Teacher Training with Sage

become a yoga teacher

With my co-owner Lies Sapp, I lead a 200-hour Yoga Alliance–registered yoga teacher training at the Carrboro Yoga Company in central North Carolina. Over the course of eight months, join us and the very best guest teachers around in an exploration of what yoga means, how to teach it, and the best path for you. Our next program begins in September 2013.

New this year: we have added a 500-hour advanced studies course, which includes my Teaching Yoga to Athletes and Sequencing intensives.

continue your education as a teacher

I also offer weekend and weeklong intensives nationwide for teachers interested in working with athletes, and an online teaching yoga to athletes course and community to connect teachers from around the world who work with athletes—or want to learn how.

Coming in August 2013: a course on developing sequences to keep your students balanced and your classes creative! This will be an invaluable resource for planning classes that serve your students and keep you inspired.

I spent five years teaching college English before becoming a yoga teacher. Now that I teach not Introduction to Drama but Downward-Facing Dog, my role has changed in some ways (when I look out at my students and see blank expressions, half-closed eyes, and slack jaws, that’s a good sign). But the goal of my teaching is the same: to help students connect with the universal elements of existence, whether through literature or through yoga. The method can be similar, too, because some of the pedagogical tools that apply in the classroom also work in the studio. Planning your class—meeting to meeting and month to month—is one of them. read more from Yoga Journal →

Growth requires a challenge to your conception of the way things work. Otherwise, you’re simply having your existing beliefs confirmed, and there’s no learning there. There must be intellectual friction, a healthy sense of confusion, as you process the new information in light of your understanding and experience. This is cognitive dissonance, the sometimes dizzying feeling you have when your assumptions are questioned. It may even feel like you’re having your mind blown! read more from Teachasana →