Helping new yoga teachers absorb yogic wisdom with music, mantras, and mnemonics.
Are you a new yoga teacher working on building your following and feeling overwhelmed at the amount of information you're expected to know?
Each episode of the Don't Forget Yoga Podcast will cover a key principle of yoga teaching. Host Derek Goodwin will share music, mantras and mnemonics along with interviews with yoga teachers and other experts in the fields of yoga, anatomy, Sanskrit, and memory.
March 27, 2023
The Don't Forget Yoga Podcast helps new yoga teachers absorb yogic wisdom with music, mantras, and mnemonics. Are you a new yoga teacher working on building your following? If you're anything like I was, you're probably fee…
March 25, 2023
Have you ever noticed that a really great yoga class feels like a song? The breathing creates a rhythm, the teacher's voice moves like a melody, and the emotion rises and falls until we land gently in Shavasana. My guest Ju…
March 5, 2023
Vasisthasana (वसिष्ठासन vasiṣṭhāsana) is the Sanskrit name for side plank pose, and it turns out lots of us yoga teachers mispronounce it. Today's guest is Frances Vicente, an advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga...
Feb. 23, 2023
One way to remember yoga is to learn about the timelines of the spiritual traditions and cultures that yoga emerged from. Yoga was first mentioned in the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, which were passed on orally …
Feb. 14, 2023
Om Namah Shivaya is an ancient mantra, considered to be the king of all mantras in the Siddha yoga lineage from which it comes. While it is a mantra to honor Shiva, the five syllables NA MA SHI VA YA each have their own mean…
Feb. 6, 2023
This is a podcast is about yoga and memory, and it is created with new yoga teachers in mind. It contains music, mantras, and mnemonics to help yoga teachers remember... yoga. In this episode, host Derek Pashupa Goodwin sha…
My journey as a yoga teacher who struggles with memory, the mnemonic systems of music and wordplay that I developed to help me remember things, and the p…