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Yoga Professionals

Good Teacher, Broke Teacher: The Business Skills Yoga Training Ignores

I learned to teach yoga long before I learned to make a living from it. So I built the business I wish someone had handed me — and then built the program that hands you the same playbook.

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Functional Ashtanga Range Conditioning: Handstand
Shala Digest

Functional Ashtanga Range Conditioning: Handstand

Every joint either contributes to the line or breaks it. The FRC approach to building a handstand from the ground up.

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Drive Your Own Nervous System
Shala Digest

Drive Your Own Nervous System

Eight six-week courses, ~54 guided audio sessions — every classical breath up to the full Ashtanga Pranayama Sequence, engineered to start dead simple.

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Not All Sand Is Yoga Sand
Shala Digest

Not All Sand Is Yoga Sand

It’s about how the world runs on tiny grains we ignore—and why the “easy” stuff (like desert sand, or shortcuts) doesn’t actually hold.

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Science and Tech

A Beginner’s Guide to Systems Theory

What is systems thinking? Let’s dive into systems theory, exploring interconnectedness, feedback loops, and emergent properties. We’ll untangle this complex web together and maybe learn to think bigger in the process! #systemstheory #interconnectedness #feedbackloops

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Afternoon Yoga Club
Shala Digest

Afternoon Yoga Club

Aging bodies matter, sure—but the real yoga win is the stuff you can’t measure: community, confidence, and a nervous system that finally unclenches.

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The Yoga Contractor Trade-Off
Shala Digest

The Yoga Contractor Trade-Off

Most yoga jobs in the US are 1099. That’s the default, not a choice you opted into. Here’s the math that determines whether it’s actually worth it.

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Practice

From Obedience to Inquiry: When I Started Asking Why in Practice

The values audit behind Foundations of Praxis: I kept teaching that beginners deserve to understand from day one — then I stopped talking about it and built the on-ramp. Designed sequence, guided audio, count videos, a Practice Recorder you own.

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Stop Making Ashtanga a Cult! Part 2: Strategies
Shala Digest

Stop Making Ashtanga a Cult! Part 2: Strategies

Michael Joel Hall discusses his intervention strategies to address unhealthy group dynamics in Ashtanga Yoga practice.

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Cheap Fruit, Expensive People
Shala Digest

Cheap Fruit, Expensive People

It’s about legal guest workers on U.S. farms—and how “doing it right” costs more than the market wants to admit.

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