In my work with yoga teachers, the same refrain comes up over and over: “I feel burnt out.” “I am spending hours on lesson planning, only to forget what I’d planned!” “I spend all my time on planning and teaching, and it’s killing my passion for my practice.” These...
Yoga teacher affirmation: I recognize support makes everything easier. That can be support from the breath, from a prop, from a partner, or from the community as a whole. I offer my students support in all forms. And I offer myself the same.
I was delighted to go back on the Fit Bottomed Girls podcast, especially because it’s now helmed by my colleague (and Teaching Yoga to Athletes alumna!) Alison Heilig. We spoke about how to emphasize your recovery. Happily, recovery is something you can do for...
Yoga for athletes is NOT athletic yoga! In fact, teaching yoga to athletes can feel a lot like leading a gentle yoga class—or even yoga for seniors. In this video, I debrief my assistant Alexis Besosa after Alexis has joined me to work with a college football team...
It’s always a great time when I chat with my friends at the Another Mother Runner podcast! In this brand-new episode, we discuss yoga for runners. Listen to hear: why I hated my first experiences with yoga the value of letting go of “doing-and-action” mode how...
Having two new books publish in the course of seven days this spring was . . . exciting. Slightly exhausting. Intellectually stimulating, for sure, especially when I had the opportunity to talk about both books in the same conversation. That has happened a few times,...
