Conversations for Yoga Teachers

In today’s episode, you’re going to meet an amazing guest, Reema Datta, who’ll be sharing about her life, her yoga teaching and all about her new book. 

 

Here is more about Reema:

 

Reema Datta is the author of The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health, and Reality. Datta first learned yoga and Ayurveda from her mother and grandmothers as well as her grandfather, who wrote several books on Vedic philosophy. After receiving her master’s from the London School of Economics, Datta worked for the United Nations before leaving to study ancient yogic wisdom and practice. Since 2002, she has taught yoga and Ayurveda workshops, retreats, and trainings in twenty countries across five continents. Her students include Sting, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Zainab Salbi, Sujatha Baliga, and thousands of other practitioners globally. Visit her online at http://www.ReemaYoga.com.

Here’s a Q&A about the book:  https://youtu.be/Jg9BYEat8Lo 

Here are her social media links:

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/reemayoga  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reema.datta.9  

X/Twitter: https://x.com/reemadatta 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reema-datta-332023b  

 

I love sharing these interview episodes with you! After you listen, please share a message with Reema and I with any thoughts you had about the conversation! You can DM her on her Instagram and use mine as well: @barebonesyoga

 

Have you ever thought of how you can start to use Artificial Intelligence as a way to make your life easier as a yoga teacher? There are actually lots of ways and in this episode, you’re gong to find out how. 

 

My guest is Adrianne Jerrett, founder of All Mats Taken, and she bridges the worlds of yoga teaching and business technology. With a background in ecology and a 250-hour yoga certification completed during the pandemic, Adrianne faced firsthand the challenges of building a teaching career without traditional studio access. Drawing on her experience in website design for wellness practitioners, she recognized many yoga teachers struggled with the business aspects of their practice. This insight inspired the All Mats Taken Summit, now in its third year, bringing together experts to help yoga teachers create sustainable businesses. 

Today, Adrianne teaches yin yoga while raising her son and exploring how AI can support wellness professionals. Her work has contributed to planting over 630 trees through summit ticket donations (and counting!). Through All Mats Taken, she remains committed to helping yoga reach more communities by empowering teachers with essential business skills.

 

In this episode, Adrianne and I discuss how AI can help you as a yoga teacher with lots of the things you might be doing manually and in doing so, giving you more time to teach. Here are some of the topics we discuss:

 

- How to save time on content creation while maintaining authenticity

- How to keep your authentic voice  with content repurposing

- How to use AI for content creation without sounding 'robotic'

- What is a common misconception about AI you'd like to clear up?

- How I'm using AI to help me plan this year's AMT summit.

- Introduce my presentation on prompt engineering

 

We also talk about her upcoming online summit and you can find out about that here:

 

https://allmatstaken.com/

 

I’ll be one of the presenters at the Summit too!

 

Enjoy the episode!

How many of the cues that you share do you truly understand the reason for the cue? Many teachers feel like they repeat cues but they don’t really KNOW them. In this episode, you’ll discover a template you can use to evaluate the cues you share and see how much you really know about each one! Remember, when you teach from what you know, your confidence grows, so this episode is designed to highlight if you have a learning gap around anatomy. If you find that you do, all you need to do is enroll in my program and I’ll teach you exactly what you need to know. 

 

Links to the download that go with this episode are below, as well as my group and my one on one program:

 

Download here:

 

https://barebonesyoga.lpages.co/yoga-cues-evaluation/

 

One on one anatomy program here:

 

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/blueprint-learning-program

 

Group program here:

 

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/the-yoga-teacher-confidence-club

 

Ready to assist your students in yoga class but not sure where to start? Or maybe you’ve been experimenting with assisting your students and you feel uncomfortable and you’re not sure you’re doing it in a way that’s helpful for your students. In either case, this episode is for you! Here you’ll discover some fundamental concepts for assisting your students and a step by step list of factors to consider. You’ll also hear how assisting has changed in 2025 from years ago when assists were given without getting the consent of the student. In today’s times, it’s essential that we get the approval and consent of the student before we put our hands on them. Studios have a variety of ways they get consent; some use a card at the mat, some ask students to raise their hands, some teachers get consent one by one in the moment of approaching the student. This episode is less about how you get the consent and more about the idea of getting it and how that’s now part of the fabric of how we teach. 

