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Creativity in the Yoga Industry and 15 Innovative Job Possibilities for Instructors

When addressing creativity and innovation within the yoga industry, we are talking about making the practice increasingly accessible and relevant to a variety of people in different situations and places. Some of these places may seem unlikely, but that’s exactly what creativity is about: thinking outside the box and opening…

California Dream: How to Become a Yoga Instructor in “The Golden State”

We’re excited to share with you a guide to a destination so beloved by the yoga world: California. It sounds like a dream, right?  Becoming a yoga instructor in California could be the key to unlocking this extraordinary reality and making your yoga journey even more inspiring. This blog post…

One Earth Project

Sophia Bartolini is the mind, body, and spirit that has brought the One Earth Project to life. She is a female filmmaker, with a mission to empower women by giving them a platform to share their stories on a global scale. Through her work, she aims to spread important messages…

Yoga Market & Trends 2024

We are about to witness revolutions in various markets, and ideally, the yoga market should not be left out in such challenging and important times for humanity, as it is where the balance between body, mind, and spirit becomes more than a concept — it becomes a transformative and peaceful…

Yoga Adventure in the World

Welcome, adventurers! Today, let’s embark on an extraordinary journey together, exploring essential information for an authentic yoga adventure around the world. If you’re ready to explore new horizons while deepening your practice, this guide will be your indispensable companion. 1. TIME TRAVEL Our adventure begins in the Indus Valley, approximately…

Transformative Travel: Blossoming Abroad

I always wanted to live in Europe. Ever since I was a kid studying world maps in geography class I knew I would move to Spain, specifically. It was a dream, turned into a plan, turned into reality of transformative travel. After years of wanting, wishing, and waiting, my seven-year-old…

Forgetting What You Know to Find Yourself

On vulnerability, building + breaking boundaries, and chance-taking to craft your life and become “teacher”. Those who practice yoga understand weightlessness, the equilibrium of calm and charge and the overwhelming desire to pay it forward. Teaching is no easy feat and undoubtedly evokes healthy doses of imposter syndrome and comparison…

Claiming Your Identity as a Yoga Teacher

A personal story about taking action, claiming your identity as a yoga teacher, and the magic of time. From Desert Seas to Songs of the Jungle: The Sahara was once a deep and vast tropical ocean, teeming with aquatic life. Its once brazen waters, kindred to today’s equatorial oceans, now…

Staying Open

In late September of 2022 I landed in Bali for my first trip to Indonesia’s well-known jewel of health-conscious travel, pumping surf, and yoga galore. However, I only spent a short 36 hours in Bali before departing. My real destination was a remote island in the archipelago. I had a…

Meet Yoga Teacher: Catherine Haut

This week we’re grateful to catch up with yoga teacher and beautiful human, Catherine Haut. Yoga Trade and the Yoga Farm brought us together and we love to bear witness to her blossoming and becoming! Here we get a glimpse of Catherine’s story and learn about her passion for mini…

Yoga Teacher Travels: Shruti Shah

Here we catch up with Shruti Shah, a yoga instructor from Mumbai, India, currently working at Costa Dulce in Nicaragua. Shruti has been a Yoga Trade community member for 3 years, is exploring the world sharing her gifts, and is in the process of writing a story for a newspaper in Mumbai. Learn…

Mammoth Yoga Festival 2022

Join us at the Mammoth Yoga Festival this year! We hope you will gather with us in the mountains June 16th – 19th, 2022 in Mammoth Lakes, California. We attended this festival in 2021 and this location, community, and experience are all super special. We are excited to announce that…

Become Your Dream: Ava Taylor

Ava Taylor is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of YAMA Talent and the GM of Bodynova North America. She is a dedicated yogi, and a tenacious + creative entrepreneur with her finger on the pulse of the rapidly expanding yoga industry. Ava is well-connected, in the ‘right place at the right time,’…

Earth Speak Magic

There are have been some amazing communities birthed online over the past decade, and Earth Speak is one of them. Earth Speak is a community honoring earth-based spirituality for connection, belonging, and renewal. This community is on a mission to help intuitive earth-loving people to know that their own magic is…

Jungle Soul Mama

I met Blakely Stein ‘jungle soul mama’ in Costa Rica many moons ago, and have been fortunate to be a witness to her growth and transformation over the years. From seeing her host community food events, to her elegant progression in surfing, to creating a successful boutique hotel business, and becoming a MOTHER,…

Getting Real About Resilience

This article was first published on the Vira Bhava Yoga blog HERE.  The opportunity to practice resilience came to me, as grace often descends, through the offering of direct experience. In June, I was offered a monumental test of my own resilience.  My father was diagnosed with end stage lung…

Kāma: Portable Platforms for Mindful Adventures

What a joy to meet Rachel Dobronyi this summer at Tahoe Outdoor Yoga at Kiva Beach!  This very special human is the founder of Kāma Surface Co. Kāma designs origami-style adventure surfaces with intention. Rachel’s roots are the mountains, the sea, yoga, and mindful adventures. She has followed her heart’s calling…

Good Medicine Confluence

Plants are magical, intelligent, and often good medicine. To even dabble in herbalism is to begin to deepen and nourish our relationships with plants and our community. If we slow down and observe with awareness we see abundant healing opportunities and resilient offerings growing in the ground all around us….

Yoga Writing and Slow Travel: Ely Bakouche

We connected with Ely Bakouche several years ago through the platform she helped co found; Shut Up & Yoga. We continue to be super inspired by the approach and creativity of this digital magazine and love Ely’s perspective on yoga writing, travel, and life. Here, with catch up with Ely…

Creatrix Spotlight: SunseekCo Saanti

We met Saanti (founder of SunseekCo) this year in Costa Rica while she was working with Surf With Amigas. We love her enthusiasm for life, her handmade swimwear, and the serendipitous moment of learning that she has been a  Yoga Trade member for years. Here we catch up with Saanti…

Regenerative Practice: Pixie Lighthorse

Nature knows best. As we observe the natural world as being regenerative, we begin to realize that it is essential for us to mimic this mindfulness into our own daily existence. It can be easy to become repetitive and ‘mono-culture’ like in our yoga practice and other daily doings. This…

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