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October 11, 2020
Coming in January: 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Online in Real Time
If you’ve adapted to the rhythms of online meetings, whether begrudgingly or enthusiastically, and you’ve always been intrigued by the idea of taking a yoga teacher training, this might be your moment to enjoy it, wherever you are!
The Carolina Yoga Company 200-hour yoga teacher training has run for 10 years in person. Because of social distancing guidelines, we will now be offering our weekday nine-week program starting in January online in real time. And you can register with the Yoga Alliance, if you so choose, at the end of the program, as they have approved online learning through the end of 2021.
We meet Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 9:00 a.m.–noon and 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m., January 12–March 18, 2021. Each day is filled with plenty of movement and ample breaks, so while you’ll have the computer at hand, there will be lots of time to integrate the theory of what you learn in somatic practice.
You’ll learn from me, our wonderful lead teacher Jenni Tarma, my business partner Lies Sapp, and a host of wonderful guest teachers as we explore the range of approaches to yoga practiced today and the basics of how to teach a class in person or online to help your students best.
Interested? Next steps:
Read all about the programPick up The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook to learn more about yoga teacher trainings, prospects for new teachers, and what a career or side gig as a yoga teacher entails, and to begin to define your own vision and role as a teacherContact me to discuss your questionsApply here!
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October 5, 2020
Résumé Time
With studios starting to reopen for in-person classes or looking for new online teachers, now is a good time to brush up or create your yoga teaching résumé—even if you aren’t currently teaching. And if you aren’t a yoga teacher, it’s still a good time to update your résumé to reflect your new skills hosting online meetings, working remotely, and pivoting to the new normal.
In The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook, I explain how to craft a résumé as a movement teacher. You’ll find a précis of this advice in the sample résumé on the book’s resources page, along with a Word template you can work directly into. Some of my yoga teacher training students have also generously shared their own fresh-out-of-YTT résumés, to give you a model. Have a look:
Sample Résumé PDFRésumé Template (Word)Lena’s RésuméMelissa’s Résumé
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September 22, 2020
Reviews Matter! Please Add Yours
If you’ve spent time with The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook or any of my books, please consider adding a rating and a review at Amazon, Goodreads, Powell’s, or your local independent bookseller’s website. Such reviews go a huge way in getting the book into the hands of people who’d benefit from it. I can’t overstate the importance!
If you have read the book, you’ll find the workbook file and lots of extra resources at the book’s resource page here. Please enjoy!
And please let me know if you have questions that the book didn’t cover for you. I’ll do my best to answer them here!
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September 15, 2020
Now Available: Audiobook of The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook
If you like to listen to your books and want to be the best yoga teacher you can be, today is your lucky day: the audiobook version of The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook is now available! You can buy it here in CD format, or listen on Audible.
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This book especially lends itself to audio format. It’s all the advice I have to give teachers, written in a conversational format. I had a great time reading it—including doing some voices!—and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
If you do, or if you have read the book and enjoyed it, I’d be very grateful for a five-star rating and, better yet, a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Powell’s, or wherever you like to review books. It makes a huge difference for sales and for getting the book into the hands of people who would benefit from it. So does telling your colleagues and yoga teacher trainers about the book. Thank you!
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September 8, 2020
Now Available: The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook—and a New Site to Match
Today is publication day for The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook! And to go with it, a have a spanking-new website and a new learning management system for my online courses for yoga and movement teachers.
The book is designed for aspiring and current teachers at any and every point in their careers. I cover everything from choosing a yoga teacher training to leading a yoga teacher training. I hope my experiences will help teachers of any and every stripe be more clear and professional, for the benefit of the field and for their students.
At this new site, you’ll find a host of resources tied to the book, including a workbook file you can print, beautifully formatted by the publisher, and a file you can type into if you prefer. There are also loads of recommended resources and equipment. Please have a look around!
