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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;…
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…
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,…
5 Tips to Hire the Best Yoga Teachers
Posting on our jobs board is easy, but attracting the right candidate requires creative thinking and strategy. Whether you’re searching for a yoga teacher or retreat leader, crafting a compelling job post will make all the difference in your search efforts. In this guide, we’ll share our top 5 tips…
How to List Your Retreat Space on Yoga Trade: A Step-by-Step Guide
Are you looking to start attracting new guests to your unique retreat space? How exciting! In just a few simple steps you’ll be able to showcase your retreat space to a global audience of organizers looking for their next destination. Everything you need to know to get started is outlined…
Elevate Your Retreat Business with Yoga Trade
Key features for retreat business owners Yoga Trade is a space designed to support wellness-focused entrepreneurs to build a thriving retreat business by addressing common challenges. Almost every retreat organizer can relate to the struggle of finding team members who are the right fit. Scouting for the right yoga instructors…
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….
How To Find The Best Yoga Instructors As A Retreat Organizer
Creating a memorable yoga retreat hinges on one key element: finding the right instructor. For those passionate about creating a rejuvenating and wellness-focused space, finding a retreat facilitator who aligns with your core values and holds a safe space is indispensable in shaping a meaningful experience for your guests. Yoga Trade…
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…
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