What it looks like when balance training actually leaves the studio Linda Freeman teaches yoga in Vermont, where winter turns balance from a nice-to-have into a survival skill. She took my Fundamentals of Teaching Balance course this year and wrote to me partway...
Sooner or later, a student stops you on the way out the door with three words: “More core, please.” And for a long time I answered that request badly. I tacked three rounds of bicycles into the middle of an otherwise unrelated class, everybody groaned on cue, and I...
The question people type into a search bar is “should I become a yoga teacher?” The question they ask at 3:00 a.m. is different: who am I to teach this? I’ve been teaching yoga since 2003 and training yoga teachers since 2011, and nearly everyone I’ve trained walked...
Twenty hours, five sections, one syllabus Twenty hours of training on balance sounds like a lot to spend on tree pose. It would be, if balance were a single pose. Balance is a lens on your entire teaching, and the syllabus for my Fundamentals of Teaching Balance...
Autumn is my favorite season, and not only because of football. The slightly embarrassing reason is that as the light gets lower, everything casts a longer shadow, and I find that weirdly reassuring. The shadows were there all summer. You just couldn’t see them at...