 

You’ll get a full list of actions to take and you’ll also get an opportunity to receive a workshop replay on this exact topic, which was covered in a live workshop taught on 3/14/25. To get a copy of the replay, DM me on Instagram for it. 

 

You’ll hear about the Yoga Teacher Confidence Club and what you can gain by joining it. Use this link to join: 

 

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/the-yoga-teacher-confidence-club

 

You’ll also hear about a special offer to learn anatomy, so listen all the way to the end for the special code words that unlock your discount. 

Do you think you’re too old to teach yoga? Do you ever worry that your classes won’t be as popular as a younger teacher? If you’re 45 years old or old and you’ve ever had that thought, you’re not alone. I hear this from teachers quite a bit and at the same time, I’m seeing more and more yoga teachers over the age of 45 than ever before. 

 

In this episode. you’ll discover a powerful way to re-frame your age and to feel confident and empowered when you teach. 

 

Side note: This episode will work for a yoga teacher of any age because the idea of feeling “less than” can transcend age and be about any limiting belief you have. 

 

Be sure to jump into The 5 Day Confidence Challenge too, using the link below. You’ll find out more about how this can help you when you listen to this episode!

 

Link to 5 day Confidence Challenge

 

https://barebonesyoga.lpages.co/the-5-day-confidence-challenge/

 

Link to enroll in The Yoga Teacher Confidence Club

 

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/the-yoga-teacher-confidence-club

 

 

Link to my website:

 

www.barebonesyoga.com

 

For this episode, I asked Chat GPT for popular questions that it gets asked about teaching yoga. The questions that were returned are similar to my experience of talking to yoga teachers and the list of 10 questions makes for our conversation today. 

 

We’ll go through each question and you can see if the question is one you have too along with my approach to answering it. 

 

As always, the ultimate answer to each question lies within you. I share my approach to each one, sharing my teaching method and the logic to back it up.

 

At the end of the episode, you’ll hear about 3 training videos you can get. These are each linked below:

 

How to share clear cues

 

https://barebonesyoga.lpages.co/how-to-share-clear-yoga-cues/

 

 

How to create a Signature Sequence

 

https://barebonesyoga.lpages.co/how-to-create-a-signature-sequence/

 

 

How to do the Walk and Talk

 

 

https://barebonesyoga.lpages.co/how-to-do-the-walk-and-talk/

 

 

You’ll also hear about the group program, The Yoga Teacher Confidence Club

 

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/the-yoga-teacher-confidence-club

 

 

And the one on one program, The Yoga Anatomy Blueprint Learning Program

 

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/blueprint-learning-program

When yoga teachers tell me they want to feel “confident” and then they share the things that aren’t working for them, the things that are getting in the way of feeling “confident,” what it often relates to is giving their power away. 

 

What this often looks like is deferring to other teachers’ opinions and methods, even when it doesn’t work well for them.

 

If this is you, you’re not alone. Many yoga teachers tell me they do this. 

 

There is another way though; one where you feel confident and empowered and instead of just following what other people are doing, having purpose behind what you do. 

 

Find out how to do this in this week’s episode.

Ever considering teaching in a different city or even a different country? In this episode, you’ll meet yoga teacher and studio owner, Andrew Singer. Andrew is the founder of Flying Tree Yoga in Medellin, Colombia and while he was born and raised in the UK, in 2014, he decided to dedicate himself to teaching yoga in Latin America. 

 

He is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, leads teacher training programs, which you’ll hear about in this episode, and also teaches Thai bodywork, mindfulness meditation and is well versed in Classical Yoga, Tantra and Buddhist philosophy and of course, the Spanish language. 

