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Join Ginny Shaddock, Denver Clark and the Staff of Heartwood Yoga Institute in conversations that explore classical and contemporary concepts to help yoga teachers and progressing practitioners find clarity, inspiration and insight while deepening their relationship with yoga. Expand your knowledge while receiving guidance and support for your yoga journey as a teacher, mentor and practitioner.
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No matter how proficient you are at teaching yoga, the reality is that reaching an audience for your wisdom does requires having students show up to classes. This means a basic understanding of digital marketing is important for anyone hoping to get the word out about their classes, workshops or teaching avenues. Resistant as many yogis are, being …
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0016 - 7 Common Mistakes New Yoga Teachers Make
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Teaching yoga is a worthy endeavor, and anyone wishing to embrace the role of mentor to others has good intentions and an inspired heart. But learning the skillset of great communication and creating a strong platform for sharing yoga requires an awareness of more than Sanskrit and postures. Join Ginny Shaddock and Denver Clark, IAYT Yoga Therapist…
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0015 -Ayurvedic Yoga Practices for Spring
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Join IAYT Yoga Therapist, Denver Clark, as she discusses Ayurvedic Practices for Spring that keep yoga teachers healthy and build awareness for preparing yoga classes that flow and resonate with the changing energies occurring from Winter to Spring. Learn more about Heartwood Yoga Institute and our yoga programs at www.rytcertification and join our…
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In this episode, Denver Clark, ERYT-500 and IAYT Yoga Therapist, discusses the five Koshas and how they can be integrated into yoga classes and yoga therapy sessions. She offers theory and practice insight as well as exercises that can be integrated with asana to increase a student's awareness and open channels of understanding. Learn more about He…
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Ahimsa means non-violence, which most people familiar with basic yoga philosophy know, at least intellectually. But becoming a vegetarian and being kind to others only scratches the surface of our interpretation of the teaching. This conversation explores Ahimsa and its relationship to the Gunas and our mindset. Cultivating peace within is pertinen…
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This episode discusses different approaches to learning the yoga sutras, comparing the merits of approaching the teachings academically or intellectually to experiential knowledge and developing the heart knowing. What kind of teacher should we look for? Can we trust teachers? Must we have an Indian guru to learn the teachings correctly? What can w…
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Join Denver Clark, IAYT Yoga therapist, LMT, and co director of Heartwood Yoga Institute for a candid talk about yoga, body image and diet culture in America. The discussion introduces important considerations for yoga teachers with recommendations on how to focus a class and use language to promote body acceptance, health and a positive associatio…
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Setting boundaries is an important subject for discussion for anyone who is a yoga teacher, mentor or person who serves others in health and wellness. Join Ginny Shaddock and Denver Clark, IAYT yoga therapists, as they discuss the how and why's of setting boundaries for professionalism, sustainability of a career and our personal health and wellbei…
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009 - Empowered Language for Yoga Teachers
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This episode features Stephanie Engebretson, IAYT Yoga Therapist and RYT-500, speaking about empowered language for yoga teachers. The discussion explores the relationship of sound, vibration and language and how affirmations and saucha (purity of language) is important to anyone hoping to evolve their teaching to make it more inclusive and impactf…
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008: Yoga Therapy- What it is and where it is going
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This episode explores the emerging field of yoga therapy and IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapy.) The discussion focuses on how a yoga therapist is trained, how the work differs from advanced yoga teaching and the mission of IAYT to make yoga therapy a recognized, regulated health modality. A newly graduated IAYT therapist, Stephanie E…
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Yoga Alliance has risen as the leading agency influencing yoga today as it sets standards for teachers and yoga teachers training programs. Is it necessary to participate in this non-profit, and what is the benefit for yoga teachers? This podcast explores where Yoga Alliance came from and why the organization is criticized by some people in the ind…
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For many yoga teachers the relationship between making money and being of service to others is a deeply conflicted one. This conversation explores how yoga teachers and others are conditioned to think about money and the root conflicts between spirituality and teaching yoga as a profession with the pressure to earn money to support our lives and ma…
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005 - Yoga and Christianity with Jim Dant
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Senior ordained minister at First Baptist Church in Greenville SC and RYT-500 Yoga teacher, Jim Dant, joins us in an inspirational conversation about yoga and Christianity. Exploring both the similarities and the challenges of both practices, Jim offers insight on how the teachings of both spiritual paths can be interpreted as more similar than dif…
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Cody McNeeley, RYT-500 and IAYT Yoga Therapist, discusses how yoga mentors and allies can share yoga as a tool to help LGBTQ Youth in their journey to self acceptance. He explores how yoga teachers can create safer spaces and build awareness of the unique challenges faced by students of the LGBTQ community in order to deliver for more inclusive and…
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Every yogi begins infatuated with the practice. This is what inspires us to fall in love with yoga so we keep coming back for more. But the initial fascination we feel with the practice eventually wears off and our first instinct is to spice up the practices with new types of yoga or superficial gimmicks that are more about entertainment than true …
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002: What is Yoga? Redefining our definition of the practice we love.
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#002: Ginny Shaddock explores the definition of yoga from the Bhagavad Gita to contemporary views in this review of yoga's origins, how people interpret and assign meaning to the practice today, and how yoga was meant to be explored and integrated for a more profound and authentic experience. Learn what it means to have a heart knowing verses intel…
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This first episode introduces the hosts of Yoga Perspectives, Ginny Shaddock and Denver Clark, and explains the mission of the podcast to serve yoga teachers and advancing practitioners. Listen to learn more about Heartwood Yoga Institute, the staff, and this new audio source of information, inspiration and education designed to support those on th…
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