If you’re a yoga teacher who loves reading, get ready for the ultimate book giveaway bundle!

Here’s how it works:

Use the form below to enter the giveaway & join the Yoga Teacher Resource email list. You’ll receive weekly updates about the podcast + occasional announcements about programs, courses, and subscriber-only discounts. 

Every other week we will select one person to receive a copy of the episode most recently featured on the podcast. Once all episodes have been released, one person will be chosen at random to receive a bundle of all 8 yoga books!

The deadline to enter is Monday, November 20 2023 

Trauma Sensitive Yoga by Lara Land

giveaway 10/3

An essential manual for yoga teachers and students to create a trauma-sensitive practice that benefits and supports all.

People are turning to yoga for its stress-reducing practice and transformative philosophy. But for those who have a trauma history, the practice can be triggering. The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga offers an inclusive approach to yoga for teachers and students of all ages and abilities, especially those who have experienced trauma. Some of the themes covered include:

• How do the impacts of trauma show up in yoga spaces
• Suggested language for shifting power to the practitioner
• How to create an environment conducive to healing
• How to practice or teach poses in a way that includes all
• And much more

Tantra Yoga: Journey to Unbreakable Wholeness, A Memoir

giveaway 10/10

By steadfastly following his heart, Todd has lived an uncommon life: living like a monk for 13 years at the then-ashram Kripalu in Massachusetts; having an intense spiritual awakening that landed him for a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital; and overcoming the heartbreak of being spiritually betrayed by beloved teachers — not once, but twice.

Now, writing with gentle, compassionate authority, he shares the life-changing philosophy that taught him how to embrace all of it — the pain, disillusionment, and suffering — as the gift it was always meant to be.

Relatable, funny, candid, Todd has written this book for the ones who are looking for a heart-centered path to life fulfillment. It will inspire you to access your own heart, leading you from the unknown to the known, from darkness to light, and from fear to love as you walk your own path of hope, happiness, and true transformation.

The Luminous Self by Tracee Stanley

giveaway 10/17

The Luminous Self shares teachings and practices that can help us connect with our true Self and reclaim our inherent power and wisdom—essential for living with purpose and grace in our turbulent world. In this book, Tracee Stanley shares teachings and practices in each chapter—including meditation, yoga nidra, breath work, dreaming rituals, community care practices, journaling, and more—that can help us remember and honor our deepest Self.

The book is a journey of inner exploration for anyone who desires to know themselves more deeply. Chapters introduce different paths to personal discernment—including facing obstacles to liberation, forgiveness, the power of memory, transitions as portals to wisdom and devotion, and nature as a teacher—and include stories from Stanley’s life, teachings, and practice. 6 audio practices accompany the book.

Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience

giveaway 10/24

In the hierarchy of life, breath always wins. It persists 22,000 times daily, but you get to decide whether the way you breathe is to your benefit or detriment.

Breath becomes compromised by stress, disease, and the environmental trappings of progress; you can still breathe under this pressure, but it leads to poor breathing habits that slowly whittle away at your health. In Body by Breath, bestselling author Jill Miller takes you on a journey through your breathing body and presents more than 100 step-by-step techniques and practices to help you master the body-breath connection and reset your physiology.

This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest—to help you achieve

• Greater power, endurance, and recovery ability
• Enhanced self-regulation skills
• Supercharged executive function
• Relief from pain, injuries, and chronic conditions
• Freedom to feel, connect, and express stored emotions

The Yoga of Parenting by Sarah Ezrin

giveaway 10/31

Mom and yoga teacher Sarah Ezrin offers 34 practices to find more presence, patience, and acceptance—with your child and with yourself.

“I can say without a doubt that the most advanced yoga I’ve ever done is raising a child,” writes Sarah Ezrin. While many people think of yoga as poses on a mat, The Yoga of Parenting supports people in bringing the spiritual principles of yoga into their lives—particularly their families. Ezrin, a longtime yoga teacher, supports readers and practitioners in slowing down, becoming present with our children and ourselves, and acting with more compassion. 

Each chapter highlights a yogic posture and theme and explores how it relates to parenting, including presence, boundaries, balance, and nonattachment. Chapters include prompts such as intention setting, breathwork, and journaling. Ezrin also features the stories and insights of a wide range of yoga practitioner parents whose experiences include single parenting, grandparenting, and passing on intergenerational yoga traditions. In addition to the opening posture, each chapter includes: 

• “Breath Breaks” invitations to mindfully breathe. 
• “On the Mat” practices to show us how we can apply the lessons on our yoga mat in a more general sense. 
• “Parenting in Practice” offering and advice from parents in the US and abroad.

