Beyond Yoga Teacher Training

Sandy Raper

Sandy Raper has been a yoga teacher, trainer and mentor to yoga teachers for over two decades. From a strong desire and passion to further support yoga teachers in their development and growth, she created the Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Podcast. Join Sandy as she shares stories, teacher tips, techniques and valuable insight into how you can be successful and confident while making teaching yoga a feasible lifelong career. read less
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How Tempo Impacts Teaching Yoga
04-07-2023
How Tempo Impacts Teaching Yoga
Welcome to Episode 132: "How Tempo Impacts Teaching Yoga" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares how tempo is an important principle to develop as a yoga teacher. Tempo can quickly move students into a deep state of concentration within the yoga practice experience. Dig into how your focus in this area can make a big impact in the classes you teach. Episode Highlights: - How tempo is the baseline of the entire yoga class experience. - Ways for setting the right pace of the class. - 3 Specific Ways that Pace Makes an Impact - Key ways that yoga teachers can set the tempo of the class - What tempo communicates to students and their experience Do you have a question about teaching yoga or something to share about how the BEYOND YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Podcast is making a difference in your teaching pursuits? ⁠Click here ⁠to message and share with Sandy. Are you interested in unlocking the key essentials you need to take the mystery out of cueing? ⁠⁠Click this link⁠⁠ and submit the “I Want to Know More” form and I’ll send you all of the details about my exciting NEW mini-course - The KEY Cueing™ Course. A mini-course designed to get you results fast and to take the mystery out of cueing your classes once and for all! RESOURCES:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠I want to hear more about the NEW KEY Cueing™ Course!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠NEW! YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE The Essential Guide for Effective Cueing ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Email List ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE 25-minute Mentoring Discovery Call with Sandy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training FALL 2023
Caution: When Sequencing Becomes Choregraphy
27-06-2023
Caution: When Sequencing Becomes Choregraphy
Welcome to Episode 131: When Sequencing Becomes Choreography with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy explains the similarities and differences between yoga and dance. Explore how the concept of approaching sequencing as choreography has the potential to distract and diminish students' ability to tap into the more subtle, internal experience of the yoga practice. Episode Highlights: - The difference between choreography and sequencing. - Caution when your focus is more on the yoga pose sequence, or "choreography", rather than guiding students to thread breath awareness through the practice experience. - Leading classes that focus on linking breath to movement in order to invite students into a sustained, one-pointed focus and awareness. - The Somatic approach to leading and cueing a yoga class. - The empowering approach of somatic therapy and how it applies to the yoga class experience. Do you have a question about teaching yoga or something to share about how the BEYOND YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Podcast is making a difference in your teaching pursuits? ⁠⁠Click here ⁠⁠to message and share with Sandy. Are you interested in unlocking the key essentials you need to take the mystery out of cueing? ⁠⁠⁠Click this link⁠⁠⁠ and submit the “I Want to Know More” form and I’ll send you all of the details about my exciting NEW mini-course - The KEY Cueing™ Course. A mini-course designed to get you results fast and to take the mystery out of cueing your classes once and for all! RESOURCES:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠I want to hear more about the NEW KEY Cueing™ Course!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠NEW! YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE The Essential Guide for Effective Cueing ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Email List ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE 25-minute Mentoring Discovery Call with Sandy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
The Real Reason Students Come Back to Yoga Classes
20-06-2023
The Real Reason Students Come Back to Yoga Classes
Welcome to Episode 130: The Real Reason Students Come Back to Class with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into the reasoning behind the decision students make to come back to your class or to the studio...and it just might not be what you were thinking. Episode Highlights: - The importance of developing the relational aspect of teaching. - Yoga teacher, it's not about you. - Is your fear of not "getting it right", or leading a perfect class experience, getting in the way of connecting to the relational aspect of the yoga practice? - Three areas to consider when approaching teaching yoga as a service. - How service helps to connect the dots for students and develop trust. Do you have a question about teaching yoga or something to share about how the BEYOND YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Podcast is making a difference in your teaching pursuits? ⁠Click here ⁠to message and share with Sandy. Are you interested in unlocking the key essentials you need to take the mystery out of cueing? ⁠⁠Click this link⁠⁠ and submit the “I Want to Know More” form and I’ll send you all of the details about my exciting NEW mini-course - The KEY Cueing™ Course. A mini-course designed to get you results fast and to take the mystery out of cueing your classes once and for all! RESOURCES:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠I want to hear more about the NEW KEY Cueing™ Course!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠NEW! YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE The Essential Guide for Effective Cueing ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Email List ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE 25-minute Mentoring Discovery Call with Sandy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Do What is Possible With Consistency
13-06-2023
Do What is Possible With Consistency
