Episode 14: Re-Inventing Yourself in Your Life: Actor to Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher to… Who are You?

New Yoga Teacher Talks To a Couple of Seasoned Ones 🙂

This episode was recorded in June! I know. Late. It’s a really great episode though. Thrilled to finally be getting it to you. Listen up as we chat it up with our first guest on the podcast!!!!! Wooo hooooo!!!

Disclaimer: So given the fact that this episode was recorded a while ago….*cough* 9 MONTHS AGO, much has changed in all the participants lives. It would be kinda cool to get together and go at it again, touching on the what we spoke about 😀 Perhaps we can even have new folks join us!

Here are our show notes

• Nicole Ghastin
• You finished your yoga teacher training then what?
• Actors as yoga teachers, are you giving up your craft?
• What was your experience after finishing your teacher training?
• Labeling yourself: Do you choose to align with a specific label? Who are you?
• Attachment and detachment
• Re-Inventing yourself, and re-finding who you are
• What if you are not *just* a yoga teacher?
• Being a yoga teacher is not just working at a studio and doing privates: How do you grow yourself?
• How do you get your juice going when you don’t want to teach? How do you stay inspired?
• In what ways do themes help you teach.
• Yes, we talk about Naime Jezzeny…..again 😉
• How do you evolve as a yoga teacher? More than a yoga teacher
• Hillary’s Post about Fear
• shaktibox.com
• Mudra Moments FB group

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Episode 12: Cancelled retreats, babies, DVDs and Yoga Hours

• John Friend’s Schedule!
• Hillary shares about her time at John’s workshop in San Diego
• Prana
• More discussion on how to yoga to basic students
• Hillary speaks about her video series
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• Yoga Month in September with Hillary
• How do You Honor Where you are Today?
• Elsie teaches her first class in Pittsburgh!
• Breathe Yoga Studio
• Pittsburgh Athletic Association
• Listen to Elsie’s first class in Pittsburgh (total beginners yoga class)
• Catch up video with Elsie
• Retreat News: yep, it’s cancelled 😦 Get the scoop
• What happens when things don’t work out in the yoga business
• Where do you put your heart…in your yoga business?
• We answer a listener’s question
• How do you get hours for Anusara when there are no teachers around?
• Certified Anusara Teachers in Canada
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• Go to www.anusara.com to find a gazillion Anusara Inspired Teachers in Canada
• Estes Park Anusara Grand Gathering
• Share what’s going on in your yoga/artistic life!

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Episode 11: What does it take to teach a Beginner Yoga Class?

• Hillary and Elsie have been Livin’ La Vida Mudra 🙂
• All about teaching beginners addressing Heather Thompson Vandermyde’s question from Duck Yoga
• What is your niche as a yoga teacher?
• What is your area of expertise as a yoga teacher? Become and expert
• What is is that you care about in the yoga world?
• What do you bring to yoga as a teacher?
• Turn into yourself and go back to the beginning, in order to teach beginners.
• What constitutes a beginners class?
• Using therapy and incorporating it some of it in beginners classes, get creative!
• Doug Keller
• Themes are so necessary and empowering for a beginner student
• It’s challenging to teach beginners as it really requires that you step into actually teaching
• Do you teach your class, or do you lead your class?
• How do we get to better our game? (Teaching Yoga)
• Visualize yourself teaching
• Mentor or model yourself under someone
• Take a retreat with us: Hillary and Elsie! Mudra Moments retreat 😀
• Lake Rahasya- the retreat house rocks – see it on the side here!
• Douglas Brooks
• Elsie’s missing the yoga kula
• Pittsburgh’s yoga community rocks!
• Jade Yoga
• Elsie’s favorite Beinjoy Mat
• Getting Elsie to teach in Pittsburgh

• Hillary’s subbing/assisting tips for help onto a schedule

• Calling out to the Mudra Moments listeners: what are you up to? what are you working on? what do you need?
• We are happy to get suggestions from you guys as to what you want in our Mudra Moments Retreat! Do it!
• Leave an iTunes Review!
  
• Lauren Gaine’s prison project question answered
  
• Ann Moxey
• Ann Moxey’s prison project

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Episode 10: Yoga Teacher Certification…Why? or The Seat of the Teacher

• Tahnee from Saskatoon
• Kate Larson
• The seat of the teacher
• Distilling your yoga teaching seat
• Elsie’s point of view
• Hillary’s point of view
• Deepening the seat of the teacher
• Being the teacher and the student simultaneously
• Elsie’s Facebook Certification video
• Elsie’s certification saga
• Hillary’s certification story
• Anusara Yoga Certification
• Why do you want to be certified?
• What does it mean to you?
• All of your different seats of Authenticity
• Our Retreat!
• Douglas Brooks
• Lake Rahasya
• RYT

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Episode 9: Technology and Touch

Welcome to another episode!

Given some of the subject matter I thought this was an appropriate video 😉

Oh and this is Hillary’s Video that she talks about Yoga and Technology!

