Six Secrets of Effective Cueing

Six Secrets of Effective Cueing

You’re well on your way to teaching your first class, or maybe you’ve already started but still lack confidence in the cueing department.  The first step is to know you’re not alone!  All new teachers struggle with confidence in the beginning. It’s a scary thing to get up in front of a group of people […]

10 Tips for Finding Your Niche

10 Tips for Finding Your Niche

As a new teacher you will be super excited about receiving your teaching certification (as you should be!) and will most likely jump at your first opportunity to teach. This is perfectly understandable and normal! You will need to experience teaching for some time before you decide on a niche for which you are best […]

How to Theme a Yoga Class

How to Theme a Yoga Class

Themes? I’m not even sure that word came up in our teacher training. Well, maybe it did. It certainly wasn’t something we focused on or spent any serious time discussing. And honestly, in my opinion, it can be one of the most difficult aspects of planning and teaching a class. You’ll most likely want to […]

How to Plan and Teach Yoga Workshops

How to Plan and Teach Yoga Workshops

So, you’ve decided to teach a workshop! Now what?  Where do you begin?  In this post, I will share my experience and strategies for developing, planning, and teaching workshops. You may assume since I have not been teaching yoga for very long that I don’t have much experience in this area but in a former […]

How to Cultivate Relationships & Build Your Yoga Teacher Brand

How to Cultivate Relationships & Build Your Yoga Teacher Brand

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou Why a post about relationships? Read on and you’ll understand why it is something worth giving some thought BEFORE you begin your teacher journey. You will be building, nurturing, and […]

Teaching With Music

Teaching With Music

Have you ever taken a yoga class without music? When I first started practicing, my teacher didn’t use music of any kind during our practice.  Since I hadn’t practiced yoga before, I didn’t know any difference and actually, since I was just learning and focusing completely on the teacher, it might have been a good […]

My Favorite Teachers

My Favorite Teachers

Hopefully, you signed up and received Yoga Teacher Journey’s free guide: 10 STEPS TO START TEACHING WITH CONFIDENCE NOW, and you’ve read Step 3,  Emulate Other Successful Teachers.  This is fundamental when it comes to finding inspiration, your own voice and your own teaching style.  By continuing to take classes, observing, and emulating successful teachers, […]

Hello and Welcome!

Hello and Welcome!

This website was created with you in mind! Like many new yoga teachers, I came out of my initial YTT (Yoga Teacher Training) feeling somewhat unprepared, lacking confidence, and doubting my abilities. This was due in part to my lack of teaching experience, since there is little time in the 200 hour YTT devoted to […]

How I Chose My 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program

How I Chose My 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program

How did I choose my 200 hour yoga teacher training program? Well, I was still working full-time when I decided I wanted to explore the yoga teaching path. My mentor, my teacher for the past 12 years had told me she thought I’d make a good teacher. “Why?” I thought. I’d been practicing for all […]