Stop writing a new yoga sequencing lesson plan every week. One good plan, built on a balanced framework and taught with small variations over a month, will get your students further than four different plans ever could. I’m Sage Rountree, and I’ve been writing yoga...
The honest answer, and the standard that replaces it Let’s answer the question first: no. Nobody is going to show up and check your papers before you teach a yin class. There’s no yin police, no governing body, no license that exists to revoke. If that sounds like...
My husband took his first yin yoga class with me during a workshop I was teaching for athletes. Afterward, he told me I had the name wrong—it shouldn’t be called yin yoga, he said, it should be called win yoga, because the whole time he was in it, he kept wondering...
“What do I even say during a five-minute hold?” is probably the question I hear most from teachers who avoid teaching yin. Here’s the actual answer: a word budget, a script skeleton, and permission to stop talking. I walk through the whole system in the video above....
Julie McKay didn’t take a sabbatical to learn to teach yin. She didn’t wait for a slower season, and she didn’t clear her calendar. She’s a working yoga teacher who squeezed Teaching Yin Yoga into a full roster of classes and used what she learned the same week she...
