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...
A viewer asked for this after watching how I plan a class in fifteen minutes: not the theory, but the worksheet itself, blank at the start and completely filled in by the end. So that’s the whole video—my Monday night class, planned in real time, no cuts. If you’d...
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...
