Teaching drop in classes can be fun. You never know who you’re going to see in class, you start fresh every time & students can come and go as they please. However, teaching drop in classes also has it’s limitations; it’s hard to progress or build from week to week, or build a strong container as the students change from week to week. 

One alternative to teaching drop in classes is THE SERIES. A predetermined number of classes, held together by a strong theme in which students register in advance to attend the whole shebang. In today’s episode I speak with Lauren Enright - yoga teacher, doula, and coach who has successfully mastered the series model of teaching classes, and agreed to come on the show today to share how she did it. 

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

• How Lauren went from studying neuroscience to teaching highschool students to running a business as a doula & yoga teacher. 
• How Lauren built her confidence to promote herself and her work
• The magic of teaching a 6 week class series (vs. drop in classes)
• Why 6-8 weeks is the sweet spot for setting up your class series
• How working backwards, repetition & focusing on community can make your series a massive success
• Lauren’s daily routine + how she stays balanced as a mom, wife, teacher, doula, coach & business owner

👉  Get Laurens resource guide to develop & teach your own 6 week series www.breathewithlauren.com/yogateachers

FIND LAUREN

• Lauren’s Website
• Lauren’s Instagram

FIND CORA

• Cora’s Website
• Cora’s Newsletter

For links & resources mentioned in this episode go to www.corageroux.com/episode105

👉 Kajabi For Yoga Teachers

Episode Description:

I’m always doing rituals. Before my morning practice. Before I see clients, teach a class or record an interview. Bigger events get bigger rituals. And to be honest, I’ve never given it much thought, except for the fact that it’s something I like to do, and so I do it. However, when today's guest, Mara Branscombe, reached out to me to talk about her new book, Ritual As Remedy, I was intrigued. 

ABOUT MARA

Mara Branscombe is a mother, writer, yogi, artist, teacher, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spiritual coach. She is the author of “Ritual As Remedy: Embodied Practices For Soul Care.”  Mara is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind–body practices, and earth-based rituals into her life and work, and she has been leading community ceremony since 2000. An adventurous spirit, Mara has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, trekked across the Himalayas, studied yoga in India, planted trees in Canada’s north, lived off the grid in a remote cabin in the woods, worked as a Waldorf (Steiner School) teacher, and then found her passion for dance and choreography. All the while yoga, meditation, mysticism and ritual have been at the heart of Mara’s journey. Her trainings in the Incan Shaman lineage and the Pagan tradition have greatly inspired her life’s work of earth-based, ceremonial, intentional, and heart-centered living and loving. Mara currently lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband and two daughters. 

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

• Mara’s morning ritual & what a typical work day looks like
• What makes something a ritual
• Soul care vs. self care
• The benefits of ritual - what’s the point?
• Why letting go of the outcome is an essential part of the creative process of life
• Why Mara needed to commit to self-publishing her book, before she found a publisher
• How to trust your own intuition, and a story about firewood
• Why creating one small thing every day for a month can create magic
• Mara’s best advice for folks who are stepping out on their own as entrepreneurs for the first time

FIND MARA BRANSCOMBE

• Mara’s Website
• Mara’s Book
• The Ritual As Remedy Book Club
• Mara’s Instagram

FIND CORA

• Cora’s Website
• Cora’s Newsletter
• Kajabi For Yoga Teachers

For links & resources mentioned in this episode go to www.corageroux.com/episode103

👉 Kajabi For Yoga Teachers

If you’ve ever asked yourself “what the heck am I doing with my life?” or have been feeling confused, stuck, unmoored or like the path ahead of you feels murky and unclear - this episode is for you. My guest today, Kaya Mindlin is a true guide on the yogic journey, steeped in embodied wisdom, genuine tradition and good will. 

ABOUT KAYA

Sought-after Yoga Educator, Kaya Mindlin has been teaching yoga for 21 years, teaching teachers for 12 years. Dedicated students, seekers and teachers from around the world resonate with her technical acumen, mothering bhava and ability to thread transformational teaching and gentle practice together in a meaningful and personal way.

With thousands of hours of tutelage with masters in the Yoga tradition and the explicit blessing of her teachers to teach others, Kaya integrates the full-spectrum of the Vedic tradition in her work. This includes Supreme Release Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra, Storytelling, Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology, Vastu {Vedic Design} and Sanskrit. She offers teachings and practices that reveal the body and life itself as a vehicle for spiritual awakening. 

Kaya’s committed to upholding yoga from its own viewpoint, thanks to the benefit of her studies with brilliant teachers. Her primary two lineages extend from Gurus Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati & Krishan Mantri both of whom she was lucky to study and receive blessings from directly. Additional teachers Dr. Sarita Shrestha, Dr. Vasant Lad, Hart deFouw, Rama Berch, Gitte Bechsgaard, and Swami Tattvavidananda. She lives in the Pacific Northwest of the US with her husband, Vedic Astrologer Michael Manzella and their children.

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

• Kaya’s daily routine integrating work, family & spiritual life
• A definition of Dharma
• How you know what your duty actually is
• How to live in alignment with cosmic order
• What to do when you don’t know what to do
• How two people can make very different choices, and still be in alignment
• Why it’s hard to know if what someone else is doing is actually dharmic
• How Kaya comes up with the inspiration for her offerings (hint, it’s not by what’s trending on Tiktok)
• Kaya’s best advice for new yoga business owners (that I wish I listened to when I was just starting out)

FIND KAYA MINDLIN

• Kaya’s Website
• Kaya’s Instagram

FIND CORA

• Cora’s Website
• Cora’s Newsletter
• Kajabi For Yoga Teachers

For links & resources mentioned in this episode go to www.corageroux.com/episode102