New Itunes Imix: Amahl's Yoga Playlist

Hello Friends!! Great new playlist for Rasamaya Classes below!

love. 

C

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Dear CARRIE, Congratulations, your iMix "www.rasamaya.com: Amahl's yoga playlist" has been published in the iTunes Store at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=369788276 www.rasamaya.com: Amahl's yoga playlist Playlist Notes: This is a playlist created by one of our Rasamaya Yoga Teachers for her class. Loved it so much had to publish it. Enjoy. Perfect for any vinyasa flow class. love. love. love.

Rasamaya Flying Aerial Yoga Workshop this Sunday!!!

Upcoming Flying Aerial Yoga Workshop with Carrie & Crissy this Sunday April 18th 10am - 12pm.
A few spots left! No experience necessary. Register at www.rasamaya.com

yoga journal conference: business of being a yoga teacher

I am presenting at the Boston Yoga Journal conference this weekend on the business of being a yoga teacher. Today I had the great honor of sitting on a panel with Lynne Beiger of Back Bay Yoga in Boston, and the well known Natasha Rizopoulos. We answered questions in turn regarding social media, networking, marketing, hiring processes, etc. The responses were poignant, and many times we came up with different views and answers. That said  - there was one consistent thread among our voices... authenticity of self in your marketing and business choices. If you don't want to twitter - don't. If you love to write newsletters - do it. If you would prefer to stand on your head in the middle of the street holding a sign between your toes that says "come to my yoga class" try it out.  But whatever choice you make in business, let it come from the heart.


I had a woman come up to me after the panel who told me she only had a few students in a new workshop she just started offering. Slightly discouraged, she was considering that maybe it wasn't exactly worth it to continue the program. My response - "You had more than one! That's great! Keep going..."  


Jen my partner at Dover Yoga & Pilates and I were talking this morning about choices in business on the drive down. She remarked that too often we are all too quick to change gears in business and not be willing to weather the storm to see the other side. I don't think this could be more true.  Anytime that I have more than five people show up to listen to anything I have to say I consider that a triumph. We can't expect to start out with a village, perhaps we start with only one person. But if we nurture and put our effort into sharing our passion with that one person it may just turn out that she is the Queen in hiding who has an entire village of people that she knows... and so your class grows.  


The question I believe we have to ask ourselves on a continual basis, especially when we are ready to throw the towel in, is whether or not we love what we do? Is teaching this workshop really making me happy or am I resentful that I'm not home with my children? Am I teaching yoga out of a place of love and joy, or because it's the latest thing I chose to do to make ends meet?  Somewhere in the middle of those questions there is a balance. If you love what you do and it comes from the heart, it shows. The joy that you exude will overflow out of you and will spread to your students, and then from those students to their families and loved ones. That is simply bound to multiply. It is the perfect equation.


Never doubt the power of your ability to teach others, or the strength of manifestation that comes from leading life guided by only your heart... authentically.