Resources For Yoga Teachers

Pelvic Symmetry Sequence

Pelvic Symmetry Sequence

This pelvic symmetry sequence is adapted from Cecile Röst, PT and Dr. Sinead Dufour, PT, PhD. Useful for pelvic girdle pain or asymmetry.

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5 Ways to Assist Without Touch

5 Ways to Assist Without Touch

What if we want to assist without touch? Some people don’t want to be touched, for various reasons. This article will help you to assist those students.

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Art of Assists for Yoga Teachers

Art of Assists for Yoga Teachers

Art of Assists with Shannon Crow is a course devoted to helping yoga teachers to assist their students – through hands-on assists, verbal cues, pose awareness, with props and with an awareness of the yoga space and the feedback from students.

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Gentle Yoga for Hips & Shoulders

Gentle Yoga for Hips & Shoulders

Every Tuesday from 5:30-6:45pm is Hips and Shoulders Yoga at Tone Studio in Owen Sound. Read on for more information on the fall session and for printable pose cards.

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Scheduling Classes

Scheduling Classes

Today I was chatting with Maxine, our studio manager at Tone about online scheduling programs. We currently use Schedulicity for scheduling classes…

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Private Yoga Tracking Form

Private Yoga Tracking Form

I was feeling a bit overwhelmed today. I had a busy week of private yoga sessions, which is great. It was just that the paperwork was getting ahead of me.

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Anatomy of the Pelvis

Anatomy of the Pelvis

Wanting to learn the basic boney anatomy of the pelvis? You have found a great article that outlines where the bones are and how to find them.

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Batched Email Time

Batched Email Time

In my research of email and time management I began to read about batched email time. Think of it this way. If you were going to bake cookies…

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Cleaning Out My Email

Cleaning Out My Email

I think I just discovered the best email tool. You know how you sign up for those great newsletters, e-book and free things and then your inbox is full?

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Love Versus Kindness

Love Versus Kindness

If you find it difficult to show your love – to self and to others – this article might give some insights. I have replaced the word love with kindness when it has come up for me.

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Whistle Breath

Whistle Breath

Whistle breath offers calming focus and relaxation. It is a fun breath practice that we sometimes forget about. It is great for beginner students.

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Strengthen Your Core

Strengthen Your Core

Yoga students often request core strengthening aspects to a yoga practice and for great reasons. Strengthening your core helps to prevent back pain and helps to support the important pelvic organs.

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5 Keys to Hands-On Assists

5 Keys to Hands-On Assists

I have been editing the Art of Assists for Yoga Teachers manual again. I like to add to it and update it as I learn and grow as a teacher. This graphic that I created today gives some great insight to the keys of hands-on assists.

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Define Your Ideal Yoga Student

Define Your Ideal Yoga Student

When you define your ideal yoga student – it takes the guessing out of everything, from choosing a logo and colours to confirming your class calendar.

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Marketing Your Yoga

Marketing Your Yoga

As I was working on it I thought of the most common question that has come in so far from yoga teachers. What is the best advertising platform to use for marketing your yoga?

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My Referral List of Practitioners and Therapists

My Referral List of Practitioners and Therapists

At a yoga teacher training this past weekend we were discussing how a referral list of local therapists and practitioners is so helpful and that got me to thinking that it would help all yoga teachers to have an outline of the list that I have.

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Student Waiver Form

Student Waiver Form

A student waiver form provides you with four very important things — health information, contact information, a signed waiver and email consent (which is required in Canada since the Anti-Spam law was passed in 2014).

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What is a Yoga Assist?

What is a Yoga Assist?

My belief is that a yoga assist is not intended to adjust, correct or fix a student or pose. Instead a yoga assist should offer enhancement and confidence.

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Yogi Tea Recipe

Yogi Tea Recipe

Yogi Tea is an ancient healing tea in the Indian Ayurvedic tradition that is perfect for cold and flu season.
It tastes great, energizes and rejuvenates, and is wonderful for people of all ages. Your home will also smell great as it is cooking!

