What elite athletes know about recovery that changes everything I’ve spent over twenty years working with athletes at every level, from recreational runners to Olympic competitors, and there’s one thing that separates the elite from everyone else. It’s not talent....
“Will I fit in?” A 200-hour yoga teacher training is a serious investment, and I take that seriously. In over a decade of personal conversations before enrollment, that question came up every single time. Sometimes directly. More often it came sideways:...
Yoga for Athletes: The 3 Gaps No One Else on the Team Fills When you teach yoga for athletes, your value is not in being another coach. It is in being the one teacher on the team who fills the gaps no one else is addressing—and those gaps are exactly where yoga for...
You’ve been teaching restorative yoga from what you picked up in your 200-hour training—a few supported poses you remember, some blanket folding you figured out on your own, and a general sense that students should relax. It works . . . sort of. But you know...
Theming a yoga class takes five minutes—not five hours. Yet for many yoga teachers, it’s one of the top sources of pre-class stress, ahead of sequencing and music selection. The problem isn’t a lack of creativity. It’s the belief that every class needs a Big Idea—a...
I was teaching my regular Monday night balance class when I caught myself doing something I’ve done literally over a thousand times. I settled everyone in. I asked them to notice their bodies on the mat. Then I invited them to turn their attention to their breath....
