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 Much Does Yoga Teacher Training Cost? A Real Breakdown
A 200-hour yoga teacher training can cost a few hundred dollars or several thousand. Here’s what each format usually costs, what the money buys, and the extras to budget for.
Yoga Instructor Certification: Do You Need One, and Which Kind?
There’s no state license to teach yoga, but studios, gyms, and insurers have their own rules. Here’s what a yoga instructor certification means and which kind you need.
How to Become a Yoga Instructor: The Steps, the Costs, and the Part Nobody Mentions
The six steps to becoming a yoga instructor, in order, with real timelines and costs, plus the part most guides skip: what the first year of teaching asks of you.
Yoga Alliance Changes for 2027: What’s Real, What’s Rumor
Yoga Alliance is reworking its credentials in 2027, and 200-hour trainings aren’t going away. Here’s what changes for yoga teachers, trainees, and schools, and what we don’t know yet.
Her Students Practice Balance Everywhere Now (Even Waiting for Coffee)
A student practicing balance while the coffee brews is proof a lesson worked. Here’s Linda Freeman’s story, the mechanism behind it, and a better way to measure your own teaching.
How Learning to Teach Core Makes You a More Useful Yoga Teacher
When a student asks for more core, they’re almost never asking for crunches. The two jobs of the core, stabilization and articulation, turn a pile of exercises into craft you can teach inside the class you already have.
Should I Become a Yoga Teacher? 5 Questions to Ask First
Should you become a yoga teacher? Five questions to ask before you decide, including the one about time, and the 3:00 a.m. question underneath them all.
Can a Whole Course Be About Balance? (What 20 Hours Covers)
A syllabus breakdown of what twenty hours on balance actually covers, from the physiology to the philosophy to teaching every body in the room.
The Five Kleshas in the Teacher’s Seat: A Yoga Teacher’s Guide to the Shadow Self
The five kleshas, yoga’s five obstacles, are in the room every time you teach, wearing yoga clothes. Here’s how to recognize each one from the teacher’s seat, and a small practice for each.
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.
