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...
The first time I stood in front of a college football team, I had been teaching yoga for years. I was a published author. I had credentials. And within the first five minutes, I knew that the cues I used every day in a studio class were landing like a foreign...
Your 200-hour training probably gave restorative yoga an afternoon—maybe an hour. Someone propped you up in a supported shape, dimmed the lights, and the curriculum moved on. Now your students keep asking for slower classes, the Thursday-evening restorative slot needs...
The first time I felt true rest, I wasn’t trying to. I was deep in Ironman training, carrying the kind of fatigue that made me look forward to dentist appointments—because they meant I got to lie down for forty-five minutes. I signed up for a restorative workshop...
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...
