A student lingers by the door after class. She’s holding her mat in the universal “I have a question but I don’t want to be in your way” posture. She catches your eye and says, “I’ve been thinking about doing a private with you . . . do you think that would help?” And...
I walked into that locker room ready to impress. That was my first mistake. The first time I taught yoga to players who would go on to the NFL, I made every mistake possible. I overcomplicated my sequences. I used language they didn’t understand. I tried to...
The craft nobody taught you in your 200-hour For over a decade, I taught private yoga to Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams. Somewhere along the way, I realized I’d been teaching privates wrong. Not because I didn’t know yoga. Because nobody had ever sat me...
A student gets up and walks out mid-savasana. You unlock the studio, set the music, and nobody shows. Someone asks you a question you cannot answer. Welcome to the realities of teaching yoga, and nobody warned you about this part. I have taught yoga for over twenty...
Most yoga teachers get this backwards—and it’s costing them athlete clients I’ve spent over twenty years teaching athletes at every level, from weekend warriors to Division I football players. And the single most important concept I teach in my Teaching Yoga to...
