a blog for curious yoga teachers
Here’s all my Sage advice for how to become (almost) everyone’s favorite yoga teacher. You’ll learn a transformative mindset shift: your students, not you, are the heroes of their practice. These posts will give you the tools, inspiration, and confidence to guide them—and see your teaching career flourish.
How to Add Balance to Any Yoga Class Format
Your schedule says vinyasa, gentle, or hatha, and your students still need balance work. Here are four balance poses hiding in plain sight, plus three weaves that cost zero minutes of class time.
Atha: The One-Word Fix for Week Four of Your Teaching Season
Every September, Sage Rountree promises herself she’ll stay ahead on class planning—and by week four, it’s already slipping. Here’s the ancient word that fixes it anyway.
How to Sequence a Vinyasa Class
The 6–4–2 checklist applied to a flow class: two bookends, four quarters, a full 60-minute vinyasa sequence written out, and what changes at 45 and 75 minutes.
Your Yoga Teacher Instagram Can Be Finished
Your Instagram profile can be finished. The three questions every visitor asks, the bio that answers all three, and the six posts that complete your grid.
36 Yoga Class Themes (and How to Build Your Own)
Thirty-six yoga class themes from Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, grouped and ready to teach, each with the language to open, weave, and close — plus the five-minute method for building your own.
How to Teach Balance to Students Over 50
Your students over 50 need balance training more than anyone—and they can improve. Here are four staples, the functional framing that motivates, and the dignity rules that keep the work respectful.
A 60-Minute Yin Yoga Sequence for Teachers, Built with 6–4–2
A full 60-minute yin yoga sequence for teachers—eleven shapes with props and hold times, the 6–4–2 checklist behind it, and the three things I say in every hold.
The Discipline Paradox: Why Structure Sets Your Teaching Free
September brings a wave of teaching motivation that never survives to November. Here’s the yoga teaching that explains why, and what to build instead.
How to Begin a Yoga Class: Centering and Warmup Done Right
The first ten minutes of class have two jobs: help students arrive, then help their bodies prepare. Here’s a two-part opening—centering, then warmup—that works for any room, plus a worked example you can use tonight.
let me plan your next yoga class
Feeling uninspired when it’s time to plan? I’m here to help!
Trade me your email for my go-to yoga lesson plan with ideas for every minute. This is the class I teach when my energy is low—but it’s the favorite of my students from 20 to 80 years old! I’ll even give you tips on how to adapt it for various class formats.
