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...
“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....
Most of us have suspected this since our first wide-legged forward fold, usually right as the morning light comes through the studio window at exactly the wrong angle: all yoga pants are see-through. Yours, mine, the expensive pair, the ones from the clearance bin....
Your container, not your creativity Yoga teachers confess this to me all the time: three hours of planning for a sixty-minute class, and the class still comes out feeling random. The poses were fine. The pacing was fine. Something underneath it just didn’t hold. After...
The craft is five learnable skills, and none of them depend on your volume Some of the best yin teachers I know are loud, fast-talking vinyasa teachers. A soothing voice was never the qualification—the skill set is. I hear this one over and over from yoga teachers:...
