Christina Raskin

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Christina is the Head of Yoga Teacher Training at Asana at Home Online Yoga and an ERYT-500 yoga teacher with over 20 years of experience, Training Yoga Teachers and Pilates instructors.

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How Different Yoga Archetypes Learn: Teaching for Every Student

Every yoga teacher teaches differently—and that’s not a problem to fix. It’s a strength to understand.

Your teaching archetype reflects how you naturally hold space, how your energy moves, and how you want your voice to be expressed. When you teach in alignment with that archetype, your words land more

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Yoga Teacher Archetype Quiz | Discover Your Teaching Style

Every yoga teacher teaches differently—and that’s not a problem to fix. It’s a strength to understand.

Your teaching archetype reflects how you naturally hold space, how your energy moves, and how you want your voice to be expressed. When you teach in alignment with that archetype, your words land more

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Yoga Teaching Archetypes | Teach with Authenticity & Confidence

Teacher training courses often focus on how and what to teach. But before we talk about technique, it’s worth pausing to ask a deeper question:

Who are you as a teacher?

Every yoga teacher carries a unique way of guiding, supporting, and inspiring students. That uniqueness isn’t something you need

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Are You Teaching All the Ways Students Learn Yoga? | A Practical Checklist

Every student who walks into your class is processing your cues through a completely different nervous system, movement history, and learning preference.

Some students need to see before they understand. Others need to feel. Some need time and repetition. Others need language, rhythm, or reflection. When teaching leans heavily in

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How Students Actually Learn Yoga | Teaching for Real Integration

As yoga teachers, we spend years learning how to sequence, cue, adjust, and hold space. But one of the most overlooked teaching skills is understanding how students actually learn.

Because even the most beautifully sequenced class can fall flat if it doesn’t meet students where their nervous systems, bodies, and

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Why Yoga Students Struggle to Feel Cues | Teaching Embodied Awareness

Many yoga teachers have experienced the moment when a student simply can’t “feel” the cue — no matter how clearly it’s explained or demonstrated. This isn’t a lack of effort or intelligence. More often, it’s a matter of proprioception, nervous system readiness, and how embodied awareness actually develops over time.

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Yoga for Disability: Accessible Chair Yoga for Every Body

Yoga is for every body — and chair yoga makes that truth real. Whether you’re living with limited mobility, recovering from injury, or supporting someone with a disability, this gentle, adaptive style brings movement, breath, and connection back within reach.

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Yoga vs Pilates for Back Pain: Which One is Better?

Back pain is something I often see in my students, and I have worked through it myself. As a yoga teacher and Pilates instructor for over 20 years, I’ve seen how these practices can be transformative for managing discomfort and regaining strength. While Yoga and Pilates are excellent tools for

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How to Prepare for Yoga Teacher Training

Your 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) is more than just a certification—it’s a transformative journey that deepens your practice, expands your knowledge, and inspires personal growth. Preparing for yoga teacher training can help you make the most of this incredible experience.

As someone who has guided more than 500 students

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Why Yoga Teacher Continuing Education is important

As yoga teachers, we all know that the learning never truly ends. It doesn’t stop once we’ve completed our initial teacher training or when we’ve led our first class. In fact, continuing education has been essential for my growth as a teacher and a lifelong student of yoga. Continuing education

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Yoga at Your Desk: Free Printable Sequence and Videos

Research proves what many of us already know: Working long hours at a desk is unsuitable for our overall health, but chair yoga can help! Luckily, we have a printable PDF with a yoga sequence you can do at your desk so you can incorporate yoga into your daily work

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Yoga Teacher vs Instructor: What’s the Difference?

I think it is important to differentiate between Yoga instructor vs teacher when teaching a public class in a yoga studio. A Yoga instructor instructs people what to do, ‘exhale and step your right foot forward, inhale your arms up to the sky.’ You can go through an entire class

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