Beyond Yoga Teacher Training

Welcome to Episode 153: Teaching Students How to Be Students with Host, Sandy Raper.

In this episode, Sandy shares insights through three specific lenses, understanding the importance of equipping and teaching students how to be students.

Episode Marker Highlights:

04:17 - Prepare to Teach: Students of the Practice

09:03 - Enhance Understanding: Three Lenses for Teachers

13:03 - Create a Supportive and Inclusive Experience

18:47 - The Importance of Learning Anatomy and Physiology

19:31 - Understand Human Design and Yoga Practice

21:44 - Inspire Lifelong Learning

22:43 - Explore Different Styles and Deepening Practice

23:39 - Remain an Ongoing Student

24:46 - Teach Yoga as a Transformative Journey

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Welcome to Episode 152: "Slow Down: Give Students Time to Do What You're Cueing" with Host Sandy Raper.

In this episode, Sandy shares insight into how setting the "right" tempo significantly impacts the type of experience students will have in class.

Episode Highlights:

- The crucial role of setting the right pace to support achieving the flow state of being in a yoga class.

- How the teacher sets and sustains the tone and tempo of the class experience.

- The importance of developing trust within the context of tempo, rhythm, and pace in which teachers lead yoga class sequences.

- Three considerations when setting the rhythm and tempo of a yoga class.

- How to create an environment that supports students in finding balance, focus, and presence on their yoga mat without rushing through the practice.

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Welcome to Episode 151: "Spice Up Your Yoga Practice" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight about the importance of variety with a "cross-training" approach towards your yoga practice.

Episode Highlights:

- Two main needs for long-term fulfillment and satisfaction in life.

- Exploring the concept of novelty and the importance of variety within your yoga practice.

- Unrest: what it is and how variety supports your ability to move from feeling unsettled in your yoga practice and life.

- How variety cultivates lifelong learning.

- Four key factors for implementing variety within your yoga practice.

- How yoga teachers can infuse variety within their class sequences.

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Welcome to Episode 150: Strategies for Enhancing Sequence Recall for Yoga Teachers with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy equips you with three specific strategies that will enhance your memory and recall function to craft confidence to lead and teach impactful yoga class experiences.

Episode Highlights:

- Three strategies for simplifying the recall process of yoga sequence plans.

- How the "chunk" technique brings ease to recall.

- Using active recall learning to enhance your retrieval of yoga posture sequences.

- The difference between memorization and retrieval of stored information.

- Understanding your unique learning style to enhance recall and long-term memory.

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Welcome to Episode 149: "How Anatomical Knowledge Creates Invisible Confidence for Yoga Teachers" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into how anatomical knowledge supports students and yoga teachers

Episode Highlights:

- Three areas where anatomical knowledge impacts the development of 'invisible' confidence.

- How informed decision-making provides a level of assurance through anatomical knowledge.

- How anatomical knowledge fosters a trusting and supportive learning environment.

- How invisible confidence through anatomical knowledge enhances communication.

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Welcome to Episode 148: "Exercising Restraint in Sequencing Yoga Classes" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy, speaks to the vital aspect of sequencing and using restraint in organizing class sequences to reflect simplicity and symmetry.

Episode Highlights:

- Defining 'restraint' and a different perspective for organizing yoga class sequences.

- How restraint offers freedom for students and yoga teachers.

- Specific ways that restraint applies to preparing and organizing yoga postures within the context of simplicity and symmetry.

- Balanced symmetry and the benefits of practicing yoga poses within this approach to sequencing.

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Welcome to Episode 147: "Making Progress in the Process" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy expands on creating a growth and development plan and the ongoing planning that requires "trusting the process".

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

- The meaning and impact of "trusting the process".

- How to make progress in the process of making appropriate choices.

- Mindset and trusting the process.

- How to trust the process even when it's hard.

- A wonderful planning resource to support you in your growth and development process.

- Episode 98: "Mindset Matters" Reference in today's episode

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Welcome to Episode 146: "Plan and Planning: Why You Need Both" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into the importance of creating a plan and the impact of intentional planning to achieve the desired growth and development you seek as a yoga teacher and student.

