now. Although he has a love for cigarettes, soda, lighter guns, CD’s and war world II books, I felt a shift in him this day. We get pretty serious about Steve Winwood (higher love 1983) and the real meaning of thanksgiving. We also touch on the underwater cigarette and think it could really be a thing, but also realize that it wouldn’t line up very well with a yoga business so I have decided to ditch that idea. Listen in and enjoy your day!

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Ashley Jonas (E-RYT), started practicing yoga in 2010 to help improve her performance as a college athlete. In 2013, after experiencing the benefits of a daily yoga practice, she received her 200-hr yoga teacher certification and began teaching vinyasa yoga, the most accessible style of power yoga. Ashley is also a Budokon® Yoga Sensei trained through the Budokon Mixed Movement Academy with Cameron Shayne. She is inspired by all movement styles including martial arts, calisthenics, running, weight lifting and dance. Her classes are fun, yet challenging with focus on finding the yogi warrior within. Ashley was very upfront about how she makes a living from being a yoga instructor and I feel the episode will help anyone looking to make this a full time gig. Much love to you and enjoy your day!! 

Check out Ashley’s Site – AshesYoga.com

Follow her on her Facebook Page and Twitter

She also has a cool mini series on her Youtube channel too!

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Nina is a North California based teacher registered with Yoga Alliance, trained in the Hatha tradition by Shane Davies and Smart Flow with Annie Carpenter. Always seeking a deeper understanding of yoga and movement, she is currently pursuing her 500 hrs YTT in Smart Flow.

Although Danish born and raised, her yoga journey started over a decade ago whilst living in England, as a means to counteract the impact, years of high level horse riding had on her body. A few years later, having moved to California, she discovered her talent (and obsession) for arm balances and inversions, and the road to becoming a yoga teacher became a natural development from then on.

Nina is a self-confessed anatomy geek, but likes bending the rules and challenge yoga dogma. Her approach to asana is based on bio-mechanic intelligence and she is known for her ability to break down handstands and arm balances, teaching students anatomically correct body engagement. Nina works from the principle that asana is a union of strength, flexibility, balance and breath, but also thinks it imperative to inject playfulness and fun into her practice and teaching. 

Find more from Nina with the links below!

ninajarnumyoga.com

IG ninajarnumyoga 

 

facebook: Nina Jarnum Yoga  

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Andrew Gordon is back on the show! This time we talk goat yoga and the other interesting opportunities that yoga studio owners get, this episode we stay pretty focused on goats. Great episode if you want to get into goat, or any kind of animal yoga. Andrew started practicing yoga in 2002 and fell in love right away.  After working 10 years as a radio host and getting his Masters in Education, he turned to yoga looking for an answer and a purpose. Yoga helped him lose 60lbs and lower his cholesterol/blood pressure from life-threatening numbers, to optimal health. As his practice grew, a friend encouraged him to do Yoga Teacher Training. The decision to do the training changed him forever.  Listen in to what he has to share about goats and how this can fit and work within the yoga studio!

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All the photos (except the one of Andrew) were provided by Lainey Morse from Goat Yoga.Net

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Michelle S. Fondin is the author of The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda: An Easy Guide to a Healthy Lifestyle, Help! I Think My Loved One Is an Alcoholic: A Survival Guide for Lovers, Family, & Friends, and upcoming books: Enlightened Medicine: Your Power to Get Well Now and Chakra Healing for Vibrant Energy (New World Library, 2018). Michelle ran The Ayurvedic Path yoga studio from 2008-2015. She has taught at Deepak Chopra’s workshops and writes for Chopra Lifestyle. Michelle teaches yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda at her home studio.

Save thousands of dollars, jump ahead of your competition, and thoroughly understand the business of yoga before you begin in Michelle’s new book. Every bit of business knowledge she acquired over the past decade, is in this book. She spared nothing so you can excel. From the best marketing strategies, to building a solid client base, and an unbreakable reputation, you will get to appreciate teaching yoga instead of getting caught up in the trial and error of the first years in business.

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Fourteen years ago Jon began yoga in a teacher training, and was where he took his first yoga class. It was actually a practice that began to quell his mind’s desires and addictions to pain and suffering.  Through a daily practice and much guidance, the links between his breath, mind, body and unique spirit gave Jon a heightened sense of the importance of love on all levels…for the individual self and all beings surrounding it. 

Jon teaches at Trilogy and Buddhi Yoga. Check him out!

Also writes poetry on Instagram @jonoldrowe

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Nicole tried her first yoga class at Guilford College in 1992 because she thought it would be an easy elective. It was and it wasn’t. She adored her first yoga teacher for being funny and very strong, even though her teacher was really old…..like, forty (ahem)! So Nicole began practicing yoga more regularly and sampled styles and teachers as often as possible. After moving to Atlanta, Georgia at the end of 1994, she structured her life to include at least four yoga classes each week. With the physical practice established, her interest grew beyond her yoga mat and into other limbs of the discipline.

With a background in the music business, Nicole’s schedule included very late nights. She needed an anchor, something to tether her to a true foundation. She credits her yoga practice and studies for illuminating what was truly important—respect for herself and the friends who continually surfaced when she needed support. Shortly after marrying a yoga-loving musician (surprise!), she decided to further cement her commitment to her yoga practice by completing a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Peachtree Yoga with Graham Fowler, Elizabeth Nix, and Sean Tebor.

Nicole has been teaching yoga since early 2004, with Decatur Yoga as her home base, although she’s fortunate to also work with other yoga studios, gyms, and schools.

Check out the Southeast Yoga Conference for upcoming 2018 dates and follow them on their Facebook Page.

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Ché Dyer is a Yoga teacher and “general creative” living in London and her aim is to bring people creative inspiration for health, happiness and healing. Her favorite style of yoga to teach is Vinyasa Flow for the way it allows the student to connect with movement, breath and the body. Alongside teaching yoga she has a range of funny yoga themed stationery, greeting cards and offers commissioned graphics particularly for yoga teachers, which draws on her background in graphic design. At the point where her yoga and creative worlds collide, Ché offers an online Creative Yoga Coaching program “Voyage to the Soul” where people can dive into a guided exploration of self love, purpose, intuition, and creativity.

 

 

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Check her website CheDyer.com When you purchase a guide, use the code YOGITONES to save %15 on your purchase!

 

 

 

 

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Nikki Krause is back!! In this episode of the Yogi Tones podcast we talk playlist for yoga teachers. If you want to create a great playlist for your class then this episode is for you. Thankfully Nikki Krause gives us the goods and breaks down all the ways to really create an awesome playlist. Nikki is a trained DJ and a Rock Star yoga teacher who has also studied Nada Yoga (yoga of sound) and shares tips and ideas for new and experienced yoga teachers about playlist for their yoga class.

 

Helpful links for a great playlist –

 

5 tips for creating a great playlist

 

Pro tips for making playlist for yoga teachers

 

Video about playlist in a yoga class

 

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