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.
Read: Comfort and Affliction
To help students progress, a yoga teacher (or a coach) needs to know when to push and when to back off. I wrote a piece on developing this skill that's online at the prAna blog. Journalist Finely...
Read: How to Keep Your Teaching Fresh: Yoga Instructors Share Their Secrets
Yoga teachers will find some nice insider tips from experienced teachers in this post on Thrive, the Kripalu blog. I added my voice: Sage Rountree, author of several books on yoga for athletes and...
Quick Poll: 500-Hour Intensive Option
Yoga teachers: after loving the summer intensive version of our Carolina Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training, we're considering adding an intensive version of our advanced studies training (what the...
Refine Your Sequencing
Much of my work in the last year has been taxonomical—categorizing and collating the sequences of poses I teach in class. There are various approaches to building a yoga pose sequence for class or...
Now Available: Classroom Management and Safety
We always have a lot of fun in the teacher trainings and intensives I lead. But I can't remember having as much fun or belly laughs in a workshop as we had in Classroom Management and Safety. What...
Update: Track Your Habits
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post for my Active Yogi blog at Yoga Journal about awareness of our habits—what in yoga we call samskara. It begins: For the last few days, a robin has been attacking...
Read: Sustainable Yoga Teaching
In my latest post at prAna Life, I talk about ways to structure your teaching schedule so you have a sustainable yoga career, rather than burning out. “Practice becomes firmly grounded when well...
Scheduled: Vinyasa and Vino
We have a fun offering in the works at Durham Yoga—a combo of flow yoga and a fun wine tasting in partnership with Cave Taureau Wines, owned in part by my husband. Anna Cordova will lead an...
Now Available: Professionalism
My latest online course for yoga and movement teachers is Professionalism, produced at the Carrboro Yoga Company in October as part of our 500-hour teacher training. This course includes candid...
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.
