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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?…
Discipline Versus Reality
Intention, illness, and letting go + my (almost) Vipassana experience I’d temporarily forgotten how to slow down or switch off. Busy by my own doing, and a screen time to remind me. So I signed up for Vipassana. To recalibrate and refocus. I’ve wanted to since my 200-hour teacher training…
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…
The Lost Art of Getting Lost
Bahia’s wild coast & a weekend at Unah Piracanga Imagine a place before time. Before overconsumption and unnecessary development. When we built treehouses, not compounds, and kids grew up wild, freely roaming in nature. Locally grown food, products without preservatives, homes without locks, existing quietly in the jungle. Accessible only…
What To Do When Travel Goes Wrong
Finding grace in unraveling and self in loneliness In an ideal world, everything goes according to plan. Connections, promises, and people remain as we knew them, and the romanticized roadmap we mentally configure becomes our reality. However, most of us confront the truth of human existence as universal pawns and…
On Following Yoga, Surf, & Travel Dreams
Three years ago, I went on a retreat to the Yoga Farm in Southern Costa Rica that dramatically changed the course of my life. In May 2022, I graduated with dual master’s degrees in Environmental Science and Public Administration. Instead of walking at graduation, I submitted the final copy of…
Best Yoga Teacher Training in Bali 2025
Yoga teacher training in Bali is one of the best and most transformative things you can do for your personal growth and your practice. The island holds a unique blend of spiritual energy, natural beauty, and welcoming culture that creates the perfect setting to slow down, tune in, and fully…
Yoga Trades for Global Celebrations
Seasonal and Cultural Wellness Work Yoga trades for global immersion, celebration and rituals. I’ve always been chronically organized with thoughts and things. If the controllables had their place, I could assess figurative and literal bandwidth and determine what additions were worth allocating energy to. I always travelled on a whim…
The Yoga of Living Fully
Embracing life’s dualities through travel How sad a life would be to not let yourself feel everything. To repel emotion and instead move from one moment to the next. To be numb to the world is a disservice to yourself. The mundanities that evoke the emotion and energies of life….
The Yin and Yang of Yoga Trade
Navigating new – literal and figurative – space I often receive questions about being a full-time travelling yoga instructor and writer. The common thread in my DMs has inspired the following honest response of the highs and lows of travel work trades. Firstly, I’m a big fan of bad days;…
Yoga Therapy for PTSD & C-PTSD
More people are seeking yoga for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & Complex (C)-PTSD than ever before. Due to a growing body of research and the pioneering work of leaders within the field of trauma, many clinicians and trauma survivors are beginning to appreciate how therapeutic yoga can support healing….
Why We Teach and Travel
Curiosity and a search for wilder people “This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with…
Finding OM in Paradhis
A transformative festival experience in the magical land of Cornwall Featured Image: Ceremony at Paradhis Festival led by Abbey Lakshmi Astara There are only two places in the world where I have felt the vibration of the primordial sound of OM. Southern Costa Rica and Cornwall, England. I am drafting…
Feel the Love at Bhakti Fest!
Bhakti Fest is a beloved annual gathering in Joshua Tree, California. The positive ripple effects this festival creates are immeasurable. This year’s festival will return to the beautiful Joshua Lake & Campground, September 27-29, 2024. In 2011, I was a newish yoga teacher and attended Bhakti Fest for the first time…
Picking Your Path: A Guide for Seekers
Life is long, start where you are If you’re like me, options are often exciting and overwhelming. Yoga Trade fosters the common ambition of teachers and wellness professionals with diverse travel work opportunities, from colourful cities, humble European hillsides, slow remote islands, to mountain wilderness, and more. The only downside…
Remembering Your Inner Freedom Through Slow Travel
When we speak about moksha, liberation; we know that it doesn’t depend on external reciprocity, for we can only become free from within. We don’t have to earn freedom, buy it, or get approved by anyone. We only need to be reminded of already being free and slow travel can…
Cultivating a Symbiotic Work Exchange
How to find your fit in work and travel trade As humans, we crave fulfillment. It’s an innate shared motivator that we need a reason for doing. Traveling enriches life simply by moving beyond self-imposed borders and routine mundanity, growing our world and mind with exploration and culture. Still, for…
Entering My ‘Soft Girl Era’: Teaching Yoga in Paradise
How slowing down and teaching yoga in paradise allowed me to tap into my feminine energy and soothe my nervous system. Hi. I’m Katie. A yoga teacher & songwriter, who also happens to be a full-time Strategy Director at a creative ventures company in London. After years of trying to…
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…
The Yoga Farm – Costa Rica: Take Me Back!
I had the magnificent pleasure of staying at the Yoga Farm for the majority of the month of December 2023 for the Jungle Residency Program. It took me this long (I’m writing this at the end of February) because I needed to get a grasp onto the most proper words…
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