Episode Highlights:

- The biggest fear with making decisions.

- The difference between having a plan and planning.

- How planning is an integral piece of your overall growth and development plan.

- 4 Distinct Aspects of Planning

- How to Make Progress in the Process of Planning

- 3 Qualities of Intentional Planning

- An important distinction of the aspect of planning.

Welcome to Episode 145: "Why Professionalism is Important for Yoga Teachers" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into the impact of including the development of professionalism within your growth strategy as a yoga teacher.

Episode Highlights:

- Understanding the qualities that characterize professionalism.

- The concept of professional etiquette within teaching yoga.

- Curating and implementing a plan to develop the skill of professionalism.

- 8 tips for keeping your professionalism on point.

Welcome to Episode 144: "Three Essential Sequencing Principles with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares three over-arching principles to consider and apply to sequencing that produces flexibility of mind and body in the yoga practice.

Episode Highlights:

- Stability is the new flexibility.

- A deeper understanding of flexibility.

- Flexibility as a byproduct of weaving three essential principles into sequencing.

- Developing a flexible mindset and attitude within the yoga practice.

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Welcome to Episode 143: "What Happens When YTT Isn't What You Expected" with Host Sandy Raper.

Episode Highlights:

- What to do when your perspective shifts and the relationship you once had with yoga changes.

- What the yoga sutras teach us in regard to seeing more clearly.

- How a state of "ignorance" - or not seeing clearly - limits you from fulfilling what you desire.

- Finding bliss over frustration within the learning process.

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NEW! Online 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Sandy - Registration is open for a limited time! Click the link below for more details.

Welcome to Episode 142: "5 Factors That Make a Big Impact in Cueing" with Host Sandy Raper.

In this episode, Sandy shares the important aspect and impact of choosing your words wisely to become a more effective communicator and yoga teacher.

Episode Highlights:

- 3 Key Words to Consider in Your Approach to Cueing

- Why the effectiveness of teaching resides heavily in your ability to communicate effectively.

- 5 Factors that Make a Bigger Impact in Cueing

- The need for empathy in evaluating the words and cues you use.

- Understanding what you say isn't as important as what students are actually hearing.

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Welcome to Episode 140: "How Small Moments of Celebration Make a Difference" with Host Sandy Raper. Join Sandy in celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Podcast!

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Welcome to Episode 139: "The Moment I Realized ____ it Radically Changed My Approach to Teaching" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares the pivotal moment of realization that changed her approach to teaching yoga...forever.

Episode Highlights:

- How people-pleasing impacts the creation of autonomy in the yoga practice.

- The defining moment - and realization - that changed how I approach teaching yoga.

- Three considerations that impact the development of autonomy as a student and teacher of the yoga practice.

- The biggest factor that yoga teachers can contribute towards guiding students within the development of autonomy in their practice.

Welcome to Episode 138: Why Transformation Can Seem So Elusive with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy digs into the meaning of transformation and shares insight into the subtle nature that helps to soften what can seem like a daunting and elusive state of being.

Episode Highlights:

- The difference between change and transformation.

- Defining and understanding self-transformation.

- How the ancient yogic concept of avidya fits into transformation.

- Transformational Learning Theory

- Four ways yoga teachers can apply the transformational learning theory and support students.

- How yoga teachers can support students in uncovering and discovering self-transformation.

Welcome to Episode 137: Becoming a R.A.R.E. Leader with host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into why it's important that yoga teachers develop strong leadership habits that support their ability to serve and connect with students and their communities making a bigger impact teaching yoga.

Welcome to Episode 136: "Become an Agent of Change". Join Host, Sandy Raper as she shares and expands upon the methodology and approach to teaching yoga through a service-oriented lens by becoming an "agent of change" as a yoga teacher.

Episode Highlights:

- Understanding the nature of change.

- The concept of returning to joy.

- Developing the relational aspect of your teaching skillset.

- 4 Ingredients for a Powerful Recipe of Leadership

- How to become an "agent of change" as a yoga teacher.

Welcome to Episode 135: "How to Turn Your Approach to Teaching Yoga into Service". Join Host, Sandy Raper as she shares insight into how you can shift your perspective and approach to teaching yoga into a service-oriented methodology.

