Best Francesca Cervero Podcasts (2025)

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145: How To Give a Dharma Talk When The World Is On Fire with Hari-kirtana das (PART 1) 49:15

7h ago49:15

49:15

You don’t me to tell you that the world as we know it is burning to the ground. This makes teaching yoga hard, important and strange. A few episodes back I answered the question, “Should we talk about current events in our yoga classes?” By essentially saying, “maybe… but most likely YES.” In that episode I talked about how important it was to have…

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UPDATE: More Content, What Do You Want To Hear? 4:29

1d ago4:29

4:29

Solo or with guests, I explore the craft of teaching yoga, as its own practice. I’m seeking answers to the questions about why we teach something the way we do, how we could be more expansive and inclusive in our teaching, and how we can continue to grow and evolve in our teaching practice. I would like to release episodes more frequently and your …

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144: We Don’t Practice for Ourselves with Reema Datta 52:49

19d ago52:49

52:49

Even if you first learned yoga from your parents and your grandparents, the path to truly embodying the philosophical yogic teachings can be long and winding. Today we have a beautiful conversation with Reema Datta to share with you that explores: the path from a physical focus in teaching to a philosophical practice how kleshas impact on our spiri…

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143: Should You Talk About Current Events In Yoga Classes?? 38:16

2M ago38:16

38:16

You don’t need me to tell you what a wild and scary time we are living through. We know that the tools of yoga can be incredibly supportive in difficult times and also have things to say about the difficult times we are living in. So are you talking about this in your classes? Should you? I am, and I’ve been getting a lot of questions about it! So …

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142: What Makes Americans Unhealthy with Dr. Jessica Knurick 55:01

3M ago55:01

55:01

As I sit down to write these show notes, RFK Jr is currently in his senate confirmation hearing. By the time you read these words it is my assumption that he will be the new head of Health and Human Services for the United States, a job with incredible power. Anything is possible, so there could be a different outcome, but it seems unlikely. You mi…

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141: The Best Way To Find Private Yoga Students 33:34

4M ago33:34

33:34

Building a career as a yoga teacher is challenging because unlike many other kinds of jobs, you have to build out a career in one hour blocks, working to get and then manage each gig separately. While the explosion of online offerings and social media as a marketing tool has changed much about the landscape, there is one thing it hasn’t changed. In…

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140: Rest Is Sacred with Octavia Raheem 53:49

5M ago53:49

53:49

Octavia Raheem first wrote a book called Gather where she talked about gathering ancestors, gathering courage and gathering rest. Then she wrote a book, Pause Rest Be, about how rest has served as a tool for courage and resilience for her and the people she’s worked with. And lucky for us, Octavia has written a new book called Rest Is Sacred, that …

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139: What It Takes For a Locally Owned Yoga Studio to Survive with Deb Flashenberg 47:27

6M ago47:27

47:27

I have been an active participant in the yoga industry since the early 2000s, and I have never really understood how brick and mortar yoga studios, especially locally owned ones without corporate backing, made it work. I’ve been curious about it, and I have seen a few studios run incredibly well and last a long time, but we all know those are the o…

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138: A Business Strategy Pep Talk with Jackie Murphy 33:47

6M ago33:47

33:47

If you are a yoga teacher trying to make anything close to a full time income with your work, then you are an entrepreneur. Many of us resist that truth, or we at least resist some of the work that is associated with being a small business owner. That is why today I’m so excited to introduce you to Jackie Murphy. She is here to give us all a busine…

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137: Yoga For Hypermobility with Libby Hinsley 54:12

7M ago54:12

54:12

The learning journey I’ve been on regarding hypermobility is incredibly personal. I was plagued with nearly constant minor and serious injuries most of my life. As a dancer that seemed normal, but it was very difficult and I was often injured more than anyone else I knew. I worked so hard to “build more stability” and “get out of my patterns of gri…

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136: Holding Our Seat with Ethan Nichtern 55:21

