Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers

The podcast for yoga teachers centered around important conversations for yoga teachers to discuss, reflect, and implement. From class planning to business strategy, these conversations help yoga teachers build the business that will help keep them teaching long-term and with a sustainable income.

Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers is a health podcast hosted by Monica Bright, with 140 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 82. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Monica Bright hosts Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers, a health show with 140 episodes published.

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  Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers

  Ep 139: Should You Keep The Hips Square in Twists?

  Aug 24, 202623 min

  Teaching students to keep their hips square is one of the most consistently taught cues in yoga twists, but the anatomy behind it is more nuanced than what we were initially taught. This episode breaks down where spinal rotation actually comes from, what changes mechanically when the pelvis is allowed to move versus held still, why allowing pelvic movement can actually increase total spinal rotation rather than reduce it, and how to decide which version serves your students in any given pose. The answer is not about the position. Instead, it's about the purpose behind it. Where Spinal Rotation Actually Originates What Happens Anatomically When the Pelvis Moves When Squaring the Hips Does Serve a Purpose Why This Matters for Specific Student Bodies Poses Where Pelvic Movement Works Well Takeaways for Your Next Class Free Resource Download the free Sequencing Made Easy guide, which will offer you a clear, practical framework for building classes that are accessible and well-structured so you can stop thinking you need to start from scratch every week. Sequencing Made Easy Click HERE to send me a text & let me know your thoughts on this episode! Support the show YouTube : Yoga with Monica Bright Freebie: Yoga Sequencing for Different Injuries Let's connect: Check out my website: Enhanced Body Connect with me on Instagram Wanna work together? Book a Discovery Call Practice yoga in my online studio The Alliance (7-day free trial) Join my Newsletter for teachers below! Want me to discuss a topic? Click HERE to submit it! Become a supporter of the Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers Podcast! Starting at $3/ month.

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  Ep 138: Teaching Tip: Getting Curious About Your Language

  Aug 17, 202620 min

  As yoga teachers, we inherit most of our classroom language the same way we inherit our cueing language: from other teachers, from studio culture, from a vocabulary that has been circulating the yoga world for decades. Much of it is well-intentioned and lands exactly as we intend it to. However, some of it does not. This episode looks at how language we use around bodies, effort, and emotional release can affect students in ways we never planned, why yoga classes in particular amplify the impact of language, and what practical shifts any teacher can make starting immediately. We'll discuss how to evolve the language we use from a lens of curiosity. Topics include: Why Language Is Received Differently in a Yoga Class Your Language and Students' Body Image Trauma-Informed Teaching in Practice How Students Receive the Practice Three Practical Shifts to Use In Your Next Class Related Episodes Ep 137: Yoga Cues That Need Updating and Why Ep 132: Savasana: Everything You Need to Know Free Resources 10 Questions to Ask Injured Students Sequencing for Students with Injuries Click HERE to send me a text & let me know your thoughts on this episode! Support the show YouTube : Yoga with Monica Bright Freebie: Yoga Sequencing for Different Injuries Let's connect: Check out my website: Enhanced Body Connect with me on Instagram Wanna work together? Book a Discovery Call Practice yoga in my online studio The Alliance (7-day free trial) Join my Newsletter for teachers below! Want me to discuss a topic? Click HERE to submit it! Become a supporter of the Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers Podcast! Starting at $3/ month.

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  Ep 137: Yoga Cues That Need Updating & Why

