I’ve spent twenty years watching yoga teachers struggle with the same pattern. They graduate from their 200-hour training full of knowledge and excitement, start teaching . . . and then something happens. They’re standing in front of a class of three students—or sometimes just one—wondering what they’re doing wrong. They’re scrambling every Sunday night to plan Monday’s class. They’re watching teachers down the hall teach to packed rooms while their own classes stay stubbornly small.
Here’s what breaks my heart: these aren’t bad teachers. They’re often really talented teachers. They just don’t have the practical tools to translate what they learned in training into classes that students actually want to come back to.
Some of them stop teaching altogether. Others never start—they finish their 200-hour training and then . . . nothing. The imposter syndrome is too loud, and they get locked down with a crisis of confidence. And the ones who do keep teaching? Many of them spend years feeling like frauds, convinced they’re one question away from being exposed as not knowing enough.
Here’s the thing most teacher trainings won’t tell you: more knowledge doesn’t cure imposter syndrome. Clear, confident teaching cures imposter syndrome. And that comes from having practical systems you can actually use, and getting in the reps.
What Transformation Actually Looks Like
Let me tell you about a teacher named Kandice who joined my Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing mentorship last year. When she started, she was the Sunday-night-scramble teacher. Every week, she’d sit down to plan her classes feeling this low-grade panic. She’d pull sequences from different sources, try to remember what her favorite teachers did, second-guess every transition.
Her classes weren’t terrible. But they weren’t consistent either. One week she’d teach something really complex, the next week something super basic, and students never quite knew what they were walking into. Some students loved the variety. Most students stopped coming.
Then the 6-4-2 framework clicked for her. Suddenly she could plan a balanced class in fifteen minutes instead of two hours. More importantly, her students started to notice the difference. “I’ve gotten amazing feedback since beginning this journey,” she told me, “and I’ve seen an uptick in students who are returning.”
That’s the transformation we’re talking about. Not “I know more Sanskrit terms.” But “My classes are full and my students keep coming back.”
Programs for Every Stage of Your Teaching Journey
I’ve built an entire ecosystem of programs designed to meet you exactly where you are right now—and take you where you actually want to go. Let me walk you through them.
Yoga Class Prep Station: Immediate Help for $39/Month
If you’re standing there on Sunday night staring at a blank page, wondering what to teach tomorrow, you don’t need a six-month intensive right now. You need immediate help.
That’s why I created the Yoga Class Prep Station. For only $39 a month, you get a Movement Library with over a hundred sequences you can teach tomorrow, a custom GPT assistant that checks your sequencing for balance, and monthly Snack and Chat calls every third Saturday at 2 p.m. Eastern where you can bring your actual questions. Plus you earn 3 CEUs every single month.
Think of Prep Station like a lunch counter. You can grab what you need without committing to the full restaurant experience. It’s for the teacher who needs help right now, today, without a big financial commitment.
Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing: Six-Month Mentorship
Here’s what I’ve noticed after twenty years: grabbing sequences from a library helps you get through the week. Learning to create your own sequences transforms your entire teaching career.
That’s where Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing comes in. This is my six-month mentorship program, and it’s built around giving you two things every yoga teacher needs: proven frameworks and ongoing support.
The frameworks are the S.E.R.V.E. Method and the 6-4-2 system. These aren’t complicated—in fact, they’re intentionally simple. But they give you the structure to plan balanced, effective classes without reinventing the wheel every single time. You’ll start with done-for-you sequences so you can experience how they work. Then you’ll learn to adapt them. Then you’ll learn to create your own.
The support comes from monthly live calls, an active community of teachers working on the same skills, and access to me for questions throughout your six months. This program costs $1,800, and it counts as 150 hours toward your 300-hour advanced training if you decide to go that route.
But here’s what makes it valuable: you’re not just collecting information. You’re developing the skill that determines whether you succeed as a teacher—the ability to plan and teach classes your students actually want to attend.
Specialization Programs That Build Your Career
Once you have your core teaching skills solid, specialization makes sense. It gives you a niche. It can genuinely increase your income. And it makes you stand out.
My Teaching Yoga to Athletes program is comprehensive—it’s $2,500 and includes everything you need to confidently serve athletic populations. You get the complete curriculum, workbooks, lesson plans, two one-on-one strategy calls with me, and a full year of monthly office hours.
