It’s Sunday afternoon. You have the whole evening to plan the week’s classes. You open three books. You scroll through your notes. You pull up a few videos for inspiration. An hour later, you have seventeen tabs open and no plan. The problem isn’t a shortage of ideas....
Yes, $500 a session is real. The number is also the last thing to think about. A yoga teacher really can earn $500 for a single session working with an athlete. No studio required, and no waiting to be added to someone else’s class schedule. In my latest video I walk...
The two Sanskrit words underneath every cue you give You’ve said it a thousand times: “Find the balance between effort and ease.” It might be the most-cued phrase in modern yoga after “inhale, lift your arms, look up” and “take a deep breath.” But Patanjali named the...
A student arrives with a wrist that won’t bear weight today. Or you’re teaching a beginners’ class. Or you’ve been demoing all week and your own hands need a rest. Whatever the reason, you want a complete class ready to go—one that moves through everything a balanced...
Many yoga teachers I speak to admit to spending two or three hours planning a single 60-minute class. After 20 years of teaching, I can tell you the bottleneck isn’t a shortage of creativity! Most of us were never handed a structural checklist for class planning, so...