In this yoga podcast:

• Shout-out to Leanne
• get involved in the conversation…WITH US 🙂
• Things don’t just happen. You need to do the work.
• The business of yoga
• Blogger
• WordPress
• GoDaddy
  
• Writing your bio
• Yoga and technology, why is it important?
• Marketing yourself; use your gifts
• Namaste interactive
• Vista Print
• Constant Contact
• iWeb
• More yoga teaching tips to get yourself out there!
• Guerrila Yoga and Brian Kest Power Yoga
• Lululemon Ambassador Program
• Adapt, adapt, adapt 🙂 You never know who’s going to come to class
• Moo Cards!
• Bartering your services
• Adjustments: Is touching a student necessary? What is the intention?
• What kind of touching is going on in yoga class…
• Teacher/student crushes: How do you handle them? Hillary puts me on the spot!!!)
• Can you marry your students? 😀
• Wanna be on Mudra Moments? Listen to the end of the show to find out how!

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Episode 8: Find, Create and Intention

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Mentioned in this free yoga podcast for yoga teachers by yoga teachers:

• The Mug: Life Isn’t About Finding Yourself, Life is Creating Yourself
• Tulsi Tea by Om Organics
  
• Review! The Yoga Journal Blog
• Susana’s Feedback
• How did we become yoga teachers?
• Hillary’s yoga teaching story
• Elsie’s yoga teaching story
• May everyone be taken care of
• Set your intention as a teacher
• How are we all over the room?
• Assisting other teachers
• Dan’s feedback
• Elsie’s epiphany in Teacher Training
• Elsie’s Episode #57
• Yoga Teaching Tips: physically, verbally, energetically
• Mudra Moments Retreat in July!
• Lake Rahasya
• Douglas Brooks
• Mudra Moments Facebook Group
• Desiree Rumbaugh’s “Yoga To the Rescue”
• Basement Ventures
• Rob from Podcast411

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Episode 7: Body Talk Beginnings Live From The Portable Media Expo!

Mentioned in this free podcast about yoga on and off the mat:

LIFE FROM THE PORTABLE AND NEW MEDIA EXPO 2007!!!

• Geek speak from the Portable and New Media Expo!
• Hillary accepts the geek inside 😉
• Clarity in teaching yoga
• Body image: who are you?
• Yoga for Geeks with Sarah Pullman (she’s on Facebook!)
• Healthy is thin?
• Yoga From the Inside Out by Christina Sell
• Fat is Love
• Appreciate and love your body
• Use your life to grow your class themes
• The Body Ecology Diet Book
• The Body Ecology Website
  
• What is your optimal weight?
• Ayurveda
• Elsie’s body image in the entertainment industry
• Chaz and Yogamazing
• Fear of being in the body
• Yoga as a way of being
• San Francisco Yoga Kula Douglas stuff
• Yoga is a choice 🙂
• Mudra Moments Facebook Group
• very very very exciting upcoming event, LISTEN!!!

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A special thanks to Victor Cajiao from the Typical Mac User Podcast for lending us the nifty and oh so coveted H2 to record this podcast! You are such an angel 😉

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Episode 6: Sauca, Transition, Travel and Growth

FROM THE PORTABLE AND NEW MEDIA EXPO!!!!

• Israel Talk with Hillary
• “Touch the Names” with Elsie
• Arizona Theater Company
• Sauca
• Elsie’s interview with Podcast411
• How to deal with smelly yoga students?
• Guys and boxers
• Bring it all into the theme: Sauca
• Facebook Mudra Moments Group
• The Art of Practice
• 15 minute yoga practice?
• Teacher Demos
• Dave’s Lounge
• Be good to yourself!
• Where does your yoga lead you?
• Hillary and fashion
• Rajanaka Tantra
• Abhaya- fearlessness
  
• Elsie moving into her voice
• Chaz from Yogamazing
• Looming it all together
• Typical Mac User Podcast
• Wah!

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Episode 5: Full Time Yoga Teaching, Burn Out, and Teachers on Pedestals

• Podcast411
• Today In iPhone
• Podcast411 interview with Quincy Jones
• Podcast411 interview with Elsie
• Elsie’s Class based on the Quincy interview
• Yoga Teaching Full time
• Yoga Teaching ideas to generate income
• Yoga Teacher Insurance (very brief discussion)
• Marc Holzman and Guerrilla Yoga
• Elsie’s Interview with Marc Part 1 and Part 2
• Brian Kest Power Yoga
• Yoga Teacher Burn Out
• Why teach Yoga?
• Yoga Teacher On a Pedestal
• Elsie and Hillary share their moments
• Yoga Teacher let you Down?
• FYI Elsie said “cit faced” or “chit faced”….get your mind out of the gutter
• Sue Elkind
• Facebook!!! Join!!!
• Mudra Moments Facebook Group
• 
• Yoga Fundamentals With Hillary at Agape

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Episode 4: Does Everyone Have to Like Your Yoga Class?

• Building community
• Hillary’s Mudra Moment
• Does everyone have to like your yoga class?
• Conflict, listening and communication
• Subbing!!!!!
• What do people need or want from your yoga class?
• Listener feedback, we love it 🙂
• Finding your voice as a teacher
• The Paradox
• What do you want us to share?

Actual LINKS that we mentioned:

• John Friend, Shiva Rea, David Swenson
• Gaiam yoga DVD series
• Elsie’s Yoga Class: Live and Unplugged, Hillary’s Yoga Practice
• Elsie’s Twitter, Hillary’s Twitter
• Flow of Grace: Chanting the Hanuman Chalisa

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