Category: Sage Advice
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.
Develop Killer Workshops with My Formula
Tomorrow, I launch a series on my teacher’s newsletter that walks you through every step of the process for creating a workshop to help your students—and your career.
Retreats, Workshops, Intentions, and Goals
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.)
Satisfaction Equals Perception Minus Expectations
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…
Update or Create Your Yoga Résumé
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…
Guide: The Fastest, Cheapest, and Best Way to Improve Your Teaching
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…
Sage Advice: Medical Emergencies in Class
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…
Sage Advice: What Changed?
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…
Sage Advice: Choosing a Yoga Teacher Training
Aspiring teachers sometimes write me to ask for advice on choosing a teacher training. While I can’t make individual recommendations without knowing the teacher-to-be and the offerings in his or her area, there are some general themes to my answer. Be clear on your intention. As with any undertaking, clarity about what you’re doing is…