I hear it all the time from yoga teachers who want to work with athletes: “I don’t live near any professional sports teams.” And I get it. When you picture teaching yoga to athletes, you probably imagine standing in front of an NBA roster or working...
The Question That Keeps Yoga Teachers Waiting “I’m only RYT-200. Do I need my 500-hour certification before I can teach athletes?” I hear this every single week. It’s the most common question I get from yoga teachers who want to work with...
I walked into that locker room ready to impress. That was my first mistake. The first time I taught yoga to players who would go on to the NFL, I made every mistake possible. I overcomplicated my sequences. I used language they didn’t understand. I tried to...
Most yoga teachers get this backwards—and it’s costing them athlete clients I’ve spent over twenty years teaching athletes at every level, from weekend warriors to Division I football players. And the single most important concept I teach in my Teaching Yoga to...
The yoga-for-athletes market has completely transformed in the last five years. If you’re a yoga teacher interested in working with athletes—or already doing it—the landscape you’re operating in looks nothing like it did pre-2020. I’ve been teaching yoga to athletes...
