Your training barely covered yoga nidra. Here’s everything you need to know—and the five-step recipe that makes it teachable. Most yoga teachers got about fifteen minutes of yoga nidra training. Someone read a script, you laid there, and now you’re...
When a class ends and it wasn’t your choice, the emotions can hit harder than you’d expect. Maybe the studio cut your slot. Maybe an illness or injury forced you to step away before you were ready. Maybe a move, a caregiving responsibility, or a job change...
I recently dropped a class I’d been teaching for nearly 22 years. Monday nights at 6 p.m. at Carrboro Yoga Company—a class that was on the schedule since the literal day the studio opened on March 1, 2004. Walking away was one of the most bittersweet decisions...
I was teaching a free yoga class at an outdoor gear store in Edmonton when a woman walked in with a toddler and an infant. Not a sleeping infant in a carrier. Not a toddler quietly coloring in the corner. These children were alert, wandering around the room, making...
What an accidental yoga retreat in Mexico taught me about seeing students I got “stuck” in the Riviera Maya for 10 extra days—and accidentally found exactly what I needed. My husband and I had planned a week’s vacation in mid-January. A respite from...