Or maybe yin yoga is calling to you. Fundamentals of Teaching Yin Yoga gives you 20 CEUs and teaches you how to create safe, effective yin classes that actually serve your students’ nervous systems instead of just being fancy nap time.
And here’s where it gets exciting: all of these programs can count toward your 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training. The 300-hour is modular and customizable. You choose the pathway that makes sense for the students you teach. Maybe that’s Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing plus Teaching Yoga to Athletes. Maybe it’s the mentorship plus online trainings in yin and restorative work. Maybe it includes in-person intensive modules at my brick-and-mortar studio, Carrboro Yoga Company, in North Carolina.
The point is this: you’re not collecting random continuing education credits. You’re building toward something. You’re becoming the kind of teacher who can confidently serve your students at every level—and who has the credentials to prove it if you ever need them.
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training: Start With the Right Foundation
Not everyone listening is already a yoga teacher. Some of you are thinking about becoming one. You’re wondering if the investment is worth it. You’re looking at 200-hour programs and feeling overwhelmed by the options.
This year, I’m co-teaching a 200-hour yoga teacher training with Amy Boerner, and we’ve designed it specifically for people who want deep, rigorous training without having to choose between education and adventure.
Starting January 1, 2026, you’ll begin self-paced online coursework through Comfort Zone Yoga. I’ll be your guide through all the pedagogy—the philosophy, anatomy, physiology, sequencing, ethics, and teaching skills. You’ll move through the material at your own pace, with video lectures, downloadable resources, and a supportive online community.
Then in May—May 12 through 26, to be exact—you’ll join Amy Boerner in Dominica for fourteen days of hands-on immersive training at Jungle Bay Resort. Amy is a wonderful teacher with over 20 years’ experience, a global retreat leader, and someone I deeply trust. She’ll guide you through daily asana, meditation, practicum sessions where you’ll teach your first classes in a supportive environment. You’ll participate in seva, a service project supporting the local community. You’ll explore Dominica’s Blue Zone wisdom, trails, herbal traditions, and culture.
This isn’t a vacation with some yoga thrown in. This is a thoughtfully designed practicum where you put everything you learned online into practice.
Tuition ranges from $2,800 to $3,500 depending on when you register, and room and board ranges from $3,500 to $7,335 depending on your accommodation choice. We also offer a 25-percent need-blind discount on tuition for BIPOC and South Asian teachers, because yoga needs more diverse voices teaching it.
If you enroll by February 15, 2026, you’ll receive a pre-training mentor call with me worth $200, a Yoga Teaching Starter Kit worth $97, and access to a post-training peer circle at Comfort Zone Yoga to keep you connected and supported after graduation.
Where Are You Right Now?
So here’s what I’m wondering: where are you on your teaching journey?
Are you the teacher staring at a blank page every Sunday night? Start with Prep Station. Get immediate help. Give yourself permission to use proven sequences while you develop your own skills.
Are you ready to master the core skill of yoga teaching—sequencing that actually serves your students? Join Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing. Six months from now, you could be that teacher whose classes are full, whose students keep coming back, who finally feels like the teacher you always wanted to be.
Are you drawn to a specialty? Teaching Yoga to Athletes, Fundamentals of Teaching Yin Yoga, restorative work, balance training—these specializations make you stand out. They give you a niche. And they can all count toward your 300-hour advanced training if you want them to.
Are you not even a teacher yet, but you’re thinking about it? The 200-hour training with Amy and me is now open. You could start your teaching journey with solid pedagogy and a transformative practicum in paradise.
And if you’re anywhere on this path and you want to meet me in person? I’ll be teaching at the Berkshire Yoga Festival June 11 through 14, 2026, at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock, Massachusetts. Come take a class. Come say hello. Come see if my teaching resonates with you before you commit to anything bigger.
This Is About Transformation
Here’s what I want you to understand: this isn’t about collecting more trainings. This is about transformation.
It’s about going from the teacher with three students to the teacher with a waitlist. It’s about going from Sunday-night panic to fifteen-minute class planning. It’s about finally starting to teach because you have a clear system. It’s about feeling like a success—not because you know everything, but because you’re genuinely serving your students and they keep showing up.
Your students don’t need you to be perfect. They need you to be clear, confident, and consistent. Everything I offer is designed to help you become exactly that.
Want to hear more about these programs and which one might be right for where you are right now? Listen to the full episode of Yoga Teacher Confidential where I walk through each pathway in detail:
