By Samantha Hewinson, Chair of Yoga as a Business samantha@yogaaustralia.org.au If you’re someone who has been spooked by marketing because you feel like you don’t know what to say (other than promoting your classes and offerings), it might be because you’ve skipped an essential business step: branding. >…

(with content prompter and 7-day challenge!) Even though it feels like social media algorithms and trends change as fast and frequent as government covid guidelines, there are plenty of timeless social marketing principles that remain unchanged and highly effective. And the best part — they’re harmonious with the values and…

Making Earth conscious choices tends to occur intuitively for students of yoga. It’s only natural that the care and compassion cultivated as a result of embracing the yoga system begins to extend to our environment, future generations, and Mother Earth. Apart from the obvious tangible ways we can support environmentally…

Avril Bastiansz organised her first ever Yoga Retreat, to be held in December of 2021. Although her first, this event had been in the pipeline for quite some time, working around travel restrictions faced over the last two years. …

By Samantha Doyle Hosting yoga retreats has got to be one of the most alluring elements of a career in yoga. Retreats allow us to bring our ultimate wellness experiences to life. When we decide to offer a retreat, we become the architect of a potentially life enhancing, thought provoking…

Amy Woods — Wellbeing Program Coordinator at Eating Disorders Victoria As an eating disorder therapist and yoga teacher, I am in a unique position to see how yoga can help the recovery process for people with an eating disorder, some types of yoga, such as those that focus on perfecting…

By Paul Lyndon I remember my mum taking ’40 Winks’ each afternoon after I arrived home from school. I was full of energy and wanted to play. I could not understand why mum required some time out to rest before having to cook dinner and finish other household chores. …

By Lisa Allwell Every yoga studio in the land has a jenga style stack of blocks, a nest of blankets and a tangle of straps in the corner of the room. (It’s likely that they start out stacked tidy, but that’s a story for another day.) New students are always…

By Lisa Allwell A letter to all our interstate friends… We know how challenging it is to be facing weeks of lockdown and we are sending you a big virtual hug from across the border. Over the past 18 months, we’ve learned a thing or two about how to teach…