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 discussion about career decisions, the ins and outs of being a yoga...

Read: 6 Steps to Creating a Welcoming Class

Over at prAna Life, I offer six steps to setting a welcoming, nurturing tone that will make your students feel safe and right at home. While the piece is specifically about yoga, it would work in any movement class, and virtually any class at all. Attending yoga for...

Now Available: Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste

It’s been a busy year, between production of Racing Wisely and its forthcoming audiobook and our ongoing work at the studios to build a great community led by well-trained, experienced yoga teachers. In August, I taught a course on sequencing roughly modeled...

Read: When Bad Genes Happen to Good People

Please enjoy this fantastic article by Debra Witt up at Purple Clover today, on the smart topic of how to prevent some of the issues you might witness your older relatives begin to grapple with. Along the way, you’ll see some quotes from me on yoga’s...

Online Course Tour

It was a treat to play with recording and editing this tour of my online course on teaching yoga to athletes. The sound isn’t perfect, but never fear: the sound is great in the actual course videos. Enjoy—and let me know what questions you have about the...

Watch: Sitting to Standing with Blocks

In my yoga for athletes class, we’ve been working on the transition to standing from a sitting position, without crossing the legs, pushing the hands to the floor, or using much momentum. It builds core strength and fosters our sense of where we are in space....