Most yoga teachers never plan their year at all, and the ones who do tend to overplan, burn out within a season, and abandon the whole project by Thanksgiving. There is a middle path, and it takes less than an hour to set up: three intentions—one for your structure,...
A progression method for the pose that never seems to change Your students have done tree pose hundreds of times, and they wobble exactly the way they did five years ago. That’s not a failure of practice: it’s a programming problem, and it has a fix. Here’s the...
One checklist, six starting positions, and a warmup you can teach for years In 2013 I filmed a two-minute warmup from my belly on a studio floor, and it has been finding yoga teachers ever since: the six moves of the spine, prone. It’s the warmup I reach for first,...
Every yoga room has a smell before you say a word of your opening—the space itself, the scent you have added on purpose, and the students walking through the door. In twenty years of teaching, I have watched teachers plan carefully for lighting, music, and cueing, and...
The four and a half minutes nobody trained you for You said yes to the yin class. Maybe it was a sub request, maybe it was a seasonal add on a quiet Sunday evening, and maybe you said yes because it looked like the easiest hour on the schedule: five to ten shapes,...
