Master Your Yoga Teaching with MaKenzie Fly
🌟 Master Your Yoga Teaching with MaKenzie Fly🎙️ Fresh out of YTT and feeling lost? Struggling to stand out in a sea of yoga teachers? You’re not alone, and you don’t have to figure it out alone!Join fellow yoga teacher MaKenzie Fly as she dives into the real challenges of making it as a yoga instructor—building a loyal student base, going beyond the poses, and creating a thriving yoga business. Expect powerful strategies, expert insights, and real talk about what it takes to turn your passion into a sustainable career.Whether you're a new grad or a seasoned teach...
How I Make Six Figures as a Yoga Teacher WITHOUT Teaching in Studio
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💡 Dream of teaching yoga, but on your own terms, time, & unique way?
Before you spend months (or years) spinning your wheels, let MaKenzie save you some time and heartache. 💛
In this chat, MaKenzie reveals the 5 steps to success:
✔️ Biggest limiting belief holding you hostage and keeping you stuck
✔️ 5 often forgotten pieces of an irresistible offer
✔️ The #1 reason why students aren’t showing up
✔️ How to reduce the risk of inconsistent earnings
✔️ And the best...
The Passive Income Myth (and What It Actually Looks Like for Yoga Teachers)
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We all want to wake up to the ding of a stripe notification, having made money in our sleep. I wanted to stop trading time for dollars, so I built a passive income offer in hopes of that. A year later, I had a dusty product sitting on the shelf, barely making a sale. Why? Listen up and find out.
In this episode, we talk about:
🤑 The allure and appeal of passive income
✅ Reality check of my firs...
Is a Virtual Yoga Membership Worth It? What I Wish I Knew Before I Built Mine!
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Have you ever thought “I should switch to a virtual yoga studio, it will be so much easier.” I thought building a virtual yoga studio would be easy—record some classes, upload them, and wait for the income to roll in. Spoiler alert: that’s not how it went. Today is all about learning from my herstory, and the things I wish I knew.
🔑 Keys to understanding a yoga membership and how to make it work for you
How Confidence, Curiosity and Vulnerability Leads To Your Dream Students w/ Taylor Tracks
How exactly do you attract your tribe? This week we talk to Taylor, of Taylor Tracks, about finding the path that best leads you to the destination you want and deserve.
We talk about:
💥 The fastest way to build confidence & start teaching
👀 How to own your teaching story & reframe self-doubt
🎤 Navigating an identity shift post-YTT – Finding your teaching voice & getting honest about your desires
💪 Practical steps to start teaching after YTT – How to ease into teaching with less pressure
🔑 Key skills to attract your dream students – The role of energy, cueing, and intention...
Building the “All Mats Taken” Yoga Summit w/ Adrianne Jerrett
Ever wondered how you can use technology to make your yoga business thrive? Adrianne Jarrett is here to talk about what it really takes to build a sustainable, soul-aligned yoga business. Adrianne shares her journey creating All Mats Taken and how she’s juggling new motherhood while running a major online event. She also has some great pointers for yoga teachers and why we need to start thinking like business owners.
We talk about:
🦘 Adrianne’s journey from web designer to yoga teacher and why her 250-hour training during the pandemic revealed just how underprepared most teachers...
How to Teach Yoga to Someone in Their First Trimester of Pregnancy
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Has a student ever confided in you that they are pregnant and you think to yourself “Ummm, I’m not sure how to help you…” Unless you’ve been pregnant yourself or gone through a specifically prenatal program, you might feel underprepared in this situation. This episode is here to help!
We talk all about:
🧘♀️ Common physical and emotional symptoms experienced in the first trimester & how to tailor your teaching to honor instead of ignore these feelings
🚫Taboos an...
What Happens on a 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat w Tori Lubecki
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Have you ever considered a meditation retreat? If so, this episode is a must-listen! Tori Lubecki—a yogi, vegan chef, and former Cirque du Soleil aerialist - gives us an honest play-by-play of what really happens on a Vipassana Meditation Retreat.
We chat about:
📅 A detailed schedule breakdown of what exactly happens in “a day in the life” on a Vipassana Meditation Re...
Jason Crandell on Burnout, Pranayama, & Breaking Out of the Yoga Bubble
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🔥 "One of the teachers shaping the future of yoga" – Jason Crandell shares insights you don’t want to miss!
