185: Dealing with Schedule Drama UPDATED
As yoga teachers, we often fall in love with the practice and the craft of teaching without realizing how much time and energy we'll spend m...
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The Mentor Sessions | Support + Strategy for Yoga Teachers
Francesca Cervero is a full-time yoga teacher and yoga teacher's mentor. She has been teaching yoga in New York City and Washington, DC since 2005 and the foundation of her teaching practice...
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184: The Myth of the Ideal Client UPDATED
Today I'm revisiting one of the ideas I talked about when I first started the podcast nine years ago: the idea that yoga teachers need to fi...
183: Teaching Asana Without Demonstrating: UPDATED
In this episode of The Mentor Sessions, I'm revisiting an idea I first explored many years ago: that teaching yoga asana primarily with word...
182: Tailoring A Yoga Practice for Private Lessons UPDATED
There is no cookie-cutter approach to private yoga teaching. The most effective private teachers learn to listen carefully, think critically...
181: Introducing The American Yoga Council with Andrew Tanner
In this episode of The Mentor Sessions, Francesca talks with Andrew Tanner, founder and CEO of the American Yoga Council (AYC), about his vi...
180: A Sustainable Yoga Career Needs An Ecosystem, Not A Personal Brand
If you've ever felt like building a successful yoga career means becoming an influencer, constantly creating content, or perfecting your per...
179: Building The Confidence To Teach Private Clients
Many yoga teachers are intrigued by the idea of teaching private clients but feel held back by self-doubt, uncertainty, or the practical rea...
178: The Systems You Need to Make Yoga Teaching Sustainable
Teaching yoga involves far more than the hours we spend with our yoga students. Behind every yoga class we teach there is a significant amou...
177: The Hidden Emotional and Physical Labor of Yoga Teaching
As yoga teachers, we spend a lot of time talking about teaching techniques, sequencing, cueing, and professional growth. But there's another...
176: Yoga Is Sold As Healing and Taught As Performance: What we need to move away from this paradigm
Have you ever been in a yoga class where the yoga teacher gives a long dharma talk about ahimsa, and then when the movement practice begins...
175: What's Saving My Life Right Now
In this solo episode of The Mentor Sessions, I'm sharing a more personal, behind-the-scenes look at my life right now and the things that ar...
174: Yoga For Cancer with Tari Prinster
You may not have known it, but if you teach public yoga classes you have taught someone who's life has been touched by cancer. In this episo...
173: Getting Your Yoga Studio Ready For ICE with Lucia Yess from Minneapolis
Yess Yoga is a yoga studio in Minneapolis one block from where Alex Pretti was murdered by Border Patrol agents in January of this year. In...
172: Why So Many Yoga Teachers Burnout (And What Actually Works Instead)
In this solo episode, I'm zooming out from the quick, in-the-moment burnout strategies I shared in Episode 171 and looking at the bigger pic...
171: Six Things I Would Do This Week if I Were an Overworked, Underpaid Yoga Teacher on the Edge of Burnout
If you are feeling stretched thin by endless group classes, long hours, and low pay you are not alone. In this episode, I share six simple,...
170: A Yoga Nidra Deep Dive + Great Advice For Yoga Teachers with Indu Arora
In this expansive conversation, I got a chance to talk to yoga and Ayurveda teacher, mentor, and author Indu Aurora to explore what yoga tru...
169: Yoga's Role In Navigating The World with Sarah Capua
In today's podcast epsiode, I sat down with a yoga therapist, teacher, spiritual caregiver and a good friend of mine, Sarah Capua. We explor...
168: The Yoga Teacher's Guide To Fighting Fascism
American yoga teachers have a unique role in fighting fascism. We are deeply practiced in the tools that help us (and our students) feel cle...
167: We Don't Want AI Yoga with Cyndi Lee
I am so honored to be joined on the podcast by my teacher Cyndi Lee. As a senior yoga teacher, author, and Buddhist chaplain—Cyndi talks to...
166: Do We Want AI in Yoga? with Lizzie Lasater
In this episode of The Mentor Sessions, I'm joined by Lizzie Lasseter for a wide-ranging conversation about teaching yoga in a rapidly evolv...