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.
On Free Classes at Retail Stores
You may have noticed that retail stores selling yoga clothing often host weekly classes. These attract practitioners who spend an hour or more in the company of the clothes, with the idea that they...
Let’s Go, 2023
Here’s the work I’m looking forward to in 2023. I hope your year has great things ahead!
How to Write a Yoga Bio That Stands Out
Whether you are building your yoga website or teaching at a gym, studio, or festival, you will need a good biography. Here’s how to start.
Yoga Nidra Practice and Teacher Training
On Friday, November 18, I’ll lead a pop-up Yoga Nidra class at Carrboro Yoga. And next October, I’m leading a teacher training so you can learn to do the same.
What’s the Difference Between Gentle, Yin, and Restorative Yoga?
If you have explored the softer side of yoga, you have probably encountered gentle, yin, and restorative yoga. But there's often confusion around the differences between these three approaches, and...
A Yoga Teacher’s Confession
Here’s a true confession from most yoga teachers: we always go faster on the second side. This happens for a variety of reasons, prime among them that we have said all our best cues on the first side and haven’t grown comfortable with silence, or that we have mismanaged time and see the clock ticking. Once you recognize these common reasons, you can begin to correct them.
Mark Your Calendars: Kripalu 2023
Mark your calendars now for two workshops Alexandra DeSiato and I will be co-leading at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts: Recharge: A Retreat for Yoga and Movement...
Satisfaction Equals Perception Minus Expectations
One of our teachers at Carolina Yoga Company also teaches business classes at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. There, she told me, she tells her students that customer...
I’d Love to Chat with Your YTT
I wrote The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook to help teachers at every level—and to serve as a yoga teacher training manual. If you're using the book as your YTT textbook, I'd love to offer a...
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.
