Your students could use balance work. The studio’s board says vinyasa, gentle, or hatha, and there’s no line on it for the balance class you’d happily teach. So balance keeps sliding down the list, waiting for a schedule change that isn’t coming. You don’t need a...
You know the yoga poses and the flows that hold them. You’ve known them for years. What you don’t have, at 8:30 on a Sunday night with tomorrow’s class still blank, is a reliable way to decide what order they should go in when you teach—so you write three rounds of...
Every September, I make myself the same promise: this is the year I stay ahead of my class planning. I buy the good notebook. I block out Thursday afternoons. I picture every class outlined a week in advance, calm and unhurried. As of this writing, that notebook holds...
Your Instagram profile is open for business whether you have touched it or not. Somebody hears your name at a dinner party and looks you up. The studio where you teach tags you in a schedule graphic and four people tap through. A student stands in her sister’s...
It’s 6:00 on a Tuesday. Twelve people are settling onto their mats, the sequence in your head is one you trust, and you still don’t know what you’re going to say first. That gap—between a class that works and a class that feels like yours—is what a theme closes....
