The spiral you already know It’s Sunday night. A blank notebook on your lap. Three classes to teach this week. You’ve been scrolling Instagram for sequence ideas for the last forty-five minutes, and somewhere in there, a voice starts up: Everyone else just walks in...
Most new yoga teachers think confidence comes from more training. Twenty years in, I can tell you—it doesn’t. I’ve trained hundreds of teachers in my programs at Carolina Yoga Company and Comfort Zone Yoga, and I’ve watched the same confidence crisis...
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...