Best Francesca Cervero Podcasts (2025)

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155: Unexpected Private Client Hot Takes 29:19

6d ago29:19

29:19

I’ve been teaching yoga full time for 20 years, and most of that time I taught at least 15 private yoga sessions each week; for a decade that number was closer to 25 per week! I have a lot of experience in teaching private sessions! And when you’ve been doing something that often for that long, you start to develop some specific opinions... or, I c…

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154: How I Make Posting On Social Easier 28:43

13d ago28:43

28:43

Social media can be a wonderful tool to help us connect with friends, communities or potential students. It can also be a black hole of despair and panic. Some people say it is necessary to participate and post on social media to be a successful business nowadays. I don’t think engaging on social media is a requirement for having a thriving yoga te…

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153: 12 Ways I Stay Engaged In The World, Protect My Nervous System And Uplevel My Teaching 32:14

20d ago32:14

32:14

My understanding of the spiritual teachings is that my liberation doesn’t mean anything unless everyone else is free too. The teachings of Buddhism say over and over again that a huge part of our practice is about creating a world where the safety and freedom and happiness of all sentient beings is possible. So from that I take that being engaged i…

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152: Advice For New Teachers PART TWO (The Business Stuff) 28:37

27d ago28:37

28:37

In episode 148 I collected all my best advice for new teachers. The episode centered around the idea that the most important thing new teachers can do is start teaching and figure out what kind of teacher they want to be. But once you’ve started that process, there are some important business foundations you want to have in place so you have solid …

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151: What To Look For In A Retreat (And What To Expect At Mine) 27:52

1M ago27:52

27:52

How do we pour into ourselves so we have enough energy, time and focus for all the people who need us? How do we stay connected to our practice, since it should be the foundation our whole teaching life is built on? How do we stay inspired in our teaching without investing thousands of dollars in continuing education each year? It is not easy! But …

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150: Daily, Weekly + Monthly Routines That Make Me The Teacher I Want To Be 33:50

1M ago33:50

33:50

Being a yoga teacher, heck being a PERSON, is TOUGH right now. But having a job that requires presence and vulnerability and groundedness all the time requires we pour into ourselves so we have something to give. I LOVE hearing the behind the scenes details of people’s lives and routines. And I’m so happy to say that after a pretty stressful few ye…

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149: What I’m Doing to Keep My Private Teaching Calendar Full 33:32

2M ago33:32

33:32

Teaching yoga, and maybe especially teaching private clients is, to be candid, an unstable way to make a living. But I have done it successfully for twenty years, so it can be done! I’m in a season in my life where I have limited spots available to teach, but financially I need every single one of those spots filled every week. I have about ten sta…

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148: My Advice For New Yoga Teachers 29:24

2M ago29:24

29:24

Anytime I connect with a new-ish yoga teacher I end up giving a lot of the same advice, so I collected all of it in one place, right here in today’s podcast episode! Whether you are a new teacher or an experienced one in a phase of rebuilding (haven’t we all been rebuilding lately??) this episode has all my best pearls of wisdom, hard won over the …

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147: Foundational Business Practices Every Yoga Teacher Needs with Lauren Schoenfeld 44:02

2M ago44:02

44:02

You all know that I am only minimally interested in business-- I’d much rather talk about the actual craft of teaching yoga. But we do need to make money, and if we have chosen yoga teaching as our job, we need to be SMART about business because it is not the easiest way to make a living! Having some smart foundational systems in place can make a h…

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146: What The Teachings Say About Current Events with Hari-kirtana Das (PART 2) 51:56

3M ago51:56

51:56

More than ever our work as yoga teachers is challenging and important. We don’t want to be like this lady, right? Trying to sell people something they don’t need while their house burns down? People need yoga, but they need the kind of yoga that supports awareness, connection and care (which could mean lots of different things for different student…

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145: How To Give a Dharma Talk When The World Is On Fire with Hari-kirtana das (PART 1) 49:15

