13 years · 40+ retreats · 700+ women
Yoga Teacher Training
Most 200-hour yoga teacher trainings cost between $1,500 and $7,000. Where you land inside that range comes down almost entirely to format and the expertise of the teachers — whether you study online, at a studio down the road, or somewhere that includes your bed and your breakfast. That’s a huge spread, and the number […]
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Destination Guides
Everything I send my retreat guests when they ask what to do with their extra days on the island. Table of Contents Mallorca surprises women who arrive expecting a beach island. And yes, there are MANY beautiful coves to swim in and beautiful beaches too, but… What’s actually here is a mountain range — the […]
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Yoga Teacher Training
Congrats! Embarking on a yoga teacher training course will absolutely change your life, and that's why it's so important to choose the right yoga instructor course for YOU. I have personally taken a handful of yoga teacher training courses that have ranged from really freakin' awesome to ugh… what a waste of money, time, etc. […]
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For Teachers
There’s one note I give yoga teachers more than any other when it comes to yoga nidra, and it has nothing to do with their script, their sequencing, or their voice. It’s this: stop filling every second with words. Most nidra I hear taught is continuous. Beautiful language, correct structure, warm voice — and never […]
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For Teachers
Full disclosure, I trained in a Bihar-inspired lineage, so I do ask my students to remain awake. Once when I’m explaining the practice, and usually once more right before we drop in: this isn’t sleep — see if you can stay on just this side of sleep. Then I let it go. And here’s what […]
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Destination Guides
Table of Contents Every year I bring a group of women to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and every year the same email lands in my inbox about a month out: I’m thinking about coming in a day or two early. What should I actually do? So here it is. This is my working list for […]
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Asana
Learn alignment tips and teaching cues for chair pose, utkatasana. Utkatasana or "fierce pose" is a popular strength building posture in vinyasa yoga.
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Mindful Mondays
Here’s a question that stops a lot of women cold: what do you actually want? Not what your family needs. Not what’s on the list. Not the next thing you’re supposed to handle. What do you want — for your days, your body, your one life? If your mind went quiet and a little panicky […]
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Mindful Mondays
I’ve been teaching yoga for over a decade now. If you’d walked into my class ten years ago, you’d have met a pretty different teacher — and the biggest change isn’t my sequencing or my playlists. It’s what I now believe my actual job is. For a long time, I thought my job was to […]
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Aligned Yogi Podcast
At about 4 a.m. on the last morning of a retreat in Nicaragua, a massive troop of howler monkeys came down through the forest and settled directly over our retreat center. If you’ve never heard howler monkeys, know this: no one was sleeping through it. So we didn’t try. We got up, brewed coffee, and […]
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Aligned Yogi Podcast
When I tell people I launched a yoga retreat business fresh out of teacher training — before I’d taught much of anything on my own — I usually get wide eyes and some version of “wait, what?” It’s an unconventional path. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. This is the story of how Ambuja Yoga […]
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Aligned Yogi Podcast
If you’ve been dreaming of a yoga retreat but keep telling yourself it’s too expensive, this one’s for you. Here’s what I’ve learned in over a decade of leading retreats around the world and helping women get themselves to them: investing in yourself is essential, and cost doesn’t have to be the barrier you think […]
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