I’ve spent thousands of hours watching myself teach yoga. I edit my own podcast—this very one you might be listening to right now. I edit my YouTube videos. I record and edit all my course lectures. I’ve read every single one of my own audiobooks and even...
I spent the first few years of my teaching career doing it wrong. Not wrong in a dramatic way. My students weren’t getting injured. They kept coming back. But I was burning myself out planning elaborate new sequences for every single class, convinced...
The Real Secret to Fresh Classes: Repetition with Subtle Variation Most yoga teachers think the hack to keeping class fresh is coming up with something new every week. Sunday night rolls around and you’re scrolling Instagram for inspiration, second-guessing your...
Although I have two gorgeous, brilliant adult daughters, I am not a grandmother proper (yet!). But I have metaphorical grandchildren all around the world: they are the students of my students, both those who’ve done teacher training with me and those...
I was about three years into my personal yoga practice when my teacher asked me to demonstrate a pose for the class. Afterwards, she pulled me aside and said, “You have a gift for this. Have you ever thought about teaching?” My immediate response was,...
I used to think that teaching yin yoga and restorative yoga were specialty skills—nice to have if you wanted to teach those specific classes, but not essential to your development as a yoga teacher. After more than 20 years of teaching and training teachers,...
