If you have a browser tab open to an online 200-hour yoga teacher training and a second tab open to “is online yoga teacher training worth it,” I’d like to give you the answer I’d give a friend across the kitchen table: it depends on what happens inside the training,...
There’s no number of years. Here’s what actually matters, and how to check it this week. Most people who want to teach yoga put it off for years because they’ve decided they haven’t practiced long enough. I’ve been training yoga teachers since 2011, and I’ve come to...
You cue tree pose, and three students beeline for child’s pose before you finish the sentence. That’s not laziness, nor is it a lack of effort. It’s a nervous system doing exactly what it evolved to do: protect a body from falling. For a student with a fall history,...
Twenty minutes of continuous talking, to a room full of people lying completely still with their eyes closed, every one of them depending on your voice to tell them what happens next: that prospect has scared off more experienced yoga teachers than any arm balance...
You’ve been planning yoga classes the hardest possible way: pose by pose, from a blank page, every single week. There’s a faster way, and it looks like a children’s flip book. Remember the ones where the head, the torso, and the legs each turn on separate pages, so...
