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....
That cross-legged seat you open your yoga class with? For a lot of bodies, it’s one of the most demanding shapes in the whole practice—and we hand it to students in minute one, then ask them to relax there. The first ten minutes of class have two jobs, and neither one...
Every wobble is your balance systems having a conversation—not a mistake to apologize for You’re allowed to wobble. So is every student who apologizes the second they step out of tree pose, tips out of dancer, or catches themselves mid-eagle with a sheepish laugh. In...
For years, I refused to build an Instagram account for Comfort Zone Yoga®. Not because I doubted the value of it. I could see exactly how it would go: I’d post the same thing on both accounts with a slightly different caption, feel behind on both, and eventually...
Most yoga teachers never plan their year at all, and the ones who do tend to overplan, burn out within a season, and abandon the whole project by Thanksgiving. There is a middle path, and it takes less than an hour to set up: three intentions—one for your structure,...