Welcome to Episode 129: "Do What is Possible With Consistency" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into three guiding benchmarks and provides a glimpse into what her daily life really looks like seeing balance between her personal and "work" life teaching yoga. Episode Highlights: - Can we really be "just" doing one thing? - Simplifying life while using the practice of yoga to support the discipline of aligning our intentions and commitments to stay present in each moment. - 3 Benchmark Areas of Alignment: Prioritize your day.Develop keystone habits.You are not everyone's teacher. Do you have a question about teaching yoga or something to share about how the BEYOND YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Podcast is making a difference in your teaching pursuits? Click here to message and share with Sandy. Are you interested in unlocking the key essentials you need to take the mystery out of cueing? ⁠Click this link⁠ and submit the “I Want to Know More” form and I’ll send you all of the details about my exciting NEW mini-course - The KEY Cueing™ Course. A mini course designed to get you results fast and to take the mystery out of cueing your classes once and for all! RESOURCES:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠I want to hear more about the NEW KEY Cueing™ Course!⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠NEW! YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE The Essential Guide for Effective Cueing ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Email List ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE 25-minute Mentoring Discovery Call with Sandy⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training FALL 2023
3 Misconceptions for Cueing a Yoga Class
06-06-2023
3 Misconceptions for Cueing a Yoga Class
Welcome to Episode 128: "3 Misconceptions for Cueing a Yoga Class" with Host Sandy Raper. In this episode, Sandy shares insight into better understanding the inaccuracy of three common misconceptions and mindset myths within the approach to cueing a yoga class. Episode Highlights: - Why cueing is a vital aspect of teaching yoga? - How to identify three commonly experienced misconceptions when it comes to cueing a yoga class. - The mindset myth within cueing misconceptions. - How to evaluate and understand better where a shift in your perspective and approach towards cueing will benefit and aid in up-leveling this aspect of your teaching skillset. - How brain science is involved in understanding better how to cue and use language to fast-track students toward experiencing the transformative qualities found within the practice of yoga. - The important relational aspect of cueing and teaching yoga. Are you interested in unlocking the key essentials you need to take the mystery out of cueing? Click HERE⁠ and submit the “I'm READY” form and I’ll send you all of the details about my exciting NEW mini-course - The KEY Cueing™ Course. A mini-course designed to get you results fast and to take the mystery out of cueing your classes once and for all! RESOURCES:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ NEW KEY Cueing™ Course⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠NEW! YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE The Essential Guide for Effective Cueing ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Email List ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Yoga Teacher, What You Say Matters.
23-05-2023
Yoga Teacher, What You Say Matters.
Welcome to Episode 126 : "Yoga Teacher, What You Say Matters." In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares how cueing and language is a vital aspect and framework for all aspects of teaching a yoga class. Be sure to listen for information on Sandy's exciting NEW mini-course, The KEY Cueing™ Course. You can get more more information by clicking this link. Episode Highlights: - How cueing is the vital framework for all aspects of teaching. - The importance of knowing what to say - and when to say it - as you lead and teach a yoga class. - How effective communication is a key essential to cueing. - Simplifying the cueing process. - Why developing a pose assessment plan is important to cueing. - How you can step into every class confident and assured with a vocabulary and catalog of cues that will support the needs of your students. - How to trust the language and cues you use to lead students through a successful and impactful class experience. Are you interested in unlocking the key essentials you need to take the mystery out of cueing? Click this link and submit the “I Want to Know More” form and I’ll send you all of the details about my exciting NEW mini-course - The KEY Cueing™ Course. A mini course designed to get you results fast and to take the mystery out of cueing your classes once and for all! Resources:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ I want to hear more about the NEW KEY Cueing™ Course!⁠⁠⁠ NEW! YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠FREE The Essential Guide for Effective Cueing ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Join The Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Email List ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE 25-minute Mentoring Discovery Call with Sandy⁠⁠⁠ ⁠200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training FALL 2023
5 Surprising Benefits of Goal Setting
16-05-2023
5 Surprising Benefits of Goal Setting
Welcome to Episode 125 : "5 Surprising Benefits of Goal Setting". In this episode, Host Sandy Raper shares why setting goals is important for a yoga teacher and the surprising benefits of setting goals. Episode Highlights: - How setting goals is a journey, much like the yoga practice, rather than arriving at a destination. - Getting clear on the process of setting goals and why it's really important to set goals. - 5 Surprising Benefits of Setting Goals: You become more charismatic and light others up.Goals help you stay motivated during difficult times.Life doesn't happen to you; you have the ability to create the life you wish to have. Goals unlock the potential of your heart.Goals help you learn and grow. - Reflection questions for getting clear and setting goals. BONUS: 10 More Reasons Why it's Important to Set Goals If you desire ... clarityconfidencefocusdirectionsimplicitya life with purposea sense of accomplishmentenergyto make life happento learn, grow and … have more joy BONUS: FREE 12 Tips for Life Balance Guide RESOURCES:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠I want to hear more about the NEW KEY Cueing™ Course!⁠⁠⁠⁠ Click this link⁠⁠ and submit the “I Want to Know More” form and I’ll send you all of the details about my exciting NEW mini-course - The KEY Cueing™ Course that launches this month. A mini course designed to get you results fast and to take the mystery out of cueing your classes once and for all! ⁠NEW! YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE The Essential Guide for Effective Cueing ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Beyond Yoga Teacher Training Email List ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE 25-minute Mentoring Discovery Call with Sandy⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training FALL 2023