Order a signed, personalized copy of the bookOrder from your favorite bookseller—here’s a comprehensive listListen to the audiobook, read by yours trulyRead an excerpt from the book at Elephant JournalExplore the resources for yoga teachersTake a course to improve your teaching
Once you’ve spent some time with the book, I would be very grateful if you rate and review it at Amazon, Goodreads, and your favorite booksellers’ sites. Such reviews make a huge difference in getting the book into the hands of people who would benefit. Please also tell your colleagues and your teacher trainers about the book! And if you get a paper copy, I’d love to see a photo with you holding it—use #yogateacherhandbook. Thanks so much in advance.
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August 27, 2020
Newly Certified: Joy Zazzera
Meet Joy Zazzera, the most recently certified graduate of my Teaching Yoga to Athletes course! This is an especially happy introduction for me to make, as Joy is a special teacher who is uniquely sympathetic to the needs of athletes and anyone who could stand to chill out.
From her youth, Joy went hard at any sport she could, to the point where she had both knees replaced by the time she turned 41. She says, “I never knew how important athletic recovery was because none of the coaches I had ever played for talked about it. Even after a decade working in collegiate athletics, being around highly competitive student-athletes and coaches, there still wasn’t much being presented in terms of how yoga and dedicated athletic recovery practices could complement athleticism and invoke a sense of athletic longevity. Even though I had been practicing yoga since my mid-twenties, I never made the connection (which blows my mind, lol!) that this might be great for athletes. Once I took Sage’s workshop, it became clear that I needed to continue to spread this message to as many athletes as possible.”
As she says, Joy and I first met when she took my teachers’ workshop at Kripalu. Though she wasn’t yet a yoga teacher, she was wholeheartedly interested in the intersection of yoga and the athlete’s needs, and she let that wholeheartedness shine throughout our week together. After watching her teach a fabulous class of yoga for snowboarders, her classmates and I all knew she was a natural born yoga teacher. We encouraged her to take a full-on yoga teacher training, and she came to North Carolina that summer to do the Carolina Yoga Company’s three-week intensive YTT.
Joy’s mantra for that intensive: ALL IN. That’s a great attitude to have for teacher training, especially one that happens all at once, and it shone through her time then and after—within two months, she had opened a small studio, Yoga with Joy, and she went all in on that. It’s paid great dividends, to the point where she found a bigger space during the pandemic and will be offering her wonderful teachings there soon.
Meanwhile, Joy has been creating online content, which you can find through her website and social media:
facebook.com/doyogawithjoyinstagram.com/doyogawithjoy
And visit her when you are in or around Carbondale, PA!
In Joy’s own words, she wants to help people find recovery and balance:
“High school and college athletes who train and compete hard in their sport, adults committed to staying in shape through training and desiring a sense of physical and mental longevity, older athletic adults who are still active but dealing with old injuries and desiring improved strength and flexibility and adults facing or living with joint replacements, are whom I am most hoping to affect following my formal training in teaching yoga to athletes.
“From the time I could walk I was active in basketball, dance, and waterskiing and as I grew older continued with those sports but added running, snowboarding, street hockey, biking, and paddling to the obsessive mix of 24-7 sports. I endured total ACL reconstructive surgery early on in high school that caused me to favor one side of the body all the way into my late thirties when I was faced with two, totally deteriorated knees. I want to help others like me prevent early-onset osteoarthritis by teaching them to value recovery as part of the training process for their sport, as a way to ensure longevity for their future, and teach them how to experience more whole body strength, balance, flexibility and focus as a means to help them achieve performance gains in the present.”
Her students are so lucky!
If you’d like to join Joy as an expert in teaching yoga to athletes, start your work on the course here at my revamped website. The lectures have all been freshly updated, so you’ll be getting the most recent content.
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August 14, 2020
New Pub Date for The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook
Today I got some good news (a rarity for 2020): The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook is ahead of schedule, so its new publication date is a week earlier. If you preorder your copy now, you should expect it on or around September 8.
I can’t wait to share this book with you. It holds all the things I’ve learned in my 17 years of teaching yoga, and it’s the teacher training manual I always meant to write. In the next few weeks, I’ll be rolling out a new website and a new set of courses related to the book. Whether you’ve been teaching for years or are considering a yoga teacher training, these resources will help you move to the next level. And yes, there is lots about how to take your teaching online! In fact, you can start that right now with my Content Workshop.
