The Comfort Zone Is Underrated: Why Yoga Teachers Need to Embrace Ease

The Comfort Zone Is Underrated: Why Yoga Teachers Need to Embrace Ease

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...
Affirmation: I Recognize Support Makes Everything Easier

Affirmation: I Recognize Support Makes Everything Easier

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.
Listen: Fit Bottomed Girls Podcast

Listen: Fit Bottomed Girls Podcast

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...
What It’s Like to Teach Yoga to Football Players

What It’s Like to Teach Yoga to Football Players

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...
Listen: Yoga for Runners on Another Mother Runner Podcast

Listen: Yoga for Runners on Another Mother Runner Podcast

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...
Listen: J Brown Yoga Talks Podcast

Listen: J Brown Yoga Talks Podcast

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,...