💡 Burnout blues? What to do when you feel like you want to give up on teaching.
⚖️ Blending yoga with science – How Jason integrates physical therapy, traumatology & sports medicine.
📢 No teacher? No problem. How to sta...
Yoga for Perimenopause: Strength, Sleep & Sanity w/ Laura Gilmore
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🌿 Is yoga enough for bone health? Or do we need to add strength training? 💪🧘♀️
😰 Anxiety in menopause? Discover yoga practices to calm the nervous system & restore balance.
🌙 Struggling with sleep in perimenopause? Learn how yoga & breathwork can support deep rest.
💡 Yoga for perimenopause is evolving! How c...
Happy First Birthday, MYYT! 🎉10 Breakthroughs from Year 1 of Yoga Conversations.
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This week we are celebrating a whole year, 57 episodes, of insight, advice and learning. We have covered so much! Topics to guide, inspire, revive and manifest in all different ways from all different sources.
In this episode: we chat about:
🥳 My biggest lesson from a year of podcasting
🌷 Discovering best path to growth
🚍 Defining the biggest struggle that effects all of us<...
What Makes a Great Yoga Nidra Teacher? Indu Arora Tells All
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Want to expand your offers and add Yoga Nidra to your teaching toolbox? Today’s guest, Indu Arora, takes us through a deeper understanding of Yoga Nidra and reveals nuances that aren’t often talked about.
With Indu’s calming energy and beautiful insight, we dive into questions like:
📙 A fascinating history and origins of Yoga Nidra.
⭐ Top benefits to Yoga Nidra.
🔑 Which is better - guided and self-lead?
🔎 Yoga Nidra IS NOT savasa...
Selling Your Yoga Offers on Stories w/ Gwen Ferreira
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You’ve built your online yoga course, but now what? How do you continually share about what you’ve created in a way that feels natural…but also converts? Today’s guest, Gwen, is here to help! She wants to give us the inside track on how to boost visibility and engagement with less posts that mean more.
Let’s get down to the brass tacks inside this powerful episode:
✏️ How to making more with doing less
Kiss and Tell 😘 Commitment to Continuing Education & Being Your Best w/ Colin Cahill (My Husband).
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Today, we have a super special episode for you. It is a BTS look at how my life works with my amazing partner, Colin!
🥰 How did it happen?
A quick timeline of our meet cute and how we ended up in Las Vegas.
🌞 How does it work having a non-practicing partner?
The different effects and new experiences of yoga in our relationship...
Theme Weaving; What it is & How it Elevates Your Yoga Teaching
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Have you ever wanted to leverage skillful storytelling, thread meaningful messages, life lessons and inspiring ideas throughout your class’s yoga experience? Then this episode is for you! Check out the way to make your class the most sought after class on the schedule.
Today is all about:
🎢 What is theme weaving?Find the important difference between theme weaving and intention setting.
🧐 What is the major difference between Dharma talk and theme weaving?Theme weaving is peppered thr...
What Makes a Yoga Teacher Popular—and How You Can Be One Too w/ Bradshaw Wish & Giana Gambino
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The dynamic co-hosts from The Funny Thing About Yoga podcast join us today to share their strategies about how to become the most sought after teacher on the schedule.
We talk about:
🎙️ Is it wrong to want full classes?
We explore whether it’s egotistical or empowering to desire packed yoga classes.
💡 Are full classes really better?
Discover the challenges of teaching to a full room and the hidden benefits of smaller, mo...
Ladder Sequencing Like You’ve Never Seen It w/ Liana Ledgerwood
Can you show up without a class plan and confidently create on the fly?
If not, today’s guest - Liana - offers insight and inspiration on the foundations needed to teach to the bodies in front of you.
We talk about:
🧬 How her mission - creating community, education, mentorship and inspiration for yoga teachers - came into being and how it’s evolved.
💲💲 Problems with pay structure & what’s revealed in statements like I’m “just” a yoga teacher.
⏳ The meaning of the Sanskrit word Atha, and how she based her methodology around it.
The 3 Prongs of Iyengar Yoga; a Deep Dive w/ Patrick Sperry
Is your copy of Light on Yoga collecting dust on your shelf? Well grab it, dust it off, and dive into this interesting chat with Pat Sperry all about what makes Iyengar Yoga unique, beneficial, and beautiful.
