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Yoga with Teri Your guide to living authentic yoga on & off the mat.

07/04/2026

Do you have a flexible mind?

If you’re reading this and thinking, “oh wow, she must have her life figured out!” well, let me say this - Yoga has abso...
05/04/2026

If you’re reading this and thinking, “oh wow, she must have her life figured out!” well, let me say this - Yoga has absolutely changed my life and gave me tools that I use every single day, but I am still human, and even though I know all the skills, I still make mistakes. I still slip. I sometimes forget I have these skills.😅 here is just to say that nobody is perfect and we’re in this together 🙏🏼

04/04/2026

Language shapes how we understand a practice. And in yoga, even a single sound can carry history, philosophy, and intention.

I’ve heard people say that “Yoga” with the ‘a’ is Westernizen version but that’s actually not true.

The word comes from Sanskrit as Yoga (योग).
That final “a” is part of the original word, it is not something added later. Sanskrit is a vibrational language, where sound and meaning are closely connected.

Over time, as yoga travelled across regions, cultures, and languages, pronunciation naturally adapted. Neither version needs to be dismissed. They simply come from different linguistic contexts.

01/04/2026

Drishti is more than just where you look, it’s where your attention rests. In yoga, it helps steady the body and calm the mind. Even with eyes closed, your inner gaze can guide you back to presence.

In the Ashtanga Yoga tradition, there are nine drishti points, like the tip of the nose, between the eyebrows, the navel, the thumb, the hands, the feet, and different directions of gaze. Each one simply gives your mind somewhere to land.

So where will your attention land today?

PS. This video is a snippet from a studio class where our peak pose was Natarajasana. I always like to take a moment to sneak some information beyond poses into my intro 😊

31/03/2026

I’ll always be blown away by how the wisdom in yoga philosophy still fits so perfectly into modern life. Even though these teachings are so old, they speak to things we’re all still going through. And that’s exactly the way you want to incorporate philosophy in your classes.

It’s not about bringing your personal life into the class. But it is about letting your experience inform the way you teach. What you’re learning, questioning, working through it naturally shows up in how you guide others.

Books that shaped me as a yoga teacher. Not just in how I sequence or cue, but in how I see, feel, and live yoga.From br...
30/03/2026

Books that shaped me as a yoga teacher. Not just in how I sequence or cue, but in how I see, feel, and live yoga.

From breath, to anatomy, to philosophy, these are the ones that stayed with me long after I closed them.
The kind of books you don’t just read but you come back to, again and again.

Ready for part 2?

30/03/2026

There’s honestly so much more that could be said about this. So I just want to add one thing.

If you’re a yoga teacher and you’ve mostly been focusing on the poses - this video isn’t coming from place of judgement. More like a friendly, gentle invitation to maybe explore the philosophy a little more. Not all at once. Not perfectly. Just with curiosity.

And if you’re a student who never really thought about yoga this way, maybe let this be that first little door. Something you notice in your next class. Something that makes you pause and question a bit more.

Also, I’m learning along with you. I don’t know everything. I’m still learning, still exploring, still figuring things out on this path too. And I also want to be clear, there is nothing wrong with teaching or practicing movement. It’s just different from what yoga stands for.

29/03/2026

What first brought you to yoga?

To all my newbie teachers out there - you got this. I know how frightening it can be stepping out in front of a class, f...
25/03/2026

To all my newbie teachers out there - you got this. I know how frightening it can be stepping out in front of a class, full of students, just after your teachers training. You might not feel ready and that’s okay! Start anyway! If you’re a new yoga teacher, what is something that you struggle the most right now?

23/03/2026

We often measure yoga through the body and forget that what happens on the mat is not meant to be performance. Have you heard of Abhyasa and Vairagya?

Abhyāsa - do you keep showing up?
Vairāgya - can you let go of the result?

Whether you can perform the most advanced poses with ease or your balance in tree pose just seems to never be right, that doesn’t make you good or bad. Its just your practice.

19/03/2026

There’s honestly so much more that could be said about this. So I just want to add one thing.

If you’re a yoga teacher and you’ve mostly been focusing on the poses - this video isn’t coming from place of judgement. More like a friendly, gentle invitation to maybe explore the philosophy a little more. Not all at once. Not perfectly. Just with curiosity.

And if you’re a student who never really thought about yoga this way, maybe let this be that first little door. Something you notice in your next class. Something that makes you pause and question a bit more.

Also, I’m learning along with you. I don’t know everything. I’m still learning, still exploring, still figuring things out on this path too. And I also want to be clear, there is nothing wrong with teaching or practicing movement. It’s just different from what yoga stands for.

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