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Define Your Passion

Define Your Passion

Define Your Passions

What excites you now?
What do you lose track of time doing?
If you had an entire free day or weekend what would you love to do?

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Yoga for Musicians

Yoga for Musicians

I have created a Yoga for Musicians example flow (below) as an example of what breathing and stretches can be done before and during a music practice session. Feel free to share this with your yoga guides and healthcare providers to develop a practice that is suitable to your body at this time.

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Ahimsa

Ahimsa

Today I am focusing on Ahiṃsā as part of my Eight Limbs of Yoga project.
Ahimsa means nonviolence or not harming.

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Metta Meditation

Metta Meditation

Metta Meditation (also known as metta bhavana) is focused on the emotion of loving-kindness. Metta means love (in the non-romantic sense), friendliness or kindness. Bhavana means development or cultivation.

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Om Mani Padme Hum

Om Mani Padme Hum

Om Mani Padme Hum is a mantra that contains all of the teachings of the Buddha. It can be listened to, said aloud or said in your mind.

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The Sound of Truth Story

The Sound of Truth Story

The Sound of Truth Story

A devoted meditator, after years concentrating on a particular mantra, had attained enough insight to begin teaching. The student’s humility was far from perfect, but the teachers at the monastery were not worried.

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Private Yoga Class Waiver Form

Private Yoga Class Waiver Form

Here is the private yoga class waiver form that I use. The first page is a general student waiver and information form that is similar to what we use at Tone Studio in Owen Sound. Feel free to use this to format your own private yoga class waiver form.

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Eight Limbs of Yoga

Eight Limbs of Yoga

I created this eight limbs of yoga “homework” as part of the MamaNurture Prenatal Yoga teacher training last year. When one of the graduates told me that she was still using parts of it a year later I knew I wanted to share it.

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Yoga Playlist: July 2015

Yoga Playlist: July 2015

This yoga playlist is over 2 hours and incorporates songs that have Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva in them from when we talked about cycles of change and the perceived beginning, end and middle of something.

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Yoga Dance Playlist

Yoga Dance Playlist

I was so honoured when Lindsay (of DevaTree) asked me to share a Yoga Dance experience on weekend one of Expressive Arts Yoga Teacher Training. I used my “go to” Yoga Dance playlist and wanted to share it.

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Prenatal Yoga Playlist

Prenatal Yoga Playlist

Here are some of my favourite prenatal songs. It is a gentle, slow paced prenatal yoga playlist, perfect for anyone in need of nurturing, relaxation and inspiration.

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Yoga Playlist: May 2015

Yoga Playlist: May 2015

This weekend was very first session of ‘The Art of Assisting Yoga Postures’ in Owen Sound and I had lots of great feedback about the yoga playlist for our 2-hour morning yoga practice on Saturday, so I wanted to share it.

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Giving Requires Receiving

Giving Requires Receiving

As a yoga teacher I remember back to teaching 11 classes a week, 2-3 Thai Yoga Massages and 10-30 hours of administration work per week. I was driving everywhere, not eating properly, staying up late to fit more in and skipping my own yoga practice.

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PicMonkey Love

PicMonkey Love

Okay so I have to tell you about my PicMonkey love. I use it to create all kinds of projects.

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The Fuzz Video

The Fuzz Video

Often I refer to The Fuzz Video by Gil Hedley in my yoga classes and Thai Yoga Massage sessions. I share it via email or tell people to search for it when they ask questions about fascia and movement.

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Spring Yoga Playlist

Spring Yoga Playlist

In the spirit of spring and all things new I updated my “go to” yoga playlist. I used it this weekend at the yoga teacher training and wanted to share it with the yoga teachers and students and/or the music lovers out there.

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Pranayama Chart

Pranayama Chart

I created this pranayama chart for my own clarification on breath practices and how they affect the mind. I often refer to it before a teacher training, workshop or class focused on breath.

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