How to Build a Yoga Teaching Career without Burning Out

How to Build a Yoga Teaching Career without Burning Out

The Career Map Nobody Gives You After Training Most 200-hour grads never build a sustainable teaching practice. That’s not because they lack talent or love for the practice—it’s because nobody showed them what a sustainable yoga teaching career actually...
The Benefits of Private Yoga Lessons (and How to Help Students See Them)

The Benefits of Private Yoga Lessons (and How to Help Students See Them)

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...

My First Time Teaching NFL Players Yoga (And What I Got Wrong)

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...
Why a Private Yoga Lesson Isn’t a Smaller Group Class

Why a Private Yoga Lesson Isn’t a Smaller Group Class

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...