Julie McKay didn’t take a sabbatical to learn to teach yin. She didn’t wait for a slower season, and she didn’t clear her calendar. She’s a working yoga teacher who squeezed Teaching Yin Yoga into a full roster of classes and used what she learned the same week she...
Most of us have suspected this since our first wide-legged forward fold, usually right as the morning light comes through the studio window at exactly the wrong angle: all yoga pants are see-through. Yours, mine, the expensive pair, the ones from the clearance bin....
Your container, not your creativity Yoga teachers confess this to me all the time: three hours of planning for a sixty-minute class, and the class still comes out feeling random. The poses were fine. The pacing was fine. Something underneath it just didn’t hold. After...
The craft is five learnable skills, and none of them depend on your volume Some of the best yin teachers I know are loud, fast-talking vinyasa teachers. A soothing voice was never the qualification—the skill set is. I hear this one over and over from yoga teachers:...
For years, I was the phone police. I recorded my classes for an online platform back then, and I taught with a wireless mic so sensitive that a single text message could glitch the whole take. So I asked everyone to power all the way down, and I told myself I was...
