EP 10: My Yoga Journey to Mark the 10 Year Anniversary of Being a Yoga Teacher

Welcome to another episode of the Journey Podcast!

In this episode, I’m sharing my own personal Yoga journey to mark the 10 year anniversary of being a Yoga teacher, including my experiences as a person of colour Yoga teacher and my thoughts on the current Yoga industry.

This is something I’ve been wanting to share since I launched my podcast back in 2022. 

Highlights of the episode:

• What is Yoga?


• My first Yoga class at the age of 21


• Started practicing Yoga regularly at the age of 29


• Discovering Ayurveda


• First 200 hour Yoga teacher training in 2014


• My experience and challenges during the training 


• Positive things that came out of the training 


• Teaching private group Yoga classes 


• Venturing out to online marketing & business coaching/consulting and web design


• Yoga as a physical practice and advanced Yoga poses 


• Rediscovering Ayurveda and my second Yoga teacher training in India 


• Yoga as a way of life 


• Getting clear with my core values 


• The state of current Yoga industry 


• My mission to offer accessible and inclusive Yoga


• What training I’ve been doing 

My Core Values: https://risakawamoto.com/values/

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