 

Andrew not only shares his unique story of travel, yoga and entrepreneurship, we also discuss how to build a community, how to introduce yoga to people who aren’t familiar with the practice and what to consider when sharing cues in a way that requires you to translate from your native language to another one. 

 

You can find more about Andrew here:

 

www.flyingtreeyoga.com

 

One more thing: 

 

In the beginning, I share with you my e book on teaching as well as the monthly membership, The Yoga Teacher Confidence Club. 

 

Here is the link to the e book

 

https://barebonesyoga.lpages.co/the-bare-bones-yoga-guide-to-incredible-yoga-teaching/

 

Here is the link to the Club

 

 

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/the-yoga-teacher-confidence-club

 

Ever get confused over what to eat and what makes up a healthy diet? With so much information out there, it’s easy to get confused. In today’s episode, get out of that state of confusion and start to get informed about the key steps you can take, starting now, to improving your nutrition. Healthy eating is not only part of feeling good now, it’s also part of feeling good in the long term. Erin Kenney walks you through exactly what you need to know. Here’s a little about Erin:

 

Erin is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Personal Trainer with a Master’s degree in Nutrition Science. In her private practice, she works one-on-one with clients to uncover and address the root causes of their health concerns, with a special focus on gastrointestinal disorders and sports nutrition. Combining her expertise in clinical nutrition with a functional medicine approach, Erin uses advanced lab testing to create highly personalized wellness plans for her clients. She is the author of Rewire Your Gut and Rewire Your Sweet Tooth and has developed a line of lab-tested supplements, including probiotics and digestive enzymes, specifically designed to support optimal gut health.

 

In this episode, I ask Erin common questions that I have and that I hear from people when the topic of diet and nutrition comes up. If there’s a question we didn’t cover that you have, comment on the You Tube version of the podcast or send Erin a DM on her Instagram. Her social media handle is below. 

 

I also share a bit about the 5-Day Confidence Challenge, a fun way you can boost your confidence, for teaching yoga and for your life. The link to try that is below. 

 

Erin’s website: 

 

https://nutritionrewired.com/

 

Erin on Instagram:

@nutritionrewired

 

The 5 Day Confidence Challenge:

 

https://barebonesyoga.lpages.co/the-5-day-confidence-challenge/

 

The Yoga Teacher Confidence Club:

 

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/the-yoga-teacher-confidence-club

 

Ever get nervous when you walk into the yoga studio to teach your class? This is a pretty common feeling and one that can be pretty uncomfortable. What if you could move past your nervous feelings, even your fear, by better understanding it? This is what you’ll learn when you listen to today’s show, my interview with Linda Ugelow, a speaking confidence and vocal coach and author of the book, Delight in the Limelight. Formerly stricken with public speaking fear herself, she now helps entrepreneurs and professionals transform their experience of speaking from dread to delight whether online or on stage, in the media, or in the meeting room.

 

Linda holds a master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapy/Movement Studies and performed internationally for four decades with the women's world music group, Libana, as a singer, bassist, percussionist, and principal dancer. She hosts the podcast Delight in the Limelight to inspire and empower individuals on their journey to confident self-expression.

You can connect with Linda here: 

https://www.lindaugelow.com/

https://www.tiktok.com/@lindaugelow

https://www.facebook.com/linda.ugelow/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindaugelow/

https://www.instagram.com/lindaugelow/

https://www.youtube.com/user/lindaugelow

 

One other thing: If you’re looking to feel more confident when you teach yoga, get my free download on Ten Steps to Confident Teaching here:

https://barebonesyoga.lpages.co/free-guide-steps-to-confident-teaching/

 

And, as I share in the episode, you might also like getting LIVE support around feeling more confident through the weekly workshops you can join inside my new monthly membership, The Yoga Teacher Confidence Club. It’s just $29 a month and for that, you’ll get access to the workshops weekly and a teaching tools. 

Join here:

https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/the-yoga-teacher-confidence-club