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....
Build a template, batch your month, and get your weekends back If it takes you three hours to plan a sixty-minute yoga class, this post is going to change your week, and quite possibly your teaching life. I have spent twenty-plus years teaching and training teachers,...
Why most yoga teachers leave their 200-hour with a gap they can’t name Most working yoga teachers I meet finished their 200-hour training, walked into their first class, and felt the gap immediately. You’re not imagining it. There are five skills your 200-hour was...
For fifteen years, I co-owned a studio in Carrboro/Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and in all that time I learned exactly one reliable thing about attendance: the weather decides everything. The first beautiful spring day? No one showed up. People wanted patios and...