Episode Highlights:

- How to approach teaching yoga through a service-oriented lens.

- 3 Reasons Why It May Be Hard to Serve

- 3 Requirements for Developing a Service-Oriented Teaching Methodology

- 4 Ingredients for Authentic Connection with Others

Welcome to Episode 134: "A Common Mistake When Teaching Yoga" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into how projection might show up in your yoga teaching approach.

Episode Highlights:

- What psychological projection is and how to notice when it shows up in yoga practice experience.

- Understand how projection may be subtly infused into your teaching methodology.

- Developing the relational aspect of teaching yoga to support a therapeutic interaction.

- Evaluating your class sequence and language for projection.

- How language impacts the relational, right-brain functioning aspect of teaching.

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Welcome to Episode 133: The Myth of Multitasking. In this episode, Sandy explores the concept of "doing less in order to accomplish more" and how that impacts our view towards productivity and how we teach yoga classes.

Episode Highlights:

- The difference between multitasking and switch-tasking.

- How multitasking comes at a "switch cost".

- How by "doing less" you can accomplish more.

- Viewing multitasking through the lens of The Law of Least Effort

- 3 ways to do less and accomplish more.

- How doing less in order to accomplish more applies to a yoga teacher.

Are you interested in unlocking the key essentials you need to take the mystery out of cueing?

Welcome to Episode 132: "How Tempo Impacts Teaching Yoga" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares how tempo is an important principle to develop as a yoga teacher. Tempo can quickly move students into a deep state of concentration within the yoga practice experience. Dig into how your focus in this area can make a big impact in the classes you teach.

Episode Highlights:

- How tempo is the baseline of the entire yoga class experience.

- Ways for setting the right pace of the class.

- 3 Specific Ways that Pace Makes an Impact

- Key ways that yoga teachers can set the tempo of the class

- What tempo communicates to students and their experience

Welcome to Episode 131: When Sequencing Becomes Choreography with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy explains the similarities and differences between yoga and dance. Explore how the concept of approaching sequencing as choreography has the potential to distract and diminish students' ability to tap into the more subtle, internal experience of the yoga practice.

Episode Highlights:

- The difference between choreography and sequencing.

- Caution when your focus is more on the yoga pose sequence, or "choreography", rather than guiding students to thread breath awareness through the practice experience.

- Leading classes that focus on linking breath to movement in order to invite students into a sustained, one-pointed focus and awareness.

- The Somatic approach to leading and cueing a yoga class.

- The empowering approach of somatic therapy and how it applies to the yoga class experience.

Welcome to Episode 130: The Real Reason Students Come Back to Class with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into the reasoning behind the decision students make to come back to your class or to the studio...and it just might not be what you were thinking.

Episode Highlights:

- The importance of developing the relational aspect of teaching.

- Yoga teacher, it's not about you.

- Is your fear of not "getting it right", or leading a perfect class experience, getting in the way of connecting to the relational aspect of the yoga practice?

- Three areas to consider when approaching teaching yoga as a service.

- How service helps to connect the dots for students and develop trust.

Welcome to Episode 129: "Do What is Possible With Consistency" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into three guiding benchmarks and provides a glimpse into what her daily life really looks like seeing balance between her personal and "work" life teaching yoga.

Episode Highlights:

- Can we really be "just" doing one thing?

- Simplifying life while using the practice of yoga to support the discipline of aligning our intentions and commitments to stay present in each moment.

- 3 Benchmark Areas of Alignment:

1. Prioritize your day.
2. Develop keystone habits.
3. You are not everyone's teacher.

Welcome to Episode 128: "3 Misconceptions for Cueing a Yoga Class" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into better understanding the inaccuracy of three common misconceptions and mindset myths within the approach to cueing a yoga class.

Episode Highlights:

- Why cueing is a vital aspect of teaching yoga?

- How to identify three commonly experienced misconceptions when it comes to cueing a yoga class.

- The mindset myth within cueing misconceptions.

- How to evaluate and understand better where a shift in your perspective and approach towards cueing will benefit and aid in up-leveling this aspect of your teaching skillset.

