Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy

Ayurveda is useful for every teacher, but it's essential for yoga therapists. All the Adore Yoga Therapy courses include significant Ayurveda components, building skills that our graduates use to support students to heal from physical, mental and...

How to teach chanting

You love chanting in a group. You're curious about the benefits of chanting. You'd love to share the joy of chanting with your students. You just don't feel very confident or knowledgable. If the statements above sound familiar to you, you're...

A moving meditation that changes everything

Struggling to focus during meditation? Perhaps your students are reluctant to sit for more than a minute or two in meditation? Adding movement to meditation is a game-changer. Try this practice (or share it with your students) and see how the...

Black lives matter - Yoga and justice

I know you’ve been thinking about your response to the deaths of 432 Aboriginal Australians in custody, the death of George Floyd in the US and the issues of racial justice that have been spotlighted by these tragic events. I’ve been thinking...

COVID-19 and your un-yogic thoughts

Has COVID-19 brought up strong and unpleasant feelings for you? Here are some things I've heard from yoga teachers recently: "I'm so stressed about money because I've lost so many of my classes in recent months. It feels really un-yogic to think...

When a student has a negative reaction to your teaching

This is my 'I can't believe this is happening to me on a live group Zoom call' face: Has a student ever told you that the practice you just taught made them feel terrible? It just happened to me. This morning, I was delivering a live online...

What do coronavirus and yoga have in common? More than you think.

Why is coronavirus like yoga? - Because it’s disrupting the patterns of our everyday lives. - It’s changing our habitual behaviour. - It’s making us question how we live. That’s what yoga does. If you think of yoga as a panacea for the stress...

Grounding Yoga for Difficult Days

These are difficult days. Our lives, work, relationships and environments are shifting radically and many of us are struggling to stay positive. This is when we need yoga most. The first step is to get grounded. That's a real challenge when...

Teaching income decimated? Here's how survive the next 3 months as a yoga teacher

You’re teaching a fraction of the students you were reaching few weeks ago. Your income has been decimated. You’ve tried taking your classes online but it’s not paying the bills. What can you do to fix things? Plenty. There are two things you need...

4 ways to bring ‘touch’ to your online yoga classes

Are you missing the human contact when you teach yoga online? You’re not the only one. The sense of connection that comes from practicing yoga together is my favourite part of teaching. Your students are yearning for it. What’s more, the need for...