My wonderful publisher has links to everywhere you might buy it on their site—buy here!
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August 7, 2020
Watch: Updated Christina’s World at Yoga Vibes
My latest video online at Yoga Vibes is an updated version of my Christina’s World sequence, which also appears in Everyday Yoga. Here’s a taste:
View the full video and many more from me here. If you want to subscribe, the code sagevibes will save you $50 on an annual subscription!
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July 27, 2020
A Word on Newsletters
As I confess in The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook (now available for preorder and publishing September 15!), writing newsletters is one of my least-favorite tasks both as an author/yoga teacher and as a small business owner.
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t critical! Especially in times like these, where you may be changing your schedule or operating procedures week to week, having a newsletter list is crucial for helping you reach your most dedicated and interested customers.
Because that’s exactly what your list subscribers are: dedicated and interested. They asked to hear your news! If you find yourself dreading drafting a newsletter, as I frequently do, remember that a newsletter reaches your most eager and receptive audience. Share something of substance like a useful tip or link, and they will be glad to have it. (Or they’ll delete but still keep you in their awareness, which is also fine!)
I’ve found a hack (and this is not a paid post!) by using the Mail Poet newsletter plug-in for WordPress. It offers a “post notifications” feature, so that every post to my blog is pulled into a newsletter that goes out weekly if, and only if, there’s fresh content. But you can also use any of the familiar newsletter programs (MailChimp and Constant Contact are the current leaders in the field) to reach your audience.
You’ll find lots more advice on writing a newsletter and on content creation in general in The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook, so please put in your preorder with your favorite bookseller today!
Sidebar 1
If you don’t find a newsletter useful, definitely unsubscribe! Any well-made newsletter should have a one-click unsubscribe button or link at the bottom. Since many small businesses pay tiered pricing based on the number of subscribers, unsubscribing if you don’t read the messages is actually a kindness to the business.
Sidebar 2
To get past spam filters, it’s a best practice to have a double opt-in setup, where people ask for your newsletter, then are sent a confirmation link. My list is set up this way, and just last week I re-sent all the confirmation e-mails that hadn’t been clicked on when they first went out. This bumped up my subscriber list considerably! You might be reading this because you saw it! Or, if you’re reading this after clicking through on social media or from RSS, you can subscribe to the newsletter right here.
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July 24, 2020
Newly Certified: Jennifer Schell
Meet Jennifer Schell, a newly certified graduate of my online course, Teaching Yoga to Athletes! Jennifer started with the content side of the course and collected her homework as she went along, then submitted it all to me when she upgraded to certification. This is a smart way to move through the training if you want to do it one unit at a time or aren’t sure whether you want full certification, which involves lots of back-and-forth with me (and thus lots of prompts and listening to me!).
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Jennifer and I have a lot in common. We both live in North Carolina, have degrees from UNC–Chapel Hill, and parent two teenage daughters. Both of us fell in love with yoga because of prenatal yoga classes. But unlike me, Jennifer has a really cool sports background—she fenced for Carolina!—and her first yoga teacher training was in hot yoga.
Since then, she’s been slowly ramping down the intensity of the yoga she teaches, moving from Bikram to Baptiste to gentle, restorative, and yin classes, and she has been studying mindfulness techniques. She brings this complementary approach—yin to the yang of training—to a competitive youth swim team and a football team in Greensboro, as well as to her regular weekly students. She’s been continuing to teach online during the shutdown, and I got to enjoy a lovely class with her from her beautiful home studio.
What made that class lovely, besides Jennifer’s sweet voice, perfect pacing, and calming demeanor? We never stood up! This sequence showed me that Jennifer really understands the needs of her athletic students, and she serves them by offering them practices for balance, not athletic yoga.
Wherever you are, you can take a class with Jennifer online. Write her to ask about her schedule.
If you’d like to join Jennifer as an expert in teaching yoga to athletes, start your work on the course at Sage Yoga Teacher Training. The lectures have all been freshly updated, so you’ll be getting the most recent content!
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