3M ago49:15

49:15

You don’t me to tell you that the world as we know it is burning to the ground. This makes teaching yoga hard, important and strange. A few episodes back I answered the question, “Should we talk about current events in our yoga classes?” By essentially saying, “maybe… but most likely YES.” In that episode I talked about how important it was to have…

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UPDATE: More Content, What Do You Want To Hear? 4:29

3M ago4:29

4:29

Solo or with guests, I explore the craft of teaching yoga, as its own practice. I’m seeking answers to the questions about why we teach something the way we do, how we could be more expansive and inclusive in our teaching, and how we can continue to grow and evolve in our teaching practice. I would like to release episodes more frequently and your …

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144: We Don’t Practice for Ourselves with Reema Datta 52:49

3M ago52:49

52:49

Even if you first learned yoga from your parents and your grandparents, the path to truly embodying the philosophical yogic teachings can be long and winding. Today we have a beautiful conversation with Reema Datta to share with you that explores: the path from a physical focus in teaching to a philosophical practice how kleshas impact on our spiri…

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143: Should You Talk About Current Events In Yoga Classes?? 38:16

5M ago38:16

38:16

You don’t need me to tell you what a wild and scary time we are living through. We know that the tools of yoga can be incredibly supportive in difficult times and also have things to say about the difficult times we are living in. So are you talking about this in your classes? Should you? I am, and I’ve been getting a lot of questions about it! So …

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142: What Makes Americans Unhealthy with Dr. Jessica Knurick 55:01

6M ago55:01

55:01

As I sit down to write these show notes, RFK Jr is currently in his senate confirmation hearing. By the time you read these words it is my assumption that he will be the new head of Health and Human Services for the United States, a job with incredible power. Anything is possible, so there could be a different outcome, but it seems unlikely. You mi…

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141: The Best Way To Find Private Yoga Students 33:34

7M ago33:34

33:34

Building a career as a yoga teacher is challenging because unlike many other kinds of jobs, you have to build out a career in one hour blocks, working to get and then manage each gig separately. While the explosion of online offerings and social media as a marketing tool has changed much about the landscape, there is one thing it hasn’t changed. In…

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140: Rest Is Sacred with Octavia Raheem 53:49

8M ago53:49

53:49

Octavia Raheem first wrote a book called Gather where she talked about gathering ancestors, gathering courage and gathering rest. Then she wrote a book, Pause Rest Be, about how rest has served as a tool for courage and resilience for her and the people she’s worked with. And lucky for us, Octavia has written a new book called Rest Is Sacred, that …

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Francesca Cervero Podcasts

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155: Unexpected Private Client Hot Takes 29:19

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154: How I Make Posting On Social Easier 28:43

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153: 12 Ways I Stay Engaged In The World, Protect My Nervous System And Uplevel My Teaching 32:14

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152: Advice For New Teachers PART TWO (The Business Stuff) 28:37

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151: What To Look For In A Retreat (And What To Expect At Mine) 27:52

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150: Daily, Weekly + Monthly Routines That Make Me The Teacher I Want To Be 33:50

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149: What I’m Doing to Keep My Private Teaching Calendar Full 33:32

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148: My Advice For New Yoga Teachers 29:24

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147: Foundational Business Practices Every Yoga Teacher Needs with Lauren Schoenfeld 44:02

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146: What The Teachings Say About Current Events with Hari-kirtana Das (PART 2) 51:56

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145: How To Give a Dharma Talk When The World Is On Fire with Hari-kirtana das (PART 1) 49:15

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UPDATE: More Content, What Do You Want To Hear? 4:29

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144: We Don’t Practice for Ourselves with Reema Datta 52:49

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143: Should You Talk About Current Events In Yoga Classes?? 38:16

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142: What Makes Americans Unhealthy with Dr. Jessica Knurick 55:01

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141: The Best Way To Find Private Yoga Students 33:34

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140: Rest Is Sacred with Octavia Raheem 53:49

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