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Yoga Minuti: How Can I Be Deeper As a Yoga Teacher?

90 Monkeys is excited to present Yoga Minuti, a new series of short informative videos with long time yoga teacher trainers, Gina Caputo and Amy Ippoliti. When Amy and Gina met in Boulder, CO in 2012, they quickly realized that…

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World Holidays to Celebrate in Yoga Class: Rakhi Day

If you’re a yoga teacher and you find yourself on the day of the full moon in August, it’s the perfect time to weave in a theme about the Indian holiday, Rakhi Day! Watch the video to learn more about…

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How to Handle A Yoga Class No-Show (or Low-Show) Situation

We’ve all been there at some point in our yoga teaching career. You know the scenario. You get yourself all prepared to teach class, you’ve got the outfit, got your notes, maybe you have a music play mix all picked…

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Self-Promotion as Yoga Teachers: Is it Tasteless or Simply a Method to Share Your Gifts?

Do you love teaching yoga but sense a disdainful undertone toward yoga teachers who promote themselves? Here’s a question I get a lot: Yoga Teacher: If I put myself on Facebook in beautiful yoga poses, create a brand, and a…

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Is Your Yoga Teacher Burned Out? Learn These Warning Signs

Yoga Teacher Burnout is serious. In fact I stopped studying with one of my early yoga teachers when he snapped at a student next to me. That was before I learned from experience that Yoga Teacher Burnout can be just…

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9 Reasons Why Competition is Good For Yoga Teachers

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to is.” ~ Vince Lombardi Have you ever thought that filling your yoga classes would be so much easier if you had the whole market to yourself with no competition from other yoga teachers?  Do…

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Why Acting Like You Own the Joint Will Make You a Better Yoga Teacher

Have you ever taken a yoga class and the teacher was sheepish, visibly insecure or just not confident? C’mon, you can tell me — did you want to walk out? I don’t blame you if you did. When you go…

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Top 5 Tips for Marketing A Beginner Yoga Series

At the end of 2011, I started offering a new eCourse called Build Your Following: How to Launch a Beginner’s Yoga Series. After only a few months after the course finished, success stories starting pouring in from graduates! Teachers were…

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The Real Truth About Teaching Yoga for a Living

In a survey I put out on Facebook about yoga teaching, I discovered that the number one concern of yoga teachers was not getting on their yoga mats for practice. Not surprisingly, the second biggest concern was making ends meet….

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Why Getting on Your Yoga Mat More Often Will Make You Teach (and Live) Like A Winner

Have you ever taken a yoga class and you could just tell that the teacher was not into it?  Or were you that teacher standing in front of the class, looking out at the mats, passionless? Fortunately, there is a…

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