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.
Difficult Moments in the Yoga Room: What Every Yoga Teacher Needs to Know
A practical guide to the four classroom situations every yoga teacher will face—students leaving, no-shows, challenging behaviors, and medical emergencies—plus the mindset shift that makes them carryable.
Yoga FOR Athletes vs Athletic Yoga: Why This Distinction Changes Everything
Most yoga teachers confuse yoga FOR athletes with athletic yoga—and it’s costing them clients. Learn the critical distinction that transforms how athletes see your teaching and positions you as a specialist worth premium rates.
Your Students’ Bodies Are Smarter Than Your Boredom
Two principles from exercise physiology—progressive overload and diminishing returns—explain why repeating your yoga lesson plan with small, intentional changes serves your students better than designing a new sequence every week.
How to Find Your Authentic Yoga Teaching Voice
Your authentic teaching voice is the most powerful tool you have—but most yoga teachers spend years trying to sound like someone else. Here’s how to uncover what’s already there.
The Recovery Secret Elite Athletes Use (That You Can Teach)
Elite athletes treat recovery as seriously as training—because that’s where adaptation actually happens. Here are three yoga-based recovery practices you can teach in your very next athlete session.
Why Studenthood Is the Bedrock of Your Yoga Teaching
The best yoga teachers never stop being students. Sage Rountree explores why studenthood is the bedrock of your teaching and shares four practical ways to protect it.
From $30 Classes to $500 Sessions: How to Price Yoga for Athletes
The gap between $30 and $500 isn’t a qualifications gap—it’s a framing gap. Here’s how to price your yoga services for athletes at the rate your expertise deserves.
Inside the 200-Hour YTT — A Guided Tour of Everything You Need to Know
Sage Rountree answers the question every prospective teacher asks—”Will I fit in?”—and walks through her 200-hour yoga teacher training from curriculum to cost to what comes after graduation.
How to Theme Your Yoga Class Without Overthinking It
A theme doesn’t have to be a philosophy lecture. Pick one word, stitch it through four moments in class, and watch your teaching transform. Here’s how.
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.
