The question people type into a search bar is “should I become a yoga teacher?” The question they ask at 3:00 a.m. is different: who am I to teach this? I’ve been teaching yoga since 2003 and training yoga teachers since 2011, and nearly everyone I’ve trained walked...
Twenty hours, five sections, one syllabus Twenty hours of training on balance sounds like a lot to spend on tree pose. It would be, if balance were a single pose. Balance is a lens on your entire teaching, and the syllabus for my Fundamentals of Teaching Balance...
Autumn is my favorite season, and not only because of football. The slightly embarrassing reason is that as the light gets lower, everything casts a longer shadow, and I find that weirdly reassuring. The shadows were there all summer. You just couldn’t see them at...
If you have a browser tab open to an online 200-hour yoga teacher training and a second tab open to “is online yoga teacher training worth it,” I’d like to give you the answer I’d give a friend across the kitchen table: it depends on what happens inside the training,...
There’s no number of years. Here’s what actually matters, and how to check it this week. Most people who want to teach yoga put it off for years because they’ve decided they haven’t practiced long enough. I’ve been training yoga teachers since 2011, and I’ve come to...
