If you have a browser tab open to an online 200-hour yoga teacher training and a second tab open to “is online yoga teacher training worth it,” I’d like to give you the answer I’d give a friend across the kitchen table: it depends on what happens inside the training,...
Twenty minutes of continuous talking, to a room full of people lying completely still with their eyes closed, every one of them depending on your voice to tell them what happens next: that prospect has scared off more experienced yoga teachers than any arm balance...
Every September, I make myself the same promise: this is the year I stay ahead of my class planning. I buy the good notebook. I block out Thursday afternoons. I picture every class outlined a week in advance, calm and unhurried. As of this writing, that notebook holds...
Your Instagram profile is open for business whether you have touched it or not. Somebody hears your name at a dinner party and looks you up. The studio where you teach tags you in a schedule graphic and four people tap through. A student stands in her sister’s...
It’s 6:00 on a Tuesday. Twelve people are settling onto their mats, the sequence in your head is one you trust, and you still don’t know what you’re going to say first. That gap—between a class that works and a class that feels like yours—is what a theme closes....
Every Labor Day weekend, I sign up for something new. A training, a planning system, a color-coded calendar I am positive will finally stick. Most years, by the third week of September, it has quietly fallen apart, and I have gone back to whatever I was doing before....