- How brain science is involved in understanding better how to cue and use language to fast-track students toward experiencing the transformative qualities found within the practice of yoga.

- The important relational aspect of cueing and teaching yoga.

Are you interested in unlocking the key essentials you need to take the mystery out of cueing?

Welcome to Episode 127: "Unlocking the Mystery of Cueing"

Are you ready to know what to say and when to say it when you cue a yoga class but you're just not sure how?

Welcome to Episode 125 : "5 Surprising Benefits of Goal Setting". In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares why setting goals is important for a yoga teacher and the surprising benefits of setting goals.

Episode Highlights:

- How setting goals is a journey, much like the yoga practice, rather than arriving at a destination.

- Getting clear on the process of setting goals and why it's really important to set goals.

- 5 Surprising Benefits of Setting Goals:

1. You become more charismatic and light others up.
2. Goals help you stay motivated during difficult times.
3. Life doesn't happen to you; you have the ability to create the life you wish to have.
4. Goals unlock the potential of your heart.
5. Goals help you learn and grow.

- Reflection questions for getting clear and setting goals.

BONUS: 10 More Reasons Why it's Important to Set Goals

If you desire ...

1. clarity
2. confidence
3. focus
4. direction
5. simplicity
6. a life with purpose
7. a sense of accomplishment
8. energy
9. to make life happen
10. to learn, grow and … have more joy

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Welcome to Episode 124: "Do You Seek Praise in Yoga Classes?" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy explores the objective of yoga along with the indicators that you might be seeking praise in classes either as a student or as a teacher.

Episode Highlights:

- What do you consider to be the objective of yoga?

- How do you teach the stilling or settling of the mind?

- How does the concept of balance apply to teaching yoga.

- How do you view the yoga asana and their role in the yoga practice?

- How does praise show up in the yoga class.

- Mentoring Moment & Inquiry

Welcome to Episode 123: "Yoga Teacher, What Exactly Are You Teaching?"

In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares insight into knowing when it's time to take responsibility and ownership for your own understanding and personal teaching methodology rather than solely relying on what you were taught and learned during yoga teacher training.

Episode Highlights:

- How to not lose momentum after yoga teacher training.

- How to know when it's time to move into the season of discovery as a yoga teacher.

- The important concept of applied knowledge and the impact it has on your growth and development.

- Mentoring Moment: Methodology Model Exercise

Welcome to Episode 122: "Not All Yoga Teacher Trainings Are Created Equal". In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares what you should consider and look for when choosing a yoga teacher training program along with what will set you up for a successful training experience. 

Episode Highlights:

- Why choosing a yoga teacher training is such a big decision.

- What to look for when you're contemplating taking a yoga teacher training.

- What you should consider when choosing the best-fit for a yoga teacher training program.

- 5 Key points of evaluation that will help you make the most well-informed decision on your teacher training experience. 

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Welcome to Episode 121: "So You Want to Be a Yoga Teacher". In this episode, Host Sandy Raper share insight into the importance of evaluating and getting clear on your teaching methodology and why you want to teach yoga.

Episode Highlights:

- The difference between the (1) teacher-centered and (2) student-centered approach to teaching yoga.

- 3 areas to evaluate and define your specific teaching methodology.

- How to approach teaching yoga with freedom and independence.

- The best way to preparation method for teaching.

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Welcome to Episode 120: "Your Biggest Responsibility as a Yoga Teacher". Join Host Sandy Raper as she dives into the responsibilities of being accountable within your teaching methodology. Discover and uncover how accountability is the gateway for developing confidence, trust and assurance as a yoga teacher. 

Episode Highlights:

- The meaning of accountability and why it's vital for a yoga teacher.

- 3 lenses through which to view the experience of a yoga classes.

- 4 key evaluation points to create a framework of accountability.

- 4 Steps for implementing your framework of accountability.

- How accountability builds confidence, assurance and trust. 

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Welcome to Episode 119: "5 Phrases Yoga Teachers Should Stop Using". In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares about five phrases that yoga teachers should stop using in class and what students might actually be hearing when they are used.

Episode Highlights:

- How the cues and language you use in class impact the overall class experience.

