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.
Can a Whole Course Be About Core?
Twenty hours on the core sounds excessive until you see the syllabus. Here’s every lecture of Fundamentals of Teaching Core Strength, from the science to the business of filling a core class.
Yoga Sequence Builder Apps for Yoga Teachers: Tummee, Sequence Wiz, YogaClassPlan, and the Lesson Planner
A fair look at the main yoga sequence builders for yoga teachers—Tummee, Sequence Wiz, YogaClassPlan, and the app store options—and how my Lesson Planner plans by the sequence instead of the pose.
How to Cue Core Without a Single Crunch
The crunch trains one panel of a six-sided box. Here are the two jobs of the core, five cues that work better, and eight families of exercises to teach instead.
What Most Yoga Teachers Get Wrong About Core (and the Objections Underneath)
Five misunderstandings keep skilled yoga teachers from teaching core, and every one of them is costing their students something real. Here’s what’s true instead, plus honest answers to the objections underneath.
How to Teach Yoga Online (Without Losing Your Students’ Attention)
Recorded and live online yoga classes are two different jobs. Here’s how to give recordings high production values, keep live classes connected, and hold attention in both.
What to Expect in a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (Week by Week)
A 200-hour training isn’t two hundred hours of yoga class. Here’s where the hours go in mine: the winter runway, one call a week, buddy sessions with a protocol, the week-seven wall, the final video, and six months after.
Do You Need a Certification to Teach Core?
You don’t need another certification to teach core. Here’s the scope-of-practice line, the Pilates question, and how much of the material your 200-hour training already gave you.
The Two Arrows of Suffering: Yoga Philosophy for Yoga Teachers Who Second-Guess Everything
The blank notebook is the first arrow; the story that you’re the only yoga teacher who can’t plan a class is the second. Here’s the two-arrows teaching, for your own practice and for your classroom.
Yoga Nidra Script Tips: Four Mistakes to Fix Before You Guide Your First Session
Four mistakes almost every new yoga nidra teacher makes, a fix for each, and how to read a yoga nidra script so it sounds like you. Plus the full workshop replay and a 10-minute guided nidra.
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.
