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 Call: Daytime Online Yoga Teacher Training
Here’s your last call to sign up for the Carolina Yoga Company 200-hour daytime online yoga teacher training that starts in January.
Evaluation for Existing Teachers
Yoga teachers: are you letting your class sizes be a de facto form of student feedback? Here are ways actively to seek improvement and serve your students better.
Bonus Question to Ask About YTT
I recently had a conversation with a prospective yoga teacher trainee who had read The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook and who turned the tables on me by asking me all the questions I suggest aspiring teachers ask teacher training directors. But she added a great question of her own.
Newly Certified: Vicky Tu
Meet Vicky Tu, the most recently certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teacher! Because she holds a PhD in neuroscience, Vicky is especially interested in the intersections between the body and mind.
Questions to Ask about YTT
While The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook is for teachers of every level, part 1 of the book helps aspiring teachers chart a path through yoga teacher training. Specifically, I suggest that as you evaluate your YTT options, you ask these questions.
Coming in January: 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Online in Real Time
The Carolina Yoga Co. 200-hour yoga teacher training meets online in real time on weekdays starting in January. Deepen your understanding of yoga, learn to teach and have a wonderful experience of personal growth!
Résumé Time
With studios starting to reopen for in-person classes or looking for new online teachers, now is a good time to brush up or create your yoga teaching résumé—even if you aren’t currently teaching.
Now Available: Audiobook of The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook
If you like to listen to your books and want to be the best yoga teacher you can be, today is your lucky day: the audiobook version of The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook is now available! You...
Now Available: The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook—and a New Site to Match
Today is publication day for The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook! And to go with it, a have a spanking-new website and a new learning management system for my online courses for yoga and...
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.
