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.
Books to Help You Up Your Game—and Destress
Can reading a personal finance book really make you a better athlete?
Absolutely!
As I explain in The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, your best tools for peak performance are sleep, nutrition, and stress management. Less stress, better recovery. And one smart way to reduce your stress is to get a handle on your money—and your relationship to it.
Preorder Sequencing Book and Get the Library Free
Preorder my forthcoming book, THE ART OF YOGA SEQUENCING, and get the companion video demo Sequence Library for free! Here’s how.
New! Core Strength for Real People: Figure 4 and Curtsy
Come to finishing school! 🫅🏻Challenge your balance and build hip strength in this fun sequence that includes a curtsy lunge. You’ll work from your back, from table pose, and from standing.
Join the Workshop Workshop and Teach Great Yoga Workshops
The Workshop Workshop gives you all the materials you need to lead life-changing, problem-solving workshops for your students. And you’ll earn CEUs!
What You Can Learn from Joe-Paul’s Story
The Workshop Workshop will walk you through the entire process of planning, placing, and promoting meaningful workshops for whatever students and whatever topic you best work with.
Build a Clear Image of Your Students and Your Niche
I don’t just teach workshops, I also book workshops at my studio, Carrboro Yoga Company. Here’s what I want you to know.
How to Find Your Niche as a Yoga Teacher
Here is an exercise to help you find your niche and hone your voice as a yoga teacher across all the things you offer: workshops, classes, even social media and any other messages you deliver to your students.
Early Bird Rate: Fundamentals of Teaching Mindfulness Workshop
Learn to lead students toward better connection, whether they are moving or being still. The fundamentals of mindfulness are simple, but that doesn’t mean they are easy for students to follow or for teachers to lead. Let’s work on this together!
Five Steps to Teaching a Great Yoga Workshop
Here are the five steps to teach a yoga workshop to help your students (and your career).
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.
