HeyJaredFull-Time Yoga Teacher
Welcome to the Full-Time Yoga Teacher Podcast! I'm Reika, your host from Long Beach, California. Join me weekly for insightful conversations with everyday yoga teachers who've embraced the challenging journey of making yoga their full-time profession.
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124: 10 Days of Silent Vipassana Meditation: What Happens When You Remove All Distractions? (opens the original)
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What happens when you remove almost every distraction from your life for 10 days? In this episode, I share my experience returning to a 10-day Vipassana meditation course 12 years after my first one. I talk about what it was like to spend 10 days in silence with no phone, social media, music, books, or conversation; the boredom, physical discomfort, hunger, and surprisingly slow passage of time; and what I discovered when there was nowhere else for my mind to go. I also share what I learned abou
123: Can You Run a Yoga Studio “Yogically”? Sarah Garcia on Building a Values-Driven Studio (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Full-Time Yoga Teacher Podcast , I’m bringing Sarah Garcia back for her third appearance on the show! Sarah and I have worked together as co-leaders of a yoga teacher training in Peru, and this time I invited her back to talk about a major new chapter in her career: opening her own yoga studio, Shiva & Shakti Studio, in Lima, Peru. What makes her story especially interesting is that opening a studio wasn’t even part of her original plan. In our conversation, Sarah takes us
122: Leaving the Yoga Hamster Wheel: Reba Gray’s Journey to a More Sustainable Life (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Full-Time Yoga Teacher Podcast, I’m joined by Reba Gray, a yoga teacher whose journey into teaching has taken her from Maine to Boston, the Bay Area, Mexico, and now a small town outside of Reno, Nevada. Reba shares how she first discovered yoga after returning from the Peace Corps in Mali, how community became such an important part of her practice, and how she slowly transitioned from working in the nonprofit world to building a career as a yoga teacher. We talk about th
121: The Yoga Ladder with Jaffer: Building a Sustainable Career Beyond Studio Classes (opens the original)
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What does it actually take to build a sustainable, full-time career as a yoga teacher? In this episode, I’m joined by Jaffer, a Toronto-based yoga teacher who has been teaching since 2015. We talk about his journey from teaching free classes in a local park to building a career through studio classes, retreats, private and corporate clients, and an online platform. We dive into what it means to build a yoga career beyond simply teaching more classes, why yoga teachers need to think like business
120: The Power Dynamics Between Yoga Teachers & Studio Owners | Navigating the Politics of the Yoga Industry (Part 3) (opens the original)
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Can you build a sustainable career as a yoga teacher without compromising your values? In the final episode of this three-part series, Sunny and I dive into one of the most challenging conversations in the yoga industry: the business of teaching yoga. We explore questions that many teachers think about but rarely talk about openly: • Why are yoga teachers often expected to work beyond the hours they're paid for? • Are teacher trainings creating sustainable careers, or unrealistic expectations? •
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