Beyond Yoga Teacher Training

Sandy Raper has been teaching yoga for more than twenty years and mentoring other teachers for nearly as long, and this show is basically what she'd tell you if you cornered her at a training and asked the questions you were too embarrassed to raise in front of the group. How do you keep teaching when you're tired of your own sequences? What do you do when a student stops showing up and you don't know why? How do you build confidence without faking it? Sandy answers these directly, often pulling from her own classes and her book Teaching From the Heart. The podcast updates weekly and has grown to around 184 episodes as of early 2026, so there's a deep back catalogue worth mining. She mixes solo episodes with interviews, and the interviews lean toward other long-time teachers rather than influencer types, which keeps the conversations grounded. Her tone is encouraging without being saccharine, and she's clearly more interested in helping you stay in this work for decades than in selling you a quick fix. A good fit for newer teachers who feel wobbly and for veteran teachers who need a reminder of why they started.