The four and a half minutes nobody trained you for You said yes to the yin class. Maybe it was a sub request, maybe it was a seasonal add on a quiet Sunday evening, and maybe you said yes because it looked like the easiest hour on the schedule: five to ten shapes,...
What’s actually happening in a shaky tree pose, and how to teach toward it on purpose A student wobbles in tree pose, catches herself, and apologizes before you’ve said a word. That apology is the tell: she thinks the wobble means she failed. It doesn’t. Balance isn’t...
The honest answer, and the standard that replaces it Let’s answer the question first: no. Nobody is going to show up and check your papers before you teach a yin class. There’s no yin police, no governing body, no license that exists to revoke. If that sounds like...
The class you’re most likely to be asked to teach—and least likely to have been taught Sooner or later, a studio asks you to sub yin yoga, or to add a yin class to your schedule; or a student asks what yin actually is, and you realize your training skipped it. Most...
Most conversations about yoga philosophy begin politely, with a Sanskrit term and a respectful nod to the Yoga Sutras. When I sat down with my dear friend and longtime writing partner, Alexandra DeSiato, to talk about our new book, she opened with death. That is very...
You dim the lights, prop everyone up, lower your voice to its softest register, and say, “Now just relax.” Then you look around the room and a small voice starts in: is this actually working? Are they settling, or just lying there waiting for it to end? If you’ve ever...
