What’s actually happening in a shaky tree pose, and how to teach toward it on purpose A student wobbles in tree pose, catches herself, and apologizes before you’ve said a word. That apology is the tell: she thinks the wobble means she failed. It doesn’t. Balance isn’t...
The second class I ever taught went off the rails before I said a single word—and then I spent an hour making it worse. I hadn’t planned to teach that night. The regular teacher, Bryan, couldn’t make it, and my hand shot straight up before I’d thought it through. I...
Stop writing a new yoga sequencing lesson plan every week. One good plan, built on a balanced framework and taught with small variations over a month, will get your students further than four different plans ever could. I’m Sage Rountree, and I’ve been writing yoga...
The honest answer, and the standard that replaces it Let’s answer the question first: no. Nobody is going to show up and check your papers before you teach a yin class. There’s no yin police, no governing body, no license that exists to revoke. If that sounds like...
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...
