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.
Can a Whole Course Be About Balance? (What 20 Hours Covers)
A syllabus breakdown of what twenty hours on balance actually covers, from the physiology to the philosophy to teaching every body in the room.
The Five Kleshas in the Teacher’s Seat: A Yoga Teacher’s Guide to the Shadow Self
The five kleshas, yoga’s five obstacles, are in the room every time you teach, wearing yoga clothes. Here’s how to recognize each one from the teacher’s seat, and a small practice for each.
Is Online Yoga Teacher Training Worth It? What Happens Inside One
Online yoga teacher training is worth it when three things are true inside it. Here’s how to tell before you pay, and what a week looks like in mine.
How Much Yoga Experience Do You Need Before Teacher Training?
Years on the mat is the wrong unit. Here are the five things I look for in a future yoga teacher, why flexibility isn’t one of them, and a three-part readiness check for this week.
My Students Are Scared of Balance Poses (Here’s What Actually Helps)
When students bail into child’s pose the moment you cue tree, that’s fear doing its job, not laziness. Here’s the toolkit for lowering the physical and social stakes so fewer of them opt out.
How to Teach Yoga Nidra: What to Say for 20 Minutes
Yoga nidra sounds like 20 minutes of improv, and it isn’t. Once you can see the kosha map underneath a session, the question of what to say answers itself, stage by stage.
How to Plan a Yoga Class in Chunks (The Flip-Book Method)
Planning pose by pose from a blank page is the slowest way to build a yoga class. Here’s the flip-book method: four movable chunks you name once and reuse for years.
How to Add Balance to Any Yoga Class Format
Your schedule says vinyasa, gentle, or hatha, and your students still need balance work. Here are four balance poses hiding in plain sight, plus three weaves that cost zero minutes of class time.
Atha: The One-Word Fix for Week Four of Your Teaching Season
Every September, Sage Rountree promises herself she’ll stay ahead on class planning—and by week four, it’s already slipping. Here’s the ancient word that fixes it anyway.
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.