We talk about:
⚽ Transitioning from a division one soccer player to Hollywood body double, and Pat’s unique path to finding yoga
🔮 An insider’s look at Iyengar Yoga and what makes it a distinct style
🗝️ Keys to safely practicing pranayamas
⚕️ Discovering the medicine of the poses and why timing...
MYYT’s Most Memorable Moments of 2024
Wow, we have had incredible guests and conversations! A few in particular jump out as impactful, hilarious, and unforgettable. If you haven't had a chance to listen to everything, today’s compilation will be the perfect recap and roadmap of which episode title & topic to revisit.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the moments.
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9 Ways to Rekindle Your Yoga Teaching Creativity in the New Year
New Year, New You(ga)! This episode takes a different spin on resolutions to help you feel fresh walking into 2025.
We talk about:
🏅 Why silence is golden, and boredom is a blessing.
💕 Aparigraha everything in your life and MaKenzie’s aparigraha challenge for you
🧘 Why a blindfolded flow a must- add in your home practice.
⭐ The best way to find inspiration in the basics
🔍 The keys to finding your focus with one simple play.
📚 How your high school classes inform your class refresh
🖍️ Why coloring a little each day can make you a better teacher.
🔦 The b...
How the Chakras and Koshas Provide Endless Inspiration w/ Belinda Totino
How do the chakras and koshas relate? Today’s guest, Belinda Totino, gives us a super awesome explanation.
Today we talk about
🥳 How she started as a trendsetter on social media
📵 Why social media detoxes are important
💭 The best way to find meaning in your social media sharing
🤣 Why laughter is key to social media and being a great yoga teacher
🧘 A quick lesson in finding the embodiment of zen and the story of the Laughing Monk
🌙 How knowledge of the chakras can deepen your practice and connection to yourself
🗝️ The keys to...
Teaching Beyond the Poses w/ the Theme Queen, Sage Rountree
What is theming in the context of teaching yoga? Today’s guest, Sage Rountree, literally co-wrote the book on it!
We chat about:
🔥 Top tips; what works well and what feels forced
🤯 An easy to follow template for theming and where to find done-for-you themes
☝️ How to reiterate your main point without sounding like a broken record
✍️ The writing process behind her 11 books
📖 Sneak peek into her upcoming book Teaching Beyond the Poses, Volume 2
🔑 How to unlock your confidence
📚 “The best business book you’ll ever read” and why storytelling is so effective
🎁 What is a lanyap and ho...
Gut Health, Hormone Balancing, & Cycle Syncing w/ Nelly Kalla
Do you feel out of sorts in your body and want to understand what is happening? Today’s guest, Nelly Kalla, had that same feeling; until she took the time to understand her hormones and gut health. She gives amazing insight on what she learned and how to use it in your yoga classes.
We talk about:
💯 Nelly’s backstory, her mysterious ailments, and the underwhelming “solutions” suggested by doctors that made things worse.
💊 How to be your own advocate and fight the western medical complacency.
⛑️ Key tips...
How to Book Out Your Calendar with Recurring Private Yoga Students w/ Amanda Paz
Do you want to stop teaching groups and start teaching one-on-one? Today’s guest, Amanda Paz, spills the tea on how she managed to maintain a full schedule of the same private yoga students for EIGHT years. Clearly, she was doing something right.
In this episode, we chat about:
⛹️ How Amanda converted the pro athletes she was personal training into private yoga students
📥 How to not only deliver, but exceed expectations so that your private clientele keep coming back
💸 Ways to stop trading time for money & how to build make figures working online
⚖️ Mompreneurship and b...
Timeline of a 13 Year Yoga Teaching Career
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Tell me what it's reeeeaally like, you ask? This week, MaKenzie takes us on a walk down memory lane in an honest, raw, and vulnerable solo episode. In this episode, we chat about:
👋 How yoga found her
🗽 What it was like doing YTT at 20 years old in New York City
🌹 Juicy details into her love life & how she met her husband
🏫 How she got a full ride scholarship to become a teacher’s teacher
🤬 How pandemic royally f*%cked her over, or so she thought…
🖥️ Building an...
The Heart, Humanity, and Health Behind Power Yoga w/ Bryan Kest
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Ever wonder what is the key to a long and successful yoga career? Today Bryan Kest, the creator of Power Yoga and the father of donation-based yoga, joins us to shine some light on the answers. In this episode, we chat about:
🔎 Insights into a 40 year teaching career and the perspective that comes from watching the evolution of the yoga industry.