- How an intelligently sequenced class with effective, clear and direct cues can impact your students' ability to deepen their practice experience.

- 5 phrases to glean out of your teaching narrative and why.

- 3 different ways student approach the yoga practice and how to effectively teach every one. 

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Welcome to Episode 118: "Identity Crisis of a New Yoga Teacher". In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares insight into embracing being new at something, and in particular in being a new yoga teacher.

Episode Highlights:

- What happens after you complete yoga teacher training and you're not sure what to do next.

- How yoga teachers might encounter an identity crisis. 

- The concept of learning a new skill and why it's okay to be a new yoga teacher.

- Understanding how to acknowledge where you are in the learning process 

- How grace fits into learning.

- How our stories try to leave out the process.

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Welcome to Episode 117: "Teaching from Your Heart Rather than Your Head". In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares the difference between teaching yoga from the technical, cognitive aspect and developing the aspect of teaching that allows you to lead and teach from your heart.

Episode Highlights:

- What is benevolence and how does it apply to teaching yoga.

- How does your attitude towards teaching impact the experience students will have.

- The importance of preparation in distinguishing whether you teach from personal preference or projection.

- 4 Points for Cultivating a Heart-Centered Teaching Methodology

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Welcome to Episode 116: "Teaching People Rather than Poses. In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares insight into the factors that support your ability to see and meet a variety of unique needs beyond the shape of the yoga pose within the collective learning experience in a yoga class setting.

Episode Highlights:

- How does preparation factor into the ability for a yoga teacher to teach a variety of student abilities and levels.

- How spontaneity fits into your overall sequencing framework and structure.

- How does your personal practice time prepare you to teach?

- 3 aspects to consider so that you "see" people rather than poses in class.

- How your language, directives and cues impact your students ability to learn and find success in the practice.

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Welcome to Episode 115: "No Apologies Needed" with Host Sandy Raper. Have you ever found yourself apologizing or saying "I'm sorry" in a yoga class? In this episode, Sandy shares insight into why no apologies are needed in a yoga class. 

Episode Highlights:

- What apologizing in class really expresses to your students.

- How apologizing creates a distraction and breaks the flow state of the class.

- Tips for what to do instead of saying I'm sorry when you make a "mistake" in class.

- Methods for remembering your class sequence.

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Welcome to Episode 114: "Teaching Yoga as a Hobby or Career" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy evaluates the concept and approach to teaching yoga as a hobby or as a full time career, whether there is a different approach and the importance of developing a growth strategy for teaching yoga regardless of which approach you take.

Episode Highlights:

- Why a growth strategy is important for a yoga teacher.

- The similarities and differences in teaching yoga as a hobby or as a career. 

- How intention factors in to your approach to teaching.

- Why the act of teaching is so important for your growth and development.

- How to approach teaching with a plan that supports longevity and sustainability teaching yoga.

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Welcome to Episode 113: "Simplicity in Sequencing" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares three highly effective approaches to apply to your sequencing plan that offers a powerful impact within simplicity. 

Episode Highlights:

- Evaluation of your teaching methodology and approach towards sequencing impactful class experiences.

- Three highly effective approaches towards sequencing with simplicity.

- Mastering the mini-sequence.

- The 90/10 Rule

- How repetition supports learning.

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Welcome to Episode 112: "Nothing is Random in Sequencing" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy digs deeper into the impact of skillful and effective sequencing and how the approach you take towards sequencing influences the experience yoga teachers and students will have.

Episode highlights:

- Why is sequencing so important for a yoga teacher?

- What is the meaning of vinyasa?

- How does skillful and effective sequencing impact a yoga class experience?

- What exactly are you teaching students through the way you sequence a yoga class.

- Understanding the importance of sequencing as it applies to your role as a yoga teacher. 

Welcome to Episode 111: "Developing a Process-Oriented Mindset with Host Sandy Raper. While the concept, or myth, of “fake it until you make it” would suggest that you pretend as you make your way toward developing confidence, the process-oriented mindset focuses more on becoming or being confident.

Episode Highlights:

- The difference between being confident and acting confident.

- How yoga teachers can teach any style of yoga class with confidence.

