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...
Every Labor Day weekend, I sign up for something new. A training, a planning system, a color-coded calendar I am positive will finally stick. Most years, by the third week of September, it has quietly fallen apart, and I have gone back to whatever I was doing before....
