Looking for a Yoga Teacher, a Style, Yoga Students? Play YogaTag

February 13, 6:58 AMPhiladelphia Yoga ExaminerJonathan Bartlett

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Yoga is hot! Yoga is everywhere! 

Yoga is hot, no doubt about it. Strolling around town, more and more folks are seen with a yoga mat bag draped down their backs alongside a shoulder bag, pocket book or computer valise. Yoga is in the news, celebrity news, religious news, sports news.

Despite the surge in popularity, there are still millions upon millions of folks who have yet to understand yoga beyond that ‘contortionist thing’ that yoga folks do. Beyond this subset, there is growing subset of people with a curiosity that begs for contact, most fall into the following categories:

Scenario #1: Your friends have dipped a toe into the yoga rage. Talk to them and some of them gush over how much better they feel, others rave about their teacher, and some talk about the new peace and serenity they get from yoga. You want to find out for yourself but you don’t know what style to choose, or where to find a class. Where do you go?

Scenario #2: You’re a newborn yoga teacher, fresh from yoga training. Your zeal primed and ready for expression, you are eager to begin recruiting students. But where? Or, perhaps you been given a class time and a space but you don’t know how to go about marketing your class. It takes time to build up a network of students. Relying on word-of-mouth can be slow process. How to bump it up a bit?

If you fit into any of these slots or variations in between, it might be time to join the thousands of teachers and newbies and yet to be newbie students who have joined the YogaTag network. The brainchild of a guy named Art Santos, YogaTag offers students a one-stop site for finding and virtually tasting yoga from classes that take place in your neighborhood. It’s also a venue for teachers seeking students for their brand and personal style of yoga. Even the most gifted yoga teachers need to market themselves, and Santos has opened a new door for such folks. YogaTag is also a great site for, well…too many to mention in this space, your best next move is to just try it for yourself. Check it out. You’ll be glad you did.