7M ago55:21

55:21

Holding grounded space as a teacher is one of the most important and most hard to teach skills for new yoga teachers. How can you be confident doing something you are new at? Do you need to actually be confident? What do we do when challenging situations knock us off our center? To answer these questions and more, I’m so honored to have my teacher …

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135: Moving Forward After Our Teachers Let Us Down with Karin Carlson 49:21

8M ago49:21

49:21

I had a profound conversation with yoga teacher and writer Karin Lynn Carlson (she/her) and I can’t wait for you to listen. Karin is a thoughtful teacher and a beautiful writer and has so much to share on the intersection of ethics and yoga teaching. This episode is packed with both valuable insights and practical advice. We talked about implementi…

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134: Reckoning With Abuse Of Power In Our Lineage With Trauma Expert Jenn Turner 56:57

9M ago56:57

56:57

How to teach yoga in a trauma sensitive way is a conversation that floods mainstream yoga spaces these days. And with good reason; almost everyperson in the world has had some experience of trauma, so our yoga classes are filled with people who have had exposure to trauma. It is very easy for yoga and asana to be taught in ways that are not trauma …

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133: How To Make The Teaching Of Yoga Accessible with Katie Blecker 45:51

10M ago45:51

45:51

This episode is one of the most important interviews I’ve ever recorded. Our guest, Katie Blecker (she/her) is here to talk about two of my favorite things, accessible yoga and teaching yoga. And even better, we are going to talk about the intersection of those two things in a conversation that is LONG overdue on this podcast: Making the vocation o…

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132: The Journey From Student To Thriving Teacher with Emily Anderson 52:15

10M ago52:15

52:15

The yoga world has changed so much in the last 5 years, and more and more yoga teachers are finding they need to build and create their own opportunities to teach. Even before the pandemic it was nearly impossible to build a full time career teaching group classes at studios. The pay is too low, the opportunities too rare and the workload is way to…

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131: What Practice Looks Like During Heartbreak with Sara Avant Stover 45:49

11M ago45:49

45:49

Today on the podcast I am introducing you to someone very special to me: one of my most important teachers, Sara Avant Stover. I started studying with Sara privately in the fall of 2012 and what I learned from her radically altered my life path. I went on several deep, immersive retreats with her, the last one in 2016. Since the last time we saw ea…

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130: Coming Home To Ourselves with Miles Borrero 49:50

1y ago49:50

49:50

I believe the invitation of life is to become ourselves, live fully and freely, and then, if you are a student of yoga, to extend that full, free, safe living out to all beings everywhere. But how often do we get to see someone really do that? Today I have a treat for you: a person who is doing just that. Becoming. My friend Miles Borrero (he/him) …

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145: How To Give a Dharma Talk When The World Is On Fire with Hari-kirtana das (PART 1) 49:15

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UPDATE: More Content, What Do You Want To Hear? 4:29

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144: We Don’t Practice for Ourselves with Reema Datta 52:49

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143: Should You Talk About Current Events In Yoga Classes?? 38:16

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142: What Makes Americans Unhealthy with Dr. Jessica Knurick 55:01

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141: The Best Way To Find Private Yoga Students 33:34

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140: Rest Is Sacred with Octavia Raheem 53:49

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139: What It Takes For a Locally Owned Yoga Studio to Survive with Deb Flashenberg 47:27

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138: A Business Strategy Pep Talk with Jackie Murphy 33:47

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137: Yoga For Hypermobility with Libby Hinsley 54:12

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136: Holding Our Seat with Ethan Nichtern 55:21

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135: Moving Forward After Our Teachers Let Us Down with Karin Carlson 49:21

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134: Reckoning With Abuse Of Power In Our Lineage With Trauma Expert Jenn Turner 56:57

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133: How To Make The Teaching Of Yoga Accessible with Katie Blecker 45:51

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132: The Journey From Student To Thriving Teacher with Emily Anderson 52:15

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131: What Practice Looks Like During Heartbreak with Sara Avant Stover 45:49

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130: Coming Home To Ourselves with Miles Borrero 49:50

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