The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 103: Hiring and Nurturing Your Team with Shelli Warren Description: Do you have a team supporting you in your business? Are you thinking about hiring, because some parts of your business seem just too overwhelming? Do you need help in hiring, building, and nurturing your team? Shelli Warren, Team and Leadership Coach, joins Shannon in the third episode of the 5-part mini-series, Yoga Studio Business 101, to share more about what it takes to build a successful t...
Feb 11, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 103
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 102 Yoga Studio: Mission Statements & Core Values with Steve Hart Description: What does your yoga business stand for? Who are you serving? And what do you hope to achieve? Steve Hart, founder of Riffs Studio, joins Shannon in the second of this 5-part mini-series, Yoga Studio Business 101, to share more, not just about mission statements and core values, but also pricing, memberships, marketing and the business of running a successful yoga business. Steve ...
Feb 04, 2019•53 min•Ep. 102
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 101: What I Learned as a Yoga Studio Manager with Shannon Crow Description: What does it really take to run a successful yoga studio business? Join Shannon in the first of this 5-part mini-series, Yoga Studio Business 101, to find out more about the different aspects of building and running a yoga studio business. Shannon shares what she has learned as a yoga studio manager, and in the next four episodes, brings on four other experts to share more about creatin...
Jan 28, 2019•42 min•Ep. 101
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 100: Cultivating a Community of Professional Peers with Linda Sparrowe Description: How can we, as yoga teachers, build and maintain a professional peer community? Whether it’s taking ownership of our yoga, overcoming isolation, or dealing with the competition we feel as yoga teachers - we have all faced these challenges. Linda Sparrow shares some of her insights about these difficult and uncomfortable topics. Linda Sparrowe is a writer, editor, speaker and men...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 100
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 099: Branding Your Yoga Website with Kali Edwards Description: Have you been wanting to design and launch a professional website for your yoga business but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you are struggling with clarifying and communicating your brand and message on your website. Kali Edwards, founder of June Mango LLC, is just the expert you need to hear from about how to establish and showcase your brand on your website. Kali has always had the urge to cre...
Jan 14, 2019•40 min•Ep. 99
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 098: Many Layers of Fascia with Gil Hedley Description: How often have we said that we can’t do certain movements because of old age? What if that’s not a result of old age, but “fuzz” - a by-product of not enough movement in our bodies? Gil Hedley of The Fuzz Speech fame joins Shannon to bring the concepts of fascia, anatomy, movement and scar tissue to a whole new light. Gil is a Rolfer, an author, and a strong proponent of encouraging somanauts to explore In...
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 98
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 097: Focusing In On Your Niche [Consultation Call] with Susan Hopkinson Description: Do you have trouble finding your niche and communicating your unique offering as a yoga teacher to your audience? The niche work that you do in your business is an ongoing process, and it can be difficult to clarify that in your messaging. On this consultation call, Shannon guides Susan Hopkinson through some of her struggles in this area. Susan Hopkinson is a writer, mother, a...
Dec 31, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 97
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 096: How to Create a Yoga Practice Habit with Matt Kowald Description: How can you form a yoga practice habit? Do you want to do more in your yoga practice but find it hard to form a routine around it? Perhaps you’ve formed an unwanted habit you’d like to remove. Matt Kowald, co-author and co-founder of Yogis Journal, joins Shannon to discuss what it takes to create and maintain a yoga practice habit. Matt is a varsity wrestler originally from Australia who now...
Dec 24, 2018•57 min•Ep. 96
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 095: Making a CEO Business Plan with Shannon Crow Description: Do you feel like the CEO of your yoga business now? If you don’t, you’re not alone. It is easy to get caught up in doing the “Worker Bee” activities and lose focus of the “Queen Bee” activities you should be doing to keep your business going and growing. On this episode, Shannon shares some things she has been doing in her own business over the past few weeks in terms of planning. Taking time off to...
Dec 17, 2018•41 min•Ep. 95
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 94: Instagram Content Strategy and Stories with Tyler McCall Description: Are you on Instagram? How are you using Instagram as a yoga teacher to market and grow your yoga business with intention? Tyler McCall, social media marketer, strategist, and coach for creatives joins Shannon on this episode to tell you how you can be using Instagram to generate profit, not just popularity, in your business. Tyler has 10 years of experience working as a community organ...
