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.

Questions to Ask about YTT

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.

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Résumé Time

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.

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Newly Certified: Joy Zazzera

Newly Certified: Joy Zazzera

Meet Joy Zazzera, the most recently certified graduate of my Teaching Yoga to Athletes course! This is an especially happy introduction for me to make, as Joy is a special teacher who is uniquely sympathetic to the needs of athletes and anyone who could stand to chill out.

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A Word on Newsletters

A Word on Newsletters

As I confess in The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook (now available for preorder and publishing September 15!), writing newsletters is one of my least-favorite tasks both as an author/yoga...

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Newly Certified: Jennifer Schell

Newly Certified: Jennifer Schell

Meet Jennifer Schell, a newly certified graduate of my online course, Teaching Yoga to Athletes! Jennifer started with the content side of the course and collected her homework as she went along,...

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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.