How to Teach Balance to Students Over 50

How to Teach Balance to Students Over 50

Your older students need a smarter class, not a gentler one—and a yoga teacher who believes they can improve For your students over fifty, balance work is not a party trick. It’s the difference between catching themselves on an icy sidewalk and a trip to the emergency...
A 60-Minute Yin Yoga Sequence for Teachers, Built with 6–4–2

A 60-Minute Yin Yoga Sequence for Teachers, Built with 6–4–2

You said yes to covering the yin yoga class. Now you’re four and a half minutes into a five-minute hold, your students are folded over their bolsters, nobody has moved in a while, and a small question starts up at the back of your head: What the heck am I supposed to...
The Discipline Paradox: Why Structure Sets Your Teaching Free

The Discipline Paradox: Why Structure Sets Your Teaching Free

Every Labor Day weekend, I sign up for something new. A training, a planning system, a color-coded calendar I am positive will finally stick. Most years, by the third week of September, it has quietly fallen apart, and I have gone back to whatever I was doing before....

How to Begin a Yoga Class: Centering and Warmup Done Right

That cross-legged seat you open your yoga class with? For a lot of bodies, it’s one of the most demanding shapes in the whole practice—and we hand it to students in minute one, then ask them to relax there. The first ten minutes of class have two jobs, and neither one...
Wobbling Is the Work: Rethinking Balance in Your Yoga Classes

Wobbling Is the Work: Rethinking Balance in Your Yoga Classes

Every wobble is your balance systems having a conversation—not a mistake to apologize for You’re allowed to wobble. So is every student who apologizes the second they step out of tree pose, tips out of dancer, or catches themselves mid-eagle with a sheepish laugh. In...