In the last episode, Dr Lauren Tober talked about why your students might not want to be touched. In today’s episode, she’s sharing two alternate ways that you can offer support, guidance, or...
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Why Students Don’t Want to Be Touched In Yoga Classes
Touch is a controversial subject in the yoga world. Is it nourishing and healing? Or is it triggering and re-traumatising? Actually, it’s not that simple. Join Dr Lauren Tober for this latest video...
How To Help Anxious Students Feel Comfortable
In today’s video episode Dr Lauren Tober answers a question from Nikola: “How can we make people with anxiety feel as comfortable as possible in our group classes?” Given that anxiety is a common...
How to get Referrals from Psychologists
Many psychologists see the benefit of yoga for mental health, but they don’t always know which styles or teachers to recommend to their clients interested in yoga. In today’s video episode, Dr...
Let’s Talk About the Pelvis
Introducing Yoga Teacher and Physiotherapist Lisa Fitzpatrick (she/her)! In today’s video episode Lisa is going to talk about something that’s a little controversial in the mental health / trauma...
Mental Health and Marketing
A big big welcome to Cora Geroux (she/her) from the Teaching Yoga Podcast, who is joining us to talk about mental health and marketing. Cora speaks about how Yoga Teachers can promote themselves in...
Community for Yoga Teachers
Today we are delighted to introduce Shannon Crow (she/her) from The Connected Yoga Teachers Podcast. Shannon is a trainer and consultant with yoga teachers who are ready to specialize, stand out and...
Yoga and Diabetes
Dr Lauren Tober is joined by Rachel Zinman in today’s video episode to talk about yoga and diabetes. Living with diabetes can be hard, so listen in to hear what we can do, as Yoga Teachers, to...
Yoga and Photography
Join Dr Lauren Tober and Tara D’cruz-Noble in this latest video episode on yoga and photography. Tara (she/her) is a photographer and yoga teacher based in Sydney, and her family lines are from the...
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