Every September, I make myself the same promise: this is the year I stay ahead of my class planning. I buy the good notebook. I block out Thursday afternoons. I picture every class outlined a week in advance, calm and unhurried. As of this writing, that notebook holds...
Your Instagram profile is open for business whether you have touched it or not. Somebody hears your name at a dinner party and looks you up. The studio where you teach tags you in a schedule graphic and four people tap through. A student stands in her sister’s...
It’s 6:00 on a Tuesday. Twelve people are settling onto their mats, the sequence in your head is one you trust, and you still don’t know what you’re going to say first. That gap—between a class that works and a class that feels like yours—is what a theme closes....
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...
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...