  Aug 10, 202621 min

  Many of the cues yoga teachers use with students were built around helping students maneuver their bodies into what we think a pose is supposed to look like rather than what their bodies actually need to do. This episode examines three of the most widely used cues in yoga, breaks down what the anatomy tells us about each one, explains why individual body proportions make some of these instructions impossible for certain students to follow, and offers specific alternative language teachers can use instead. We'll cover: Why These Cues Exist "Navel to Spine" and What Actually Creates Core Stability "Flare the Ribs" and How We Should Teach Backbends Based On Spinal Movement "Stack Your Ankle Under Your Knee" and Students' Individual Bone Proportions How To Evaluate The Cues You Use Going Forward Book a Strategy Call Monica facilitates anatomy trainings for yoga teachers and mentors teachers who want to build a practice grounded in real anatomical understanding. Book a strategy call to talk about what deeper anatomy education could look like for you. Free Resources 10 Questions to Ask Injured Students Sequencing for Students with Injuries Click HERE to send me a text & let me know your thoughts on this episode! Support the show YouTube : Yoga with Monica Bright Freebie: Yoga Sequencing for Different Injuries Let's connect: Check out my website: Enhanced Body Connect with me on Instagram Wanna work together? Book a Discovery Call Practice yoga in my online studio The Alliance (7-day free trial) Join my Newsletter for teachers below! Want me to discuss a topic? Click HERE to submit it! Become a supporter of the Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers Podcast! Starting at $3/ month.

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  Ep 136: What 200-Hour YTTs Miss and Why Teachers Aren't Prepared

  Aug 3, 202620 min

  Most yoga teachers graduate from their 200-hour training with a solid foundation in philosophy, history, sequencing, and anatomy, and almost no preparation for the injured, painful, complex students who are in their classes every day. This episode examines the specific gaps in how teacher trainings currently approach injury education, what those gaps cost teachers, and three foundational changes that would make a meaningful difference without requiring yoga teacher trainings to overhaul their entire curriculum. I'll cover the following problems that need to be addressed: The Way Anatomy Is Taught Why Current Practice Teaching Doesn't Prepare Teachers The Amount Of Classes Trainees Take & What Happens In Those Classes Why Props and Modifications Aren't Always The Solution Three Things Trainings Could Do Differently How Continuing Education Helps Book a Strategy Call Monica facilitates anatomy trainings for yoga teachers and mentors teachers who want to build a practice grounded in real anatomical understanding. Book a strategy call to talk about what deeper anatomy education could look like for you. Click HERE to send me a text & let me know your thoughts on this episode! Support the show YouTube : Yoga with Monica Bright Freebie: Yoga Sequencing for Different Injuries Let's connect: Check out my website: Enhanced Body Connect with me on Instagram Wanna work together? Book a Discovery Call Practice yoga in my online studio The Alliance (7-day free trial) Join my Newsletter for teachers below! Want me to discuss a topic? Click HERE to submit it! Become a supporter of the Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers Podcast! Starting at $3/ month.

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  Ep 135: When Yoga Props Help And When They Don't

  Jul 27, 202616 min

  Yoga props are widely understood as tools for accessibility, but in practice they are often offered as an option rather than a tool to alter the biomechanics of a pose. For students who are injured or managing chronic pain, the gap between those two things matters significantly. This episode examines when props actually change something meaningful in the body and when they create the appearance of a modification without addressing what is really happening, how to think more carefully about the difference, and how to build a class culture where props are part of everyone's practice rather than a signal that something is wrong in students' bodies. Episode includes: When Props Are Not Helpful for Students in Pain When Props Are Genuinely Helpful Building a Class Culture Where Everyone Uses Props Watch Next YouTube: Why telling students to "listen to their body" is not helpful advice for students in pain [ Watch video here ] Book a Strategy Call Monica facilitates anatomy trainings for yoga teachers and mentors teachers who want to build a practice grounded in real anatomical understanding. Book a strategy call to talk about what deeper anatomy education could look like for you. Click HERE to send me a text & let me know your thoughts on this episode! Support the show YouTube : Yoga with Monica Bright Freebie: Yoga Sequencing for Different Injuries Let's connect: Check out my website: Enhanced Body Connect with me on Instagram Wanna work together? Book a Discovery Call Practice yoga in my online studio The Alliance (7-day free trial) Join my Newsletter for teachers below! Want me to discuss a topic? Click HERE to submit it! Become a supporter of the Essential Conversations for Yoga Teachers Podcast! Starting at $3/ month.

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