Yoga Teacher Confidential: Secrets of Becoming a Great Yoga Teacher
Hosted by Sage · Sage Rountree
4.9from 29 ratings
- 108
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 29
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 82K
- YouTube views
About Yoga Teacher Confidential: Secrets of Becoming a Great Yoga Teacher
Yoga Teacher Confidential is your backstage pass to the unspoken truths of being a yoga teacher. Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT500, dives into the real challenges and rewards of teaching yoga, offering expert advice and secrets to help you build confidence, connect with your students, and teach with authenticity. Sage draws on her two decades of experience teaching yoga, owning and running a studio, mentoring yoga teachers, and directing yoga teacher trainings to share practical insights you can use right away. You’ll also hear advice from her books, including Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, The Art of Yoga Sequencing, and The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook—plus her newest, Yoga Off the Mat, available now. Whether you’re navigating imposter syndrome, mastering classroom presence, or refining your skills to teach specialized niches like athletes, this podcast empowers you to lead your classes with clarity, grace, and ease.
- Publisher
- Sage Rountree
- Category
- education · health & fitness · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 108 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026
107. How Learning to Teach Core Makes You a More Useful Yoga Teacher
6 Oct 2026
106. The Shadow Self in Autumn: The Five Kleshas in the Teacher’s Seat
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
105. Introduction to Teaching Yoga Nidra: What Do I Actually Say for 20 Minutes?
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105. Introduction to Teaching Yoga Nidra: What Do I Actually Say for 20 Minutes?
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yoga Nidra translates as yogic sleep, which is a lovely name and a slightly misleading one. The state you're guiding students toward is not sleep. It's the border territory just adjacent to sleep. Like the place you might arrive during a great massage or a scan of the insides of your eyelids on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon with football on the TV. That always gets me there. Deep physiological rest with a thin thread of awareness still shooting through it. Students often describe it afterward as this strange sensation of having been asleep and awake at the same time, of hearing your voice the entire time while feeling like no time has passed at all. […]
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