Most yoga teachers believe demonstrating every pose is good service. Then one day you stay on your mat, keep guiding, stop showing—and half the room stops moving with you. That pause feels like a void. It’s actually the most useful feedback your teaching will ever...
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us picked up the same rule: real teachers don’t demo. Get off your mat. Cue with your words. Most of that advice is reaching for something true, but the version that actually gets repeated at trainings and staff meetings is too rigid,...
Last updated: July 2026 TL;DR: Yoga Alliance asks registered yoga teachers to log 75 hours every three years—45 hours of teaching plus 30 hours of training. Training hours can be contact (live) or non-contact (self-paced); there’s no minimum live-hours floor anymore....
My co-author Alexandra DeSiato and I just released our new book, Yoga Off the Mat, and to mark the occasion we sat down for a live conversation about it inside our community. If you have ever walked out of a yoga class thinking there’s something more going on here...
The class you’re most likely to be asked to teach—and least likely to have been taught Sooner or later, a studio asks you to sub yin yoga, or to add a yin class to your schedule; or a student asks what yin actually is, and you realize your training skipped it. Most...
