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.
Last-Minute Gift Ideas
Looking for a last-minute gift idea for a friend? Consider my businesses and my books! If you're local to central North Carolina, a gift card in any amount will help your recipient feel balanced,...
A New Approach to Balance Poses, Part 2
In my last post, I shared a video demo of how to get into some classic standing balance poses through shoulder and hip rotations. Here's a follow-up that you could use to move into kneeling balance...
New! Core Strength for Real People: Bare Minimum
There is a fresh video available today in my Core Strength for Real People series. This one delivers maximal satisfaction and time management when you tack it on at the end of a workout. I like to...
Resources
Here, you'll find bonus materials to go along with several of my books. Looking for something you don't see? Send me a message! The Art of Yoga Sequencing Bonus Materials The Professional Yoga...
A New Approach to Balance Poses
I love balance poses. They can work for everyone, and with a little self-awareness, we can all find the right edge in these shapes, no matter our age or experience. Here's a way I've been working...
Rolling Out a New Website
If you feel like this site looks different, you're right! I've been working on an update and playing around with the design. The thing is: I'm doing this on my own, and I know just enough to get...
Know Yourself Better: Become a Yoga Writer
Much of yoga's benefits lie in self-study (svadyaya). Turning your attention to your inner process is a way to know yourself better and to recognize, then quiet the fluctuations of your mind. One...
Sneak Peek: 2024 Schedule
Here's a preview of the start of my 2024 teaching schedule! Details and registration are online and open for all three of these continuing education workshops for yoga and movement teachers of all...
Coming in January: 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Carrboro Yoga
I am super excited to share that my frequent collaborator and all-around excellent teacher/person, Alexandra DeSiato, will be leading our next foundational 200-hour yoga teacher training at Carrboro Yoga!
let me plan your next yoga class
Feeling uninspired when it’s time to plan? I’m here to help!
Give me your email and I’ll send you 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.
