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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;…
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;…
Wellness Work Trade Hidden Gems
Where to teach yoga, connect with wellness work, learn, and grow in 2025! This year feels different. I write as sand tickles my feet, waves crash behind me, and the warm, salty breeze glazes my skin. I’m back in my happy place. Well, not everything is different. I reminisce on…
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…
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…
Time Passes Anyway
“You either dream of experiencing something or actually do it.” Cover Photo by: @harrystamatov I recently watched this video by Adam Russell. Then, I sent it to a few friends and watched it again. He explains that life is happening and ‘time passes anyway’ whether or not we acknowledge it…
Step Slowly, Journey Safely
Safe Travel With Yoga Trade As a traveller, safety is always top of mind and a collective concern of friends, family and strangers who ask where I’m going or have been. I’m writing this from Brazil, in the small surf town of Itacaré in Bahia. A friend – and fellow…
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…
Not Just a Trade But a Transformation
My Yoga Trade Experience in Colombia: How it Birthed Lotus Retreats! Yoga Trade inspired my life in a direction I could have never imagined until it was happening. A true transformation. After a couple Yoga Teacher Trainings, I was deep in the yoga studio teacher hustle bouncing from studio to…
4 Key Predictions for the Future of Retreat Travel
Yoga and wellness retreat offerings ground to a halt beginning in March 2020, as resorts closed worldwide and global travel came to a near stand-still. A recent study by retreat registration & payment platform WeTravel found that 50% of retreat leaders have cancelled between half and all of their scheduled…
5 Ways My Yoga Trade Experience Made Me a Better Yoga Teacher
One of the most rewarding, fulfilling, and altering experiences I have had in my journey as a yoga teacher has been the time I spent teaching abroad. For years I dreamed of the opportunity to combine my two favorite things: travel and yoga. This past year I made my dreams…
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