💥 Clarifying the main objective of a yoga practice and how to use that knowledge to inform
your teaching.
❓ What is “vipassana in asana” and why is it impor...
How Pregnancy Changes Your Practice, Teaching, & Personal Identity w/ Ashley Griffin
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***TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses the heartbreak of child loss and miscarriage. If you are not in the space to hear this, please skip this episode. Sending you love, from one who knows the pain.***
Are you currently pregnant or plan to be very soon? Maybe your partner is carrying your child? Either way, this episode is refreshingly honest about the joys and challenges of growing a human. In this episode, we chat about:
😲 Why yoga is the perfect preparation for pregnancy, chil...
Comparing Manifestation vs Yoga & Raising Your Success Energetics w/ Tanya Jane
In this episode, we chat about:
🧊 Manifestation 101 and the can’t miss building blocks to success energetics
🔋 Hitting your stride and finding your energetic capacity
🔍 Why finding the bigger vision is the mission
🤯 Mind blowing similarities between manifestation and the Buddha's 4 Noble Truths
🎭 Understanding the difference of “fake it till you make” and “Act as if”
💞 How identity is EVERYTHING and the danger of confusing what you do with who you are
☠️ What what ego death REALLY means and why you can't be who you've always been to get what you've never had
⛔ “No” is a comple...
Reverberations: Vortex Sedona Retreat Recap
Have you ever wondered what makes the moments memorable on a retreat? Come along with me today as we do a recap of our weekend retreat in Sedona.
💥 Must do activities your participants will love!.
🥺 Be a fly on the wall when my psychic calls me out in my first ever intuitive reading.
⏯️ Get a playback of one of the workshops during the weekend.
🆚 The importance of conversation vs. lectures and why socratic teaching works better
🚨 The story of the sirens at the house on MaKenz...
Aaron Petty on Practicing + Posting Everyday, In-Person vs Online, and Working w/ Your Lover
Do you have the guts to not only hit the mat everyday, but also hit record and share too? Everytime I open my Instagram app, Aaron’s daily yoga reel is the first to pop up. I have learned so much from him and know you will too!
In this episode, we chat about:
🎥 What’s it been like recording his practice and sharing it on socials everyday this year
🎤 Why voiceovers are so powerful
🧭 The struggle of coming into your voice and the fear of expressing yourself
🧰 How recording yourself practice is a tool for pratyahar...
Fake Spirituality, Satire, & Viral Yoga Reels on IG w/ Diaz (@thedancingwarrior)
Do you struggle to be authentic? Today’s guest, Diaz Chairullah, shows us how it’s done, even if that means poking fun at the thing we love most…yoga! You’ve probably reshared some of his hilarious reels on IG to your story.
We talk about:
🔎 BTS look at his creative process for making his hilarious yoga reels for IG that you’ve probably reshared to your story
🌏 What it takes to be a yoga teacher in the modern world
🧲 Why it doesn’t work to repress your personality just to be accepted in the yoga community, what...
Retreat Ready; a Facilitator’s GRWM Guide & BTS Prep
Do you want to host an unforgettable yoga retreat? You have mapped out an awesome itinerary and sold out your retreat, but the work isn’t over yet! Here’s some often forgotten advice for what to do before, during, and after your retreat to make it one to remember.
We chat about:
🤪 How to prime yourself to be a great retreat leader.
💖 Getting your participants psyched and getting your vibe right
🕰️ Why arriving early is a game changer for the retreat.
📸 The importance of a strong team and who that team is at the retreat.
🧘 How t...
Myth Busting w/ Dr. Yogi, Physiology and Our Incredible Bodies
Have you ever said, “Twists detox the liver?” Our guest today, Andrew McGonigle (known as @doctoryogi on IG), becomes our very own fact-checker on some of the click bait-y claims that have permeated the yoga teaching culture.
We chat about:
💥 What does it mean to critically think and how that informs our yoga teacher
🤪 Physiology defined and how studying it can enhance your yoga teaching appreciation for the body
🔥 Myths that have spread like wildfire in the yoga teaching community: like Does Yin yoga actually target the fascia, does sweating actually detox the body, is it act...
The Damaging Effects of Tying Our Worth to Our Work w/ Gihan Saiid
Have you ever heard the phrase “work to live don’t live to work” and laughed feeling like that can’t be possible? Today’s guest speaks to why its important to embody that adage to avoid burnout.
