Yes, $500 a session is real. The number is also the last thing to think about. A yoga teacher really can earn $500 for a single session working with an athlete. No studio required, and no waiting to be added to someone else’s class schedule. In my latest video I walk...
The two Sanskrit words underneath every cue you give You’ve said it a thousand times: “Find the balance between effort and ease.” It might be the most-cued phrase in modern yoga after “inhale, lift your arms, look up” and “take a deep breath.” But Patanjali named the...
A student arrives with a wrist that won’t bear weight today. Or you’re teaching a beginners’ class. Or you’ve been demoing all week and your own hands need a rest. Whatever the reason, you want a complete class ready to go—one that moves through everything a balanced...
Many yoga teachers I speak to admit to spending two or three hours planning a single 60-minute class. After 20 years of teaching, I can tell you the bottleneck isn’t a shortage of creativity! Most of us were never handed a structural checklist for class planning, so...
There’s a soundtrack playing inside you right now Right now, three tracks are playing inside you. One is heavy—the energy that hits snooze for the third time. One is wired—the one drafting tomorrow’s class at 2 a.m. and scrolling for sequence ideas you’ll never use....
