My husband took his first yin yoga class with me during a workshop I was teaching for athletes. Afterward, he told me I had the name wrong—it shouldn’t be called yin yoga, he said, it should be called win yoga, because the whole time he was in it, he kept wondering...
“What do I even say during a five-minute hold?” is probably the question I hear most from teachers who avoid teaching yin. Here’s the actual answer: a word budget, a script skeleton, and permission to stop talking. I walk through the whole system in the video above....
Julie McKay didn’t take a sabbatical to learn to teach yin. She didn’t wait for a slower season, and she didn’t clear her calendar. She’s a working yoga teacher who squeezed Teaching Yin Yoga into a full roster of classes and used what she learned the same week she...
Most of us have suspected this since our first wide-legged forward fold, usually right as the morning light comes through the studio window at exactly the wrong angle: all yoga pants are see-through. Yours, mine, the expensive pair, the ones from the clearance bin....
Your container, not your creativity Yoga teachers confess this to me all the time: three hours of planning for a sixty-minute class, and the class still comes out feeling random. The poses were fine. The pacing was fine. Something underneath it just didn’t hold. After...
