One checklist, six starting positions, and a warmup you can teach for years In 2013 I filmed a two-minute warmup from my belly on a studio floor, and it has been finding yoga teachers ever since: the six moves of the spine, prone. It’s the warmup I reach for first,...
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...