- How to overcome the obstacle of a limited mindset that avoids challenge and instead develop confidence within the challenge.

- How developing a process-oriented mindset benefits a yoga teacher.

- Two-step process for developing a process-oriented mindset.

Welcome to Episode 110: "I Don't Take Requests" with Host Sandy Raper. Have you ever taken a yoga class and had the teacher ask whether anyone has any injuries or whether anyone in the class would like to work on any area in particular? Perhaps, you a yoga teacher, and this is common practice for how you begin the classes you lead? Have you ever considered that, although this may feel like an act of kindness, you just might be heightening the level of personal liability and your duty of care responsibilities by doing so.

Episode Highlights; 

- Why yoga teachers may want to reconsider asking students about injuries or other specialized requests prior to class and opt rather to simply teach to the collective of the class offering additional options and adaptations to the sequence being offered.

- What responsibilities and liabilities come with being a yoga teacher?

- What are a yoga teacher's "duty of care"?

- The yoga teacher's primary responsibility, duty of care, is to provide students with a safe practice environment. 

- Five areas of responsibility areas.

- Why considering a "don't ask policy" versus full disclosure may be a better approach.

- How focusing on the bigger intention of teaching and meeting students where they are brings great freedom to a yoga teacher.  

- Learning to be okay with not being everyone's teacher. 

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Welcome to Episode 109: "Beware of Superficial Confidence". Confidence is attractive. People who exude genuine confidence appeal to and inspire others. Confidence gives people an advantage in all aspects of life, including personal relationships because confidence is contagious. Interestingly, when someone is confident in their own abilities, others respond by putting confidence in them, too. This is one of the many reasons why it’s important for yoga teachers to develop and build confidence but there’s a fine line between genuine confidence and pseudo-confidence.

Episode Highlights: 

- What is authentic vulnerability and how does it apply to being confident?

- What does superficial confidence look like?

- Characteristics of genuine confidence. 

- How the development of genuine confidence strengthens connection and impacts your service as a yoga teacher.

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Welcome to Episode 108: "A Powerful Confidence Influencer"

In this episode, host Sandy Raper shares insight into what it means to find your voice as a yoga teacher and the impact and influence that vocal tonality has in developing confidence. 

What if you could be confident in knowing that every class experience you lead is meaningful and impactful for students? That you can walk in to teach and know this with an unwavering confidence?

Sandy's new online course, The Sequence of Success, is designed specifically for yoga teachers. In this course, Sandy will share and teach you all of the techniques, methods, and approach to teaching that has fueled and supported her confidence and development as a yoga teacher for over two decades.

Welcome to Episode 107: "The Power of Non-Verbal Communication" 

In this episode, Sandy expands upon the 4-step action plan for developing confidence that was shared in the last episode digging deeper into non-verbal communication and the impact this key area has on the development of confidence and our growth as yoga teachers.

What if you could be confident in knowing that every class experience you lead is meaningful and impactful for students? That you can walk in to teach and know this with an unwavering confidence?

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Welcome to Episode 106: "The 4-Step Action Plan for Developing Confidence as a Yoga Teacher with Host Sandy Raper. 

In this episode, Sandy shares a 4-Step Action plan that yoga teachers can follow to develop confidence and move forward in their growth and development teaching yoga. 

What if you could be confident in knowing that every class experience you lead is meaningful and impactful for students? That you can walk in to teach and know this with an unwavering confidence?

Sandy's new online course, The Sequence of Success, is designed specifically for yoga teachers. In this course, Sandy will share and teach you all of the techniques, methods, and approach to teaching that has fueled and supported her confidence and development as a yoga teacher for over two decades.

Welcome to Episode 105: Why Confidence is Important for a Yoga Teacher with Host Sandy Raper 

In this episode, Sandy uncovers why the lack of confidence is the biggest obstacle for yoga teachers, why teachers continually feel this way, and how yoga teachers can change this system of belief and become quietly empowered in their capabilities to go out and serve their communities teaching the practice of yoga with true confidence. 

Are you seeking a fresh encounter and approach to sequencing? An approach that frees up your time planning and creating sequences and leaves you refreshed, renewed and energized in your purpose as a yoga teacher.