a blog for curious yoga teachers
Here’s all my Sage advice for how to become (almost) everyone’s favorite yoga teacher. You’ll learn a transformative mindset shift: your students, not you, are the heroes of their practice. These posts will give you the tools, inspiration, and confidence to guide them—and see your teaching career flourish.
The Three Gunas Explained: Yoga Philosophy You Can Use
Meet the gunas—tamas, rajas, and sattva—and learn a simple, Sanskrit-free way to notice your energy and theme a whole class around it.
How to Plan Your Yoga Class Without Spending 3 Hours
A simple framework and a batch-planning workflow that turn three-hour Sunday planning sessions into one focused hour a month—without sacrificing the quality of your classes.
The 5 Skills 200-Hour YTT Doesn’t Teach You (And How to Learn Them)
Most working yoga teachers finish their 200-hour and feel a gap they can’t name. Here are the five skills almost every training misses—and a concrete way to practice each one this week.
Summer-Proof Your Yoga Teaching: 4 Moves for the Unpredictable Season
Summer attendance has its own logic. Here are four moves to simplify your teaching, sequence for the heat, and take real time off without guilt.
Yoga Teacher Training: Benefits, Drawbacks, Cost, and Time Commitment (An Honest Breakdown)
Considering a 200-hour yoga teacher training? Here’s an honest breakdown of the benefits, drawbacks, realistic cost, and time commitment—from a teacher educator who has graduated hundreds of teachers since 2011.
How to Teach Yoga Balance Poses for Every Body
Balance is a teaching skill before it’s a pose. Here’s how to scale tree, eagle, and dancer for the whole curve of your class without singling anyone out, using the sweeter-to-spicier spectrum and the 6–4–2 framework.
How to Find High-Paying Athlete Yoga Clients at 5 Local Venues (No Pro Teams Required)
You don’t need connections to professional sports teams to build a profitable practice teaching yoga to athletes. These five types of local venues exist in almost every town—and they’re filled with committed athletes who are already spending money on their training.
E86: The Two Arrows—Why Your Suffering About Suffering Is the Real Problem
A 2,500-year-old Buddhist teaching, adapted for yoga teachers: how to tell the difference between what’s actually happening and the story you’re adding on top—and what to do about it when the Sunday-night spiral starts.
How to Build Confidence as a New Yoga Teacher: 5 Tools You Can Use in Your Next Class
After 20+ years of teaching and training yoga teachers, I can tell you confidence doesn’t come from more certifications—it comes from reps. Here are five practical tools you can use in your very next class.
let me plan your next yoga class
Feeling uninspired when it’s time to plan? I’m here to help!
Trade me your email for my go-to yoga lesson plan with ideas for every minute. This is the class I teach when my energy is low—but it’s the favorite of my students from 20 to 80 years old! I’ll even give you tips on how to adapt it for various class formats.
