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 Become Your Students’ Favorite Yoga Teacher (Almost)
Ask students why they adore a teacher and you hear nothing about advanced poses or poetic themes. Here is what they say instead, and the five skills behind it.
Beginner Yoga Class Plan: A Filled-In Example You Can Teach This Week
A filled-in, 60-minute beginner yoga class plan built around the warrior poses, from opening to savasana, with a balance check and a month of repeats in mind.
Continuing Education for Yoga Teachers: How to Choose Courses That Change Your Teaching
Continuing education is worth it when you can feel it in your own body and teach it with confidence. Here’s how to choose, three red flags, and where I’d look.
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.
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.
