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A New Year for Yoga Teachers
Growth, Community, and the Practice of Staying Open The end of a year has a particular weight that (seemingly) immediately dissipates overnight as the calendar turns. Reflection and remembrances arrive welcomed or intrusive. For yoga teachers, this moment often surfaces familiar questions that shape new intentions: Am I still growing?…
Na Selva: Oca Yary and The Cacao Coast
“Aqui na Oca Yary, somos diariamente lembrados de que não somos separados da natureza. Somos natureza.” We are not separate from nature. We are nature. As I write this, I’m eating açaí and thinking about two things. The first is the dilemma of sharing a place so special while wanting…
The Digital Sangha: Yoga Community
Find Community in Yoga Trade’s Welcome Circle An online community can feel counterintuitive. We tend to associate real community with intimacy, something experienced in person. Yet preserving that sense of belonging today requires adaptation rather than resistance. Connection doesn’t dissolve online; it reforms. Yoga Trade facilitates expansion beyond local and…
On Starting Out, Safety & Social Media as Yoga Teachers
Honest answers to your Yoga Trade questions “Seek awe and nature daily…show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately.” — Julia Baird Things in life find you when you need them. Yoga and travel too. Motivations are intimate;…
Connections That Matter: Conscious Networking with Yoga Trade
The power of community can’t be overstated. By participating in the wider Yoga Trade community, you tap into a global network of retreat owners, yoga teachers, and wellness practitioners across various disciplines. Engaging with others on this platform goes beyond simple networking—it opens doors to collaboration, insider tips, business opportunities,…
The Yoga Year Past: 2025 Wellness Travel Work Trades
2025 Wellness Travel: Since childhood, the holidays have been a time of reflection, gratitude and intention setting for the year ahead. While I rarely set strict New Year’s resolutions, I’d always consider where I wanted to direct my energy and what I would shed or gain to evolve. Growing up…
A Conscious Approach to Yoga Travel: Moksha Yoga Amazonica
To many, the concept of yoga travel involves a week-long retreat or wellness vacation at a beautiful and tranquil resort with daily classes and healthy foods. While a seven day reset may be all some are looking for, what if the mainstream idea of yoga travel became reimagined to a…
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…
Mask of Light and Ho’oponopono
Lately my sister will call me on a video chat while she’s driving home in the evening, phone is in the hands free stand on her dash, and as the sun is setting the light that hits her face with the visor down, illuminates only her mouth, cheeks and nose,…
Can Yoga Lead the Way to Sustainable Tourism?
As I walk through the streets of Zurich, Switzerland, on a sunny Saturday in early June – about a month after the Swiss Covid-19 lockdown ended – I overhear two women sitting in a café talking about the summer vacation plans they had to cancel (“Well, I guess we can…
Yoga Philosophy as a Path of Self-Realization in the Real World
Yoga has been my exercise, hobby, and side-gig for nearly my entire adult life. Through cross-planet moves, falling in love and getting my heart broken, a global pandemic (say what?!), losing loved ones and jobs, career changes, and quarter life crises — yoga has been there every step of the…
A Non-Intentional, Intentional Community: How a YTT Fostered Community During a Crisis
In response to a few cases of COVID in Peru, the Peruvian president closed the borders to all travel entering and leaving the country. For us, this was half way into a 200 hour YTT. 20 students were from the US, Canada, and Europe. The 4 teachers were from Peru…
The Art Of Staying Put: How World Traveler Yogis Can Tap into Their Skills to Survive COVID-19 Confinement
Like a row of dominos you accidentally start, country after country around the world have made decisions we never thought possible: they are urging us to stay home for the good of all and have closed their borders. For once, those of us who usually have the privilege to travel…
This Is Where We Learn to Trust
This article was first published by Vira Bhava Yoga The day after I returned from India, I received a text from a good friend of mine who had been in the jungle of Colombia on a vision quest. It said simply, “can you talk soon, I’m feeling like its important…
International Yoga Teachers: Ron Reid and Marla Meenakshi Joy
Here we get an inside glimpse into the lives of international yoga teachers, Ron Reid and Marla Meenakshi Joy. Join them in Costa Rica this April! How many yoga trainings and retreats have you led? We started teaching internationally in 2001….in Europe…before many other American yoga teachers hit the scene…
Homemade Wellness Shots
Wellness is all the rage these days and what better way to keep up with the trends than by slamming homemade wellness shots??? Heck yeah!!! In lieu of the hard stuff, swap out your trusty tequila for this majestic moonshine. Like tequila, this too will give you that warm and fuzzy…
Living in the Flow of Life: Connect to Source
Yoga. Dance. Surfing. Diving. Writing. Meditation. Running. Climbing. Swimming. Chanting. Painting. Breathwork. Hiking. While distinct in form, practices like these (and many others!) have one powerful thing in common: – from the inside-out – with the sensuous, circadian rhythms of life. Flow experiences can catch us at any time, in…
Authenticity in Yoga Teaching
Before starting to talk about authenticity in teaching yoga, let’s look first at what is personal authenticity? Authentic, that is something genuine… Authenticity; being real, being true to yourself… “Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” ~Oscar Wilde The root of the word “authenticity” in Latin language is “author”, so being…
Find What You Love and Love What You Find
The life of a freelance yoga instructor, self-defense teacher and adventure sports writer involves a lot of free time. I used to devote an embarrassing amount of that free time to trawling the Yoga Trade website. The secret to using the site well is to know when to daydream about…
Wellness and Healing at Home
Winter is often a hard time of year for many people with its grey skies and overabundance of darkness. The cold and precipitation can easily keep you from venturing outside, but that shouldn’t prevent you from maintaining your personal wellbeing. It is during this time of year that we look…
Buena Vibra GIVEAWAY!
***UPDATE December 18, 2019: Big congrats to the winner of this giveaway: @lucia088 !!! Thank you to all who entered and all those who support this flourishing community. Much love! We are excited to announce the Buena Vibra GIVEAWAY! Thanks to each and every one of you for helping make our community…
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