A student gets up and walks out mid-savasana. You unlock the studio, set the music, and nobody shows. Someone asks you a question you cannot answer. Welcome to the realities of teaching yoga, and nobody warned you about this part. I have taught yoga for over twenty...
Most yoga teachers get this backwards—and it’s costing them athlete clients I’ve spent over twenty years teaching athletes at every level, from weekend warriors to Division I football players. And the single most important concept I teach in my Teaching Yoga to...
If you’ve ever spent your Sunday night building a completely new yoga sequence from scratch, only to wonder midway through Monday’s class whether your students even noticed the difference—this post is for you. I spent over a decade coaching endurance athletes....
Stop Trying to Sound Like Someone Else In my second-ever yoga class, I was covering for a teacher named Bryan. I spent the entire hour apologizing—”I know Bryan usually does it this way.” “I’m sorry, I’m not Bryan.” After class, two...
What elite athletes know about recovery that changes everything I’ve spent over twenty years working with athletes at every level, from recreational runners to Olympic competitors, and there’s one thing that separates the elite from everyone else. It’s not talent....
