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.

New Site!

If you're looking at this post in a reader (and if you want to be looking at it in a reader, you'll find the RSS feed here), you may not have realized that my site has a new look! Please click on...

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Kripalu Post-View, September

Yes, I was in Seattle,however briefly!I am happy to be done with my whirlwind travel week, which began with a trip to Seattle on Wednesday–and a trip back on Thursday! In between, I loved meeting...

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But I’m Not a Teacher

I was delighted to have a few students at my intensive in San Francisco on teaching yoga to athletes who were not themselves yoga teachers. They bravely, and correctly, presumed that there'd be...

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Does . . . Not . . . Compute

Have you ever had moments of great confusion followed by moments of clarity? They might have happened in a lecture or a workshop, when your preexisting beliefs were shattered and the reorganization...

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New Site Design

Realizing that I have a whole lot of content online, I set out to redesign my website so that my articles and videos—many housed on various magazines' sites across the web—would be more accessible...

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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.