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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….
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…
How to Make Money as a Yoga Teacher: Top Tips and Strategies
Are you one of those teachers wondering how to make money as a yoga teacher and turn your passion into a sustainable career? While part time gigs and international work exchanges can be soul-filling, wonderful experiences, a lot of experienced teachers would love to take a few steps towards attaining…
Men’s Mental Health Awareness: How Yoga and Travel Support Wellbeing
How yoga work exchange and skill sharing abroad can boost mental health and emotional resilience: Understanding and navigating the nuanced reality of mental health has been a central theme of my life and yoga practice. Prioritizing mindfulness helps mute external noise, dull internal chatter, and archaic expectations of stoicism and…
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…
Experimental Life
Cover photo by @bravebabes_ Perspective is the perfectionism antidote “You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh Perfectionism taunts us to wait until we’re a better, more capable version…
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…
Yoga Perspectives and the Teaching Path
Lessons and Perspectives from Traveling and Teaching Yoga Around the World Since I started traveling and teaching yoga, the question I get most from my students is: What made me become a yoga teacher? There are many possible reasons behind why we choose our professions and work activities in life….
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…
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…
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…
My Journey of Teaching Yoga and Embracing Adventure
As a girl from a small country, I always liked traveling, getting to know other cultures, and embracing adventure. Upon finishing my yoga teacher training in my home of Serbia, I had a thought: could I teach while traveling? The idea lit me up immediately, and I realized I would…
Find the Best Yoga Teachers and Wellness Staff
Energy flows where focus goes Quality staff breathe life into a space. The physical environment, aesthetic and location set the foundation, while people elicit the feeling. Yoga Trade supports retreats, businesses, and spaces of many kinds who are searching for wellness staff. Connect with the best yoga instructors and wellness…
Crafting Compelling Job Descriptions for Yoga Positions
Finding the right yoga instructor can transform the experience at your space, affecting not only the quality of your offerings but also your retreat’s reputation and guest satisfaction, so writing an effective job description is crucial in attracting the right candidates. Here are some key tips for crafting compelling job…
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…
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…
Metamorphosis: From Guiding Students to Guiding Teachers
Stepping into the role of a yoga teacher trainer has been something that has crossed my mind several times since I first started as a yoga teacher in 2018. But it didn’t come from a place of confidence that I could do this anytime soon. Yoga teacher trainers had to…
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…
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