My ability to mentor yoga teachers is only as strong as my willingness to improve my own teaching. In this post I share my simple exercise for self-reflection and refocusing teaching goals.

Meet this month's YogaView guest Kathy DiGiorgio.  Kathy, a breast cancer "conqueror" shares the unique and powerful ways she's sharing the gifts of yoga with others in treatment and recovery from cancer.

I recently fell out of dancer's pose at the exact moment my focus left my breath to chase a trail of thoughts filled with self-doubt. Here's what I learned about the how the quality of my thoughts affect my balance on and off my mat. 

Meet this month's guest contributor, Blakey Elkhart Kornfeld. A yoga teacher in recovery from drug addiction, Blakey shares how she combines yoga and the 12 step program to offer others in recovery a spiritual and healing path forward.

Social media is both everywhere and nowhere. It's at our fingertips but removed from reality. So what happens when we are "somewhere" in "real life" and in walks a Facebook friend who you never met before? Learn what I did and what I learned from this "real life" interaction.

Welcome to Chime's YTT series (that's Yoga Teacher Talk, not Yoga Teacher Training), where yoga teachers share their experiences as they continue to grow personally and professionally. This month, an inspiring group of teachers share their personal mission statements for teaching yoga.

Meet this month's YogaView guest, Melissa Zuena, an artist and yogini thriving in her recovery.

Guest contributor Allison Gold Russell shares how self-doubt and insecurity as a new yoga teacher led her back to her mat as a student and rekindled her passion for the practice.

Can you recall the last time you felt angst, agitation, anger, or another "hot button" reaction to someone or something? By hot button, I mean a feeling that causes a strong physical and emotional response.

Learn to defuse or lessen the charge of an emotion or feeling with a simple mindfulness technique. The intention is to redirect the hot button feeling to a more positive one.