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 Discipline Paradox: Why Structure Sets Your Teaching Free
September brings a wave of teaching motivation that never survives to November. Here’s the yoga teaching that explains why, and what to build instead.
How to Begin a Yoga Class: Centering and Warmup Done Right
The first ten minutes of class have two jobs: help students arrive, then help their bodies prepare. Here’s a two-part opening—centering, then warmup—that works for any room, plus a worked example you can use tonight.
Wobbling Is the Work: Rethinking Balance in Your Yoga Classes
Every wobble is your balance systems recalibrating—not a mistake, and definitely not something to apologize for. Here’s the reframe (and the exact language) that changes how your students experience falling out of a pose.
Why Your Yoga Teacher Instagram Still Isn’t Finished (and How to Fix It)
Your Instagram doesn’t need more content. It needs a finish line—here’s what a complete, professional yoga teacher profile actually looks like.
How to Plan Your Yoga Teaching Year Without Burning Out
Most yoga teachers either overplan until they burn out or wing it until they feel scattered. Here is the three-part framework—structure, skills, self-care—that keeps a teaching year balanced from September through June.
Why Balance Poses Don’t Build Balance (Teach the Skill Instead)
Your students have done tree pose for years and still wobble the same way. Here’s why balance is a skill, not a shape, and the simple progression method that keeps them improving.
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.
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.
