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....
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...