• “Off the Mat and Into the Family” fun exercises to help us bring the work off the mat and into our homes. 

Your Yoga Business: Tools and Techniques for Success

giveaway 11/7/2023

The truth is, being a yoga business owner isn’t easy. But it is absolutely possible to succeed when you have access to the tools and techniques for success used by close to 1,000 yoga teachers and studio owners who built their successful yoga businesses from the ground up. Your Yoga Business gives you the chance to learn exactly what it takes to build real and sustainable growth as a yoga business owner—without having to learn everything the hard way.

In this one-of-a-kind resource, renowned yoga business expert Ava Taylor shares her insights and real-life experiences to give you an honest look at what it really takes to thrive in today’s environment.

Learn what works—and what doesn’t—and apply the insights to your own business and philosophy. You’ll find “homework activities” in each chapter, supplemented with more than 45 downloadable and customizable business forms available online, to guide you through the process of

• reimagining your business by envisioning your dreams, telling your story, and crafting your visual identity;
• defining your goods and services such as types of sessions, workshops, trainings, immersions, retreats, and products and merchandise;
• building a business plan by clarifying your dreams and setting your goals;
• refining your message by mastering consistent and courageous marketing;
• implementing your plan by creating connections and identifying strategies; and
• getting it done by knowing how to be the boss you need to be.

Create the business you’ve always dreamed of with Your Yoga Business. It is your road map to success.

Yoga Inversions: Your Guide to Going Upside Down

giveaway 11/14/2023

An approachable, user-friendly guide to inversions of all kinds for anyone who wants to try going upside down, featuring 85 practices that explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of yoga.

Learn to hop into a handstand, do a forearm stand with blocks⁠—and even appreciate legs up the wall in new ways with this comprehensive and accessible guide to inversions in yoga.

Kat Heagberg Rebar offers an easy-to-follow guide with 175 beautiful color photos. For each pose Kat offers adaptations, challenging variations, and everything in between. She also shares options to prepare safely and practices to build strength. In addition to teaching the physical practice of inversions, Rebar addresses the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of this often-challenging practice. 

Yoga Inversions offers a progressive, biomechanically sound, inclusive, step-by-step approach to anyone who wants to try being upside down, and includes: 

• Downward dog and dolphin variations to set you up for success
• Innovative prop tips
• Handstand preps and drills 
• Tips for stepping, jumping, hopping, and pressing into handstand 
• Handstand against the wall and away from the wall
• Forearm stand, headstand, and shoulderstand variations 
• Customizable practices to help you reach your goals
• And much more

Standing Room Only: How to Be THAT Yoga Teacher

giveaway 11/21/2023

Do you worry about messing up a sequence while teaching yoga? About cueing in a way that confuses your students? About being exposed as an amateur? Do you have insecurities and negative self talk telling you that you are an imposter?

Would you rather feel confident about teaching extraordinary classes with ease and grace? Feel aligned with your purpose? Feel grounded enough to be able to smile and breathe and be joyful and present — all while teaching? Do you dream of becoming like the teachers who inspire YOU?

It’s not unusual to have a crisis of confidence when you take the position at the front of the room. How can you fast track confidence?

Through this book, you learn the Root To Rise Yoga Teaching Method, which encourages you to continually root yourself IN yourself so you rise as a yoga teacher and bring your students along with you.

This powerful manual offers you MORE knowledge and MORE confidence to quiet the negative voices and allow the authentic and unique YOU to arise and emerge.

You’ll learn the 5 Pillars of Powerful Teaching based on the 5 Cs:

1. Communication: Effectively communicating with your students.
2. Character: Setting the tone and feel for the classes you teach.
3. Connection (including intuition): Building a community inside and outside the studio, setting up a meditation practice, tuning in and trusting your intuition.
4. Commitment: Maintaining a high level of commitment to yourself, your students, your fellow teachers, and the studio or fitness facility where you teach.
5. Consideration: Teaching all students with compassion in diverse and meaningful ways.

Each Pillar provides you what you need to become THE yoga teacher students flock to, the one who feels ready, comfortable and prepared to teach extraordinary yoga classes.