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.
The Six Moves of the Spine: A Warmup for Every Yoga Class
The six moves of the spine are the first thing I check in any warmup. Here’s what they are, why they set up the whole class, and six ways to teach them from any starting position.
What to do about smells in your yoga classroom
Every yoga room has a smell before you say a word—here’s how to handle the room, your own products, and the honest conversations about student odor.
How to Teach Yin Yoga: The Framework Behind a Full Class
Yin looks like the easiest hour on the schedule and teaches like one of the hardest. This is the framework behind a full yin class—time as the fixed variable, tension versus compression, and the three-part instruction for the long holds—plus the full workshop replay.
How to Teach a Balance-Focused Yoga Class (Start to Finish)
Most balance classes are a regular flow with tree pose stapled onto the end. Here’s a six-segment structure, warmup to savasana, that plans and teaches like a real class.
What 100 Podcast Episodes Taught Me About Repetition, Confidence, and Being Useful
A hundred episodes in, Sage Rountree looks back at what stayed the same, what changed, and what her listeners keep telling her actually works.
Watch Me Fill In the 6–4–2 Worksheet, Start to Finish
Follow along as Sage fills out the 6–4–2 worksheet for a real class, move by move—then grab the free worksheet and do it alongside her.
Why Your Students Wobble: The Four Balance Systems (For Yoga Teachers)
When a student wobbles in tree pose, that isn’t balance failing—it’s balance happening. Here are the four systems behind every balance pose, and how to challenge each one in your teaching.
What to Do When Your Yoga Class Goes Off the Rails
A framework for telling the difference between a class disaster your students actually notice and the one that only happens in your head—plus exactly what to say (and not say) when you lose your place.
Yoga Sequencing Lesson Plans: Build One Class, Teach It All Month
One well-built yoga sequencing lesson plan, reused with intention over four weeks, can replace the Sunday-afternoon scramble of writing something new every single week.
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.
