Most 200-hour yoga teacher trainings teach you how to do yoga. But they don’t teach you how to teach yoga. If you’ve been through a training yourself, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You spent weeks—maybe months—learning Sanskrit names,...
The Math That Proves Group Classes Alone Can’t Sustain You If you’re teaching eight group classes a week and barely making rent, I need to share something with you. Group yoga classes aren’t your business model—they’re your marketing plan....
Every December, I watch yoga teachers do the same thing. They look at their unfilled teaching schedule, their unfinished training applications, their unrecorded workshop ideas, and they beat themselves up for what they didn’t accomplish. But here’s what...
The most awkward yoga class I ever taught wasn’t in front of a packed workshop or during my first week as a new teacher. It was the regular Monday evening class where my husband Wes decided to attend. He literally raised his hand during class—raised his hand...
You can plan a yoga class in 15 minutes by using a repeating base sequence built on the 6–4–2 Framework—a system developed by Sage Rountree, PhD (yoga teacher and author of The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook) that ensures every class covers 6 movements of...