Dec 10, 2018•53 min•Ep. 94
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 093: How to Build a Home Studio with Jo Stewart and Rane Bowen Description: Have you thought of building a home-based studio? What does it really take to get a home yoga studio up and running? What are the challenges you might face, and the biggest pros? Jo Stewart and Rane Bowen are yoga teachers who not only had a home studio, but also built a new one, and on this episode, they reveal the nitty, gritty details of what it takes. Jo has been teaching yoga fo...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 93
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 92: Accessible Yoga Language with Kesse, Chantel and Katie As yoga teachers, we’d all like to reach as many people as possible with our practice and share yoga with them. However, what we may not realize is that we may be inadvertently be excluding or even offending people - through something as simple (but powerful) as our language. I met Chantel Ehler, Katie Juelson and Kesse Hodge at the Accessible Yoga Conference in Toronto last summer. I immediately kne...
Nov 26, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 92
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 091: 100 Conversations with Yoga Teachers with Mado Hesselink Description: What would it be like to talk to 100 yoga teachers and find out what their challenges are, and what they've learned so far? When Mado Hesselink decided she wanted to increase the work she was doing with yoga teachers, she did just that and personally interviewed 100 yoga teachers - this episode is all about what she learned from those conversations. Mado has been teaching yoga since 2...
Nov 19, 2018•57 min•Ep. 91
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 090: Teaching Baby and Me Yoga with Shannon Crow Description: How can a yoga niche help to grow a profitable and sustainable yoga business? In this episode, Shannon shares about a popular area of yoga - Baby and Me yoga, and how this can be a niche to build your yoga business. Very often, postnatal parents are wanting to get back to yoga and bring baby along, but adult yoga classes aren’t the right place for them. Having crawling / crying / curious babies in...
Nov 12, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 90
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 089: Yoga for Stress Management with Courtney Butler-Robinson Description: You can’t deny it - we live in a stressful world. Everyone knows yoga is useful when it comes to stress management, but Courtney Butler-Robinson has focused her practice exclusively around dealing with stress and more specifically, heart health. Courtney has had a long and illustrious career in the field of yoga. She’s been practicing for nearly 40 years, training yoga teachers for 20...
Nov 05, 2018•57 min•Ep. 89
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast 088: Creating Professional Yoga Videos with Kira Sloane Description: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could connect with your yoga students in the comfort of their own home? With Yoga Anytime, Kira Sloane not only teaches yoga online but also helps other yoga teachers share their yoga online. Kira was drawn to teaching yoga from her very first savasana . After being diagnosed with endometriosis in 1995, she turned to yoga to find relief for her pain and immediat...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 88
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Ep 087: Yoga for Fertility with Beth Heller The journey of infertility is a difficult one. Beth Heller joins Shannon on this episode to share her own story and experiences with infertility, and how that led her to become the co-founder and co-director of Pulling Down the Moon. Beth is a mother and a yoga teacher whose niche and passion is yoga for fertility. She has a degree in human nutrition and spent 4 years working as a nutrition researcher. She found her w...
Oct 22, 2018•48 min•Ep. 87
Live video is taking the online world by storm, and it’s not a trend is going away soon. How can yoga teachers get on board and harness the power of video? Ian Gray of Seriously Social has tips, strategies, and advice on how you can use live video as a yoga teacher to share video content. Ian is a man of many talents. Not only is he an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant who specializes in live video, he is also a husband, father of two, professional singer and ...
Oct 15, 2018•50 min•Ep. 86
085: A Discussion About Hands-On Assists with Amanda Kingsmith and Shannon Crow Do you offer your students hands-on assists or adjustments or do you steer clear of touch in a yoga class? Amanda Kingsmith invited Shannon back on the M.B.OM podcast to talk about hands-on assists (sometimes called adjustments). Amanda is a yoga teacher with a business studies background. She works 1:1 with yoga teachers and hosts two podcasts - one about travel and the other for yoga teachers. She is an enthusiasti...
Oct 08, 2018•57 min•Ep. 85
084: Yoga for Scoliosis with Christine Jaureguiberry Christine Jaureguiberry has niched down over the years as a yoga teacher. She now works mostly with individuals who have scoliosis. This is fueled by her own love of yoga. At the age of five, Christine was diagnosed with structural scoliosis. Her parents first put her in ballet. As she grew, she stayed active, but in her teen years, her pain started to increase. Christine spent a lot of time visiting physiotherapists, osteopaths and chiropract...
Oct 01, 2018•49 min•Ep. 84
083: Instagram for Yoga Teachers with Daniel McIntire As a yoga teacher have you thought about creating an Instagram account? Do you already have an Instagram presence and wonder if you’re on the right path? Have you thought about creating a separate account for your yoga business? Today’s guest, Daniel McIntire, the founder of Influncrrs helps to answer these and many more questions about Instagram. Daniel McIntire knew yoga was right for him the first time he tried it. It took him over 3 years...
