Midwest Yoga Academy

07/09/2025

The Gunas: Sattva Rajas Tamas

Three words that could completely shift how you plan your next class.

📖 This week on the blog, we’re diving deep into the gunas—what they are, how they show up in your students and how to work with them instead of against them.

📣 Tag a teacher who’d love this!

Balance your classes by understanding the gunas—sattva, rajas and tamas are your new teaching superpowers.

06/12/2025

🧘‍♀️ New on the Blog: When Your Yoga Practice Changes—And You Do Too 💫

What happens when the strong, flowing asana practice you once loved no longer fits?

This new blog post shares a deeply personal story about how yoga evolved after a life-altering diagnosis—and why the real practice is what holds us when everything else falls away.

Whether you're navigating change, loss, or simply feeling the call to go deeper in your practice, this one’s for you.

👉 Read it here: https://www.midwestyogaacademy.com/blog/what-my-yoga-practice-gave-me-after-i-lost-it
💬 Let us know in the comments: how has your practice changed over the years?

A personal reflection on how yoga evolved after a cancer diagnosis—and why real strength comes from more than just the poses.

06/03/2025

Check out my latest blog post:

Go beyond the Eight Limbs and explore the deeper, often-overlooked teachings of the Yoga Sutras—including samskara, samyama, and the kleshas.

05/19/2025

Check out our latest blog post here:

https://www.midwestyogaacademy.com/blog/from-teacher-to-leader-how-300-hour-training-transforms-your-role

Discover how a 300-hour yoga teacher training deepens your skills, boosts confidence, and helps you grow from a yoga teacher into a true leader.

05/14/2025

We invite you to join our MYA Yoga Teacher Cohort this summer to learn about our 300 hr YTT. The next cycle starts in October of this year. If you're at all curious, join the page, see what we're up to and have an opportunity to gather in person this summer to get to know us and other yoga teachers in the community. Scan the QR code below. Hope to see you there!

04/03/2025

❤️‍🔥Transform the way you teach—and the way your students experience yoga—with the powerful tools of myofascial self-release.🧘‍♀️

Designed specifically for yoga teachers, this 20-hour Yoga Alliance Continuing Education qualified course will give you practical, accessible techniques to bring immediate value to your classes. The course also counts as one module of Midwest Yoga Academy’s 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training.

You’ll explore the essential role of fascia and its connections to the nervous, lymphatic, and digestive systems, learning how specific poses affect specific organs. With a blend of anatomy study, self-release techniques and practical applications, you’ll gain knowledge of how tension is held and released in the body. Through self-release practices and thoughtful integration into yoga asana, you’ll learn how to incorporate myofascial self-release into your class, help your students move more freely, recover more effectively, and connect more deeply to their bodies.

By the end of this training, you’ll walk away with a toolbox of techniques to:

💆‍♀️ Skillfully incorporate myofascial self-release into group classes, privates, or workshops
🧘‍♀️ Support students dealing with tension, stress, or limited mobility
🧘‍♂️ Offer more therapeutic, personalized, and effective instruction
🧠 Enrich your sequencing with fascia-aware movement principles

This course is ideal for teachers who want to expand their impact, grow their confidence in anatomy-based teaching, and offer classes that truly support healing and transformation.

Here are the details:

📅 May 9–11, 2025
⏰ Hours: Friday 5:30–8:30pm | Saturday 8:00am–4:00pm | Sunday 8:00am–12:00pm
📍 Brick City Wellness | St. Louis, MO
💲 $325 or 2 payments of $165
📚 20 YACEP hours or 1 module of our 300-hour training

Sign up at https://www.midwestyogaacademy.com/courses/myofascia-care

03/20/2025

🧘‍♀️Happy Spring everyone! 🧘‍♂️

Are you looking to deepen your teaching skills, diversify your class offerings, and expand your yoga journey?

🌟Join our FREE, no-commitment cohort of yoga teachers exploring 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Midwest Yoga Academy!

✅ Learn more about advanced yoga training
✅ Connect with like-minded teachers
✅ Participate in free summer events

✨Join our FB Group Page now & stay in the loop!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/632201928684852

03/20/2025

We're a little late to this announcement, but we are so honored to announce that Chelle Riley and Jeanna Fike have completed MYA's 300 hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, thus earning their Yoga Alliance designation RYT-500. Their hard work and dedication to their teaching journey is inspiring and Carolyn and Michele are so honored that they shared their time and talent with us! Thank you so much Chelle and Jeanna!

10/23/2024

Need some weekend plans? Join MYA for this weekend’s intensive, The Business of teaching yoga!

Whether you’re a yoga teacher eager to start teaching workshops, private classes, hosting retreats, or just figuring out where you want yoga to take you, this workshop has something for you. This customized event will get into the nitty gritty of all the things within the yoga business, and leave you with concrete steps to get you where you want to go next!

We have space available for you! Get the deets and register here 👉🏻 www.midwestyogaacademy.com

10/18/2024

Hey yoga teachers—have you ever taught yoga for free? Have you given your boss workshop or event ideas that they’ve run with without you? Was it your choice or were you pressured?

As yoga teachers, we know the importance of SEVA, giving back to our communities. But at what point does karma yoga cross the line into taking advantage of teachers, or even worse, become abusive? The Business of Teaching Yoga isn’t always pretty, but this is something that happens to yoga teachers alllllll the time.

Wanna know more? Join Carolyn Atchley and MYA for the Business of Teaching Yoga to learn what separates karma yoga from capitalism, what situations you should be paid in, and why money isn’t a dirty word just because we work in a heimg profession.

When: October 25-27
Where: O’Fallon, IL
Investment: $325 (worth 20 YACEUs)

To register, or for more info:
👉🏻 www.midwestyogaacademy.com