Every yoga room has a smell before you say a word of your opening—the space itself, the scent you have added on purpose, and the students walking through the door. In twenty years of teaching, I have watched teachers plan carefully for lighting, music, and cueing, and...
The four and a half minutes nobody trained you for You said yes to the yin class. Maybe it was a sub request, maybe it was a seasonal add on a quiet Sunday evening, and maybe you said yes because it looked like the easiest hour on the schedule: five to ten shapes,...
A six-segment structure that plans like a recipe, not a pose list Most classes billed as “balance” are a regular flow with tree pose stapled onto the end. That’s not a balance class: it’s a flow with a garnish! A real balance class has an arc, the same way a good meal...
I have opened 99 episodes of my podcast, Yoga Teacher Confidential, with the same five words: “Can I tell you something?” I never sat down and decided that would be the opening line for two years running. It was a habit I picked up on the very first...
A viewer asked for this after watching how I plan a class in fifteen minutes: not the theory, but the worksheet itself, blank at the start and completely filled in by the end. So that’s the whole video—my Monday night class, planned in real time, no cuts. If you’d...