🤯 What is Yoga Nidra and top resources to learn more
❤️ How were all addicted to our emotions and the repercussions of this
🖼️ Reframing the relationship to stress
😰 The relationship between money and the nervous system
⛑️ The slippery slope of confusing your worth with your work and the shame cycle of infusing your identity in what you do
🔥 The stages of burnout and a q...
Sensitivity as a Superpower & Secrets to Spiritual Hygiene w/ Erika Belanger
Do you feel “not enough” and “too much” at the same time? This week Erika Belanger, host of On and Off Your Mat Yoga Podcast, shares spiritual hygiene practices for the big feelers out there.
We chat about:
⚡ What is an HSP?
😃 How, more often than not, yoga teachers are HSPs
📦 4 boxes of practices to maintain your spiritual hygiene. These boxes will make it easy to identify not only what you’re feeling, but how to care for yourself.
🙏 Super specific somatic practices to infuse into your yoga sequences and classes
😰 Unpacking big emotions, like anxiety and overwh...
Professionalism & Piecing Together Your Successful Business Puzzle w/ Clair Thomas
Do you love Puzzles and putting the pieces together in just the right way? Well, today Clair Thomas is joining us and she has found many different ways to put the pieces together. As a YTT creator, and co-founder of Solstice, not to mention that she lives right here in Las Vegas. You are gonna love the insight she has today.
Today we talk about
😵 Professionalism for yoga teachers and how to apply the yamas and niyama in yoga business
💲💲 How poverty prevents us from serving and that we, as yoga teacher, are also meant to transcend har...
How to Write Your Own YTT & Get Approved by Yoga Alliance
Do you dream of leading your own Yoga Teacher Training program? This episode shares insights from someone who wrote, applied, and was approved in record time!
We chat about:
😎 Benefits of hosting YTTs
❓ Questions to consider before beginning
🧘 What is Yoga Alliance?
👣 8 steps to applying
💣 My mistakes made
✅ Top tips to get approved the first time
You are not gonna want to miss a minute of this! Let’s Dive in!
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Yogic Antidote to Apathy & Nihilism w/ Vikramjeet Singh
Have you ever been bogged down with the weight of the world and wondered what’s the point of it all? This week’s guest, Vikram goes deep and touches on topics like:
🏵️ How to make yoga philosophy relevant and applicable in dail, modern life
🧠 What did the Yoga Sutras mean by right knowledge?
❓ What to do when students ask you questions
💭 The most profound question you need to ask yourself as a yoga teacher
☸️ The five remembrances of the Buddha
🎤 Finding an authentic voice
🔥 Avoiding personal burnout
If you’re in need of hope, this episode is t...
What Employers Are Looking For When Auditioning & Hiring Yoga Teachers w/ Eric Jeffers
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When you think of a clown, which do you picture? The innocent red nose clown at kids birthday parties or the terrifying Pennywise from the horror films, It? This week’s guest is neither, but a clown all the same! Eric Jeffers is a real life Cirque Du Soleil clown turned corporate yoga king.
In this episode, we talk about:
🩰 His performance background as a ballet and modern dancer and his time clowning around in the prest...
Yogipreneurial Advice From The Internet’s Favorite Meme Maker, Pedro Luna
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Have you ever seen a yoga meme 🤣 on IG? Chances are, this guy made it! Today’s guest, Pedro Luna, shares with us his wit, humor, and all around helpful insights into becoming a successful yogipreneur.
We chat about 👇🏽
🤣The origin of the meme & his favorite one he’s ever made‼️ The biggest asset and how to get more of it
🪐The universal law on creativity
🤔How 90% of the job is not what you think…
✨Affiliate marketing and how to make it feel...
How Spending 17k TRIPLED my Yoga Teaching Income
Be sure to sign up for the free masterclass on Aug 11th 12-2pm PT to learn How I Make 6 Figures as a Yoga Teacher without Teaching In Studio. I’ll be sharing the 5 steps to success. See you there!!!
You spent HOW MUCH?!?! In this episode, MaKenzie talks about spending a small fortune on continuing education and coaching all so that you don’t have to.
She shares:
🤑 What it actually means to flourish as a yogipreneur
📚 The breakdown of the $17k investment; what she spent the money on, what she learned, and h...
