The Yoga Teacher Podcast

Brea Johnson runs Heart and Bones Yoga and brings a refreshingly critical eye to yoga teaching through this podcast. She is not interested in repeating the usual platitudes about finding your inner light. Instead, she asks hard questions about why yoga teachers burn out, what actually builds confidence in the classroom, and where the wellness industry gets things wrong. The show has a perfect 5.0 rating, and while the audience is smaller, the listeners who find it tend to stick around. Brea mixes solo episodes where she works through a specific problem, like why motivation-based goal setting fails or what friction really means in building a teaching practice, with occasional guest conversations. Her episode on yoga teacher burnout is particularly worth hearing because she names the structural problems rather than suggesting you just need more self-care. She also runs episodes on nervous system education for teachers, cutting through oversimplified claims about calming the vagus nerve. The biweekly schedule gives each episode room to breathe. This is a podcast for teachers who finished their training and realized the real questions were just beginning.