Sep 24, 2018•49 min•Ep. 83
082: Yoga and Fibromyalgia with Pamela Crane We are so grateful to welcome Pamela Crane, a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapist (IAYT) who is currently working towards her Masters in Yoga Therapy at Maryland University of Integrative Health. She is a Yoga Alliance 200 RYT, a Reiki 1 and 2 practitioner, and a member of the National Dance Education Association (NDEO). On today’s episode, Shannon asks Pamela to speak to her experience with Fibromyalgia- as a sufferer and as a y...
Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 82
081: Set-Up to Teach Private Yoga [Consultation Call] with Stephanie Brunson Do you or have you considered teaching private yoga classes as a way to set up or grow a yoga business? If so, this episode is for you! Shannon shares a consultation call with the kind permission of Stephanie Brunson. Stephanie has been teaching yoga for 10 years and has recently come to the realization that teaching students one-on-one is a viable option for her. She is excited at the prospect of changing focus but is ...
Sep 10, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 81
080: Yoga and Endometriosis [Part 2] with Dustienne Miller In part 2 of our 2-part series on endometriosis, Shannon asked yoga teacher and physical therapist Dustienne Miller to share her knowledge and experience working with clients with this chronic illness. Dustienne feels strongly endometriosis is underdiagnosed and that there is much more to be understood in this area of women’s health. It is now recognized that 1 in 10 women struggle with this chronic illness. Dustienne also wants all wome...
Sep 03, 2018•53 min•Ep. 80
079: Yoga and Endometriosis with Kimberly Castello [Part 1] In part 1 of a 2-part series on endometriosis, we welcome Kimberly Castello, a certified Yoga Therapist who completed her Clinical Internship with the Simms Mann Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles, California. Kimberly specializes in developing chronic pain management programs for individuals, hospitals, and clinics. Kimberly tried yoga when a friend recommended it to her, knowing that as a dancer she had a love for movement. She share...
Aug 27, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 79
078: Creating an Online Studio with Brea Johnson Brea Johnson has over 16 years of yoga teaching under her belt and has recently ventured into the world of online teaching. Finding herself tired of the class grind she refined what and how she teaches and in doing, so she was able to define her niche. In shifting her focus, she also found herself turning to a more sustainable approach to yoga by bringing in movement education and research to enhance her yoga teaching. This approach has attracted ...
Aug 20, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 78
077: Interstitial Cystitis (Painful Bladder Syndrome) with Helena Spears Shannon met Helena Spears through a discussion in The Connected Yoga Teacher Facebook group about interstitial cystitis. Upon graduating from her 200-hour yoga teacher training, Helena turned her focus towards teaching chronic pain informed yoga as well as yoga for pelvic health. Shannon asked Helena on as a guest to share her first-hand experience with interstitial cystitis and persistent pain and the many benefits of prac...
Aug 13, 2018•58 min•Ep. 77
076: Designing A Yoga Teacher Training with Rachel Scott Think back to your first 200-hour yoga teacher training. What was it like? Did it fit your learning style? What do you wish was included? If you’ve given these questions some thought perhaps designing and teaching yoga teacher training is a path for you. Shannon came across Rachel Scott in a serendipitous-like fashion. Rachel had shared photos on the Pixabay (a free image-sharing site), and Shannon used one for her online 5-Day Content Cre...
Aug 06, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 76
075: Yoga for Pelvic Girdle Pain with Dr. Sinead Dufour Shannon is pleased to have Dr. Sinead Dufour as her first returning guest to discuss pelvic girdle pain. Sinead has been a practicing physiotherapist for about 15 years, with a PhD in Primary Health Care. Her extensive studies also include training in obstetrics and urogynecology. She is a professor in the Health and Science department at McMaster University and is the Director of Pelvic Health at The Womb . Pelvic girdle pain develops in p...
Jul 30, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 75
074: The 8 Limbs [Part 2] with Jennie Lee On last week’s episode Shannon gave us an overview of The 8 Limbs and on today’s episode, Shannon takes a deeper look with guest Jennie Lee author of True Yoga: Practicing with the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment . Jennie Lee is a yoga therapist, teacher, speaker and writer who specializes in Classical Yoga, Meditation and Mindful Wellness. Shannon met Jennie through a post on The Connected Yoga Teacher Facebook Group. Group members...
Jul 23, 2018•53 min•Ep. 74
