Gotta love me some yoga! I feel like I blinked and somehow it’s been almost fifteen years since I started teaching yoga and over fifteen years since yoga came into my life! For me yoga is a life line, yoga […]
Yoga Teacher Training
The Hidden Benefits of a Yoga Training
Why take a yoga teacher training? Well the obvious is to become a yoga teacher. But for me that is the last reason why. In 2009 I decided it was time to start sharing what I knew about yoga, the […]
5 Reasons It’s Time To Take A Yoga Teacher Training
Now before you say a yoga teacher training is not for you. Or before you complete your thought of “don’t we have enough yoga teachers out there already”, let me draw some clarity for you. In 2009 I created the […]
10 Things Yoga is Not
Yoga is many things to many people, but over the years I have discovered yoga trying to be turned into this, that and the other thing, only to discover again that no matter how hard a person tries yoga […]
3 Reasons Why I Said Goodbye to Mat Pilates
3 Reasons Why I Said Goodbye to mat Pilates I have been a bare foot teacher for almost fifteen years now and have taught this, that and the other thing in various shapes and forms. After taking my initial yoga teacher training […]
The Best Way to Improve Hamstring Flexibility Video| Yoga Poses with Hope Zvara
It always seems that for many the backs of the legs are tight and cranky. For a slew of reasons our hamstrings seem to cause problems: Help I need better hamstring flexibility! We sit WAY to LONG! This locked up […]
How to Do a Lunge in Yoga | Healthy Alignment and Body Mechanics
If you have ever practiced yoga or attended a yoga class it would be fair to say that you would have then participated in one of yoga’s staple postures-the lunge. In yoga low lunge and high lunge (Anjaneyasana) are definitely two […]
5 Tips in the business of being a (new) yoga teacher
No matter how much you want to resist it, yoga in today’s world is a business and unfortunately with that comes the need to not only know yoga but know the business world. Each instructor out there is their own […]
Why I created my yoga teacher training program & why it’s different
I took my first training in May of 2003, during my Freshman year at Marquette University, hoping to major in theology and public speaking-I wanted to be an inspirational speaker (can you imagine…). I had been coming to […]
5 Tips to Make You a Top-Notch Yoga Teacher
Do you want to be the best yoga teacher you can possibly be? Here are five simple tips to help: 1. Share a part of yourself in class. Be real, and make yourself relatable. I encourage all my teacher trainers to […]