Lana Boone remembers the feeling well: standing at the front of the room, trying to teach something other than her familiar Baptiste sequence, and feeling absolutely terrified. “Before your program, I was terrified to teach them,” she told me recently,...
The Tale of Two Cooks (And What It Means for Your Teaching) I’m married to a man who owns a French restaurant, and I’ve spent a lot of time watching what happens in professional kitchens. Here’s what I’ve noticed: the magic that happens during...
Most 200-hour yoga teacher trainings teach you how to do yoga. But they don’t teach you how to teach yoga. If you’ve been through a training yourself, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You spent weeks—maybe months—learning Sanskrit names,...
The Math That Proves Group Classes Alone Can’t Sustain You If you’re teaching eight group classes a week and barely making rent, I need to share something with you. Group yoga classes aren’t your business model—they’re your marketing plan....
Every December, I watch yoga teachers do the same thing. They look at their unfilled teaching schedule, their unfinished training applications, their unrecorded workshop ideas, and they beat themselves up for what they didn’t accomplish. But here’s what...
