Category: Sage Advice
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Listen: Another Mother Runner Podcast on Recovery
I had a great time chatting with Sarah and Tish of the Another Mother Runner podcast about all things recovery! The episode is live today wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here.
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Free Session on Athletic Recovery
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Athletes, tired people, yoga teachers: join me Thursday, 2/22, at 6 p.m. Eastern for a FREE practical session on recovery! It’s part of the Endurance Event, which has a great lineup of superstar speakers. I’ll be joining to bring the event to a close by talking about how NOT to work out—and guiding you through…
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Recover Like a Pro
With New Year’s Eve on the horizon, we’re about to hear a lot about how to recover from a hangover. But that’s for amateurs! The pros know how to value the fundamentals to maximize performance and recover better every single day. I want to help you recover like a pro so you can perform at…
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Retreats, Workshops, Intentions, and Goals
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My teaching schedule for this fall includes both several workshops and a very special retreat, too. What’s the difference between a retreat and a workshop? I’m glad you asked! (Let’s pretend you asked.)
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Satisfaction Equals Perception Minus Expectations
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One of our teachers at Carolina Yoga Company also teaches business classes at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. There, she told me, she tells her students that customer satisfaction follows this formula: Satisfaction = Perception − Expectations. Satisfaction is a result of what the consumer perceived they received minus what they expected…
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Update or Create Your Yoga Résumé
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Do you have a yoga résumé? If so, have you brushed it up lately? If not, you’ll find a template to download and use at yogateacherhandbook.com, the page here keyed to my latest book. All the prompts are right in that document, so you can pop in your personal details and stand head-and-shoulders above other…
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Guide: The Fastest, Cheapest, and Best Way to Improve Your Teaching
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Feedback helps us grow as teachers. But as yoga teachers, we don’t often get much feedback. Our students vote with their feet—they return or don’t. We may not receive evaluation from our employers or clients, and when we do, it might be focused on metrics other than the quality of our teaching. The good news…
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Sage Advice: Medical Emergencies in Class
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The first article I ever wrote for Yoga Journal gives advice to yoga teachers about how to deal with medical emergencies in class. Despite every studio’s and teacher’s efforts to create a safe environment, such medical emergencies do happen in yoga classes, as a result of either an acute injury or an underlying condition. Knowing…
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Listen: “Meet the Moment,” Wanderlust Speakeasy
In 2015, I gave a talk at Wanderlust Snowshoe in the Speakeasy—the festival’s version of a TED Talk. I was so nervous! While I’m no stranger to public speaking, this was next-level stress. Instead of the yoga or meditation teaching I’m used to doing, I was talking philosophically about lessons I’ve learned in life. The talk was…
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Sage Advice: What Changed?
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Like many yoga teachers, often I find students asking me questions after class about ways to relieve a pain that’s newly emerged. In general, I shy away from answering such questions—I’m not that kind of doctor, but if you need a literary text critically analyzed, let me know—and I encourage my teacher trainees to acknowledge…
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Sage Advice: Mudras for Attention
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Sharon in Paris wrote: I am writing to ask you a very interesting question that a student posed to me this morning. I recently taught an apana mudra (index finger tucked, middle and ring touching thumb, pinky out) to facilitate deep breathing. I’m also a runner and one of my runner students asked me if…