Teaching With Presence, For Yoga Teachers

This is a smaller, quieter podcast than most on this list, and that's kind of the point. Rajni Sharron teaches meditation and yoga, and her show is built around the unglamorous question of what it actually means to be present while you're guiding a room full of students who are tired, distracted, or hurting. There's no business hustle here, no marketing funnels, no talk about scaling. Instead Rajni works through things like how silence functions in a class, why your nervous system matters more than your cueing, and how to stop performing presence and just have it. Episodes are monthly and on the shorter side, which suits the topic. The catalogue is small, around seven episodes at the time of writing, so you can listen through it in an afternoon. Some teachers will find this too soft or too inward; others will find it the only podcast that talks about the part of teaching they actually struggle with. If you've ever stood at the front of a class feeling like a fraud who memorized cues, this one might be useful. Rajni's voice is steady and unhurried, which sounds obvious for a meditation teacher but is rarer than you'd think.